Red Keeps it UNDER WRAPS | OSP Halloween

[@leeshajoi]

28:51 - "Name 3 Pharaohs." "Ramses, Ramses, and Ramses." "...That's on me. I set the bar too low."

[@gokbay3057]

Even easier: Ptolemy.

[@alex-fs9yt]

Imagine you're a royal in Egypt and you're like "I'm going to be embalmed and buried in an elaborate sacred tomb with my most prized belongings to protect my body, honour my legacy and aid my soul in the afterlife" and then like 3500 years later some people desecrate your tomb, steal your belongings and grind said body to use as _paint_ 🙃

[@galaxa13]

You get upset about modern autopsy parties, but at least THOSE dead people offered up their bodies to get cut up and poked around in. Mummies never gave their consent.

[@luisjauregui2197]

At least there you can argue there is a genuine scientific interest there, I don't think most people cared that much back then

[@lordnul1708]

Yeah... In fact, the mummies literally went through mummification so they could preserve their remains, and they had their temains preserved specifically because they thought they needed them preserved in that state yo have an afterlife at all. So the "ancient mummy" autopsy parties were not only done carelessly and without consent, but could be argued as straight up inflicting what they would have considered a fate worse than their actual deaths. I can cut some slack for the early cases since the mythology (especially afterlife stuff) wasn't as well-known, but the later it gets the less valid that wxcuse becomes.

[@a.i.1328]

that moment at 33:36 when his face just starts to gradually fall looking at a paused screen

[@323starlight]

That's not the yamcha pose, that's the family guy death pose.

[@ninjabot3606]

THANK YOU, SOMEONE FINALLY POINTED IT OUT!

[@michaelcoiffier2560]

Fun fact most of the tombs in the valley of the kings where robbed shortly after been sealed. Either by the peoples who where supposed to watch over it (the priests) or the peoples who build it (the artisans). Nice to see that greed is one of the oldest sin in humanity ... 😩

[@Jake9066]

"Acquired"... yeah, gonna paraphrase Fat Electrician here - "Strategically Transfer Esoterica to an Alternate Location".

[@makinapacal]

Tutankhamun's tomb was actually robbed in antiquity. Apparently shortly after the burial. It appears that the tomb was then resealed, and amazingly was not robbed again.

[@DDlambchop43]

not so amazing when you realize that a couple of Ramses' were buried nearby and not only did they have WAY more stuff, the stone chips and other junk from the tomb covered Tut's .

[@a.n.9800]

Love how every writer broke away from their standard themes just to write about mummies XD

[@HobGungan]

28:45 "Name three Pharaohs!" "Raamses."

[@Ansixilus]

18:33 There's a line from Babylon 5 where a minister suggests that the decline of the imperial line might have something to do with "too much intermarrying, I think. It's like I always say, when you reduce a family tree too a family bush, you just can't hide as much beneath it!"

[@gokbay3057]

They also did a detail diatribe about mummies. Could be a starting point to test if you could use them as content later (because detail diatribes might not work as reaction content).

[@L_______]

cant believe he stopped there right before both the most and least shocking mention

[@Jacen32272]

11:00 I take it you don't remember that time in the 1990's when Superman was split in half, and was flying around as the two energy based heroes Superman Red and, you guessed it, Superman BLUE. The Kryptonian symbol for Hope still fits. 42:00 Ever consider taking the Blofeld approach and just hold and pet one of them while doing these reviews? If one of the kittens is white, it would complete the look...

[@aaronlong0831]

Quick FYI, the Poe mummy is named Allamistakeo

[@JuliaBury-Jones]

Lovecraft didn't quite write romantic literature, but he wrote a parody of it called Sweet Ermengarde to mock some common tropes in it.

[@khylerbane4523]

3:10 and when you combine the two; you get the best version of mummies… The Tomb Kings from Warhammer Fantasy, namely Nagash, father of Necromancy, Khalida the serpent queen, Arkhan the Black, and Settra the Imperishable.

[@xilefm-4517]

16:01 : using the Greek name is actually pretty common for ancient people. The Persian kings Cyrus and Xerxes are only called that in Greek. In their tongue it would've been something like Kurush and Khshayarshah (yes you pronounce both the kh and sh in that second name. it's a mouthful)

[@analyzingfanworks9895]

I just love seeing people find out Authers write in genres other than the ones there famous for

[@leeshajoi]

Ever heard of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? The original book was written by Ian Fleming. You know, the guy who created James Bond.

[@resender329]

SO yeah I'm late, but yes the country of Belgium is named after the Roman province of Belgica and no the current inhabitant of Belgium are not related to the ancient Belgians mentioned by Ceaser; they fled to what is now modern day Wales (in the UK) after the Mongal invasions during the fall of the Western Roman Empire

[@annekeener4119]

To be fair, most European royals wouldn’t marry their siblings or parents. They’d marry their aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, or nieces. This did result in a lot of family trees turning into circles, but it wasn’t viewed as badly as marrying immediate family like a parent or sibling.

[@HBHaga]

Hooray for the Sun God! He is a Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!

[@omargoodman2999]

Cheops was based on _Greek_ pronunciation of his name. Also, it's the _Greek_ "Ch" sound, like "Chaos" or "Technology". It sounds like a "K", so it's "Key-ops" for the same reason you don't put a hard TCH (as in "Cheese") in "teTCHnology". Or TCHristmas.

[@DragoSonicMile]

"Name three Egyptian Pharaohs." Ramses. ... "That's on me. I set the bar too low." Edit: Gosh dang it! Someone beat me to it!

[@gokbay3057]

13:30 Not really tbh. It was mostly legally. Governments of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and (early independence) Greece were all quite willing to let (Western) Europeans dig up Ancient Stuff and take them home in exchange for money. 16:00 As Red explained, Khufu is the actual Egyptian name. Cheops is the Greek name that was more commonly used in English at the time. It being Greek and not English is how it is pronounced Keops. (Another example is Ozymandias which is the Greek name of Ramesses II) 18:30 The European ones were mostly cousin marriages in contrast with the Sibling marriage Egyptians practiced (which is very much against Christianity).

[@Punaparta]

Look up Sweet Ermengarde. It's a parody of romantic novels of the era by none other than Horrible Phobias Lovecraft. All I have to say about the story is that its main villain, one 'Squire Hardman, is is introduced in the following passage: But these tender passages, sacred though their fervour, did not pass unobserved by profane eyes; for crouched in the bushes and gritting his teeth was the dastardly ’Squire Hardman! When the lovers had finally strolled away he leapt out into the lane, viciously twirling his moustache and riding-crop, and kicking an unquestionably innocent cat who was also out strolling. "Curses!" he cried - Hardman, not the cat - "I am foiled in my plot to get the farm and the girl!"

[@ZpEB2741]

31:34 Romance? No. Sponsored fanfiction? _Spoiler Alert!_ It is surprising, however, how often romance played a role in a mummy's motivations

[@CGomm-le7gv]

37:54 this in tales from the darkside the movie lot 249 starting steve buscemi and christian slater as the two guys

[@Jboy2000000]

If you want to know more about eating Mummiya, including how it tastes, The Thought Emporium has a video where they make a mummy to eat it

[@nicodalusong149]

You might like to know that they also did a detail diatribe on this too. They go into the media featured on this video and "grade" it. Speaking of which, they do discuss H.P. Lovecraft here.

[@rotciv557]

Very timely video from OSP for FGO fans, since Tutankhamun is the newest SSR in FGO.

[@delrodriguez9422]

Wait Arier was at one point at least a Pennsylvania boi I'm a Pennsylvania boi!

[@Airier]

My condolences. 😁 I lived on the Yinzer side.

[@delrodriguez9422]

@Airier probably still a ways a away I was in Northampton more specifically Easton like 5 mins from Jersey at any given time

[@ShahroozSmith]

If you really think about it... Egyptmania is a bit similar to the fascination with Japanese culture. ....So does that make them Egypt-aboos? (Like weaboos for Ancient Egypt.)

[@johanandersson8252]

Pumpkin Spice Potato

[@DBfan12]

Have you checked out the previous OSP Halloween specials? I'm sure you've reacted to some, but I don't recall off th top of my head if you've reacted to their Frankenstein video or the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ones. They're so good, please check them out!

[@tamaramcmomccarty]

If you really like the OSP vids - as I do. Try OSP describing the Ptolemy family tree.

[@Beamer1969]

Herodotus "A lot of made up shit mixed up with some real things" So basically nothing has changed with history

[@pamdawkins13]

I would love to see you react to the Detail Diatribe they did just to expand on this topic.

[@MikutheSkunk]

Terrible joke time: The other day I was told I play trumpet like a pharoah. I guess you could say we have a... Tutenkhamen!

[@ageridthesilverdragon4440]

" next you tell me lovecraft did Romantic litteratur." well not quite but you guess that he was going to be mention. im kind of expecting you to be like i was joking when they mention him

[@ageridthesilverdragon4440]

damn he stop before HP lovecraft was mention

[@alex-fs9yt]

not the Romans being egyptaboos

[@seanfulldark]

Well technically it was autobiography but it was Harry Houdini with his wife so you could argue it was romantic literature

[@utlukka950]

It's the Family Guy death pose, not Yamcha.

[@samiamtheman7379]

With Herodotus, it's not so much that he made shit up as much as wrote down whatever people told him. It's why he was wrong on a lot of things, but also right on a surprising amount of things.

[@woaddragon]

In one of the histories Herododus mention this specifically, telling the reader(s), that while he write everything down, he himself doesn't always believe them.

[@a.i.1328]

it's true, I've seen both when I visited Rome

[@trevorcornell6729]

Arier, LOVE ur vids! Also, PLEASE watch dougdoug's AI zoo invasion. It is by FAR more "funny" than the others combined.

[@TomSketchit]

Oh hey, don't think you've done their werewolf episode yet. You totally should check that one out, it's particularly fascinating.

[@cobraglatiator]

i forget if i've mentioned this video before, and i've absolutely mentioned the creator before, and i know the video wasn't all about rome and egypt, but: do consider, if looking for a video discussing romes' view on egypt, DJPeachCobbler, What did the Romans think of Egypt? again, i'm unaware if there's some discord i'm supposed to put shit like this in, you ignoring or not liking when suggestions are put in the comments, but if you don't ignore/dislike that i've done this, and are looking for info on romes thoughts on egypt...i do recommend the video!

[@anzaca1]

Why does Tera have 7 fingers on each hand?

[@leeshajoi]

Apparently that's canonical to the book.

[@DDlambchop43]

you stopped before the Lovecraft stuff????SERIOUSLY??? Also, you haven't seen Night at the Museum? You should! It's fun.

[@CGomm-le7gv]

31:37 don't know about love craft by talefactory has a video on junji ito's wholesome story the video called junji ito's weirdest story

[@jannegrey]

When it comes to intermarriage though - Pharaohs almost always picked their sisters as brides. Whereas in European dynasties you sometimes had cousins and very rarely siblings. And usually for less generations and often not many generations in the row. So when it comes to that - Yes, Ancient Egypt is sort of on top. For European dynasties it was more something they didn't have choice to do - because suitable other candidates would be from adversarial families. Yes, there are examples of course, but in general compared to Egypt there is much more genetic diversity in European dynasties.

[@fairiesandlillies3471]

Under wraps hehe

[@Hetzar]

You should check out Monkey wrench ep3. It's in my opinion the best one and gives more lore than any of the previous episodes. BTW love ur content!

[@Neffffi]

Day 1 of asking for gravity falls lore reactions

[@Cheese_Kingdom]

Actually wouldn’t be opposed to that

[@Airier]

There's lore videos?

[@Neffffi]

@airier you could watch foot of a ferret everything you need to know if you want though, not forcing you

[@lunerblade13]

So no gildedguy this week?

[@CGomm-le7gv]

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[@nicholasthomas.7553]

YOOO

[@Archris17]

You really need to ease up on the British (and French, but mostly British) archaeologists and understand that, for the VAST MAJORITY of the history of these countries we 'stole' stuff from, they a) didn't care about it and/or b) did not know it was even there! Sure, it looks awful from a modern perspective, but please try to understand that the very _concept_ of caring about the ancient past, originated in western Europe and in many cases, those archaeologists saw themselves as saving priceless historical artefacts from being permanently lost to the sands of time. The Rosetta Stone was being used as part of a WALL before the French found it for goodness sake!

[@ballendorf]

And, if it HADN'T gone to England, it likely wouldn't have been translated for centuries, if at all. Yeah, the British took people's stuff, but one of the main reasons we know much of anything about these things is because the Brits took it and studied it.