Sacred Roman Chickens

Yes you read that right, sacred Roman chickens.
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[@UnnamedBridgeburner]

“Throw the sacred chickens in the sea! If they aren’t hungry maybe they are thirsty” is possibly my favorite Roman quote.

[@johndoeyedoe]

Yup a new one for me! Roman quotes are often absolute gold.

[@louiscarullo6034]

It’s life of Brian: the series staring a double down sandwich from KFC

[@CatMom-uw9jl]

The chickens just had to eat grain? Lucky birds. I thought for sure they’d have to have their entrails read.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Ah, yes, haruspexy. This too was used, but given limited supply of sacred chickens, methods that can be done repeatedly are preferred

[@syjiang]

I always enjoyed Roman's unique blend of strict adherence to protocol and all the shenanigans they utilized to workaround said strict protocols.

[@knpark2025]

A group of ancient humans built their empire with the advice from surviving descendants of the dinosaurs. When these humans did not heed the advice, bad things happened to them. This is their story.

[@TheRezro]

This ironically fit Reptilian conspiracy.

[@benjalucian1515]

Pulcher killed the sacred chickens when they didn't divine in his favor to go to battle at sea. He went into battle anyway and lost catastrophically. Not saying the two things are related but you might want to think about that next time you disrespect the sacred chickens.

[@jtjames79]

I adopted a chicken, and I got a free car. True story.

[@benjalucian1515]

@@jtjames79 See?!?! There you go.

[@Foxtrot_UniformCharlieKilo]

New saying just droped, holy chicken!

[@Clockwork-re9ty]

what are the odds that there's some ancient descendants of these wise and sacred creatures, currently chilling in my freezer

[@jorenvanderark3567]

Zero. Those chickens would Ned to be thousands of years old for that to be the case. Now, if you're asking what the chances are that a *descendant* of those chickens is currently chilling in your freezer, then I don't know.

[@Clockwork-re9ty]

@@jorenvanderark3567 my bad, had a brain fart when i wrote it

[@jonmcgee6987]

I bought 2 packs of drumsticks earlier today. 1 shall go in the freezer. The other shall go in the oven. Placed in a 9 X 11 pan with half an inch of water. Half a cup of Kikkoman soy sauce and sprinkled with seasonal salt. Bake for 24 minutes at 400 degrees F . Then removed from oven, covered with Kraft sweet honey BBQ sauce. Put back in the oven for another 15 minutes and done. Can be served with potato salad or Bush's baked beans.

[@wombatgirl997]

Not nearly as involved, but just this morning I took five chicken thighs (with the skin and bones already removed), cut them up in chunks, coated them in egg (which is kind of messed up if you think about it), rolled them in a mixture of breadcrumbs with some seasonings and a tiny pinch of cayanne pepper, then set them on a baking sheet at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Will be served with some cheese filled pasta and a side of brussle sprouts.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Every chicken that gets in my stomach is sacred 😋

[@worldwanderer91]

what about the ones that leave your body?

[@Wallda_25]

the body is a temple or something...

[@Wallda_25]

@@worldwanderer91 Holy Shit?

[@ericmyrs]

"Short, quick bit of fun" Longer than most of youtube, more well researched and sourced.

[@mrfoxgamer4202]

More 10min tidbits on romans beliefs and customs would be much appreciated!

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

the story of the sacred chooks has long been one of my weird history fact ice breakers.

[@robertbodell55]

The Romans also had a ceremony were they praised and celebrating sacred geese for supposedly alerting them to invading enemies. Part of this ceremony also involved killing dogs as punishment for the historical guard dogs failing in they're duty.

[@skatman3278]

00:15 - it's only 0920 in the morning for me and thanks to this, I really, really want a rotisserie chicken. So yeah, thanks for that.

[@honjohorikoshi]

Love this history especially since I used to raise chickens. Will say, some of the chickens that I raised were so fiesty, prideful, and stuck up; I think they thought of themselves as sacred chickens.

[@ettimew_]

Babe wake up, HoE just posted

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Chickens are sacred to me...can't eat red meat anymore and fish is...bleh 😂

[@mecadragoon]

bird meat is best

[@DarthBaras13]

Thank you for this amazing conversation starter (I work part time at a Food City and this will make an excellent way to pass the time).

[@fguocokgyloeu4817]

One of my favorite bits of de Bella Gallica is the Romans dismissing of a particular form of Gallic superstition, but then openly admitting how good the Gallic druids were at another superstition.

[@Ducaso]

Rome’s scared chickens is like basing the entire economy off a few stock market indexes.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

I've been loving the TV series "The Chosen" for innumerable reasons but the depiction of the Romans is incredibly fascinating (and they have American and British accents, funnily enough) in addition to understanding Jewish customs and culture so much better. But it's funny to me that today families will spread false rumors about their neighbors doing unsavory things, but "I heard he threw sacred chickens in the sea, can you believe that?" is definitely not one of them 😂

[@thecashier930]

Damn the music choices are fire.

[@fakshen1973]

I've had chicken dictate my future before. The quality was dubious and I ws stuck on a particular seat in the house for the forseable future.

[@NickJohnCoop]

As a fellow Australian I *knew* there was going to be a KFC mention, sacred animals taste better when fried.

[@janwitkowsky8787]

I remember when I visited a chicken farm. Farmer told us schoolkids, that chicken eat all the time, if there's food to be eaten. So if a chicken didn't eat, it might be ill and would be taken out to the veterinarian. So one could surmise, that if a roman consul had chicken that didn't eat, then he hadn't been taken care of them proper and that would reflect on how he would take care of his army.

[@SabinStargem]

There might be a basis for the prophetic abilities of chickens. Namely, like most fowl avians, they can detect magnetic changes. This means that things like impending earthquakes and storms can ruffle feathers. People took note of that, and therefore the birds must have a connection with the gods.

[@GypsieJeck]

Them wings ain't low-quality, they're genuine sacred!

[@Tikkibasse]

As someone who keeps chickens, i can relate to the romans. They are sacred the reason some of the chickens didnt eat was probably because they were scared because of all the big humans in battle gear

[@philippedivine409]

I seem to recall that the way you kept your chickens hungry was to put tight bronze rings around their necks to keep them from swallowing. Somewhere near Sentinum there are a bunch of chicken bones and bronze rings belonging to sacred chickens that ran away just before a battle.

[@biturboism]

Idk what's up with your latest creativity spur, but I am loving it!

[@FPoP1911]

Wow, the tasting history colab we were waiting for!

[@greggorywilson2765]

I will obtain and maintain a gaggle of sacred chickens and consult them on consequential decisions before I expire from this planet. Has to happen.

[@oddball_the_blue]

It'll happen eventually... That's a poultry excuse and you know it

[@VG111-n7f]

"I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight !"

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

"(...)which were neither sacred, nor roman, nor even chickens."

[@chickenspaceprogram]

i feel like i'm getting called out

[@HardThrasher]

Sacred Animals of Rome would be a wild series

[@generalgrievous2202]

Across the whole history of Rome, that would basically include every animal at one point or another

[@Mamorufumio]

History of everything has caught something from his time with pig

[@joshuachandler1750]

More Roman history would be interesting, I haven't thought about the story of throwing the sacred chickens into the med for a while.

[@dx-ek4vr]

Well, as Mark Twain used to say: "Sacred chickens make the best chicken sandwiches" Or was it chicken tenders? I forget

[@jameslewis4935]

If they're not hungry, perhaps they're thirsty.

[@DivineImperial]

Mr Tweedy, those chickens are up to something

[@glenysserslev2550]

Oh please! Roman history is really fascinating!

[@cappinjocj9316]

Really missed the opportunity for a Biggus Chickus joke there.

[@ptonpc]

You DON'T mess with the chickens!

[@quintiax]

The Roman Empire fell because they didn't consult the chickens anymore

[@lornamorgan3575]

The whole augury and signs things fascinate me about ancient cultures. How they could be manipulated to suit people.

[@HandyMan657]

I have plenty of time to listen to your stories, mate. Cheers. Take care, keep safe.

[@quentinking4351]

Si non manducat, bibat!

[@chris8612]

I am up for the long story.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

No Haruspex? 😥 It isn't a party without one of those guys.

[@johndoe-qn2mm]

-youtube censored-ing yes. Gimme that fun history

[@CircusJeanie2399]

I LOVE this!!! This is the best thing ever!!!

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Sacred chickens, origins and meaning of national anthems, the history of the Russian Navy... This history channel has everything.

[@AyamHunters]

OK now I want a sacred chicken, 3 piece meal 😂

[@p.strobus7569]

The history of Rome and Christianity is indeed a wacky adventure from a small mob deeply suspected of Nefarious Things to being an excuse to seize power, getting thrown out, taking it back, and then being the last pontifex standing when the emperor skipped town to Ravenna. If it’s a tale told by you, I will definitely listen.

[@TorkelBurger]

Longer stories about chickens and shenanigans!

[@SamDeanismyname]

Ah yes. The dangly bits of Greece. Go onnnnn!

[@alligatorjoeadams5752]

Got to consult the gods. How else are we to motivate the soldiers and justify our actions.

[@johndoe-qn2mm]

Consult the Sacred Chickens further!

[@benjalucian1515]

Romans were big on bird divination - augury. Ancient Roman religious beliefs are interesting. But once Christianity gets involved, it gets boring.

[@BobSaget69]

Oh you’d love the story of Porphyrios the whale that terrorized and sank ships off Constantinople in the 6th Century

[@jakobnuernberger94]

I mean, I knea about the Sacred Geese of the Capitoline Hill, but I never heard about the chicken. I think the Romans had something going for their feathery friends.

[@marcusott2973]

Ah, Rom's poultry history. Next the geese of Juno?

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Ah the excuses: "We lost... how, the chickens pecked... we couldn't have... wait, you, you falsified the divination, didn't you!"

[@SaberKittyZero]

Chickens eddy! Chickens!

[@DanielsPolitics1]

Totally gonna have fried chicken tonight.

[@ambiguouspieces1793]

Yay! Fun History! You know, the day before you uploaded this video, I had KFC, so low and behold! Those KFC zinger burgers must have some divine power after all 😜. Keep up the good work 🌟

[@userofthetube2701]

Caesar doesn't really write about basing his battle plans on the sacred chickens. Even though he was also Rome's supreme priest. Had the practice been abandoned at this point? Or was he just unwilling to share any of the glory with the chickens?

[@delftac]

History can be so silly sometimes 😂!!

[@alexroselle]

this is great stuff. Do the Capitoline Geese next!

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I was thinking the Byzantine murder whale.

[@arivael]

Well I did not wake up this morning expecting to hear about the Sacred Chickens of Rome, doesn't seem like it served them well though, maybe they should have imported Sacred Emu's instead.

[@timaldridge6505]

If you had not mocked thy holy bird 🐓 you would have received a glorious like ratio

[@jtsg464]

But the real question, whats more powerful, the sacred chicken or a Lazerpig

[@tristanschmidt1239]

I've learned about how the Romans saw other people from a mad man. I'm ready to learn their religion from a soon to be mad man

[@user-ge5vf5md7r]

Everybody likes chicken.

[@donchaput8278]

Finally I know why my life is a mess, I don't have a Sacred Chicken. No one ever told me this. Probably pricy, is it worth it to get a used one off Ebay to start with?

[@Statueshop297]

Chickens.

[@ukeyaoitrash2618]

The holy bucket? (Kfc that is)

[@johndoeyedoe]

Yup already knew this. Nice!!! Zinger burger! 🤣🤣🤣 Fu#k yeah bro! Oh came from a sacred island, didn't know that.

[@DudeManDude-ot5fv]

I AM smoking something so go on.....

[@llynnmarks3382]

Please give us more Roman religion videos.

[@geodkyt]

More Roman religion giggles!

[@swwash]

What if I only have ducks?

[@dinodude6992]

You know, I've always wondered this one thing: Islam holds pigs as their holy animal Hinduism holds cows as their holy animal But I had always wondered what religion or people held chickens (or just any avian species, I suppose) on a similar level as cows and pigs do for Hinduism and Islam, making another addition to the "holy barnyard animals" that some might not come to realize that some of their farm animals are holy animals to people elsewhere in the world. But now I have been gifted this answer... and it was the Romans who held chickens as a holy animal (I'm still uncertain if Romans refused to actually eat chickens like Islam and Hinduism have in regards to cows and pigs... they are the Roman's afterall). It's nice to finally have my question answered.

[@StruggleGaming]

Bawgawk

[@stupidminotaur9735]

Roosters

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

Is it really hard to believe Romans had sacred chickens?

[@carlossaraiva8213]

But what about the Sacred Letucces?

[@kam833]

Didnt the romans olso read the organs of sheep for divination or something?

[@anno-fw7xn]

Waht did just learn?

[@TheRezro]

I just say one thing. What is a symbol of the France?

[@everybodygotthat]

What happened to the national anthem video? Went to hit play on it just now and.....it's been removed.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I have been absolutely mauled with spurious copyright claims in the last 24 hours

[@cyberfutur5000]

I would trade a globe spanning chicken cult for modern day conspiracys and twitter any day.

[@johndoeyedoe]

🤣🤣🤣!!! Chickens and christianity...

[@Birb_of_Judge]

7:27 there are humans today laughing at other modern humans religious practices and religion in general. The Birb is not of them for the Birb is no human, but the Birb still does Lough at it

[@malleus30]

Christianity seems far more sane than.... Whatever this is

[@TheRezro]

It wasn't really that much different then most religions. Difference between Pop-Christianity, actual Theology and what ever Gnosticism is. It also huge.

[@im1066]

So by this rational if you go to KFC and eat a lot of chicken you will have a good KZbin career correct?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Uhhh yes?

[@ThatTrafficCone]

Please don't use AI imagery and assets. It's gross, especially when it gets stuff wrong and misrepresents the subjects you're trying to present.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

What the evil chicken and the flaming city?