Strange funeral customs | Death & Afterlife in House of the Dragon Explained

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[@shelleyj3704]

Aemon's death scene remains one of my favorite scenes, in book and show. So touching, and central to the themes of death in the series. "Egg, I dreamed I was old!" Valar morghulis.

[@TheDisputedLands]

Two of the best scenes ever.

[@TheStoneTargaryen]

God lol “Melisandre attempting the same by giving Jon a haircut” is terrible. They screwed that show up so bad 😭

[@nathanbutler78]

Another great video Amanda. You're by far the most intelligent and thorough KZbinr on these subjects. I've watched every one of your videos and think of them almost as Canon themselves.

[@TheDisputedLands]

thank you Nathan!

[@LNGD_46]

The only first-hand account of death in ASOIAF we have is the Varamyr chapter. My favourite chapter.

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Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

[@AstroFascination]

I always end up learning something new

[@Terp4Life10]

It’s a good day when we get a new Disputed Land video.

[@CompanyOfTheCat]

Great video❤ I love the after life concept in this novel so much, so glad you made a video about it.

[@TheDisputedLands]

Thank you! Its been a fun exploration into the soul... its great how one video just leads into the other!

[@CaptCKernel]

What is dead may never die. Glad you're back to posting regularly! Havent been able to sit down and watch YT for a bit, glad I've got a binge to hit

[@TheDisputedLands]

Thanks for watching!

[@jonhauge-evaldsson783]

I think the soul will be presereved in all this ways! There is a lot of afterlives -in animals, in trees, in water, in fire and in ice.

[@Blckrngr]

"By giving Jon Snow a haircut" 😂😂😂

[@Longshanks1690]

You think the Arryns have a corresponding thematic funeral ritual where they yeet their dead through the moon door? 😂

[@jamesleonard2870]

I was wondering that too. Probably cremation and the ashes go out the moon door =] 💙🌊🏄‍♂️🪷

[@WhiteSargent]

What is yeeted may never unyeet

[@Thundernugget]

​@@WhiteSargent ashes to ashes and Yeet to yeeten.

[@kmcd3020]

A usual I'm very grateful for another video from Amanda 🎉

[@TheDisputedLands]

And Im grateful for you watching!!!

[@basementmadetapes]

What I appreciate about the religion of The Seven is that while i can definitely see Christianity as it’s basis, it still doesn’t feel derivative. It feels lived in, it feels earned. Another great video as always

[@Longshanks1690]

@@basementmadetapes Absolutely not, it’s the opposite of what you said. 😂 The FOTS is so painfully shallow and half assed with its history and culture that it’s blatantly clear George wasn’t even trying and finds the whole subject of theology to be very, very boring. So we have scant detail on the Faith aside from a few festival names, a few religious rituals, one singular theology lesson in the entire series and next to nothing about its history, schisms and different practises in regards to location and time period. It’s not even clear why a religion so clearly modelled on Catholicism is so blasé about the tree and sea worshipping pagans and have effectively adopted a policy of secular toleration with them. The FOTS is absolutely a cardboard cutout derivative of the Roman church with none of the substance, complexity and detail that actually makes the study of religion fascinating.

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The seven hells are an aspect I'm curious about. Barristan says only half of them are fiery.

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Love all that you do for us and this fandom!!!

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What is dead may never die.

[@TheDisputedLands]

....but rises

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@@TheDisputedLands ...again, harder, and stronger

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I always love when you put out a new video.

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Thank you for watching!

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Ah... I dont envy you. I stay away from the news as much as I can and its still too much.

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Same. I fallow politics and GoT creators are my favorite escape from the madness 💙🌊🏄‍♂️🪷

[@nononono3421]

In promotional photos from the show, a close up of the Night King showed he had seven-pointed stars in his eyes, just like the Stranger in that artwork.

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Whoh! 💙🌊🏄‍♂️🪷

[@Inlandexile]

Great summary. Nice to have all this info collected in one video.

[@TheDisputedLands]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@murrayd3152]

Such a well done, comprehensive video on a fascinating topic.

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Glad you liked it!

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Such little details make Asoiaf better than any other fantasy series.

[@BillyBasd]

Forgot about the show scene of Daenrys making all the Dothraki her bloodriders. Wouldn't that mean that all of them must kill Jon then themselves?

[@TheDisputedLands]

That's exactly what that means🤣

[@BillyBasd]

@@TheDisputedLands guess show Canon is that the Dothraki accepted Drogon's ruling that the throne was Danny's killer then killed themselves all offscreen. Lordy I hate season 8

[@elliecoffin616]

I've never paid much attention to their death rites so this was very insightful 👏

[@TheDisputedLands]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@uriustosh]

Keep up the good work CFD

[@TheDisputedLands]

Thanks, will do!

[@nikalarsson3359]

Fantastic video as always! Really looking forward to how ep 2x04 of HOTD handles Rhaenys, given the extent to which she has quietly moved seemlessly between multiple different belief systems, funerary rites, and death aspects through the first season. Fascinating subtle choices that have contributed a great deal of unexpectedly esoteric depth to a character that is also perhaps the most perceptive in most other ways, too. Very great way of paying tribute to the diversity of the character's background, not just as a Valyrian (both Targaryen and Velaryon), but a descendent of some of the oldest and most magical Westerosi houses, including the Durrandons and the Blackwoods. Great stuff.

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If not today, we will see next week for sure!

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You’re awesome. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos

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I appreciate that!

[@jonhauge-evaldsson783]

I think we have met the spirits of the dead many times in the story. In dreams especially-Dany meets the kingly ghosts and the Undying. John and Theon dream about the Kings of Winter and so on.

[@TheDisputedLands]

I'm going to be talking about those ghosts in a future video!

[@lukesguywalker]

I find most fascinating about Targaryen funerary rites is that it's said they're interred on Dragonstone but never where to my understanding. I'm probably over thinking it and GRRM didn't much care to state it, but I wonder sometimes if it's on purpose??

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Both of you are great and helped me realize many things about Asoiaf.

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Thx for the content 🔥

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Another excellent video. ❤

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Glad you enjoyed it!

[@magister343]

I liked the video, but it kept sounding to be like you were saying "cow" instead of "khal." I wasn't expecting a discussion of bovine afterlives.

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What is dead may never die, but rises harder and stronger.

[@BaldingClamydia]

Very interesting, thank you :D

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My pleasure!

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Great video.

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[@ImNotOffended]

Question: say a Tully woman marries a stark man, when she passes away is she interred in the crypts as per her husbands customs or is she returned to the riverlands for her cultures own ritual to be performed?

[@TheDisputedLands]

It is generally performed in the custom of that person's faith. If Catelyn had been cared for properly at death she would have either had her body taken to riverrun for a Tully river burial or her bones would have been stripped, sent to the North and laid to rest under the sept of winterfell.

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@@TheDisputedLands interesting! Thank you!

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Another good video!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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An excellent video.

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Many thanks!

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Commenting for algorithm :) and to say great video as always ❤️

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[@tylerbarrett6652]

There is also that statement of Tyrion's I heard you refer to - Will he get a new body when he lives again... or whatever it was. So there is some faction or group that believes in reincarnation? IDK - It seems to me that we have that old fashioned division of earth, wind, fire, and water ... oh, and ether (for those who go to live in the heavens as stars)... and really, there is no burial regarding wind - and it makes me think that we have water magic, fire magic, and earthen magic... and so shouldn't there be 3 aspects of the Gods? It confused me that there only seems to be the many faced God... and that unnamed other. There should also be that Merling King. This is quite confounding.

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Now watching it.

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Awesome!

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[@Darkness-ie2yl]

The Tully's one is cool. If Edmure could get some more practice 😂 They did the same to Boromir..

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For the algorithm.

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Awesome.

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Dying to see How jon's pov would be like in WOW.

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The vale of sorrow is this life ? What Measter Aemon said I mean

[@TheDisputedLands]

Yes, the vale of sorrow is meant to be interpreted as life. Its a nod to Buddhist philosophy www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-second-noble-truth/201609/existence-is-suffering

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Death and resurrection is probably the coolest thing in aosiaf world.

[@A1B2C3D4E5F-c]

Asoiaf's Depth is Endless Just Like the pond in Winterfell's godswood.

[@electron_shell]

What's the full video called for the GRRM clip talking about wet Valhalla? Looks like a Zoom interview.

[@TheDisputedLands]

Great question, thats an interview on history of westeros youtube channel! They also interviewed Ryan condal.

[@annasanchez5959]

Hi, I’m going off topic here, it’s regarding something you covered in an earlier video. I wasn’t sure if you’d see it if I put a comment on that video. It’s regarding Euron as the third head of the dragon. That azor ahai is going to be taking over Euron essentially. I was wondering if you considered the possibility of blood raven being the one that does that(and maybe rejected it?). The idea that Euron has been contacted by blood raven as an earlier attempt at a bran type pupil has been discussed certainly, but i haven’t seen any theories re blood raven takeover. His choice of his coat of arms, the red eye with black pupil and crown held up by two crows, seems very blood raven influenced. Is he a failed pupil or someone being actively manipulated into thinking that they are connected and will be more bonded in the future (and that this circumstance will be beneficial and desirable to Euron)? The idea we get of blood raven is that he is willing to do morally reprehensible things to achieve certain ends. Would he bat an eye over skinchanging another person for keeps? Probably not. When Euron is talking to Victarion and there’s that line about “to make an heir that’s worthy of him”, it could fit with blood raven. He says “bring her back to me” but also uses “him”. The “him” is like the other part of himself, that has been with him since a boy. I like your stuff, you really dig in deep, well thought out and presented. Just curious what you think and if there’s any gaping holes that I’m not seeing. That is, if you have the time and inclination. No worries if you don’t.

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@@annasanchez5959 i have my thoughts on bloodraven in a recent video about the most important fight in season 2. Definitely check that out!

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@@TheDisputedLands cool, I’ll check that out.

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Return to this vail of sorrow 🥲

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One of the most heartbreaking passages

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[@Jazzinthedark84]

Cairns is not pronounced Carns, but Cayrns

[@TheDisputedLands]

@@Jazzinthedark84 like cayenne peppers? Or just a hard A?

[@Jazzinthedark84]

@@TheDisputedLands kind of. So the "cay" bit is like "cay" in cayenne or that rhymes with "bay" (I know some people say ky-enne, but I don't know which is correct, so I just clarified that it would also rhyme with Bay). Then the "rns" is like in the word "urns", but take away the "u" at the start. So then cay-rns. It's a word of Scottish or Irish Gaelic (they're linked, but not identical languages. Irish Gaelic is often just called Irish) origin that means a pile of stones/rocks piled over a grave, or used as a memorial to the dead.

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Just a sacrifice.

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[@jamesleonard2870]

Great video Amanda. My text thing knows your name very very well because my best friend is also named Amanda 💙🌊🏄‍♂️🪷 ( as a lifelong surfer I often tell my friend “ we are a sea people, our god is a sea god!”)