You absolute madman! It's about time someone tackled that ancient Italian mythology question!

"Julius Caeser was just as mad as Nero, simply higher functioning." That got a chuckle out of me lol fantastic stuff

I once had a dream about Slavic God of war Sviatovid, he was rampaging thoroug the forest on a wheat cart pulled by two oxen, at his feet were sacks of grain, gold and weapons,at least some fruits and one barrel, spare axle and wheel he was naked, muscular, luminescent, he was holding in his hand flail, had four faces (the defining trait) and pilgrim hat, his frontal face looked insanely happy. - Now knowing that Mars was also god of crops this glorious experience makes more sense.

@naturbursche5540

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Svan + vit means swan + white in Low German. I know the Svanto/Sviato word means sacred in Slavic but originally probably light/white/bright. The swan being linked to the cult of Mars was interesting to me. The word Mars means pure/reknown/light in Germanic an Celtic. Germanic people called the Mars by several names such as Mars/Mers (same as Romans), Er/Ir/Ar (same as Greek Ares, also simply means "he"), Arminius (means huge/universal) or locally Ziu/Tiu (among Alamannians and Anglo-Saxon, derived from older word for the Sky God) or Saxnot ("sword of need" , his Saxon name). According to the Saxon Chronicle, the Mars Arminius was depicted as a man walking through a field of flowers. High places of that God would have been Merseburg and Eresburg (Obermarsberg).

I used to love watching History Channel documentaries after school in the 2000s. Always informative and gives so much depth and context for the basic history we learn in school. Your videos give the same vibe and I absolutely love them. Thank you for the amazing content.

Another video from our shining God of the spear & king's! I offer this comment to the almighty Algorithm, so that it's gaze may fall on you favorably

I like the comparisons with Celtic folk lore, really adds a lot.

@DCMarvelMultiverse

2 жыл бұрын

Well, first, they were both Indo-European and, second, the Latin and Celtic languages directly broke off from the same branch of I-E.

I was so excited to watch this. I've been curious about the difference and similarities and evolution of Greek myth to Roman so to speak and this delt with questions I didn't know I had. I truly adore this and appreciate every bit of your efforts.

@banjo9549

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I didn’t know the Etruscan people were Indo-European! Where were they from? Africa I assume.

@naturbursche5540

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@@banjo9549 There is a fairly popular theory that the Etruscans were actually some kind of Slavs.

@banjo9549

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@@naturbursche5540 thanks! interesting I was recently watching an academic series on the latest findings and updates on Celtic culture. You mentioning that made me recall their latest findings on their migrations. So not knowing much of the Slavs, it seems it is definitely possible.

Absolutely brilliant Kevin. I've watched this at least four times now and I'm still finding something new each time. Really well done.

I just got curious about Romulus yesterday! So I typed his name and this came up. The fates are smiling about this. Thank you so much for making this video. New subscriber.

This is the best thing I’ve seen all week.

Enjoying this immensely, nicely done. Thank you :)

This presentation is second to none.

I loved this I never considered the Roman founding mythology in such a way this is entertaining and informative

Just like ROMULUS , GOD RAMA was famous for the Horse Sacrifice aka ASHWAMEDHA. Also , PRIAM (PyRAM) of Troy was famous for the Horse Sacrifice (Trojan Horse). This Famous Horse Sacrifice tend to be very difficult for all three of them (ROMULUS , RAMA and PRIAM).

The thing with the babies in the basket on the river is so similar to the story of Moses (who btw did most of his life's work in company with his brother Aaron) makes me wonder how "indoeuropean" the near east was in ancient times. This is not the first such parallel I stumble upon in my research. The band of youngsters/social outcasts also reminds me of the fable of the prodigal son.

@naturbursche5540

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Slavic Mars is probably Svantovit/Sviatovit. Svan + vit means swan + white in Low German. I know the Svanto/Sviato word means sacred in Slavic but originally probably light/white/bright. The swan being linked to the cult of Mars was interesting to me. The word Mars means pure/reknown/light in Germanic an Celtic. Germanic people called the Mars by several names such as Mars/Mers (same as Romans), Er/Ir/Ar (same as Greek Ares, also simply means "he"), Arminius (means huge/universal) or locally Ziu/Tiu (among Alamannians and Anglo-Saxon, derived from older word for the Sky God) or Saxnot ("sword of need" , his Saxon name). According to the Saxon Chronicle, the Mars Arminius was depicted as a man walking through a field of flowers. High places of that God would have been Merseburg and Eresburg (Obermarsberg).

@dearlrogers3498

9 ай бұрын

I don't believe in coincidence, the Romans put things together for a reason. The Roman Pantheon still stands today , in tact ! Roman mythology is an infusion of Rome , Greek, Egyptian, Norse , Celtic ect. All have a most high deity, all mythologyies are prototypes of Christ . Deity of God- creator , Christ - son , Holy Spirit - enabler of action . When Constantine converted Rome to Christianity, Christ was elevated to King over divine , mythological gods , goddesses , all of creation . Christ was the creator becoming the creation , the 2nd Adam . The final blood sacrifice . Just my opinion , however I think 1 of the reasons Rome fell is because most Romans continued to worship divine rather than CHRIST. Christianity is the only religion that all mythologyies, all prehistoric religions & beliefs point to Christ . Most people can't see the coralation of mythology to Christianity.

@naturbursche5540

9 ай бұрын

If put into right framework, Christianity is just full of pre-Christian European ideas that were hard to wipe out and are completely non-biblical. Be it a trinity, eating pork or whatever that makes Christianity different from Muslims and Jews. Btw, according to the bible itself Jesus was created lower than an angel. Angels and archangels = pagan Gods,; like the seven angels the days of the week are named after. Ever wondered why all three abrahamic religions acknowledge the existence of angels but the worship of these entities whose job would be that of messengers between human and divine realm is for some curious reason restricted to paganism. @@dearlrogers3498

The Etruscans had many in common with Illyrians.Great video!

This video was fascinating - clarifying, inspiring and lending some order to what is the chaos of disparate readings and references to history, legends and myths overlapping, rising again by being retold, rewritten or renamed… You do an heroic job of researching, weaving words and images- thank you!!!

Excellent! This is gold, and was exactly the stuff I was researching! It's very interesting that the baby in the basket down the river, the twins, and other mythological tropes from a bunch of religions seem to have a Indo European origin.

@Mr0rris0

2 жыл бұрын

Hindu tengri indo li jian

Wonderful work my friend

You’re content is exceptional, well thought out and stimulating, thank you for your work

A good new addition. I’ve been waiting for you to release a clear, concise cover-all for the Celtic gods, directed at beginners. You know well, I have long waded through the depths of your channel to seek deepest insight, but the newcomers will not be so thorough. Because they are all getting sucked in by this Norse, “Viking” cultural project, and you are the only one currently able to provide an accessible alternative.

Amazing as always, thanks Kevin!

Excellent work! Enjoyed every minute of it.

I really needed something like this right now. Thank you

Wonderful information as usual

Brilliantly presented, exceptional detail!

This is fascinating! Great work!

Very informative and always worth the wait!.

This is fantastic content, better than anything on TV 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 amazing stuff

Absolutely fascinating. Most of this is completely new information to me, but makes so much sense in light of ancient migration patterns. Would love to see info on the Etruscan mythologies, prior to Roman assimilation in more detail. Keep up the good work!

I really like history of myths and religions, and i hate that there is so little info of roman and etruscan religion and myths. Thank you for this vid. Fascinating. I would really love a video about what we know of the religious life and practices of the countryside in rome. Hispania for example is very little studied in this aspect.

Really enjoy your videos. Well done!

Great video! Love Mythology, always some truth in it. Keep up the good work. Thnx-

Amazing Video! Outstanding!! I love greco-roman mythology above all other myths and folklore, this video really help to expand my understanding and importance of the Indo-European influence and basis for much of the worlds religions and creation myths including my own, the Roman Catholic Church. Your video was very detailed. Great stuff, i look forward to more Greco-roman Content in the future from you now that i have subscribed to your channel!

Your a great story teller, thank you very interesting.

Beautiful breakdown.

wow, such great research! thank you!

Absolutely love this.

Brilliant, l loved it. Thank you 😊

Really Done Well Good Job

Great work

Very good job 👍

Damn, this is incredible. Thank you for feeding my soul!

Awesome! Thanks a lot! and further success!

A very good video for the upcoming uni entrance exam, thank you very much kind sir, wish you all the best!

Really enjoyed your take on Quirinus. It seems that with my original take on him from what I knew, I had some things wrong. Such as that he probably indeed should be connected to Numa, not Romulus.

@charlesco7413

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that Jesus was jabbed with the Spear of destiny and pontius pilate mean bridge and pilate means javelin is a type of spear.

The Latin etymological Dictionary explains : Archaically called Mavors, Mars is an old Italic deity, he presided over the occupations of the fields as well as the works of the earth. Hence his nicknames of Rusticus; the Arvales brothers, who, as their name indicates, were attendants of a country cult, invoke Mars in their litanies; Cato orders sacrifices to be offered to him so that he watches over the conservation of the oxen. When Greek mythology was introduced to Rome, Ares was identified with Mars, which made him an exclusively warrior god. The Oscan name of Mars was 𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌓𐌔 (mamers), it is likely that Mavors, Mamers and the Etruscan Maris are variants of the same word. According to Lewis & Short[1], the radical of the word is *mar- ("to shine"), the meaning would then be "God of light".

subbed, nicely done

Easy click - always glad to see your content

perfect done,

Incredible video. I like to think that the chinese Tao concept of ying and yang has a similar dualistic nature like the ancient roman concept of peace and war.

@thatbodymechanic

2 жыл бұрын

Some things are prevalent no matter where you go in the world. Gives one hope y'know 😊

Yeah!!!🎉🙏😊 Mr. Mythos is Back!!!

Your videos are interesting enjoy the longer videos !how long does it take you to create these videos 👏

Love this. Great job!

@55:40 the coin depicting Sutor Augustus the Divine Shoemaker, and the painting where Sei sews a Shoe in the Welsh; can you do a video about this? I am interested in Shoemakers Hall also, what did that look like? Lovely video thank you.

Best youtube channel

appreciate the works. appreciate the truth.

Perfect catalyst for when I roll for Quirinus in a few days.

Odin Villi and Ve are a triple God complex that relates to us all. Odin - Wisdom (inspiration, etc.) pertains to our pineal gland or '3rd eye', Villi - Will, to our solar plexus chakra ( which is where we get terms like "gut instinct", guts i.e. intestinal fortitude, etc. ) and then Ve - Heart center/chakra, being the seat of the soul ( both sacred and temple).

Was about to order a pizza if anyone wants anything?

The name of the channel made me suspicious. I'm so glad I gave it a chance. The content is great

As usual, very good 🌟☀️ though I live a humble life I will pay pal you a humble sum. Keep going, your good at this. ✨🌾✨

I had an unrelated comment. I was reading the second battle of mag tuired and I came across this part "It is of thatsword that Loch Lethglas sang this lay: Admell maorna uath, etc." Do you know what "admell moarna uath" means? I cannot find a translation of this phrase.

ROMAN MARS was linked to a shoe? That’s very similar to GOD RAMA and His brother Bharata linked with each other with RAMA’s shoes. A very famous VEDIC RAMAYANA pastime.

How lucky to get you back as i lost your site

Man every time I hear that Xenogears music in the beginning it makes me itch for an analysis of that game from you!

Indo European is everywhere! "My mother was a high priestess, my father I knew not. The brothers of my father loved the hills. My city is Azupiranu, which is situated on the banks of the Euphrates. My high priestess mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid. She cast me into the river which rose over me. The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me. Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener. While I was a gardener, Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and ... years I exercised kingship. Similarities between the Sargon Birth Legend and other infant birth exposures in ancient literature, including Moses, Karna, and Oedipus, were noted by psychoanalyst Otto Rank in his 1909 book The Myth of the Birth of the Hero.[69] The legend was also studied in detail by Brian Lewis, and compared with many different examples of the infant birth exposure motif found in European and Asian folktales. He discusses a possible archetype form, giving particular attention to the Sargon legend and the account of the birth of Moses.[7] "

Been looking for some mythology of Rome lately this came at a perfect time. Great work! :)

Interesting.

" as mad as Nero, but simply higher functioning..."

All the best to you. Stand tall. The king a cosmic man. Mars plays an important rule in ordering the cosmos. A legend based on the myth of God Mars that represents the cosmic myth on the human and local level.

The Xenogears soundtrack for a video on Rome? . . . Huh, seems to work nicely. Good call :)

Excellent as always FoL. Really I wasn't expecting to see something this nuanced and comprehensive on Rome's origin, ever. If you all get a chance, do check out the film The First King. Not a big budget film but you may still like it.

this is fantastic work! holy kings

These possible hints into the oldest layer of Roman mythology might have additional Indo-Iranic parallels: There is a figure in the Shamameh called Qaren, around the time of Fereydun (thritaona) who could be similar to Quirinus. The equivalence of Remus with Iamus (Yama/Yim/Gemos) 'twin' suggests that there should be a Manu in the story. This isn't always the case, and the obvious man to the twin is Romulus. But how about Numa? It isn't unheard of for words to undergo transpositions of syllables in Italic.

6:40 gods also represents rôle in community

What is the music at 5:30 into the video? I have to know.

Am I the onlyone who plays this whilst doing my morning routine? 😊

Thanks.

Throwing items into the waters let me think of what was found in La Tène with many weapons (again link with Mars) put in the lake by Kelts

King of peacetime sounds a bit like Nuada... the linguistic similarity just reinforces that potential shared origin.

@McAulay99

2 жыл бұрын

Nuada has a common root with Varuna, with his co-ruler Lugh being Mitra.

@mercianthane2503

Жыл бұрын

Nuada is Varuna, but the Varuna archetype is not a peaceful god. He is agressive, expands the dominion of the gods, and it is Mithra who ends up placating the wrath of Varuna. In Ireland this combative personality has been transferred to Lugh, but the rest of Varuna's traits are found in Nuada. Here, in Roman Mythology, it is Romulus who takes the Varuna/Nuada role, as the first king of the gods and a stern ruler, whose kingship seems tyrannical, but that's not the reality. In Greece you find the same Varuna archetype with Agamemnon of Mycenae, and Mithra is found in Menelaus of Sparta.

@naturbursche5540

Жыл бұрын

Wanna add that Germanic people had two types of kings/chiefs, one for war, one for peace. The word for the warchief was *haritugas, whence we get the German and Dutch noble title Hertog/Herzog (duke). Latin dux and English duke are also cognates of that word, from the root of Latin ducere, German ziehen, meaning to pull (pull through the land with your army). The "peace chief" is the literal king or "kuningas", the "Ing" (progeny) of a "Kunni" (family = kin). To marry into other tribes royal families and strengthen bonds between people.

Enjoyed this bit who the hang is Westa ??? - anything I read or knew was about Vesta goddess

exceptional take on archaic acceptance, seemingly from the "evil" romulus, being the pro and con mythical universe. my knowledge is not as high, but the scope that humanity and the universe are mutually battling for what is "air," gives a great scope that as humanity competes to undertake all beknownst, that it will be our demise, as remus or we lost, and it's all okay because in the end romulus will just cease.

Could Mars be derived from Marduke Amar utu? Amar=immortal ... The Lus in Lustration etymology is same as Luce in Lucifer. Lugh seems to mean bind by oath. (Like secret oaths) as done in darkness? Lugh carried a magical spear. What if its not the fire but the light surrounded by darkness? A Quirinus flamen was a flame Light bearer. Romulus leads his soldiers by a spear with twigs bound to it tip. Perhaps an early version of the Fasci? Romulus carries a oak tree dressed in armor. Lupus for wolf etymology is supposed to mean Devour or consume so the (Lu) in Luce could mean same thing as fire consumes. The (Pus) in latin means rot or decay as a cadaver so Lu pus the is code for (the augary LU (from vultures) of the cadaver PUS) could the eagle actually be the vulture in nobility? Could the milk of a fig be called puss? Perhaps context is key? As for the Shoe (Jewish tradition say throwing a shoe was a way of decline a contract like marriage) so a shoe is connected to contract and covenant.

I wonder if there’s any linguistic connection between Yemo and the Aramaic name Te'oma (Thomas). Since both mean twin

Did not expect to hear xenogears music for a mythology video

Add that the saints take up the responsibilities of the minor and house gods. Juno/Hera as patron of Rome is taken by the new mother goddess m, Mary Stone Age and Iron Age burials in many locations are surrounded by circular ditches where gifts came be thrown. The stirrup was what made the horse even more effective in combat, as you can absorb the shock of impacts. This wouldn’t come common in combat until after the fall of Rome

the narrator is easy to understand

@18:30 what's the tru history of said shack?

Concerning the Shoemaker's Hall. Anybody have more information on the " Sally" who would dance thru the streets?

Do some slavic mythology and maybe even cover some religious prophets like Zoroaster, please more greco/roman videos

I always wondered what was up w the copycat Roman pantheon. THANKS!

Can't help but to notice u name drop Lugh, pretty hard lol nothing wrong with that

Xenogears´s soundtrack! Pure genius!

Good video with accurate info but I'm a little shocked at the title. This stuff isn't exactly new or hidden...

Considering Romulus and Remus' story as clearly Indo-European in structure, what about the story of Sargon the Great, who was also cast into a river when young and became a warlord, are Akkadians also Indo-Europeans? I thought they were Semitic. What about the story of Moses, are the Hebrews also Indo-Europeans? I wonder if picking different related myths from people speaking Indo-European languages does say anything about original Indo-European myths, or perhaps it's the only thing we have at hand and we just don't want to see the reality that Indo-European mythology is too far back in time to be attainable. Frazer in the Golden Bough went deeper in analysing these myths with a very broad picture and it helped him to bring out conclusions on humanity's evolution, he didn't reduce his study to chasing the Indo-Europeans.

A similar myth in Abrahamic faith involves Moses to be put into a basket and casted into a river, where he was rescued by the pharao's daughter, and went on to become a warrior and great general.

@usergiodmsilva1983PT

2 жыл бұрын

Also seen in the greek mythology, Indian mythology and Sargon the great, biography (who died around 2000 BCE). :)

@dracodistortion9447

2 жыл бұрын

@@usergiodmsilva1983PT i wonder if it suggests Indo-European origins of abrahamism. "Jesus" does seem to be cognate to "Zeus" and "Dyeus", as well as there is a sky father

@kirstenwelcome4520

2 жыл бұрын

Same with Sargon the Great

@Non_auro_sed_ferro_recuperanda

2 жыл бұрын

@@dracodistortion9447 Jesus is an Anglicization of the Greek _Iesous_ from the Hebrew Yeshua(Joshua) which has nothing to do with _"Dyauspitar"_ or _"Deus Pater(Jupiter)"_ in ancient Latin or Old Indic. The Hebrews referred to God as _Elohim_ and _Yahweh(Jehovah)_ which were just titles or epithets for God. Technically the Hebrew word _Adon_ is what God would truly be called in Hebrew.

@blugaledoh2669

2 жыл бұрын

@@dracodistortion9447 Jesus does seem similar to "Zeus" but that is mostly accidental. Jesus mean "salvation" a common Jewish name while Zeus most likely mean, "sky, shining".

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What is the Secret of Romulus and Remus? It is the founding Mythos of Rom.

I wonder if for the practice of leading animals around the boundry to invoke Mars' blessing on the land of there's an echo of it in the Christian practice of the Beating of the Bounds.