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@KarlSnarks

Жыл бұрын

I know your channel is dedicated to a neutral approach to religious topics, but I'm kinda curious how being a theologian, looking at religion through an analytical historical lens, affects your personal experience of your religious beliefs or lack thereof.

I love when people treat history for what it really is: not a static description, but the story of change over time.

@leminjapan

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly said! History is a story still written today.

@yazid709

Жыл бұрын

And got exactly has he done that?

@kenopsicexplorer7065

Жыл бұрын

@@yazid709 Talking about the city in different time periods of Egyptian history and showing how the religion changed overtime.

@chompythebeast

Жыл бұрын

People will say this, but then will turn around and say things like "Ah it's not my fault the natives were genocided, that happened in the past!" History is built on the bones of the past, and we are inheritors of its legacy. It falls to us not to ride evil status quos or to accept historical narratives spoon-fed to us by hegemonic authorities, but to yes, see that history is living, and understand our place in shaping in it, even and especially when that means going against the reigning grain

@Burning_branches

Жыл бұрын

Well said. Everything is in constant flux, and to respect and see how something has grown and been different things at different points in time is a good way to look at things.

Everytime I learn more about Egypt it fills me with an inescapable yearning to be surrounded by it. Thanks for this!

@TerribleShmeltingAccident

Жыл бұрын

I love how you said that! I agree totally and long for more!

The cheeky "...at least for most of its history" and Akhenaten peeking in from the corner at 7:52 was brilliant! 5/7 sun worshippers

Karnak was overwhelming when I visited it. Abu Simbel and the Temple of Hatshepsut were also very impressive.

I always love all of your content, but anything related to Egypt makes me extra happy... and also a little nostalgic. I firmly believe that if a person only gets one chance in their lives to travel, let it be the destination.

Aaand now I have a bad case of wanderlust, it's great to see footage of these places from new angles. Hopefully there are more Egyptian videos to come!

Angkor Wat: “Who are you?!” Karnak: “I’m you, but older.”

@nobody8328

Жыл бұрын

Hrm. I wonder what the possibility is that they knew each other? 🤔

@only_fair23

9 ай бұрын

​@@nobody8328Highly unlikely

Theban Wargod Montu. Definitely another metal band name.

Planning to go there in 2027. A Total Solar eclipse will go straight though Luxor so I want to combine that with sightseeing.

Calling Waset simply "No" is similar to how Konstantiniyye became İstanbul which derives from "stim poli" which meant "in the city".

Analogues of the Opet festival still happen here in India. The way you describe it made me immediately think of the temple processions here. I am kind of surprised and not at the same time of the parallels.

@speedwagon1824

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure everyone culture had some festival like that in ancient times

@kellydalstok8900

Жыл бұрын

Catholics still drag their gaudy statues of Mary and other saints through the streets of many towns and cities.

@AloisWeimar

Жыл бұрын

Protestants with their gaudy mega churches and revival rallies and prosperity gospel charlatans too

@tuhuttmesiii48

Жыл бұрын

This festival still happen in egypt

By the way, in 2021 celebrating the reopening of the sphinx avenue, the Egyptian government celebrated the Opet festival as and it was very interesting to watch

This was a very interesting video and also because I think that Ancient Egypt is very fascinating!

I was just checking prices to go Egypt next year...not random .

@TravisLee33

Жыл бұрын

When it comes to Egypt and never is. Lol

@ibrahimsafwat

Жыл бұрын

This brings me great joy as an Egyptian. Which part of the country are you planning to visit?

Ancient Egypt has always fascinated me, great video :)

Well done. Deep yet with context.

Cool! My most pressing question about Thebes was why it had the same name as the city of Greece! And you answered it right off! "It was a Greek Thing!" Great work! Probably so very much can be explained by ethnocentrism.

Your content is so great I learn so much from these

Someday I'm gonna have the resources to patreon you, this is my fav youtube channel, thanks

Good use of a very simple and concise timeline 👍

I was blown away by the Temples of Karnak. Way better than what I expected. You did an excellent review here of the area. One could devote a 4 hour long episode just to Luxor.

You might want to watch "Death on the Nile" from 1978 with Peter Ustinov. Many scenes take place among Egypt's most famous sites. In fact, they climb and film a scene on top of a pyramid and one actor is even walking on the headstones of the columns at Karnak. I don't know how they got permission to film such scenes (or maybe they didn't and just did it anyway) but it is a very dangerous way to make a movie.

thank you so much for this video what a great resource

Hi!! I love how informative your videos are. Could you make a video on advent? Like what started it, what does it mean, who practices it? I’m a Methodist and observe advent each December but I don’t even know the history behind it.

This absolutely fascinates me - the sheer weight of history in a place like Luxor, dwarfing even Rome. Please make a similar video about Memphis! Alexander himself was crowned Pharaoh there, so why didn't that city survive, unlike Thebes?

Love your content💖

My country's history is truly the greatest, much love to my upper Egyptian brothers.

@zdzislawbeksinski731

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but now is a shitty country

@ebbo9152

Жыл бұрын

@@zdzislawbeksinski731 it isn't shitty lol but obviously its not as great as it used to be with all the looting due to several conquests. Why do you think ancient egypt was delicining..it was due to the several invasions that ruined our economy...history repeated itself for modern Egypt. However, Egypt is advancing massively again in terms of architecture and projects...but a good amount of the population is still suffering just like ancient times. Also ancient egypt is so romnaticised that its flaws are usually overlooked, many people don't know about tragedies that wouldn't be accepted in our modern world.

@zdzislawbeksinski731

Жыл бұрын

@@ebbo9152 or course, blame your past

@ibrahimsafwat

Жыл бұрын

@@zdzislawbeksinski731 just because it’s the past, doesn’t make it any less destructive or criminalizing. This “past” is also the same reason why certain countries in the middle east are obliterated for good due to foreign invasions.

@iznakhan5868

Жыл бұрын

Wow

Great video! I love your channel

Karnak and Hatshepsuit's temple. My favorite part of Egypt.

I just seen a good documentary on the 25th Dynasty in Egypt. And he talks about the Nubian Pharaoh that launched a building campaign in Thebes.

One thing though: Thebes was rarely the political capital of Egypt (usually Memphis), and the king normally resided elsewhere, though there are exceptions (early Dyn. 11, Dyn. 17 and 18). During the reigns of the Ramesside kings, for example, the capital was at Memphis and the kings lived at Qantir (in the Delta). Even when Egypt was split politically between Upper and Lower Egypt during Dyn. 21, the High Priest of Amun (who was also the chief general of the military) lived further north at al-Hibah in Middle Egypt, near the border with the north.

It's very interesting that you post this today, Dr. Henry, as we celebrate the visit of the imperial party of the Emperor Hadrian to Thebes, and in particular to the Colossoi of Memnon, on this day (and the day before and after!) back in 130 CE, less than a month after the death of Antinous and the founding of Antinoopolis. So: synchronicity! ;) Thanks very much for your excellent work!

Please do Memphis, Egypt next!

Every few months I remember the Darnells and what they did at Yale and my entire brain shudders to a screeching halt

Thx.. & Well done 🙏😊🍻

Keep up the good work!

That's really fun and really cleared up why it has the same name as the city in Greece.

Thank you.

The Opet festival procession might have inspired the Corpus Christi procession. I have immediately noticed the similarities. Only we now parade the Eucharist in a monstrance around the neighborhood instead of the statue of Amun enclosed in a ceremonial boat. Unless there is inclement weather, then the procession either goes just around the church or around the church interior.

Really interesting. Do we know why Amun was called the hidden one?

Can you do a video on the Therapeutae?

I was really stressed out before watching this video and I gotta say, you could have a serious side-gig doing meditational voice overs etc. I never noticed the fact that your voice is very calm and collected. Lots of KZreadrs, including smart ones, go for entertainment first, so they're very animated. Think VSauce, or maybe TMBH for something closer to your field. Which is great, but I feel like educational content often needs a more soothing presence. Like I feel like you could tell stories about ancient religions over the sounds of a crackling firepit and howling wolves in the distance.

I love your videos, and as an Egyptian I really appreciate your approach to our history. Just wanted to correct a small mistake in the translation of the modern name of the city; Luxor. Luxor is in Arabic الأقصر which means the Palaces not the castles. Palace in Arabic is قصر (Kaser), while Castle in Arabic is قلعة (Kala’a). Thanks

Great video about Thebes! But it begs the question. How does Amun/Mut/Khonsu relate to Osiris/Isis/Horus? Might as well bring in Ra & Aten to the hoped for video too!

@mirandak3273

Жыл бұрын

Also interesting is the shared name of Thebes with the Greek city. But what about the Neolithic site of Carnac in Brittany? Really strange coincidence in names!

Could you PRETTY PLEASE do a short video on the origins of “Amen” at the end of a prayer? Did the word come from an adulteration of the god “Amun”?

Grear video ! Could you make a video on the Church of John Coltrane ?

Remarkable!

i have been to Karnak!

Would be great if you used AD and BC there’s no difference in date other than just people trying to get away from the proper calendar.

Can you do video on purgatory? Please?

The Opet Festival is echoed today in the Roman Catholic celebrations that feature the statues of the Virgin Mary or other heavenly protectors being carried through the neighborhood (like on the Feast of St Anthony in Boston’s North End). In Eastern Orthodoxy there’s the Good Friday phenomenon of the Epitaphion - carrying the funeral bier of Jesus Christ through the city or around the perimeter of the church. I imagine that Hindu processions also share a lot of the same features because there would be a universal impulse among iconophile religions to celebrate festivals by carrying an image of the divine being out of its temple and through the streets to spread its holy aura abroad and encourage worship.😊

I named my dog Amun thanks to Assassin's Creed. His original owners named him Zeus, but I don't like the guy so I wanted to change it. Didn't want to "downgrade" his name though, so I figured a pantheon switch instead.

@SidheKnight

Жыл бұрын

So appropiate, given that the precursor of the Assassin Order in Origins is called "The Hidden Ones", and Amun is "The Hidden One".

@nobody8328

Жыл бұрын

From someone who worked in pet care for 20+ years, thank you! Zeus is way overdone.

@per-netjereweclectickemeti93

Жыл бұрын

I love assassin’s creed origins but I play it both for a hobby/fun and as a spiritual experience because I can experience my religion and spiritually in a way that’s not possible anymore in the real world sadly. I even make a pilgrimage save file for the game to help with this

@per-netjereweclectickemeti93

Жыл бұрын

And the Theban triad of Amun-Re, Mut, and Khonsu are my main deities/patrons

2:40 an even better example is Istanbul, which (at least in one theory of the name's origins) simply means "the city". Because for a long time Constantinople was, well, _the_ city.

i remember this from The Mummy Returns

you do a Gospel of Phillip video, and Ill have no choice but to become a patrion patron

I thought Karnak was a Johnny Carson bit

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIZ5zdqvotOqf8o.html Thebes in Greece as well. I was in Greece last month visiting the ancient cites like Delphi, Mycenae, Sparta, Olympia, etc I think the Greeks "copied" a lot of Ancient Egypt more than most people want to admit. You can see that in their older statues etc.

Very strong thumbnail haha

Very cool nice good super

It is typical for our rulers to be enthroned in sacred rituals. The melding of political and religious power is the norm through out our history.

@KarlSnarks

Жыл бұрын

While it has produced beautiful art, architecture and rituals, it's also a shame that those have been used as propaganda for the powerful.

@qboxer

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlSnarks thus is the world. They will have to account for their actions.

On oahu where i live the main city is honolulu but most people just call it “town” like how the Egyptians just called their main city “the city”

With 40,k - 50,k population they built things that today millions would be unable to duplicate

This is make me feel so proud to be a coptic egyptian

I love how it went from being the sacred seat of the god Amun to being called 'No Amun'

Its very fascinating to think bout how the journey of the egyptions gone through from Amun to Allah in the 4000years period. 🤔

"What's around the bend?" Probably Karnak...

You were bigger than a dot, Andrew. Don't sell yourself short.

@KarlSnarks

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha wholesome comment lol.

I always thought that Pharaohs derived their authority from Horus and their knowledge of Ra's secret name. Have I been wrong this whole time?

One Note at kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIZ5zdqvotOqf8o.html New Yorkers call Manhattan/New York borough, The City. Not New York City(NYC). NYC includes the 5 boroughs.

surprisingly there is a sun temple in india which is called konark

I'm sure many of you are famillier with the book of Sinuhe ( Pharaon's Doc. ) . What do the Scholars say about its validity!!? If it 's True, did they found his Temple down Stream of Nil?

Nice vedio.but can you talk a bit slow

Wait hold up these aren't anubis smoke lineups

Luxor means the palaces

@Bramble451

Жыл бұрын

The difference between "castle" and "palace" isn't always clear. And, in fact, "Luxor" derives ultimately from the Latin word "castrum", which applied to a wide variety of fortified locations, both small and large.

@ibrahimsafwat

Жыл бұрын

@@Bramble451 Luxor is the literal English translation of the arabic word “الأقصر" which transliterates as “al uxor”. This plural Arabic word stood for “palaces” due to the sheer amount of palaces and temples (which sometimes are also referred to as palaces in the arabic lexicon) existing within that region.

@MohamedHassan-kt3cj

Жыл бұрын

​@@Bramble451 Luxor is a plural term of "Qasr" in Egyptian Arabic which means palace in Arabic

There's no evidence that new kingdom Egypt had the technology to build karnak because of the precision required to cut granite like that.

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Serious sam

When did Thebes start to be called Luxor?

@andrewsuryali8540

Жыл бұрын

He already answered that. After the Arab conquest they named it Al'Uqsur. Then Europeans transliterated that to Luxor.

@Music-xp5wg

Жыл бұрын

Luxor is the name of the government, much like stares in the US. Thebes is a city in Luxor.

You know he had to do it to ‘em 🧍🏻

Samaritan Chronicle > Book of Joshua (as the True Book of Joshua)

The holy city of my patron pagan god and goddess from the Egyptian polytheistic Neterism faith

@per-netjereweclectickemeti93

Жыл бұрын

The holy city of my Netjerist patrons of Amun-Re and Mut

Al-qusor in Arabic means palaces not castles.

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Throughout history ancient rulers always try to depict themselves as God's but no King literally became a God besides amun or amun-ra and maybe augustine? That one's Up For Debate and maybe the Chinese emperors as well but they pale in comparison to amun and at least one ruler of Egypt try to reduce his power but it didn't work oh well at least a given interesting part of Egyptian history

@GoodmansGhost

Жыл бұрын

Ever heard of Julius Caesar?

Can you make a video for "the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints" or what other people call it "mormons" or "lds"

@melongladiator4256

Жыл бұрын

@Revolutionary Utena may i have your source?

First!

not first

You say Thebes the way I've always said it and the way its been said in pop culture. Why do some academics say Theee bees

Black people are so great

Eh mid video. Kings and generals did this way better.