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c'est bizarre que tu écrives une expression française à la fin d'une phrase anglaise, non ?

Nope that's an original I came up with/recorded for an earlier video (my Fionn vs. Cú Chulainn one) that I'm calling "The Eye of the Oilliphéist.” In it I'm playing Irish bouzouki, bodhrán, then just doing a bunch of vocal drones/throat singing. Been meaning to upload it to streaming services, you'll be able to find it below soon with my other music (stage name: Bard of Boston) Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3ID5N3zxA7tR1zdvabCmcT Amazon: amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CTJ86DH2 Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/celtic-grab-bag/1728992132\

@irishmyths you're a really good musician man ! I really liked the video and the music for it!✌️🤞☝️❣️🇮🇪

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Thank you! 🙏

Amazing! Congrats and happy New Year to you as well! And I appreciate the offer of sending me a copy but there's no need...I just bought my own! (Went with the paperback edition.) I've always wanted to get into RPGs, now I might not have an excuse to put it off any longer. Looking forward to diving in!

Ask and you shall receive: th-cam.com/video/1qYF1dqC7vE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AeGIxAnShpu4bwt2

@@irishmyths Spot on, thanks!

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According to Coca-Cola, it wasn't Coca-Cola that first put Santa in red. Coke certainly helped popularize the look though www.coca-cola.com/bt/en/about-us/faq/does-santa-claus-traditionally-wear-red-because-it-s-the-colour

@@irishmyths so that's weird, i have an article from the 80's where the actual marketing team that did this actually talk about how they had to connect Santa with Coke. I will have to look for it, but i remember this being a big thing, but i could be mistaken. Thank you for letting me know

Actually, it’s mythology. Hence, ya know, the name of this channel. P.S. next time at least have the common courtesy of citing a source if you're gonna make such a bold claim while simultaneously badmouthing an entire culture

That would be "Shippin' Up to Bossa," a jazzy rendition of the Dropkick Murphys' "Shippin' Up to Boston." th-cam.com/video/LUfT7O2USHY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-41jtWCqXpj0_tQm My old band, Devaney’s Goat, came up with it as a fun way to end our faithful(ish) cover of the song. (I'm the dude playing Irish bouzouki in the video above fyi)

This is a popular apologist position, yes. But... A) the observation that the gospel attributed to Mark details Jesus’s later life + the assumption that Jesus would have been given the "of Nazareth" moniker because he grew up there and was not born there in no way prove that the Nativity story is true. There’s no good evidence for it. Even if there had been a census at the time of Jesus’s alleged birth, the census wouldn't have required people to return to their original/paternal homelands. B) if the Gospel attributed to Mark simply tells the later story of Jesus’s life, and *that's* why it omits the Nativity story, then why did the authors of Matthew and Luke-in addition to adding Jesus’s birth narrative-change so many elements of that later-life story to make Jesus sound better/more divine? e.g., Mark 1:34: Jesus "healed *many* who were sick" vs. Matthew 8:16/Luke 4:40 "*all* who were sick" Also, Mark 6:5-6: "He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed because of their unbelief." vs. Matthew 13:58: "He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.” Clearly, the authors of these later Gospels padded Jesus’s résumé, so to speak

You've actually done a great job of proving my overall point by alluding to the flight to Egypt. Because as you (might?) know, in the Gospel of Luke, they never go to Egypt; they go to the Temple in Jerusalem instead. So why would the author of Matthew put Jesus & co. in Egypt? Oh, right, to fulfill another prophecy (this one from the book of Hosea: “out of Egypt I called my son”). So let's think about this critically and put dogma aside for a moment: what's more likely...that the author of Mark *forgot* to include the Nativity story? That he *forgot* to include multiple prophecy-fulfilling stories about Jesus? Or that the author of Matthew, who we know had access to the writings attributed to Mark, attempted to fill in the gaps in the Jesus "biography" and did his best to make *his* version of the Jesus story even more compelling? I've studied the Bible in a dogmatic setting (Sunday school/church/lessons ahead of my confirmation) and in a scholarly setting (university). Only in one of those settings did people approach the text critically and try to make sense of it on its own terms vs. try to make it fit into a pre-conceived dogma. For more info on the differences between those two approaches, I highly recommend you follow @maklelan Merry Christmas!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and time with us it is much appreciated✨🧚‍♀️

Agreed. My pronunciation is absolute garbage in this video (and a lot of my earlier ones). I (hopefully) redeem myself in this Cernunnos video, in which I use the proper/generally agreed upon pronunciation: th-cam.com/video/ALzC20PGL28/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f9TX9Us6RMZoAvbd

So I'm thinking the serpent/dragon imagery arose later/is a modern invention-a result of Crom’s associations with St. Patrick. Because in the earliest recorded account of Crom Cruach, found in the Dindsenchas, he's only described as a "wizened" god who is "hidden by many mists"

Unfortunately there is no scholarly, peer-reviewed research that demonstrates a European link to the elongated Paracas skulls. You can certainly find such claims from the likes of Brien Foerster, Juan Navarro, etc. but their claims have not been independently verified. But perhaps someday they will be!

@it’s true, unfortunately because of the political climate no one wants to touch the subjects of the paracas and ngati hotu, however they both have had their dna tested and come back European/west Eurasian but scholars won’t put their name near it due to the political landscape 🤷‍♂️ yes indeed hopefully things change and people can be honest about the data 🙏 there’s much more to look into as well if it wasn’t a taboo subject such as lovelock cave, wind over bog etc. hopefully someday we can get to the truth without political suppression and racists on either side

While certain Christian dogmas seem to forbid acknowledging a rivalry between Jesus and John the Baptist, as the former must be seen as superior to the latter, and the latter must "pave the way" for the arrival of the former, we must consider the following: 1. Many Christians acknowledge the rivalry. Exhibit A: “It is evident from certain scriptures that the prophet John the Baptist, was in competition. Who was his rival? (Remember what is always the right answer to every Sunday School question?) Well, it was Jesus! John the Baptist was an early competitor with Jesus.” source: www.cathedralatl.org/sermons/jesus-and-john-christmas-and-competition/ 2. Logically, it's still possible to have a rivalry with an acknowledged superior. For example, I can play basketball against LeBron James while acknowledging that he's the greatest and that he will certainly beat me, but we'll still be rivals on the court. 3. Historically (assuming Jesus and John both existed, I'm inclined to believe they did), both apocalypticists would have been competing for the same audience. Certain Biblical authors tried to downplay this by having John acknowledge Jesus’s superiority, but again that doesn't mean there wasn't a rivalry. Also John choosing not to follow Jesus appears to be a historic fact the authors couldn't get around, because narratively it'd make more sense-if they were actually non-rivals-for John to follow Jesus

​@@irishmyths 1) It makes more logical sense, for the rival of John the Baptist to be Herod Antipas. As Herod, had married his own niece/brother's sister (Herodias) who was married to Herod Philip (half-brother of Herod Antipas) , Herod Antipas, divorced his wife to marry Herodias. 2) Jesus and John never had a rivalry nor a sportsman kind of rivalry, as John said he was making way for Jesus to come. Even his followers, wanted him to do something regarding Jesus, however, John did not acknowledge Jesus as greater then he was. 3) John was getting people ready for the Messiah, as his ministry was about to happen. Remember, John was born before Jesus and thus he was preparing as many people as he can for Jesus, as many people even his followers thought he was Elijah (who was known for turning people alway from sin and to God) John did follow Jesus by heart, as to why he did not follow Jesus like his disciples he has his own mission. Remember, John was preaching while Jesus had started his ministry because many people had not heard of the Messiah.

@@irishmythsJohn baptized Jesus and John was killed for serving him. What makes you think John would compete with Jesus. Also John and Jesus want the same thing, logically you cannot compete with someone to have the same goal done in the same way

​@@irishmythswhat you are talking about is pure speculation on random unclear bits of sculpture. The only biblical references we have to their relationship overwhelming support that fact John and Jesus were allies and not rivals in any respect what so ever.

can you see the Southern Cross in the north hemisphere? I didnt think you could

I’d say this sounds like an obvious reference to the Jesus/Easter story, but according to the Bible, Jesus was only in the tomb for about a day and a half (36 hours). Crucified late afternoon on a Friday, rose pre-dawn on a Sunday.

@@Rynewulf you could 2000 years ago

@@irishmyths Fryer's Dei being the Sabbath, day of Frigga or Phrygia, the Great Mother, Celts began their day at Dusk, just like Hebrews

The name of this channel is IrishMyths. Pronouncing it the Irish way (or the closest approximation a yank can muster...in the Munster dialect) www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/Bealtaine

Haha thank you!! And honestly I'm happy anyone is watching these at all-they’re a labor of love. (That being said... I'd love to hit 100k subscribers in the next few years. So I appreciate the support!!)

​@@irishmythsI don't really see the parallel between Lugh and Balor or really any of the rest of them especially for winter and that's what's really kind of stretching it if anything maybe you could say if anything you can say like the beginning of the year belongs to Bile and the second half to The Cailleach