Herodotus on the Ancient Egyptians: Egyptian Influence on Ancient Greek Mythology
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- In this episode the writings of Herodotus on the Ancient Egyptians and their world guides into a terrain of controversy as it discusses the impact and influence of Ancient Egypt on Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology. It also discusses interactions between not just Egypt and Greece but also Canaan and Libya. The main subject of this episode is Heracles. Herodotus connected Heracles to the Egyptian god Shu. Also he was associated with Khonsu, another Egyptian god who was in some ways similar to Shu. As Khonsu, Heracles was worshipped at the now sunken city of Heracleion, where a large temple was constructed.
Most often the Egyptians identified Heracles with Heryshaf, transcribed in Greek as Arsaphes or Harsaphes (Ἁρσαφής). He was an ancient ram-god whose cult was centered in Herakleopolis Magna.
AN ACCOUNT OF EGYPT By Herodotus, translated By G. C. Macaulay
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Also read the book called “Stolen Legacy” by George G.M James it goes in deep about this subject
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How about Egyptian influence on Plato's philosophy? It would be very interesting to see a video on that.
More likely the presocratics got philosophy, but the culture informed his republic
? Now I see where this is going to. Soros has to be behind the scenes, he said steal Greece's history and they are nothing
@@1985LISS omg no...Herodotus is LITERALLY the father of History...like cmon this is a primary account!! This is great!
Plato acknowledge Egyptian influences. Hippocrate also credit what he learned from Egyptian's.
@@1985LISS Soros' is an old Jewish man. When he was a teenager he had to escape from Hitler.
I hope you continue,where you left off on Herodotus writings and oral history of ancient Egypt. Great job,thank you.
Papyrus of Hunefer , We came from the beginning of the nile where God Hapi dwell at the foothill of the mountain of the moon. Kemet criminally name Egypt history started south and came down the nile . Egypt is Ethiopia youngest child in terms of civilization building
Jay Yes. They were an East African population, with native people from central North Africa that became apart of Egypt
Bro..I got a great understanding from your view....we don't hear about Ethiopia history until way after Egypt..
For a long time Kemet was the only place with paper that alone should tell you who the arbiters of knowledge were. The people of Kemet invented Geometry.
Great reading thanks!
Aah! thanks for my daily shot of Historical podcast ;)
It’s soooo much much more ahead than the history Chanel (aliens and more aliens) 😏
My current source for a Herodotus fix. It's rather addictive.
wow Greece is my favorite European country. We have some few remaining Greek artifact here in Alexandria. And Christians here write Coptic using Greek alphabet. I Hope I can vist Greece One day
Greek alphabet cames from egyptian in first place..
I hope I visit Egypt one day
@@3maddma7rosyonan94 not Egyptian. It was Phoenician or Minoan and the Greeks made a true alphabet with vowels.
It makes sence the Greek Solon received his information from his counterpart in Egypt about the Atlanteans and their destruction. They we're at least in that time frame, nearer that anyone else from that time. Then their is that war between the Greeks and the atlanteans, where the Greeks won a great battle. Before I forget, those goats had a great time getting muttom all year , then once a year they get choice meat or was it the other way round. Always a sprinkle of truth in story 😉. ☘️
The Great Awakening to what humanities abilities are . Why is it difficult to believe what our DNA proves , we are all out of Africa . ... " fore they know not thy Brethren " ...? Some of us rather believe we've been touched by a Alien . Could this be the reason why Herodotus existence is questioned ?
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Heru=Heakles? Interesting idea.
What you mean about they have most the same god? And do greek gods derive from pelasgians gods?
Still have mandesian or mandey people in west African. Those groupe call themselves "mandé" people with more than 30 ethnicities and all said their ancestors migrated from kemet in moments of trouble.
Some ppl don't want to hear that truth BUT keep writing it anyway.
African praise is the mother of all spirituality. Of course we taught it to them.
Was it? Or was it the other way around????
In saying that the dove was black, they indicate that the woman was Egyptian. Interesting...
Well, Herodotus, we can justify the idea of Egyptians attempting to sacrifice Heracles because of all the slaves they sacrificed in the construction of their pyramids. All it would take is the order of their leaders or their gods.
Ελλαδα Ελληνικη και κοσμος ΑΩ
Damn... sucks to be a pig in ancient egypt days!
And Egypt got everything from the middle east like wheat barley bread wine beer math religion first king in history the farm animals the wheel pottery figs olive oil you're point
Thank you
Humans are from.africa is proven
The real reason they gatekeep black people from Egyptology
“I’m saying that the dove was black, they indicate that the woman was Egyptian” herodotus … yet you got Arab and European colonists arguing against who the Egyptians were, lying out their teeth
@harwn999
Black could very well simply mean more swarthy than the Greeks of those day's were.
I mean technically most black people are really just brown, sometimes a rather light shade of it, just as modern Egyptians today are a shade of brown darker than the Europeans on tge other side of the med are.
Herodotus, also bore actual firsthand witness to the fact that the people of ancient Egypt, KMT, were black skinned, with woolly hair and thick lips, that Egypt was a colony of Ethiopia. This remains true today of the Nubians in Upper Egypt, however, obviously this isn't the case for the majority of the amalgamated population today.
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How can Africans be both Egyptian and Hebrew? Master and slave? Afrocentrism claims they're the lost tribe of Israel (ethiopia does have hebrew), and the pharaohs! Its laughable. Egypt was conquered by nubia once, after Egypt ran the show first. They were also expelled rather quickly. There is cultural fusion on the border with nubia. That's the only claim Africans have to Egypt. The Egyptians were not sub saharan African. No more than they were indo European. They were a unique and extinct ethnic linguistic group.
@@BaltimoresBerzerker Your comment is kind of pointless. How can Europeans be both the Jews and the Nazis? Slave and Master?
Egypt and Nubia originate from the same cultures according to most historians and anthropologists. The Egyptians were obviously not Subsaharan and nor were the Nubians, but that doesn't mean they weren't black. Black people existed on both sides of the Sahara and they still do until today.
@Ario He actually did say the Egyptians were black and so did many other Greek writers.
@@kurobeard9467 you misunderstood my comment. How can the Egyptians be both black or Hebrew, either way. And also enslave themselves? DNA has settled this. Egyptians were a distinct group. People need to stop claiming every achievement in history as their own. And in another afrocentric thread I pointed out that of course sub saharan black Africans were in Egypt. So were Greeks, hebrews, etc. Doesn't mean the Egyptians weren't a unique ethnic cultural group.
So rams and billy goats were revered by 2 different tribes, with public beatiality too..... how liberal!
🗣Kemetic not Egytian
Actually the correct name for This land is called kemit ; that’s the name and people who inspired and taught the greeks everything then they invaded the land and renamed it Egypt! Learn from history never teach any other nation your knowledge because they will use it against you 🤦🏽🤷🏽♂️
Clearly the Greeks learned from the Egyptians, which were an African culture and black or dark in skin color. Unlike movies and Hollywood portrayal of Egyptians as whites or Europeans.
LMAO THE EGYPTIANS OF TODAY ARE LIKE THE MIDDLE EASTERNERS, THEY ARE NOT BLACK, THE BLACKS WERE SLAVES TO THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS YOU BETTER GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT OR YOU WILL BE VERY EMBARASSED!!!!!!
MIDDLE EASTERNERS JUST LIKE SOME WHITES INTERMIXED LATER WITH THEM, BUT THE CHARACTERISITICS OF THE EGYPTIANS OF TODAY ARE ARABS WITH POINTY AND SOMETIMES HOOK NOSE, NOT FLAT
@Jan De Rijk nubia, axum, punt, garamantes, tichit, and these are mostly only of what is documented by Egyptians or Greeks. It's not taking away from a culture to say it is part of a larger culture. East african culture has had many different civilizations, Egypt and north Africa are a part of that. The entire afro-asiatic language family is an east african migration. As herodotus states the ethiopians are aboriginal to the land and the Libyans in the north and Greeks are later settlers. Northern libya herodotus refers to is a sliver of land on the coast. Strabo also makes very clear ancient Egyptians are ethiopians as they are also "sundered in twain".
But you can’t tell me there was no black priest or any other tribes who supported or praise the gods in Egypt why we ain’t digging more but yet when we talk about our People you want discredit us so quick. Y’all took the power and ethics of the environment that we all of us tribes where worshiping and doing more power than the Greeks who did invade Egypt right? Just my theory but stop belittle our people because our history is deeper than y’all ancestors Origin
@@1985LISS you would say that to project the false narrative of your forefathers
The Greek civilization is earlier than Egypt's. Stop lying people. Do your research before deciding to give people information, you teach people the wrong history. In the dialogue between Critias and Socrates, it is mentioned that when the lawgiver and one of the seven sages of antiquity, Solon the Athenian, in 639 to 559 BC visited Egypt, the Egyptian priests told him that in their holy books are recorded, among others, the following: "There were many cataclysms on earth and not one of Deucalion as you (Greeks) mention, and because of these cataclysms certain older civilizations were lost, such as for example the civilization of the Greeks that existed before the cataclysm of Deucalion. The Greeks they do not know this because after the flood those who remained did not know how to write. The Greek civilization is older than the Egyptian, and the Greek, taking into account that which existed before the flood of Deucalion, is 9,000 years old, and the Egyptian a thousand years less years, i.e. 8,000 years.
They also say: "You know only one great cataclysm, but before Deucalion there were many other great cataclysms which our ancients recorded."
So the priests said to him, there is no reason why I should not do it, Solon, but I will tell you everything, both for your sake and for the sake of your state, but above all for the sake of the goddess who protected, nurtured and educated yours. and then our own place, starting with you a thousand years ago"