“The grim reaper is so creepy” The grim reaper: *literally just accompanying you to the afterlife so you won’t have to go alone or not know where to go*
@@SamuelGalvan_ Obviously, death, but death itself isn't inherently evil. It's natural. All who were born eventually meet an end, and the Grim Reaper is there to help guide souls to their afterlife
I love your videos, very interesting . Only if I may point out that the volume of the sound particularly when you are talking, is very weak. The opening music (hochelaga) is loud and then I have to pump out the volume to listen to your voice.
As a dutchman, i can tell you that the 'Magere Hein' is weird to explain in english. Magere means skinny, as in bony stature. And Hein is just a name, quite common in dutch history. We might call it Skinny Steve from now. Yeah, i like that. Watch out grandma Skinny Steve is coming for you!
@@marnixdebaat1733 honest. I believe they’re the exact same being. Magere Hein is probably just some name of someone wayyyy back when, which stuck in people mind and eventually was given to the grim reaper.
I Just inmagine him near a korean dying person with his laptop or book like "COME ON COME ON I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY! I'M ALREADY LATE LEAVE THE PREMISE NOW!"
That's because humans have a flawed perception of death as some non-religious people believe that nothing happens after you die and you just cease to exist, some religions would have you believe that you'll either go to heaven or hell... Basically just misinformation. None of these things listed above happen. Science actually explains the afterlife quite perfectly. As the law of thermodynamics tells us, there is absolutely no way that the energy residing in our bodies could simply disappear, let alone our consciousness. Something to think about here mate 👍 The after life may actually be the start of something even greater than life, but for some reason almost all cultures plant a very irrational fear of death on people since a very young age.
@@J.R.Swish1 there's nothing after death, we simply cease to exist. Our conciousness is just a product of our brain activities, when it stops "we" stop with it. There's no afterlife nor was there proof of an afterlife existing.
In Norway the Black Death produced the character ‘Pesta’, an old woman who travelled from farm to farm personifying the plague. If she came holding a broom, all inhabitants would be ‘swept away’, but if she came holding a rake some would survive. The artist Theodor Kittelsen has some of the creepiest and most widely recognised depictions of her.
I'd like to add something: The roman god of harvests, Saturn, had a scythe as his symbol. The Romans identified him with the greek Kronos, because in mythology, his weapon was again a scythe. But the Orphic cults identified this deity with Chronos (the ch is pronounced like a strong H), the god of time. And so, classicists from the 14th century onward would unite this Saturn/Kronos/Chronos figure with the popular depictions of Death to express the passage of time and life.
@@corruptangel6793 we don't know exactly WHAT Kronos was the god of. The roman equivalent and the connection with the scythe suggest a harvest god, though you have to remember that the Olympians overthrowing the Titans is read by many as the new greek worship replacing an older one, so he may have been the greek harvest god BEFORE the Greeks worshipped Demeter.
@@corruptangel6793 Kronos is more of a Titan than a god, if I remember correctly - like Gaea. The Primordial beings that came before and and/or birthed the gods such as Zeus and Poseidon. They are generally the generation that comes before them, and the gods that came after usually took over their job, like how Apollo took over for Helios.
@@justanawkwardnerd i know all that, I just never thought of how the origin of that story (the war between the gods and the titans and all that) might've come from a religious upheaval. Also, Gaia is Kronos and the other Titan's mother. It's Gaia's generation who're the primoridal beings. At least in the version I know.
I remember having a vivid dream which was at first a nightmare in which the Grim Reaper came to me and gave off a loving energy. He than took his scythe and struck through me but there was no pain and I became a ghost. After that the dream became very peaceful and I was happy. When I tried to thank him he had already vanished.
Your editing and script is well made and polished! Your voice is also quite pleasant to listen to. I hope you keep making more videos on interesting topics and that you grow. :D
A cool one is the German version, the “Dengelgeist”, dengeln being the act of sharpening a scythe by light hammering, the dengelgeist is literally the scythe sharpening ghost- who sits in the graveyard preparing to reap. So much more ominous than just a skeletal reaper
"When you dance with you friend the reaper,everything may be sweeter,but when you look within those eyes,you become quite surprised,the skeleton within the robe,looking like an ugly toad,you stop your prancing and dancing,and land on the floor."
When it comes to Greek Mythology, they actually have multiple deities for death. All of whom handle a different aspect of it. Atropos was the one that did the actually reaping, by means of cutting the string of someones life. Thanatos dealt with those who had a peaceful death. The Keres dealt with those whose death was violent. Hermes helped direct lost souls to Hades by escorting them there. Charon ferried souls into Hades via his boat. Hades and Persephone judge the souls that arrive, punish or award them fairly, then watch over them.
When I imagine death for some reason I think of a black horse that comes when you die. You climb onto it's back and it carries you to the afterlife leaving your body behind.
The Anjou was also said to be the last person to die in a year, who would be tasked with shuttling the souls of the dead until the end of the following year. A seminal film known as "The Phantom Carriage" links in with this myth somewhat.
i think the closest to norwegian grim reaper, would be the Norn sisters of the norse mythos, or are you thinking of the valkery that ferry you to valhalla?
"Japan has King Enma" The Japanese equivalent to the Grim Reaper is the Shinigami. King Enma is closer to what Hades is for the Greeks or Osirus for the Egyptians. (Edit: ok so since this thread is getting out of hand, I'm going to clarify by saying that I'm wrong about the Shinigami. Although i knew they are an actual part of Japanese culture *outside of anime* I didn't know they were a recent addition to the folklore from the last couple hundred years or so and not part of proper Japanese mythology. My mistake.)
In hungary there's a folk tale about an old woman who didn't want to die, so when death came for her she asked for just one more day, and death signed a paper that said "I will come back tomorrow" and from then on everytime death came she just showed him the paper he signed and told him to come back the next day. After like a year or so death got bored of the status quo and tried to take her but she smacked him on the head with a pickle jar and then everyone lived forever
Not in the bible - the other three horsement are given descriptions, but Death alone gets an explicit name drop in the text. Names given to the other horesemen come from subsequent analysis of the orignal text, or other works using the same characters. Side note, pestilence isn't even a horseman - the concept seems to be tied in with the famine horesman, likely because disease in crops leads to famine for pre-industrial societies lacking long-term food storage and transport infrastructure. The first horseman is something along the lines of "conquest", who I would suspect gets ignored because he's a royal figure dressed in white, and is thus very much not in line with most interpretations of the horsemen and bringers of destruction.
i like to think of the grim reaper as more of a kind, warm-hearted janitor, who stalks the hallways of life, bringing the withered and misfortunate to a warm place beyond their suffering.
hochelaga , great video, as usual, but something you ought to be aware of: At 1:26 , you made the classic westerner's faux pas of calling something "Chinese" when it's actually _Tibetan._ The distinction may not matter to most westerners but to Tibetans it's an extremely sore spot and something you ought to know about if you're making informative videos.
In Chinese culture, there is King Yan, who is the equivalent to Hades. The equivalent to the collector of souls is Ox head and horse face, who bring the souls to the underworld.
In a lot of paintings from the medieval period onwards, there is a "memento mori," or reminder of death. These were symbols associated with death, usually skulls, that were put in paintings as a reminder of the inevitability of death. I'm not sure, but they may have something to do with the common depiction of the Grim Reaper in art.
I love this explanation about Death's origin! You have a very calming voice and go into much detail! I'd like to hear some African examples. Maybe from the Ashanti or Zimbabwean mythology since you touched on Native American examples.
I had a weird dream when i had to go to the ICU because i had a heart attack from low blood sugar, the Grim Reaper pat my head and we had wine together while we played Call of Duty. He literally just woke me up standing beside my bed and asked if we could hang out. He took me to a part of my room that didn't existed, it had a console i never saw, he was weirdly eating apples and coins but hey he was good teammate and we won like...most of our rounds. 10/10 he chill as fuck
It is not the grim reaper that is scary, its the little amount of time we have before we see it. Your content is incredible, keep up this amazing work.
The grim reaper is actually Satan as stated in Hebrews 2:14 Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.
Great video! Really cool to see various inspirations for the grim reaper, something I have always been interested in. I would love to see a video covering more forms of psychopomps in many cultures and how they compare and contrast.
@@Christopher-qq4dl mobile typing ^^' fixed. Still better than someone else's I saw yesterday, they meant "idunno" and it autocorrected to "ianal". lol
One of your newer videos was recommended to me and i had no idea why until i realized i watched this video a few months ago Anyway, needless to say, I'm subscribed now Love your work, keep it up!
The grim reaper kept me from getting runover by a selfish gluttoned driver in a gas station by touching my shoulder. I felt the cold waft of air and I about seen my demise.
Eight years ago I was riding my bike around my driveway. It was in the late afternoon and I stopped and stood staring at the road for some reason. I really can't remember why. All I can remember is seeing a figure. It had no legs to be seen and floated, wearing a white cloak and it's skeletal hands outstretched with chains hanging from its wrists. It flew by so quickly I almost couldn't register what it was. I tried, really tried, to come up with some explanation for what it could have been but settled on it being supernatural. So i brought it up with my mom and not two days before I saw the figure flying down the hill.. a neighbor at the bottom of the hill had died! I'm now absolutely convinced I saw death that day. I wasn't afraid and I'm still not. Spooky as he sounds.. I felt at ease as he was near. I don't think it was a mistake on deaths part, I think he meant for me to see him that day and for that I call him my friend. /HE/ won't kill me. Time will. But if I was correct in who I saw, I'll greet him like a good friend when I'm dead. I don't fear death, I never have. Dying maybe but never death itself nor the angel. He's kind enough to escort me to where I belong where he could so easily leave me by myself. I'm thankful to him already and I won't be dying any time soon... I hope lol. I've unfortunately seen a lot of things related to death, even a few close calls myself. Seeing him once is a coincidence. Running into him several times, now THAT isn't a coincidence. Oh and no... I'm not Christian lol 🖤☠🥀⚰
I very much enjoy your videos. The only bad thing I can say about them is that they are too short! I would love for you to get into more detail about these subjects.
You've got a new ✨subscriber✨ Do you take recommendations? If you do I'd like to see you cover secret societies if you want. I love all your stuff so far ☺
Hey, yes I take recommendations. Always happy to hear. Did you see my video on the Copiale Cipher? It involves the work of a secret society: th-cam.com/video/CVHVZjaXzH8/w-d-xo.html
@@fryderykchopin3974 I mean the dutch borrow so many English words that this wouldn't be the first thing having 2 words. Especially not considering the media the grim reaper is actually used in. The grim reaper is a historical fiction tale after all, always has been always will. Actually grim reaper doesnt work with dutch grammar now i think about it so it had to have been a borrowed word. (Ik leef ook in Nederland XD)
Well in Lithuania we have Grim Reaper as Giltinė. "The list of Lithuanian gods is reconstructed based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Giltinė - goddess of death, also The Reaper. Other names include Kaulinyčia, Maras (black death or the Plague), Maro mergos, Kolera, Pavietrė, Kapinių žmogus. Her sacred bird is the owl. Sometimes she was considered to be a sister of Laima (luck)."
4:57 There was a Death Row inmate who actually said something similar. His final words before execution were “You could be a king or Streetsweeper but everybody dances with The Grim Reaper”
I remember a true account of someone visiting a dying relative in hospital where while they were sitting consoling quietly an apparition appeared above the dying person which was both hideous but told the visitor not to be afraid and then it was seen to be virtually exactly the same as these tales of what the reaper is supposed to look like -minus the hourglass and sickle.
This channel will be big someday and i will brag about being the sub number 1440. Keep going, love your vids, they are well researched and your voice is very calming!
Hochelaga, I had an epiphany that if there's a child suffering from a nightmare, there's probably a 10 minute video on the internet that could explain their fears away. Sounds like a good concept for a playlist to me.
FYI The Bible is full of symbolism. Many story’s and other representations holding messages will come up a lot. This is one thing for people not knowing get really confused by.
How do you still not have at least 100k subs? Your videos have incredibly amazing content and quality, stumbled upon your video about the angels in the bible and subscribed soon after. I hope you continue making such informative videos! Thanks for doing this!
interesting, I was wondering about this a few weeks ago. It might me interesting to look at other depictions of death (and/or afterlife) throughout history. As you said in the video after the black plague depictions became more gruesome and frightening.
Is the Grim Reaper god? He comes off as a mythological farmer. One who reaps death which comes from the seed of life. He's got a skeleton too and god supposedly made people in his image. Probably not but, thought it was kind of interesting how the representation of death just turns out to be some moving bones.
most representations of death/gods of death/afterlife, predate christianity by a long time :/ I should add, that mostof the religions known of nowdays are quite new in a historical sence
1,000 subscribers! Thank you all so much. Let's see where this goes :)
Great stuff dude! Keep it up.
Really nice content 👍
You doubled in 3 days, congrats!
I was here before 800 homie
You are a Christian Right?
“The grim reaper is so creepy”
The grim reaper: *literally just accompanying you to the afterlife so you won’t have to go alone or not know where to go*
*Sad grim reaper noises* :(
Yeah but what would the presence of the grim reaper represent?
I like to see him because hes so badass only skeleton
What a nice guy
@@SamuelGalvan_ Obviously, death, but death itself isn't inherently evil. It's natural. All who were born eventually meet an end, and the Grim Reaper is there to help guide souls to their afterlife
"Dance of death"
My mind: *Spooky Scary Skeletons bass boosted*
You may be a king, or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later, you dance with the Reaper...
Bruh lol 😂😂😂
Iron Maiden intensifies.
*ghost intensifies*
(G)Raveyard
The tranquil background music and clear calming voice made this video perfect.
Kind of gave me a Dark Souls, firelink shrine feel.
For death
I wanna know where those statues are
I love your videos, very interesting . Only if I may point out that the volume of the sound particularly when you are talking, is very weak. The opening music (hochelaga) is loud and then I have to pump out the volume to listen to your voice.
I can hardly hear him, volume is well low
I imagine Death to be mostly chill and blunt. Generally benevolent with a dark sense of humor
You would be correct
@Pragya Bhushan Its going pretty good and I collected about 150000
@Pragya Bhushan Yeah a lot but if you compare it to how many I have collected since the existance of humans...
Its nothing
In 2020-21 he is a very busy guy.
Also like to make death related puns.
As a dutchman, i can tell you that the 'Magere Hein' is weird to explain in english. Magere means skinny, as in bony stature. And Hein is just a name, quite common in dutch history.
We might call it Skinny Steve from now. Yeah, i like that. Watch out grandma Skinny Steve is coming for you!
Oh shit, it's Grandma Skinny Steve coming at us!
I always thought Grim Reaper was just the English translation of Magere Hein, instead of being the 'Dutch version' of the Grim reaper
@@marnixdebaat1733 honest. I believe they’re the exact same being. Magere Hein is probably just some name of someone wayyyy back when, which stuck in people mind and eventually was given to the grim reaper.
So its kinda like 'dont let jack frost bite your nose' or however that one goes?
@@mikado_m think a bit different, more like folklore instead of a fairytale if I'm honest.
I love how Korean grim reaper just wants to make his quota that's it
Could it not be a job? If so where can one send in a resume.
@@VcottntailW
You gotta know the right people
Hey you gotta respect the hussle
I Just inmagine him near a korean dying person with his laptop or book like "COME ON COME ON I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY! I'M ALREADY LATE LEAVE THE PREMISE NOW!"
@@HandyNL PPALI PPALI WE HAVE TO HURRY
I'm such a huge fan of The Grim Reaper, I would die to see him.
Good one
You dont want him to visit you
Wait for him and hell knock when you're most vulnerable
@Dr. M. H. , he already has visited me in 2003 when I was dying from pneumonia.
@Dr. M. H. Oh believe me. You do not
Poor Grim Reaper getting negative perspectives on other people even if he's just a guy taking people to the afterlife
"Are ya winning, son?"
Death: "No, he just lost"
That's because humans have a flawed perception of death as some non-religious people believe that nothing happens after you die and you just cease to exist, some religions would have you believe that you'll either go to heaven or hell...
Basically just misinformation. None of these things listed above happen. Science actually explains the afterlife quite perfectly. As the law of thermodynamics tells us, there is absolutely no way that the energy residing in our bodies could simply disappear, let alone our consciousness.
Something to think about here mate 👍
The after life may actually be the start of something even greater than life, but for some reason almost all cultures plant a very irrational fear of death on people since a very young age.
@@J.R.Swish1 there's nothing after death, we simply cease to exist. Our conciousness is just a product of our brain activities, when it stops "we" stop with it. There's no afterlife nor was there proof of an afterlife existing.
@@iqbalindaryono8984 There also isn't proof of an afterlife not existing, so why can't everyone just speculate peacefully?
@@tiaan7183 basing our lives on things that are unfalsifiable would allow ignorance to grow.
In Norway the Black Death produced the character ‘Pesta’, an old woman who travelled from farm to farm personifying the plague.
If she came holding a broom, all inhabitants would be ‘swept away’, but if she came holding a rake some would survive.
The artist Theodor Kittelsen has some of the creepiest and most widely recognised depictions of her.
Oh I´ve just googled it... and no no no... There´s one that is just incredibly creepy...
Yes I did play the Witcher 3
@@ansuz5903 is she in the witcher 3?
@@morten7177 Yes when you go to that tower for the blonde sorceress witch lady
Eyyy!!!🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻
Can we just talk about how awesome he pronounced the Aztec names?
It really shows how much he cares about his studies. This channel is an academic beast.
The dutch pronunciation though, not so much lol
Yep i was thinking that myself
I wouldn't know whether they're actually good or not!
@@scott19087 and that’s putting it lightly
‘Death smiles at every man, and as men, all we can do is smile back.’ Marcus Aurelius
me: raises the middle finger to say f-
@@samsunguser3148 grim reaper: raises the Scythe to kill you once again
death kinda sexist
🙂
Women are immortal???
they always ask "who is the grim reaper" but never "how is the grim reaper" :(
Cold. And lonely.
He only want a friend to accompany him, and he does his job of taking people to the afterlife. He didn’t do anything wrong
0:53 wait!...
is that where Thanos name came from?
C. Rice
3 weeks ago (edited)
Greeks: Thanatos
Marvel: take away 2 letters
Marvel: Thanos!
247:likes 7:dislikes
Hilarious and original
I'd like to add something:
The roman god of harvests, Saturn, had a scythe as his symbol. The Romans identified him with the greek Kronos, because in mythology, his weapon was again a scythe. But the Orphic cults identified this deity with Chronos (the ch is pronounced like a strong H), the god of time. And so, classicists from the 14th century onward would unite this Saturn/Kronos/Chronos figure with the popular depictions of Death to express the passage of time and life.
Kronos was the Greek god of the harvest? I thought that was Demeter, Persephone's mother.
@@corruptangel6793 we don't know exactly WHAT Kronos was the god of. The roman equivalent and the connection with the scythe suggest a harvest god, though you have to remember that the Olympians overthrowing the Titans is read by many as the new greek worship replacing an older one, so he may have been the greek harvest god BEFORE the Greeks worshipped Demeter.
@@cramerfloro5936 I never actually thought about it like that. Interesting.
@@corruptangel6793 Kronos is more of a Titan than a god, if I remember correctly - like Gaea. The Primordial beings that came before and and/or birthed the gods such as Zeus and Poseidon. They are generally the generation that comes before them, and the gods that came after usually took over their job, like how Apollo took over for Helios.
@@justanawkwardnerd i know all that, I just never thought of how the origin of that story (the war between the gods and the titans and all that) might've come from a religious upheaval.
Also, Gaia is Kronos and the other Titan's mother. It's Gaia's generation who're the primoridal beings. At least in the version I know.
I remember having a vivid dream which was at first a nightmare in which the Grim Reaper came to me and gave off a loving energy. He than took his scythe and struck through me but there was no pain and I became a ghost. After that the dream became very peaceful and I was happy. When I tried to thank him he had already vanished.
Hay. Are you still alive?
@@2shadesofgray752 The hay got eaten by a horse, unfortunately.
@@Seastar14TheWitchOf course, of course.
3:57 “Around 1346, a mysterious disease had arrived to Europe from Asia. And people were being infected by the millions.”
2020: Here we go again.
Yeah, where have I heard it before, hmm...
Yeah imagine how being the grim reaper he must havevuffered dress from doing all the work
You forgot to add " Aw shit, ........"
Its actually 2019 not 2020
Just not as big scale back then
Your editing and script is well made and polished! Your voice is also quite pleasant to listen to. I hope you keep making more videos on interesting topics and that you grow. :D
Actually they didn't mention my little bastard brother
Have to wholeheartedly agree!
I dont wanna die
Grim reaper: relax relax, I just work here dude, I don't make the rules
Dont worry your time has not come
Yet
@@thegrimreaper9552 yo reaper wasup my dude
@@bobafett6535 Not much just souls
@@thegrimreaper9552 dang u must have a lot since covid 19 and covid 20
@@bobafett6535 Yeah I do
If Soul Eater has taught me anything, the Grim Reaper's actually a pretty chill guy /j
he WAS a chill guy
@@konstantinemarkelia759 I'm not there yet😳😳😳
Im pretty chill
@@konstantinemarkelia759 I'm just gotta take that as something else and not what I initially thought it was.
A cool one is the German version, the “Dengelgeist”, dengeln being the act of sharpening a scythe by light hammering, the dengelgeist is literally the scythe sharpening ghost- who sits in the graveyard preparing to reap. So much more ominous than just a skeletal reaper
😅
5:05 "You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper"
We may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later we push up flowers.
You may be young or you may be old, but sooner or later you'll be stiff and cold.
"When you dance with you friend the reaper,everything may be sweeter,but when you look within those eyes,you become quite surprised,the skeleton within the robe,looking like an ugly toad,you stop your prancing and dancing,and land on the floor."
my weeny is hard
You got it all wrong, man. Grim is from Jamaica, hence his accent.
lol
It's a shame they didnt even mention his two best friends, Billy and Mandy😔
Truly the most underrated comment
*Grim: "Dang it Billy, you idiot!"*
Both billy and Mandy cheat
Just got a rec for your angels video, thoroughly enjoyed and now going for more. Really lovely vibe to these videos, awesome work!
When it comes to Greek Mythology, they actually have multiple deities for death. All of whom handle a different aspect of it. Atropos was the one that did the actually reaping, by means of cutting the string of someones life. Thanatos dealt with those who had a peaceful death. The Keres dealt with those whose death was violent. Hermes helped direct lost souls to Hades by escorting them there. Charon ferried souls into Hades via his boat. Hades and Persephone judge the souls that arrive, punish or award them fairly, then watch over them.
😅
Well, if we’re to believe Billy and Mandy, he probably comes from Jamaica.
When I imagine death for some reason I think of a black horse that comes when you die. You climb onto it's back and it carries you to the afterlife leaving your body behind.
@NPC 1337 I imagine a friendly little witch who puts you on her broom and then flies off to heaven and promises that you'll never be alone there.
thats the Helhest
Well you are not wrong
Sometimes when im bored I just let my horse do it
Bro wtf I’m scared to die I’m 18 I be thinking my time is coming idk why
@@caronmiles4514 well try to be careful with your surroundings when you go out.
Greeks: Thanatos
Marvel: take away 2 letters
Marvel: Thanos!
@wanka wanka do you guys read my fking thoughts wtf lol
Honestly before I saw your comment that's what I thought and commented😂
You just noticed that?
Originally thanos killed half of all life to get deaths attention,he also hated deadpool for his romantic relationship with death.
@Μαριος Μεργουδης no shit.
Such a gem of a channel, been binge watching your content all day
This person's voice is really calm and relaxing. His vocabulary is very well suited for the topic of legends
"A disease came from Asia to Europe" sounds kinda familiar
cORoNaVirUs
@@OrcaDaGuret cOnGrAtuLaTiOnS wE hAVe a WiNnER
@@mikeoakeshart3823 and..... Was this for general knowledge or are u trying to point at something?? (Just asking.)
@@winonadmello4949 let us just assume for general knowledge and not to get at anything
@@tituspaul2345 okay then...
The Anjou was also said to be the last person to die in a year, who would be tasked with shuttling the souls of the dead until the end of the following year. A seminal film known as "The Phantom Carriage" links in with this myth somewhat.
😊
Him: "it's mictecacihuatl"
Me: "michturtle? Mctahoerawl? Machtjsleniabeuel?"
Norwegian folklore also includes a sort of “grim reaper” with an old lady with a cloak over her head that chooses your fate if you should die or not
i think the closest to norwegian grim reaper, would be the Norn sisters of the norse mythos, or are you thinking of the valkery that ferry you to valhalla?
@@gampie13 I think it was the valkerie
Moral of the story … be nice to old ladies.
As a korean i got so happy when you mentioned 저승사자, korean mythology and folktales are really cool but i feel like theyre under-appreciated :)
😊
You're a new addition in my top 5 channels. You make awesome content! Thank you
"Japan has King Enma"
The Japanese equivalent to the Grim Reaper is the Shinigami. King Enma is closer to what Hades is for the Greeks or Osirus for the Egyptians.
(Edit: ok so since this thread is getting out of hand, I'm going to clarify by saying that I'm wrong about the Shinigami. Although i knew they are an actual part of Japanese culture *outside of anime* I didn't know they were a recent addition to the folklore from the last couple hundred years or so and not part of proper Japanese mythology. My mistake.)
Although Shinigami it’s a new concept and somewhat out of western and pop culture.
What about Izanami
Anime fan spotted
@@GTaito you don't have to be an anime fan to be knowledgeable on Japanese culture
Shinigami- Soul Reaper- Grim Reaper
Idk how you pump out a video everyday but man I am about to binge your channel
Dude you deserve so more subs
Ian?
In hungary there's a folk tale about an old woman who didn't want to die, so when death came for her she asked for just one more day, and death signed a paper that said "I will come back tomorrow" and from then on everytime death came she just showed him the paper he signed and told him to come back the next day. After like a year or so death got bored of the status quo and tried to take her but she smacked him on the head with a pickle jar and then everyone lived forever
😅
"the grim reaper" is a title, but the other horsemen are named; Pestilence, Famine and War
Not in the bible - the other three horsement are given descriptions, but Death alone gets an explicit name drop in the text. Names given to the other horesemen come from subsequent analysis of the orignal text, or other works using the same characters.
Side note, pestilence isn't even a horseman - the concept seems to be tied in with the famine horesman, likely because disease in crops leads to famine for pre-industrial societies lacking long-term food storage and transport infrastructure. The first horseman is something along the lines of "conquest", who I would suspect gets ignored because he's a royal figure dressed in white, and is thus very much not in line with most interpretations of the horsemen and bringers of destruction.
FACTS!!!! That’s also why he looks like that that is one of the four horsemen your wise beyond your years my child lol
Pestilence is conquest, no?
@@potto1488 yep, it's war, conquest, pestilence and famine
Sorry, Pestilence was sacked and replaced by Pollution.
When the Reaper shows up, it's with a scythe of relief
Ooh we got a pun!
extremely underrated, quite happy that i found out about you! really good explainations combined with interesting topics. i love mythology
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You have such refreshing video topics!
He is a decent, chill deity who's been doing his work in a respectful attitude.
Maybe but when he comes for you he comes for you to take you where your sins have done or you can say the bad karmic you have put out
i like to think of the grim reaper as more of a kind, warm-hearted janitor, who stalks the hallways of life, bringing the withered and misfortunate to a warm place beyond their suffering.
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hochelaga , great video, as usual, but something you ought to be aware of:
At 1:26 , you made the classic westerner's faux pas of calling something "Chinese" when it's actually _Tibetan._ The distinction may not matter to most westerners but to Tibetans it's an extremely sore spot and something you ought to know about if you're making informative videos.
Thank you for letting me know. My apologies. Hopefully people will see this comment for this important clarification. :)
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Same shit
In Chinese culture, there is King Yan, who is the equivalent to Hades. The equivalent to the collector of souls is Ox head and horse face, who bring the souls to the underworld.
The Grim Reaper is a very interesting concept. It always fascinating to learn each version of the Grim Reaper from different countries and cultures.
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In a lot of paintings from the medieval period onwards, there is a "memento mori," or reminder of death. These were symbols associated with death, usually skulls, that were put in paintings as a reminder of the inevitability of death. I'm not sure, but they may have something to do with the common depiction of the Grim Reaper in art.
I'm binge watching this channel like crazy lol
0:53 wait!...
is that where Thanos name came from?
Yes! That is actually the inspiration the authors had for the name
It actually comes more from the idea humans have of death, which Freud called thanatos
Look up Nersync's video on Thanos, he explain his story way better there!
@@cramerfloro5936 ok..
My dude was just joking
This is a new channel and It seem really interesting
I love this explanation about Death's origin! You have a very calming voice and go into much detail!
I'd like to hear some African examples. Maybe from the Ashanti or Zimbabwean mythology since you touched on Native American examples.
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“the angel of death, sometimes known as azrael...”
undertale fans: somethings wrong i can feel it
Lol
Meanwhile
*Eminem goes crazy*
@Thomas Kelly true, true...
Well play Toby Well play..
i sense a menace in the air
I had a weird dream when i had to go to the ICU because i had a heart attack from low blood sugar, the Grim Reaper pat my head and we had wine together while we played Call of Duty. He literally just woke me up standing beside my bed and asked if we could hang out. He took me to a part of my room that didn't existed, it had a console i never saw, he was weirdly eating apples and coins but hey he was good teammate and we won like...most of our rounds. 10/10 he chill as fuck
It is not the grim reaper that is scary, its the little amount of time we have before we see it.
Your content is incredible, keep up this amazing work.
The grim reaper is actually Satan as stated in Hebrews 2:14 Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.
@@EVsSuck777 oh well I was talking about the grim reaper as symbolism for death, and that we should spend the time before death wisely.
@@EVsSuck777 are you sure about that?
@@grimreaper1365 100% sure
@@EVsSuck777 aha little did you know, it was the spooktober song
Great video! Really cool to see various inspirations for the grim reaper, something I have always been interested in. I would love to see a video covering more forms of psychopomps in many cultures and how they compare and contrast.
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@@Christopher-qq4dl mobile typing ^^' fixed. Still better than someone else's I saw yesterday, they meant "idunno" and it autocorrected to "ianal". lol
Sees A Grim Reaper
Me: SANS UNDERTALE . ☠️
One of your newer videos was recommended to me and i had no idea why until i realized i watched this video a few months ago
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Love your work, keep it up!
If the Grim reaper doesn't have a jamaican accent, i ain't dying.
The grim reaper kept me from getting runover by a selfish gluttoned driver in a gas station by touching my shoulder. I felt the cold waft of air and I about seen my demise.
Eight years ago I was riding my bike around my driveway. It was in the late afternoon and I stopped and stood staring at the road for some reason. I really can't remember why. All I can remember is seeing a figure. It had no legs to be seen and floated, wearing a white cloak and it's skeletal hands outstretched with chains hanging from its wrists. It flew by so quickly I almost couldn't register what it was. I tried, really tried, to come up with some explanation for what it could have been but settled on it being supernatural. So i brought it up with my mom and not two days before I saw the figure flying down the hill.. a neighbor at the bottom of the hill had died!
I'm now absolutely convinced I saw death that day. I wasn't afraid and I'm still not. Spooky as he sounds.. I felt at ease as he was near.
I don't think it was a mistake on deaths part, I think he meant for me to see him that day and for that I call him my friend. /HE/ won't kill me. Time will. But if I was correct in who I saw, I'll greet him like a good friend when I'm dead. I don't fear death, I never have. Dying maybe but never death itself nor the angel. He's kind enough to escort me to where I belong where he could so easily leave me by myself. I'm thankful to him already and I won't be dying any time soon... I hope lol.
I've unfortunately seen a lot of things related to death, even a few close calls myself. Seeing him once is a coincidence. Running into him several times, now THAT isn't a coincidence.
Oh and no... I'm not Christian lol 🖤☠🥀⚰
@SNES Nes hes imagining shit
Yo what the hell, how did you pronounce that?
You can literally google that shit dude
what pronounce?
www.dictionary.com/browse/that
@@TheReaperHunter Ey warframe dude what up?
@@alit0soulsborne717 Warframe is starting to get repetitive tho I've taken a break for a while now
I very much enjoy your videos. The only bad thing I can say about them is that they are too short! I would love for you to get into more detail about these subjects.
Honestly the Grim Reaper seems like a chill guy.
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Do you take recommendations? If you do I'd like to see you cover secret societies if you want. I love all your stuff so far ☺
Hey, yes I take recommendations. Always happy to hear.
Did you see my video on the Copiale Cipher? It involves the work of a secret society:
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@@hochelaga this recommendation made me subscribe
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For the longest time I legit thought magere hein (Translated: meager hein), was just the name of the grim reaper. Wow how my eyes have opened.
Its grim reaper in Dutch (i live in the Netherlands)
@@fryderykchopin3974 I mean the dutch borrow so many English words that this wouldn't be the first thing having 2 words. Especially not considering the media the grim reaper is actually used in. The grim reaper is a historical fiction tale after all, always has been always will. Actually grim reaper doesnt work with dutch grammar now i think about it so it had to have been a borrowed word. (Ik leef ook in Nederland XD)
Well in Lithuania we have Grim Reaper as Giltinė. "The list of Lithuanian gods is reconstructed based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Giltinė - goddess of death, also The Reaper. Other names include Kaulinyčia, Maras (black death or the Plague), Maro mergos, Kolera, Pavietrė, Kapinių žmogus. Her sacred bird is the owl. Sometimes she was considered to be a sister of Laima (luck)."
Your content and style make for great videos! Thank you.
First video I watched on this channel. Pretty good. Subscribed
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There was a Death Row inmate who actually said something similar. His final words before execution were
“You could be a king or Streetsweeper but everybody dances with The Grim Reaper”
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In case you didnt know:
'Magere Hein' essentially means **thin >insert common name from a few centuries ago
Can we just appreciate how he doesn't butcher names that most of us would give up on pronouncing when just seeing how it's spelled?
if the grim reaper doesn't attend my funeral im not dying
Just came across this channel. Sick content well done
I remember a true account of someone visiting a dying relative in hospital where while they were sitting consoling quietly an apparition appeared above the dying person which was both hideous but told the visitor not to be afraid and then it was seen to be virtually exactly the same as these tales of what the reaper is supposed to look like -minus the hourglass and sickle.
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You could be a king or you could be a street sweeper but in the end everybody dances with the grim reaper.
i dont dance you dingus
@@thegrim-reaper1605 then it ain't the end, dingus.
This channel will be big someday and i will brag about being the sub number 1440. Keep going, love your vids, they are well researched and your voice is very calming!
Love love love all these videos 💌
Hochelaga, I had an epiphany that if there's a child suffering from a nightmare, there's probably a 10 minute video on the internet that could explain their fears away. Sounds like a good concept for a playlist to me.
Fun fact: in Danish the grim reaper is called "manden med leen" which directly translates to "the man with the scythe"
I subscribed after hearing you say those aztec names,it was impressive and i know i was gonna get good shit
"Often on the top of a car collecting the dead" CLING BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
I hope the rest of your videos are similar into its depth of research towards the subject. I subscribed.
The content & Your voice is so comforting this channel is a gemstome🙏🙏god bless you
I wanna learn more about Ancient Bible Creatures and stuff YEET
read the book Revalations, probably one of the most interesting bible books
@@dutchdoggo sounds good im interested too thanks
Same.
FYI The Bible is full of symbolism. Many story’s and other representations holding messages will come up a lot. This is one thing for people not knowing get really confused by.
How do you still not have at least 100k subs? Your videos have incredibly amazing content and quality, stumbled upon your video about the angels in the bible and subscribed soon after. I hope you continue making such informative videos! Thanks for doing this!
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3:09 excuse me what? The be-ENDERMAN?!?!!
i mean it kinda fits ngl
*enderman knocks you into the void*
its supposed to be something like bay-nderman and the A as in British ''master''
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Few people know just how kind and caring He is.
interesting, I was wondering about this a few weeks ago. It might me interesting to look at other depictions of death (and/or afterlife) throughout history. As you said in the video after the black plague depictions became more gruesome and frightening.
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Insert obligatory “momento mori”
Is the Grim Reaper god? He comes off as a mythological farmer. One who reaps death which comes from the seed of life. He's got a skeleton too and god supposedly made people in his image. Probably not but, thought it was kind of interesting how the representation of death just turns out to be some moving bones.
I doubt it since the bible specifically mentions an "angel of death".
he is probably not god
Why not Gods don't create only. Some create and others take I feel that they are both gods
most representations of death/gods of death/afterlife, predate christianity by a long time :/
I should add, that mostof the religions known of nowdays are quite new in a historical sence
Nah man im not God
“Jeoseungsaja who is attempting to meet his busy quota of souls for the day”
My mind: ahh Lee Dong Wook is here
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Father Time in Rudolph has a scythe, so I always assumed he was the depiction of death in a less negative sense.
We definitely wouldn't want to see him but I think we will have to. He reaps what was sown.
Death is not what is scary, it’s time.
I just love how he pronounces “Magere Hein”
Raar om een dat in een andere taal te horen
@NPC 1337 no
Love the video but a bit hard to hear ya. Love it so much tho man keep it up. You earned a subscriber
I've always had a massive fascination for the grim reaper