Hey isn’t Pliny the elder the guy who said Jesus was executed? There was two guys but both of them were way after Jesus died. Idk when the Bible happened But if Jesus came back from the dead then…why wasn’t that written down?
Lose your bullshit sponsors! Seriously. Do this as a broke man who proceeds (even if it must be with less frequency) out of the intention from his heart and not as one who is looking for kickbacks from corporate sponsors.
@@Games_kun-b1r Pliny the Elder was a Roman author and government official who died in 79 AD, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He did not mention Jesus in his writings. The Bible is an anthology of approved reading used to unify a religion for rich egos to maintain their lifestyle.
Seems your diary of a pyramid labourer were on point for the key of how the stones were moved. Thanks. My whole family enjoys your material. Home school my 6 children
The other half were down at the underpass sniffing glue and other home depot chemicals. Like the history books say, Mary's-land is still a mysterious place to many outsiders who visit its vast ancient concrete jungle.
@augustusimperator.avi1872 if ea nassir had existed in modern bmore he could have gotten quality copper from all the bandos. They haven't stripped em all yet... I'm sure there's still some left. Plus, New construction in the gentrified areas. Where there's copper, there's someone trying to take it to sell for that good bmore fetty
@@joesalyers Baltimore is beautiful, I miss it. Most money I ever made was cuz of my plugs in Baltimore. Every week or, get my personal fetty in Shipley hill, lex, or Franklin square, head to charles village where my bud/wax/K/molly/LSD/shroom/and sometimes blow plug was, stay at my boys place in the county for a day or two, serving my bmore customers, then bring the bulk of it to Rockville/Gaithersburg. Stay there for 3-5 days getting rid of the rest then it was back to the red line and the Marc train to get back to bmore and get more. This was 2014-2016, I was 18-20, and to this day it's by far the most money I ever made. 10-15k in sales a week, 2.5k-4k profit. But then he got locked up and they lost their plug and I gave up and moved to Philly. I'm a square now and clean, and life is honestly great, but man do I miss it sometimes. Bmore is a magical place.
Its all true and the few rare animals of the described ones that are alive today where moved by the CIA, the british royal familie and the Communist-Party of China into seperate highly secure facilities. Since the Chinese felt to secure, the existance of at least two specimen have been exposed by outsiders. They are the "Animal-human-fish-hybrids Alex Jones talks about.
Not to mention the men in Ethiopia that eat fresh animal.. that's really accurate base on best food ever channel where youtuber sanny try to eat Ethiopian delicacy especially those Ethiopian tribemen
The recognition of how gullible the readers of their work too. In a world of fact and fantasy it was probably too tempting to lie, or maybe it was easier to imagine/dream with so many unknowns.
For the dog-headed men, couldn’t they have confused baboons for a different type of humans? The word “orangutan” comes from Malay meaning “people of the forest.”
The basilisk sounds an awful lot lot a spitting cobra, and its "weasel" enemy has to be a mongoose or another, similar animal. The account of their battle has to be the very first iteration of "Honey Badger doesn't give a shit."
@@zaja2418 The very word 'dragon' originally comes from a Greek word that meant "starer", which was first applied to snakes of any size and type. This is appropriate, because snakes do not have eyelids, and so are always staring. The first mythological dragons (by that name) are in Greek myth, & are all giant snakes.
It is said that there is a tribe of men that has taken on the form of enormous rabbits, because it seems it amuses them to confuse us. This giant rabbit person has extended the working of his body to obscene extremes, for he is in love with boxing because the sun is very hot in his country and this makes him angry and want to box more. Therefore it is said the muscular rabbit man will do battle with any foe who challenges him; even lowly dogs he will meet in battle if they invite him to do so. I met a man near India once who said there is but one way to subdue the rabbit man and that is to equal him in boxing. Every person of virtue has confirmed this is true and it is impossible to deny it.
I love how Pliny's account has oddly accurate details mixed in with the wildest tall tales as if they are all equally as believable. To the far north they receive six months of day light. - Yes. The Seres to the far east have wool they find in their forests that they make fine cloth from - So, Chinese silk. In the Indian ocean there are whales three acres in size and sharks twelve cubits long. - That's a little big even for a whale, but the shark isn't that far off. Dog headed people - What? Maybe he meant people with mouths like dogs, because there were groups of people in many places who filed down their teeth to points? Shadow-Foots, they shade themselves with their massive foot. - Okay, Pliny, I think someone is pulling your leg.
Yeah it's fascinating since it's made up stories intertwined with real accounts and a lot of grapevine in between. And at this time they couldn't really separate false and truth (I mean elephant being super smart with a good memory isn't as strange as a dragon).
The dog-headed man legend is often thought to have arisen from traders hearing stories of Indri lemurs in Madagascar, which are 4 foot tall, have no tail and make a strange call.
There's also that Phoenician account where they sailed along the coast of Africa, probably reaching as far south as Gabon. Where they witnessed gorillas and thought them to be a "tribe of wild Ethiopians".
@@JohnZornAscended the name of “Africa” didn’t come about until the 17th century, and I wasn’t talking about ethnic groups, I stated that the term "Ethiopian or Éthiop" was used at times to refer to melanin rich ppl as that…regardless of their tribe or location. Like the comment said “Gabon” a nation no where near Ethiopia, but ignorant travelers calling gorilla "wild Ethiopians"…even though used ignorantly in this case, it’s to refer to ppl who are melanin rich
I grew up in Salvador Brazil one time my little brother came home screaming said he was chased by a man with a face on his chest. I show my mom this video and it freaked all of us out. Till this day my brother still says he telling the god honest truth
I can't recall the video I watched but when Spain started occupying indigenous land they heard reports of something described very similar to what you brother saw and referenced in this video.
it's interesting that the romans would recognize the intellect of the elephant. Also for anyone wondering the whole elephant vs dragon thing probably is referring to large tropical snakes, as Greek Dragons were basically just giant mythical snakes, and the word dragon comes from the Greek essentially meaning "one who doesn't blink"
I like how you explained this since most people imagine dragons as lizards instead of snakes. Both are reptiles, but the 4-legged reptile is a more famous depiction due to European influence.
They were absolutely snakes. The king cobra is one of the few things that can and will kill an elephant (but can't eat it due to the elephants size). There's also tales of crested snakes in ethopia from David Livingstone in the late 1800s. (Specifically the black mamba is native to ethopia.) "The first information on the crowing crested cobra may have been recorded by the explorer David Livingstone (1813 - 1873), whose journals, edited by his friend Horace Waller (1833 - 1896), were published posthumously as The Last Journals of David Livingstone (1874). Waller's epilogue contains two references relating to crowing and crested snakes, described as two distinct species. Waller briefly referred to a species of snake which was "well authenticated" to utter "a cry, much like the crowing of a young cock." One of Livingstone's servants, Abdullah Susi (died 1891), also described a type of mamba (Dendroaspis sp.) with crest-like markings on its head, known to Africans and Arabs alike in what is now Mozambique and Tanzania." There's no way dragons weren't snakes. Makes sense since many smake bite survivors described the sensation as "burning agony", like some great thing vomited fire and now their whole body was alight. The basilisk "holds itself upright so only it's lower half is on the ground" and a "weasel that dispatches it but dies in the process" is absolutely describing the old rivalry of mongoose vs cobra.
I find it insanely funny that the entire story if filled with fantastical and mythological civilizations, and then suddenly there’s a surprisingly (obviously not entirely) accurate description of China just hiding away in there.
maybe they aren't mythological civilizations. The headless men yeah thats a mutation common in other animals its not even close to the stranger things in biology
I agree. The ones I thought were tall tales were about the strange people that we would call "weird," but then I think people used to exaggerate things and also what about deformities.
@@asteroidkatfacts1036 Yeah, also the fact that this "knowledge" was often filtered through many mouths and along the way likely poorly translated as well as exaggerated multiple times.
The "elephant-fighting dragons" thing baffled me for a bit until I realized it's probably exaggerated reports of spitting cobras: Substitute breathing fire for burning venom and translate "crests" as "hoods"
some of this sounds like they're just talking mad shit. like "lol they gots no necks haha they eyes be in they shoulders". some of them sound like the locals are trolling with the romans. "yeah we don't eat at all we just smell roots". if you watch Karl Pilkington's india trip in An Idiot Abroad and then had him describe it it would probably come out like some of these accounts
Still more believable than middle age peasants building cathedrals and palaces, with chisels, in just between 1 to 3 years. Now, for the two digit IQ peeps out there... that means they had no power tools, think about that for a year or two.
As an Indian it is also worth noting this fella Megasthenes wrote people used to sing and dance for no reason. Either he met people who were very high or he got to smoke that good Kush lol. Also he came at the time of the Mauryan Empire which was quite big. I wonder if the people living in Magadha said that about all the people they dislike lol.
He saw one too many Ballywood movies... Anyway, I'm sure the Indians he encountered were dancing/singing for events such as weddings and festival, but the writer did not comprehend.
Theseus be like: "BRO...bro... like hear me out... what if we take all the old planks and put in some new planks... Think about it bro... Is it still the old boat? Or is it same same but different BUT still the same" Doge Man: *_wow_*
🤔 Entirely possible. It does make one consider just how they came to be so certain, as to describe these entities in such detail. Maybe it's done in a 'why' context... Like calling anyone that isn't 'a civilized Roman', a derogatory name like "barbarian". I've always thought these descriptions were done by someone who gets high, as well... Maybe a 'thinker-guy' doing the writing/drawing, and the 'doer-guy'(the guy that went on these journeys into the unknown), describing how they seen things, that then gets skewed because they BOTH high af. 😏
@@eho6380thankyou for telling me my whole Country breathes through holes 😂 I thought we needed the nose attached to em for survival. You know being human n shite. If you have not noticed we have Nostrils ...n They are holes.
LOL'S NOT ONLY THAT! THE INDIAN'S DO HAVE A GOD WHO WHO ACTUALLY DO HAVE JUST ONE FOOT TILL NOW BY THE WAY! A FORM OF SHIVA ! THE ODDEST FORM OF A PERSON ONE COULD EVER SEE ACTUALLY AMONGST THE MYRIAD OF IDOLS! MAYBE WHAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IS THAT THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A WHOLE SPECIES OF HUMANS WHO WERE LIKE THAT ON THE WHOLE, AND NOT JUST ONE SINGULAR DIETY WORSHIPPED IN ANY PARTICULAR FORM ONLY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL REASONS!! 😳
9:22 It's so cool how some of these mythical tales and rumour can actually be traced to real peoples today. The wild-beast-eaters could very well be the Massai! They're also sometimes referred to as Lion-Killers. Maasai warriors used to be required to kill a male lion with their spear as a right of passage to manhood! They inhabit areas of Kenya. Which is roughly where the Roman sources they they lived!
He also said there are people south of Meroe who can run really fast, which could be a reference to Kenyans who live on the foothills of the high mountains and are renowned for their speed.
India was FULL BLACK ETHIOPIAN BACK THEN. Dravidian black women began india. Krishna translated in Sanskrit means the blackened one. Extreme dark blacks living there worshipping the cow. Cow represents black womens breasts. Do your homework.
My grandma shared a room with a woman when she had one of my uncles and she swears the lady gave birth to a dead child that was normal except had a dog head. She wouldn't ever lie about anything. Appalachian mountains are a different world
@@ThursoBerwick they had priests called augurs dedicated to predicting the future through the movements and sounds of birds, it was considered extremely important that before any battle or election they would look at the movements of sacred birds (usually chickens) to see if they were fulfilling the will of the gods, like whether or not they ate a piece of bread.
"That's a pretty wild claim, you got a source to back it up?" "Oh yeah bro this old Indian dude told my uncle's girlfriend's nephew's neighbor like 60 years ago"
I love the serious tone all of this is written in. I mean think about it, the world is full of strange animals, would dog-headed men really be weirder than Giant Anteaters?
Vast swaths of human history and enormous population of people have gone entirely undocumented. Who knows what kind of unusual cultural practices might have existed in groups that were born, lived, and died out entirely before any credible source could write about them. So that’s to say I truly want to believe that at some point somewhere there were humans who lay on their back all day shading themselves from the sun with their massive feet who had their moment and then were almost instantly snuffed out by the slightest evolutionary pressure because nature couldn’t tolerate such manifest absurdity
When I first clicked on the video I thought they would describe animals we know today but as if they were mythical creatures but no these people were trippin on that fent cart, this is madness
To be fair though, hes trying to explain something hes never seen in a way that people of that time can understand, this is cobsidered when bibke scholars read revelation, or when we see pictures of an "elephant" in medieval art. The elephant has a trumpet nose is built like a horse and has the ears of a hound dog, but uts meant to interpret big ears, the sound it makes when it lifts its trunk and how big it is. So some drawings misinterpret what he was trying to convey😂
imagine a world without videos, without TV, without printing ... imagine a world where reality is untangled with dreams and fantasy ! Some of the descriptions are so accurate like that of the Northmen with their 6 months days and nights, and, omg, this orca whose back fin looks like a ship's keel ! Incredible ! So accurate ! Truly fascinating !
This is what Tolkein would have written in a time before fantasy was invented to give him an outlet. I adore the little details and lore drops, like yeah, of course I've always wondered why I keep seeing so many blind elephants on my way to work, happens all the time, and now I know why! Genuinely very imaginative, and I've been obsessed with Blemmeys since I saw one depicted on a map in a castle once and stumbled upon what seemed like a mediaeval meme, so glad to see a shoutout to my facebods!
Literal yes , just with a bit of centuries long telephone game going on. And ancients weren't foolish. You only know what you know. The same is true of civilization. We build on and upon one another.... the ONLY reason we aren't chasing eachother with sticks.
I do believe that chanches are theses accounts are more accurate than whats accepted. Not only do a few of theses people still exists today (ie: the pygmies), but most of theses could be explained by deformities and mutations that weren't understood back then (ie: polydactylia) aswell as extreme body modifications and/or cultural practices. As for the animals, some of them could have existed, but were hunted to extinction (ie: the basilisk) or just went extinct on their own. The 150 ft serpent could have been just that, a 45 meters snake. The others might sound too outlandish to be true, but at the same time only 1% percent of all extinct species end up in the fossil record, so who knows
@@kimorox813 They didnt talk about african pygmies tho if u listen to th video they were talking about india. Romans never actually encountered any pygmies as they live in the jungles of what's now Congo, where Romans never reached
That's the weirdest thing to me, because there are stories about pygmies at war with cranes all over the world, not just in the Greco-Roman world but in the Arab world, the Arctic, and in China. Even the Cherokee have stories about it, and in fact in their telling the pygmies arrived from elsewhere and met their final end south of the Cherokee homeland (with fragments of similar stories among other native tribes). I have absolutely no idea how to explain this. The stories can't possibly be true, but there's also no reasonable explanation for how such a specific story could exist, apparently independently, in so many different places.
@ as a biochemist who has studied dna and ect yes Pygmies were everywhere they died off just like over 8ft tall people. Mostly due to size. Tall people die out due to war as they are big targets for slings and need more food small pygmies die out cause they can't defend themselves. We've a good amount of history of many different types of humans we are on of the last cross breds of humans. Also the pygmies of the chorokee were part welsh known as mooneye'd people and they didn't die out we just integrated better and still have tiny communities we're just no longer super small more shorter than average
The historical lesson you get from these stories is that gossip and hearsay have always been strongly engrained in our society. Social media is our version of Pliny the Elder.
Meme aside, it's baboon They thought baboon were dog headed human wearing animal skin as clothes 😂 Edit: recently i watched vid of black bear doing stuff, and i can see that ppl who never see bear bfr can mistake it as human wearing animal fur Little bear often played on their 2 feet and look like a human child with doglike head
What's interesting though is that people have claimed to have seen men with dog heads all over the world. They've been spotted in Skinwalker Ranch and mentioned in native American lore.
Could PCOS or congenital adrenal hyperplasia be the explanation for the women that “turned into men”? Both can cause the overgrowth of facial/body hair.
So when Ole Pliny got to India and saw that it was populated by just a bunch of regular ass human beings he was like 'oh damn, i'm gonna need to spice this up a little.'
The one thing that I really enjoy about these stories as well as the ancient maps that show where these tribe's were located is the fact that we can't go back and prove they didn't exist and the only way the ancient scholars knew/had available to prove their existence being, illustrations, writing and sculptures, made sure to produce hundreds if not thousands of examples/diagrams/images etc. in order for future generations to have a slight chance of discovering these descriptions and accounts with what strike us in the modern day as pure conjecture/myths. Even though we're still unable to say with any authority or 100% certainty these species weren't real or that they were at least believed in widely enough to call it fact like we do now with things like animals in nature. We've never seen a lot of them but we believe they're real from our own modern media which would have been the aforementioned paintings, sculpture and literature mentioned earlier. 😁
Are you comparing seeing weird looking deep sea fish on video to thinking that there were mouthless hairy humans who eat by smell because of a sketch that someone made about a story that his aunt's brother's cousin's wife told him 25 years ago? Or are you actually trying to make a sensible point about people falling for AI generated nonsense that's just as stupid as these stories or something like that? I legitimately can't tell.
Ethiopian monkeys: Probably chimps as well (or alternatively, bonobos), since back then, “ape” and “monkey” were synonymous before the introduction of classification in biology.
Thank you for another fantastic video! I love these old accounts of the magical and exotic edges of the world (from the perspectives of whomever was writing them). Also, that respect for elephants was beautiful. We too often undervalue the extraordinary qualities of our world in our mundane modernism, I think. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Intresting mix of myth and legend, lives on to this day. References to dangerous tribes and animals. Mongoose and cobra. Norsemen, Chinese, Pygmies, crocodiles,whales. So cool hearing this. The fish just keeps getting bigger. Also it would entertain and serve as a warning to sailors/traders of the time.
The reason that the writer says that India has larger elephants than Africa is probably because the roman writer only african elephant they knew of the African forest elephant, which is smaller than Indian or African elephants. African forest elephants could be caught, tamed, and used by humans (including in battle), while African bush elephants were way too large and dangerous to catch and try and tame. So our roman writer may have been unaware of the largest species of elephant being in Africa due to that fact.
Love how they say India has the largest elephants when indeed Africa does. Also now we know what happened to dragons, elephants defeated them and cursed their offspring to squalor in the mud of a river. (Crocodile)
Holy fcuk now I can understand where this came from 😂😂there is story in one our puranas (holy) books where a crocodile attacked a elephant and crabed it's trunk after they struggled for atleast many years and the elephant prayed to the goddess or god to give him power fight with ghariyal crocodile.
Remember that human transmutations happened during the time before the flood. Lasting effects of this could be seen during post flood eras in certain humans
1:29 to be accurate their is a character in Ramayana named Kabandha which dwelled in the forests and was cursed to remain their until Lord Ram would free him from that state.
KABANDHA WAS A HUMAN LIKE THING WITHOUT A HEAD AND HAD EYES ON HIS CHEST AND A MOUTH 👄 WHERE REST OF THE HUMANS HAVE A BELLY BUTTON. AND YES GLUTTONY WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT TRAIT OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
@@Mrityu-wi1sq : AND KABANDHA IS VERY WELL DESCRIBED AS A OLD FORM OF HUMAN THAT HAD TURNED INTO A LONELY EVIL DEMON THAT DOES NOT HAVE A HEAD AND NECK LIKE A HUMAN AND HAS HIS EYES ON THE FAR SIDES OF HIS CHEST AND HIS FACE AND MOUTH 👄 ON HIS BELLY! AND DAT VERY ATTRIBUTE OF HIS TO BE TAKEN AS A SIGN AS TO JUST HOW GLUTTONOUS AND DEVOURING NATURE HE ACTUALLY IS , AS HIS BASIC CHARACTER, WHILE EXPLAINING IT ALL TO LAKSHMAN AS TO HOW TO DEFINE HIS CHARACTER AND MOTIVATIONS BY THE WAY, JUST AS WELL! 😒☝
Maybe the “dog heads” were just ornate ceremonial masks or headdresses of some kind? Perhaps even animal skulls used as helmets? Idk just random speculations
The thing to remember is that a lot of history is told through bias and metaphor. While there is zero proof of dog-headed people in antiquity, there is plenty of writing that exists describing such people from religious or political viewpoints.
THERE ONLY EXISTS, HISTORY, ALL THAT " MYTHO LOGY " BULLSHIT ONLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN HUMAN SOCIETY JUST 200 YEARS AGO!! 😑😒 JUST LIKE THE EVEN NEWER INVENTED WORD OF ' DINOSAUR '.. WHERE BEFORE THAT, ALL OF THEM WERE SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL CALLED AND KNOWN AS. ' DRAGONS '!😑😒☝ ORIGINAL HUMANS ESSPECIALLY HIGH HUMANS OF SOCIETY, ONLY DESCRIBED WHAT THEY SAW! 😑😒
Claudious was the emperor directly after Caligula, he was the only living family member, this was due to the fact that most emperors would be kílléd by a family member to usurp the throne. Caligula múrdéréd his entire family due to paranoia except for Claudius who he saw as no threat, also he had a stutter which resulted very entertaining for Caligula. Claudious would become one of the most loved Roman emperors to ever exist.
also all I can think of is Dougal describing The Beast of Craggy Island: "They say it's as big as four cats and has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better, and it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two are for listening and the other two are kind of back up ears, it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps, Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on it's tail, so if you're made of metal, it can attach itself to you, and instead of a head, it's got four arses" th-cam.com/video/bopxGivZNyE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lqj3ajm0YMaaEfQ6&t=284
'You men go northward, and you go southward! I'm gonna walk around here in a circle.' History of the World Part 1 - When cannabis prevented citizens from being overwhelmed by Roman soldiers.
Imagine peacefully trading with a strange white like people and they describe you as a proto eldrich horror behind you're back like some sort of ancient super mean girl
The Roman historian who wrote about these creatures and peoples is Pliny the Elder. He is best known for his work, Natural History, which is an encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics, including geography, anthropology, and natural history. Truthfulness of Pliny's Accounts 1. Mythical Creatures: Many of the creatures described by Pliny, such as dog-headed men and other fantastical beings, are considered mythological or exaggerated accounts rather than factual. These descriptions often stem from hearsay, folklore, and the limited understanding of different cultures during his time. 2. Real Animals: Some animals he described, such as elephants and certain reptiles, do exist, but his accounts often included embellishments or inaccuracies based on the knowledge of the time. 3. Cultural Observations: Pliny's observations of various peoples and their customs may contain grains of truth, but they can also reflect the biases and misconceptions common in ancient writings. For example, descriptions of certain tribes likely exaggerate differences to highlight their 'exotic' nature. Overall, while some references in Pliny's work might be based on real animals or cultures, many aspects are mythical or exaggerated and should be viewed with skepticism.
I think the issue is people use our modern linguistic rules to read sources of the past and honestly it is very hard to figure out how descriptive language was used in the past.
This is what I was wondering! That would explain how it seems to be told in a matter of fact manner rather than explicitly say it's lore or fantastical.
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Hey isn’t Pliny the elder the guy who said Jesus was executed?
There was two guys but both of them were way after Jesus died.
Idk when the Bible happened
But if Jesus came back from the dead then…why wasn’t that written down?
Check out Gandahar (1987) french animation film. The Head Chest guy makes an appearance.
Lose your bullshit sponsors! Seriously. Do this as a broke man who proceeds (even if it must be with less frequency) out of the intention from his heart and not as one who is looking for kickbacks from corporate sponsors.
@@Games_kun-b1r Pliny the Elder was a Roman author and government official who died in 79 AD, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He did not mention Jesus in his writings.
The Bible is an anthology of approved reading used to unify a religion for rich egos to maintain their lifestyle.
Seems your diary of a pyramid labourer were on point for the key of how the stones were moved. Thanks. My whole family enjoys your material. Home school my 6 children
I seen half of these dudes at a bus stop in Baltimore trying to sell me stolen copper wires
The other half were down at the underpass sniffing glue and other home depot chemicals. Like the history books say, Mary's-land is still a mysterious place to many outsiders who visit its vast ancient concrete jungle.
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Im sure it's bad copper. (Referencie to the tablet of Ea Nassir)😂
@augustusimperator.avi1872 if ea nassir had existed in modern bmore he could have gotten quality copper from all the bandos. They haven't stripped em all yet... I'm sure there's still some left. Plus, New construction in the gentrified areas. Where there's copper, there's someone trying to take it to sell for that good bmore fetty
@@joesalyers Baltimore is beautiful, I miss it. Most money I ever made was cuz of my plugs in Baltimore. Every week or, get my personal fetty in Shipley hill, lex, or Franklin square, head to charles village where my bud/wax/K/molly/LSD/shroom/and sometimes blow plug was, stay at my boys place in the county for a day or two, serving my bmore customers, then bring the bulk of it to Rockville/Gaithersburg. Stay there for 3-5 days getting rid of the rest then it was back to the red line and the Marc train to get back to bmore and get more. This was 2014-2016, I was 18-20, and to this day it's by far the most money I ever made. 10-15k in sales a week, 2.5k-4k profit. But then he got locked up and they lost their plug and I gave up and moved to Philly. I'm a square now and clean, and life is honestly great, but man do I miss it sometimes. Bmore is a magical place.
"we've spent six months in India high as balls, we'd better make some shit up to tell them back home"
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suns abt rt 👌
Describes ladyboys and 4 legged men drinking dog milk in africa.
Yep, checks out.
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I want a video game where you play as a legionaire and find all of this to be true
Assassins creed would be the one!!! Have to use certain types of attacks for different races
Its all true and the few rare animals of the described ones that are alive today where moved by the CIA, the british royal familie and the Communist-Party of China into seperate highly secure facilities. Since the Chinese felt to secure, the existance of at least two specimen have been exposed by outsiders. They are the "Animal-human-fish-hybrids Alex Jones talks about.
Sounds like Gene Wolfe’s Latro series
There was an og Xbox game built on this stuff. Great story but alil different. Oh I can't think of it now
@@dmo848 Ryse Son of Rome?
I love so much that they recognised the intelligence of the elephant.
Also interesting that they say elephants practice religion. There are modern studies that suggest that too
Not to mention the men in Ethiopia that eat fresh animal.. that's really accurate base on best food ever channel where youtuber sanny try to eat Ethiopian delicacy especially those Ethiopian tribemen
@@markzosemsuello4016 They do like some of their meat raw. But that isn't unique to Ethiopia. Japanese beef tataki is a personal favorite.
@@rtyrsson
Steak Tartar (raw minced meat with salt) is popular in Europe and the Americas.
Hmmm.... Steak Tartarian?
The recognition of how gullible the readers of their work too. In a world of fact and fantasy it was probably too tempting to lie, or maybe it was easier to imagine/dream with so many unknowns.
For the dog-headed men, couldn’t they have confused baboons for a different type of humans? The word “orangutan” comes from Malay meaning “people of the forest.”
Good point!
I’ve always thought “dog headed men” meant baboon in ancient times. Makes a little more sense right? 🤷♂️
They're so inclusive fr 😂
No. They were called cynocephali. They were created at the same time as the nephilim.
I think it's pretty safe to say that they were baboons they were talking about.
The basilisk sounds an awful lot lot a spitting cobra, and its "weasel" enemy has to be a mongoose or another, similar animal. The account of their battle has to be the very first iteration of "Honey Badger doesn't give a shit."
The 'dragon' in india sounds like burmese python
In india we have pythons in north. Hilly states Have . Mongoose is common alongside snakes. So yes
What's funny is that many Greek myths that use the word 'dragon' depict what we might call giant snakes.
😂 I miss honey badger, those were the glory days boys
@@zaja2418 The very word 'dragon' originally comes from a Greek word that meant "starer", which was first applied to snakes of any size and type. This is appropriate, because snakes do not have eyelids, and so are always staring. The first mythological dragons (by that name) are in Greek myth, & are all giant snakes.
Imagine if ancient Romans had reached Australia.
I'd love to read about the Emu-Roman war.
Roman traders or travellers did reach as far as Vietnam.
It is said that there is a tribe of men that has taken on the form of enormous rabbits, because it seems it amuses them to confuse us. This giant rabbit person has extended the working of his body to obscene extremes, for he is in love with boxing because the sun is very hot in his country and this makes him angry and want to box more. Therefore it is said the muscular rabbit man will do battle with any foe who challenges him; even lowly dogs he will meet in battle if they invite him to do so. I met a man near India once who said there is but one way to subdue the rabbit man and that is to equal him in boxing. Every person of virtue has confirmed this is true and it is impossible to deny it.
@@Elcorehumourous.....they just wallaby a giant mangaroo .....probably true about the giant boxing rabbits...think I've seen them online....lol😂😅😮
They wouldn't even have to embellish their stories because Aboriginals are already the stuff of nightmares
"Why did nature create elephants and dragons"
"Maybe nature thought it was cool to see them fight"
Checks out.
Best quote ever.
Nature: 👁🐘 🆚️🐉👁
Nature: 😎😎😎
That part made it very apparent that he was a roman.
@@asteroidkatfacts1036 By nature you mean...
Nature didn't create anything, God did.
I love how Pliny's account has oddly accurate details mixed in with the wildest tall tales as if they are all equally as believable.
To the far north they receive six months of day light. - Yes.
The Seres to the far east have wool they find in their forests that they make fine cloth from - So, Chinese silk.
In the Indian ocean there are whales three acres in size and sharks twelve cubits long. - That's a little big even for a whale, but the shark isn't that far off.
Dog headed people - What? Maybe he meant people with mouths like dogs, because there were groups of people in many places who filed down their teeth to points?
Shadow-Foots, they shade themselves with their massive foot. - Okay, Pliny, I think someone is pulling your leg.
Yeah it's fascinating since it's made up stories intertwined with real accounts and a lot of grapevine in between.
And at this time they couldn't really separate false and truth (I mean elephant being super smart with a good memory isn't as strange as a dragon).
Best I could come up with for the shadow foots is they saw some guys doing yoga.
@@TheLurker1647 That's the best explanation I've heard
The dog-headed man legend is often thought to have arisen from traders hearing stories of Indri lemurs in Madagascar, which are 4 foot tall, have no tail and make a strange call.
There are dogmen. Amongst other things said not to exist. But they do exist.
There's also that Phoenician account where they sailed along the coast of Africa, probably reaching as far south as Gabon. Where they witnessed gorillas and thought them to be a "tribe of wild Ethiopians".
The coast of Africa or Ethiopia?
@@JohnZornAscendedback then Ethiopian or Ethiope’ was a term used by European for all Black ppl, regardless of tribe or region
@ Black was never an ethnicity, that concept was created by colonizers . I asked about the continent’s name, not the people..
@@JohnZornAscended the name of “Africa” didn’t come about until the 17th century, and I wasn’t talking about ethnic groups, I stated that the term "Ethiopian or Éthiop" was used at times to refer to melanin rich ppl as that…regardless of their tribe or location. Like the comment said “Gabon” a nation no where near Ethiopia, but ignorant travelers calling gorilla "wild Ethiopians"…even though used ignorantly in this case, it’s to refer to ppl who are melanin rich
@ I see. Interestingly enough, Africa is in one the lost books referred to as Dinhabah…
The respect they had for elephants amazed me
They weren't wrong, either.
Not surprising considering how intelligent they are, imagine if they got to observe whales or dolphins
Dude definitely would've had a pet elephant if he could.
@@jfkspillow9527 The Greeks actually did figure out that dolphins are mammals.
@@jfkspillow9527Dolphins appeared a lot in ancient Greek legends. They knew.
This is probably the best thumbnail you’ve ever had for one of these videos, I love these guys
I grew up in Salvador Brazil one time my little brother came home screaming said he was chased by a man with a face on his chest. I show my mom this video and it freaked all of us out. Till this day my brother still says he telling the god honest truth
I can't recall the video I watched but when Spain started occupying indigenous land they heard reports of something described very similar to what you brother saw and referenced in this video.
Tell him to not do drugs ever again
What you seen is No Neck Ed from 90 day fiancé 😂
@@IdoNomb pretty sure he wasn’t a drug attic at 6 years old
@@gorillasquadelite then you were on something for believing it as well.
it's interesting that the romans would recognize the intellect of the elephant. Also for anyone wondering the whole elephant vs dragon thing probably is referring to large tropical snakes, as Greek Dragons were basically just giant mythical snakes, and the word dragon comes from the Greek essentially meaning "one who doesn't blink"
I like how you explained this since most people imagine dragons as lizards instead of snakes. Both are reptiles, but the 4-legged reptile is a more famous depiction due to European influence.
I reckon dragons are probably sauropods or some other kind of dinosaur
They were absolutely snakes. The king cobra is one of the few things that can and will kill an elephant (but can't eat it due to the elephants size).
There's also tales of crested snakes in ethopia from David Livingstone in the late 1800s. (Specifically the black mamba is native to ethopia.)
"The first information on the crowing crested cobra may have been recorded by the explorer David Livingstone (1813 - 1873), whose journals, edited by his friend Horace Waller (1833 - 1896), were published posthumously as The Last Journals of David Livingstone (1874). Waller's epilogue contains two references relating to crowing and crested snakes, described as two distinct species. Waller briefly referred to a species of snake which was "well authenticated" to utter "a cry, much like the crowing of a young cock." One of Livingstone's servants, Abdullah Susi (died 1891), also described a type of mamba (Dendroaspis sp.) with crest-like markings on its head, known to Africans and Arabs alike in what is now Mozambique and Tanzania."
There's no way dragons weren't snakes. Makes sense since many smake bite survivors described the sensation as "burning agony", like some great thing vomited fire and now their whole body was alight.
The basilisk "holds itself upright so only it's lower half is on the ground" and a "weasel that dispatches it but dies in the process" is absolutely describing the old rivalry of mongoose vs cobra.
Monator lizards were MUCH More common back in the day we used to have a LOT of giant lizards like komodo dragons back then
I find it insanely funny that the entire story if filled with fantastical and mythological civilizations, and then suddenly there’s a surprisingly (obviously not entirely) accurate description of China just hiding away in there.
maybe they aren't mythological civilizations. The headless men yeah thats a mutation common in other animals its not even close to the stranger things in biology
I'm starting to think this Theseus might not be entirely reliable.
Balderdash!
😂, you might be right
@@bers7213 nonsense!
Hence the phrase 'The shit of Theseus' (a philosophy term)
It's really not that crazy for these things to exist. You figure how much of the world we've seen?
Maybe 000000001%?
It is interesting that many of them seem like bullshit, but others you can kind of see how they mis-reasoned their way into certain beliefs.
I agree. The ones I thought were tall tales were about the strange people that we would call "weird," but then I think people used to exaggerate things and also what about deformities.
@@asteroidkatfacts1036 Yeah, also the fact that this "knowledge" was often filtered through many mouths and along the way likely poorly translated as well as exaggerated multiple times.
Honestly could probably trace most of these legends back to existing animals and peoples.
Habitual liars can be historians too
The "elephant-fighting dragons" thing baffled me for a bit until I realized it's probably exaggerated reports of spitting cobras: Substitute breathing fire for burning venom and translate "crests" as "hoods"
"You really think they'll believe this?"
"People nowadays are stupid, they'll believe anything."
Apply to every period of time ever.
some of this sounds like they're just talking mad shit. like "lol they gots no necks haha they eyes be in they shoulders". some of them sound like the locals are trolling with the romans. "yeah we don't eat at all we just smell roots". if you watch Karl Pilkington's india trip in An Idiot Abroad and then had him describe it it would probably come out like some of these accounts
@@Chillllllbruh People believe this stuff now, with high speed internet connections.
Still more believable than middle age peasants building cathedrals and palaces, with chisels, in just between 1 to 3 years. Now, for the two digit IQ peeps out there... that means they had no power tools, think about that for a year or two.
@@TalkingAboutGamesWhat cathedrals were built by peasants and built in 1-3 years?
@@bruh-ni1fy I know, it's super absurd, and you will find that info in history books and wiki! Incredible cover up.
1:30 Oh great, he came across a Hitmonlee
😂😂😂
He was on something. Heavy lol😅
He wasn't the first/only person to write about and describe the Blemmys
Yea ppl really need to do their research smh lol the blemmyes origin is chill as hell til the Europeans went fuckin wit em
@@inconemay1441 😭😭
As an Indian it is also worth noting this fella Megasthenes wrote people used to sing and dance for no reason. Either he met people who were very high or he got to smoke that good Kush lol.
Also he came at the time of the Mauryan Empire which was quite big. I wonder if the people living in Magadha said that about all the people they dislike lol.
😂sahi kaha ekdum usko ek insaan nhi mila desh main😂
People singing and dancing for no reason? I think you're describing children. Or adults who still know how to have fun.
He saw one too many Ballywood movies... Anyway, I'm sure the Indians he encountered were dancing/singing for events such as weddings and festival, but the writer did not comprehend.
To be honest it sounds like Theseus was like on a bad acid trip
Theseus be like: "BRO...bro... like hear me out... what if we take all the old planks and put in some new planks... Think about it bro... Is it still the old boat? Or is it same same but different BUT still the same"
Doge Man: *_wow_*
🤔 Entirely possible.
It does make one consider just how they came to be so certain, as to describe these entities in such detail. Maybe it's done in a 'why' context... Like calling anyone that isn't 'a civilized Roman', a derogatory name like "barbarian". I've always thought these descriptions were done by someone who gets high, as well... Maybe a 'thinker-guy' doing the writing/drawing, and the 'doer-guy'(the guy that went on these journeys into the unknown), describing how they seen things, that then gets skewed because they BOTH high af. 😏
I assume that and also perhaps saw some deformity and exaggerated them. Haha
Homer got stoned with a bunch of Scythians and said almost as whacky things.
Or the worst translations in history
"I'm mister frog, this is my show, I eat the bug"
"Hello, I'm Mr. Frog, Hello"
That's literally what he is, he is a blemmy
Holy shit! 😂🤣
Umm, Hello.
They always tell you. Just not in a way that the average person would ever put together.
Shadow feet and one foot tribe seams like people practicing yoga
The people with holes instead of noses also sounds like an accurate description of Indians.
@@eho6380thankyou for telling me my whole Country breathes through holes 😂
I thought we needed the nose attached to em for survival. You know being human n shite.
If you have not noticed we have Nostrils ...n They are holes.
@@eho6380did you accurately take something the scholar was on.😂
LOL'S NOT ONLY THAT! THE INDIAN'S DO HAVE A GOD WHO WHO ACTUALLY DO HAVE JUST ONE FOOT TILL NOW BY THE WAY! A FORM OF SHIVA ! THE ODDEST FORM OF A PERSON ONE COULD EVER SEE ACTUALLY AMONGST THE MYRIAD OF IDOLS! MAYBE WHAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IS THAT THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A WHOLE SPECIES OF HUMANS WHO WERE LIKE THAT ON THE WHOLE, AND NOT JUST ONE SINGULAR DIETY WORSHIPPED IN ANY PARTICULAR FORM ONLY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL REASONS!! 😳
Weren't there one footed people in one of the Narnia movies?
9:22 It's so cool how some of these mythical tales and rumour can actually be traced to real peoples today. The wild-beast-eaters could very well be the Massai! They're also sometimes referred to as Lion-Killers. Maasai warriors used to be required to kill a male lion with their spear as a right of passage to manhood! They inhabit areas of Kenya. Which is roughly where the Roman sources they they lived!
He also said there are people south of Meroe who can run really fast, which could be a reference to Kenyans who live on the foothills of the high mountains and are renowned for their speed.
@@iratepirate3896 Theseus: "Their vertical leap is amazing"
Did ancient already unicorns poo rainbows, or is that a recent evolution?
That has been proven to be false 😂you quite literally cannot kill a full grown lion with a spear especially as a child
@@Reefer-Rampage69 The tens of thousands of lions killed with spears in the Roman arenas might disagree with you on that one, chief
Shit was crazy back then.
😂right this can’t all be lies this shit existed
You mean fake news was crazy back then 😂
It's because of those damn magic shrooms
To be fair India hasn't changed much since then
😂🤣🤣,, YUP THEY LIKE IT THAT WAY! 😄☝
India was FULL BLACK ETHIOPIAN BACK THEN. Dravidian black women began india. Krishna translated in Sanskrit means the blackened one. Extreme dark blacks living there worshipping the cow. Cow represents black womens breasts. Do your homework.
Yeah.. your mom still roams the streets here since ancient times
Not nice take it back. Now
@@BustaStampata you're just mad because it's true
My grandma shared a room with a woman when she had one of my uncles and she swears the lady gave birth to a dead child that was normal except had a dog head. She wouldn't ever lie about anything. Appalachian mountains are a different world
The funniest to me was the African tribe that had a dog as a leader and tried to guess his commands by his movements.
You wouldn't have a DOG KING? Plebian away from me!!!
It's probably based on some weird ritual. The Romans weren't above such things themselves... Trying to read the future from entrails and the like.
Maybe they have respect for dogs just like ancient Egyptian respect cats
@@ThursoBerwick they had priests called augurs dedicated to predicting the future through the movements and sounds of birds, it was considered extremely important that before any battle or election they would look at the movements of sacred birds (usually chickens) to see if they were fulfilling the will of the gods, like whether or not they ate a piece of bread.
Not much different from present day America when you think about it. The dog worship in America gets pretty insane in some places.
"That's a pretty wild claim, you got a source to back it up?"
"Oh yeah bro this old Indian dude told my uncle's girlfriend's nephew's neighbor like 60 years ago"
Sounds believable! 👍🏻
“Thank you for citing your sources.”
It's pretty reliable source
😂
This is so fun, and yet educational. Thank you mate!
I love the serious tone all of this is written in. I mean think about it, the world is full of strange animals, would dog-headed men really be weirder than Giant Anteaters?
Yes
@@Danila438lol no
@@The.Nasty. yes they would be
@@diegoquezada3193 No. They wouldn't be. Check and mate.
Just check the news very serious load of bs.
Deep down, I want these stories to be true.
What a fantastical world they lived in.
Vast swaths of human history and enormous population of people have gone entirely undocumented. Who knows what kind of unusual cultural practices might have existed in groups that were born, lived, and died out entirely before any credible source could write about them. So that’s to say I truly want to believe that at some point somewhere there were humans who lay on their back all day shading themselves from the sun with their massive feet who had their moment and then were almost instantly snuffed out by the slightest evolutionary pressure because nature couldn’t tolerate such manifest absurdity
IT WAS A FANTASTIC WORLD, TILL SOMEONE HAD THE INCREDIBLE IDEA OF HIDING ALL OF HUMAMITY'S TRUE HISTORY! 😒☝
Vedic scriptures have documented mich history and many races which today's world will find unusual
All these accounts are true .
Godly order began to be restored to the world when Christ ascended to heaven and began He's rule .
Indian Doing Yoga.
Ancient Greek - Look, this man is living under the shade of his legs.
Dude this is one of the best TH-cam channels I’ve ever come across. This content satisfies an itch I’ve had my whole life.
I love this channel as well lol
Please more on this subject with the illustrations. Love from Australia
When I first clicked on the video I thought they would describe animals we know today but as if they were mythical creatures but no these people were trippin on that fent cart, this is madness
Except for the elephants and orcas.
@@FLPhotoCatcher and boa constrictor, which can fit child inside them
@@notuxnobux and the unicorns sounded somewhat like Rhinos
Pliny basically saw Ishowspeed at 0:38
Lmaoo wtf 😂😂😂
Haha that caught me off guard
GOT’EEM!!!
This race was very old, I got it
I love how you could write literally anything back then and just counter criticism by saying "How dare you, I am a HISTORIAN."
To be fair though, hes trying to explain something hes never seen in a way that people of that time can understand, this is cobsidered when bibke scholars read revelation, or when we see pictures of an "elephant" in medieval art. The elephant has a trumpet nose is built like a horse and has the ears of a hound dog, but uts meant to interpret big ears, the sound it makes when it lifts its trunk and how big it is. So some drawings misinterpret what he was trying to convey😂
That's exactly how it is today except the line is, "trust the science."
Kinda like all scientist today especially Archeologist with their "peer review" process.
Isn't it the same today? Lol
Just back then? Today is: I am a SCIENTIST!
imagine a world without videos, without TV, without printing ...
imagine a world where reality is untangled with dreams and fantasy !
Some of the descriptions are so accurate like that of the Northmen with their 6 months days and nights, and, omg, this orca whose back fin looks like a ship's keel ! Incredible ! So accurate !
Truly fascinating !
Utopia
0:44 dang furries were a thing way back when
🐺😂
Ancient Egyptians: Allow us to introduce ourselves
you must simply accept that they are never going away you can't fight us I mean them just accept it is inevitable and join
I want whatever Pliny the Elder was on when he was writing about India
Me too since I am Indian and he might be shrooming. Idk
We all have it, it’s just ignorance with a touch of imagination
@@swayback7375 with a main course of innacurate information being fed to him.
Wine
whatever he took, it sent him on a siiick one
This is what Tolkein would have written in a time before fantasy was invented to give him an outlet. I adore the little details and lore drops, like yeah, of course I've always wondered why I keep seeing so many blind elephants on my way to work, happens all the time, and now I know why! Genuinely very imaginative, and I've been obsessed with Blemmeys since I saw one depicted on a map in a castle once and stumbled upon what seemed like a mediaeval meme, so glad to see a shoutout to my facebods!
It’s about time! Missed your videos.
8:51 my house has a dog as our matriarch. We also guess her commands from her movements. A sacred animal.
More of these videos would be fantastic. Love this stuff
this is just proto-anime. "there was a far east tribe called the Jojo that would wage war with invisible spirits or 'stands'"
A tribe called The Weeaboo worship the Jojo, despite the Jojo being repulsive and fey
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Plot twist: everything described is literal and accurate and the modern conceit in the comments about ancients being foolish is actually wrong
Literal yes , just with a bit of centuries long telephone game going on. And ancients weren't foolish. You only know what you know. The same is true of civilization. We build on and upon one another.... the ONLY reason we aren't chasing eachother with sticks.
Boomers have a much less accurate understanding of history in comparison to these ancient greeks.
I do believe that chanches are theses accounts are more accurate than whats accepted. Not only do a few of theses people still exists today (ie: the pygmies), but most of theses could be explained by deformities and mutations that weren't understood back then (ie: polydactylia) aswell as extreme body modifications and/or cultural practices. As for the animals, some of them could have existed, but were hunted to extinction (ie: the basilisk) or just went extinct on their own. The 150 ft serpent could have been just that, a 45 meters snake. The others might sound too outlandish to be true, but at the same time only 1% percent of all extinct species end up in the fossil record, so who knows
@@kimorox813 They didnt talk about african pygmies tho if u listen to th video they were talking about india. Romans never actually encountered any pygmies as they live in the jungles of what's now Congo, where Romans never reached
@@yoyouya57 ...wut?
17:50 - The Manticore. The scariest creature I’ve seen in a while!😮
pygmies at war with cranes is a hilarious story.
That's the weirdest thing to me, because there are stories about pygmies at war with cranes all over the world, not just in the Greco-Roman world but in the Arab world, the Arctic, and in China. Even the Cherokee have stories about it, and in fact in their telling the pygmies arrived from elsewhere and met their final end south of the Cherokee homeland (with fragments of similar stories among other native tribes).
I have absolutely no idea how to explain this. The stories can't possibly be true, but there's also no reasonable explanation for how such a specific story could exist, apparently independently, in so many different places.
sounds like it should be a Pixar movie.....or a deleted scene from LOTR.
@ as a biochemist who has studied dna and ect yes Pygmies were everywhere they died off just like over 8ft tall people. Mostly due to size. Tall people die out due to war as they are big targets for slings and need more food small pygmies die out cause they can't defend themselves. We've a good amount of history of many different types of humans we are on of the last cross breds of humans. Also the pygmies of the chorokee were part welsh known as mooneye'd people and they didn't die out we just integrated better and still have tiny communities we're just no longer super small more shorter than average
It’s amazing to me that even since ancient times, elephants have always been respected for their intelligence and power.
I'm glad to hear from you again, sir👏
The historical lesson you get from these stories is that gossip and hearsay have always been strongly engrained in our society. Social media is our version of Pliny the Elder.
This seems like the perfect concept for an open-world RPG. It could easily pass as a future Elden Ring DLC
brother discribed half of my friend group.
My theory is the dog headed people were ancient furries.
Also hyperborea is probably just what these people called this or that nordic people.
Meme aside, it's baboon
They thought baboon were dog headed human wearing animal skin as clothes 😂
Edit: recently i watched vid of black bear doing stuff, and i can see that ppl who never see bear bfr can mistake it as human wearing animal fur
Little bear often played on their 2 feet and look like a human child with doglike head
@@namelessone9941More likely Anubis or carvings of some totem somewhere (similar to native American ones)
@@ThursoBerwick anubis or any other similar deity is supposed to be one of the kind tho, meanwhile this guy in the record describe a whole tribe of it
What's interesting though is that people have claimed to have seen men with dog heads all over the world. They've been spotted in Skinwalker Ranch and mentioned in native American lore.
Weasel and basilisk? Mongoose and Cobra.
OR A WEASEL AND BASCILISK.😑😒
Weasel's don't kill snakes. Those are mongooses.
Or honey badger and cobra.
Call me crazy but i dont think Tesias ever set foot in India
As an Indian I think you are right 😂
@@randomlyswatching9481he probably did but he was just on one long acid trip
Could PCOS or congenital adrenal hyperplasia be the explanation for the women that “turned into men”? Both can cause the overgrowth of facial/body hair.
It still happens in the Dominican Republic it's called
juevo doces, I believe
'balls at 12'
I was thinking PCOS as well
I’m starting to think these dragons were just snakes
LOL same, but not snakes i thought pythons they sleep on a tree also
@@nsayyed5469
... pythons are snakes.
Or crocodiles
Maybe They Existed but Humans wiped Them out??
So when Ole Pliny got to India and saw that it was populated by just a bunch of regular ass human beings he was like 'oh damn, i'm gonna need to spice this up a little.'
Yea otherwise how would he get people to read or buy his book
Hitting them with that Jack Skellington treatment
Romans saw some dude laying on the side walk with his feet up and called it a mythical creature 😭😭😭
The one thing that I really enjoy about these stories as well as the ancient maps that show where these tribe's were located is the fact that we can't go back and prove they didn't exist and the only way the ancient scholars knew/had available to prove their existence being, illustrations, writing and sculptures, made sure to produce hundreds if not thousands of examples/diagrams/images etc. in order for future generations to have a slight chance of discovering these descriptions and accounts with what strike us in the modern day as pure conjecture/myths. Even though we're still unable to say with any authority or 100% certainty these species weren't real or that they were at least believed in widely enough to call it fact like we do now with things like animals in nature. We've never seen a lot of them but we believe they're real from our own modern media which would have been the aforementioned paintings, sculpture and literature mentioned earlier. 😁
Are you comparing seeing weird looking deep sea fish on video to thinking that there were mouthless hairy humans who eat by smell because of a sketch that someone made about a story that his aunt's brother's cousin's wife told him 25 years ago? Or are you actually trying to make a sensible point about people falling for AI generated nonsense that's just as stupid as these stories or something like that? I legitimately can't tell.
inverted feet: chimps, dog-headed men: baboons. My guess
Or maybe a tribe who wore wolf heads as hats
I think that's the most agreed upon consensus.
Ethiopian monkeys: Probably chimps as well (or alternatively, bonobos), since back then, “ape” and “monkey” were synonymous before the introduction of classification in biology.
I.m so glad that you.re back! Hell yeah.
What a beautiful and lovely description for the elephants! :)
1:51 Wonder if "Struthopodes" was foot-binding, either practiced by some Indians at the time or misattributed to them based on rumors from China
all of this is 100% legit, no doubts left
Thank you for another fantastic video! I love these old accounts of the magical and exotic edges of the world (from the perspectives of whomever was writing them). Also, that respect for elephants was beautiful. We too often undervalue the extraordinary qualities of our world in our mundane modernism, I think.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
So Hyperboreans, Lemurians and Altanteans overlapped each other??
Intresting mix of myth and legend, lives on to this day. References to dangerous tribes and animals. Mongoose and cobra. Norsemen, Chinese, Pygmies, crocodiles,whales. So cool hearing this. The fish just keeps getting bigger. Also it would entertain and serve as a warning to sailors/traders of the time.
The reason that the writer says that India has larger elephants than Africa is probably because the roman writer only african elephant they knew of the African forest elephant, which is smaller than Indian or African elephants. African forest elephants could be caught, tamed, and used by humans (including in battle), while African bush elephants were way too large and dangerous to catch and try and tame. So our roman writer may have been unaware of the largest species of elephant being in Africa due to that fact.
Any day Voices of the Past uploads is a good day.
Love how they say India has the largest elephants when indeed Africa does. Also now we know what happened to dragons, elephants defeated them and cursed their offspring to squalor in the mud of a river. (Crocodile)
Probably the now extinct elephants of north Africa were smaller. Those would be the ones that the romans had the most contact with
Did romans reach africa then 😮...if They did maybe at that time they were smaller.
@@anattee3kErm, yes. Parts of Africa were in the Roman Empire. Please look at a map.
Holy fcuk now I can understand where this came from 😂😂there is story in one our puranas (holy) books where a crocodile attacked a elephant and crabed it's trunk after they struggled for atleast many years and the elephant prayed to the goddess or god to give him power fight with ghariyal crocodile.
Of course Indian elephants are larger. North Africa / Bush elephants were smaller than elephants beyond the Sahara.
You finally made a new video after a long time
Remember that human transmutations happened during the time before the flood. Lasting effects of this could be seen during post flood eras in certain humans
1:29 to be accurate their is a character in Ramayana named Kabandha which dwelled in the forests and was cursed to remain their until Lord Ram would free him from that state.
KABANDHA WAS A HUMAN LIKE THING WITHOUT A HEAD AND HAD EYES ON HIS CHEST AND A MOUTH 👄 WHERE REST OF THE HUMANS HAVE A BELLY BUTTON. AND YES GLUTTONY WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT TRAIT OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
Well he was one and only a cursed human turned into demon
Great point!
@@Mrityu-wi1sq : AND KABANDHA IS VERY WELL DESCRIBED AS A OLD FORM OF HUMAN THAT HAD TURNED INTO A LONELY EVIL DEMON THAT DOES NOT HAVE A HEAD AND NECK LIKE A HUMAN AND HAS HIS EYES ON THE FAR SIDES OF HIS CHEST AND HIS FACE AND MOUTH 👄 ON HIS BELLY! AND DAT VERY ATTRIBUTE OF HIS TO BE TAKEN AS A SIGN AS TO JUST HOW GLUTTONOUS AND DEVOURING NATURE HE ACTUALLY IS , AS HIS BASIC CHARACTER, WHILE EXPLAINING IT ALL TO LAKSHMAN AS TO HOW TO DEFINE HIS CHARACTER AND MOTIVATIONS BY THE WAY, JUST AS WELL! 😒☝
The Dog headed men tribes disturbs me, because there are multiple different famous ancient people, and they describe it as history not as a story.
Maybe the “dog heads” were just ornate ceremonial masks or headdresses of some kind? Perhaps even animal skulls used as helmets? Idk just random speculations
Its seems like they think baboon were dog headed humans that wear animal fur as clothes
The thing to remember is that a lot of history is told through bias and metaphor. While there is zero proof of dog-headed people in antiquity, there is plenty of writing that exists describing such people from religious or political viewpoints.
The dog heads perhaps come from seeing ancient Egyptian art e.g. Anubis etc. Hindus have similar art of hybrid peoples.
THERE ONLY EXISTS, HISTORY, ALL THAT " MYTHO LOGY " BULLSHIT ONLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN HUMAN SOCIETY JUST 200 YEARS AGO!! 😑😒 JUST LIKE THE EVEN NEWER INVENTED WORD OF ' DINOSAUR '.. WHERE BEFORE THAT, ALL OF THEM WERE SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL CALLED AND KNOWN AS. ' DRAGONS '!😑😒☝ ORIGINAL HUMANS ESSPECIALLY HIGH HUMANS OF SOCIETY, ONLY DESCRIBED WHAT THEY SAW! 😑😒
The Pygmie v. Craine wars never cease to crack me up, sorry pygmies, no offense. Lol
Claudious was the emperor directly after Caligula, he was the only living family member, this was due to the fact that most emperors would be kílléd by a family member to usurp the throne. Caligula múrdéréd his entire family due to paranoia except for Claudius who he saw as no threat, also he had a stutter which resulted very entertaining for Caligula. Claudious would become one of the most loved Roman emperors to ever exist.
Caligula like Nero were lucky to have been born in the time they were at. Had either those guy’s lived today they’d be on death row somewhere.
@Mr.Obongo Bush: Liar they will be rich and kings ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@عليياسر-ك9ظ aight you’re probably right they’d be in politics today too
@Mr.Obongo Politicians never change
As an indian I want to have a chat with Thesus. What EXACTLY did he take everyday Because thats willld😂😂😂
Doing drugs on your journey through a foreign land was crazy
still is😂 highly recommend trying it sometime
Plot twist: These were actually true but due to various natural and artificial elements they disappeared over time
You're onto something.
also all I can think of is Dougal describing The Beast of Craggy Island:
"They say it's as big as four cats and has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better,
and it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two are for listening and the other two are kind of back up ears,
it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps,
Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on it's tail, so if you're made of metal, it can attach itself to you,
and instead of a head, it's got four arses"
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That or the spider baby lol.
Also, goddamnit, thanks for distracting me.. trying to listen to this, but now I’m just looking up father Ted clips
Lol
I've always thought of Dougal as a misplaced kelpie.
And we all know Father Jack was possessed.
Yippie! A new VotP documentary. 🙂
Ganges river water really been doing some crazy mutations since the BC's
I have a feeling that the author of ''all tomorrows'' might have heard about this guy
he definitely took some magic mushrooms 🍄 😂
'You men go northward, and you go southward! I'm gonna walk around here in a circle.'
History of the World Part 1 - When cannabis prevented citizens from being overwhelmed by Roman soldiers.
13:42 this "dragon" that goes after elephants honestly sound like a python or anaconda.
Hmm... I've been living in West Bengal for 5 years now and the locals swear there are flying serpents which just about all have seen
But they have wings and some have beaks as described in ancient rome
Getting more and more believable as the minutes go by.
Voices of the Past showing up again!?
Oh how I have missed you!!! 😊
The unicorns in India are just one horned rhinos.
Imagine peacefully trading with a strange white like people and they describe you as a proto eldrich horror behind you're back like some sort of ancient super mean girl
Roman: White person? Why are you talking about the northern German slaves? 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Amazing the way they described some animals.
it makes me wonder how'd they react to the platypus, God's ultimate mashup animal.
Between this and the Sam o’ Nella academy video about the historia naturalis it’s a Pliny renaissance on TH-cam
“I come from the land of the Dog King.. “ 😂 imagine being the always embarrassed emissary from that kingdom.
The Roman historian who wrote about these creatures and peoples is Pliny the Elder. He is best known for his work, Natural History, which is an encyclopedia covering a wide range of topics, including geography, anthropology, and natural history.
Truthfulness of Pliny's Accounts
1. Mythical Creatures: Many of the creatures described by Pliny, such as dog-headed men and other fantastical beings, are considered mythological or exaggerated accounts rather than factual. These descriptions often stem from hearsay, folklore, and the limited understanding of different cultures during his time.
2. Real Animals: Some animals he described, such as elephants and certain reptiles, do exist, but his accounts often included embellishments or inaccuracies based on the knowledge of the time.
3. Cultural Observations: Pliny's observations of various peoples and their customs may contain grains of truth, but they can also reflect the biases and misconceptions common in ancient writings. For example, descriptions of certain tribes likely exaggerate differences to highlight their 'exotic' nature.
Overall, while some references in Pliny's work might be based on real animals or cultures, many aspects are mythical or exaggerated and should be viewed with skepticism.
@@MrNiaman : WHAT FOR!?? 😑😒
Really?
These writers were seriously tripping on shrooms.
I think the issue is people use our modern linguistic rules to read sources of the past and honestly it is very hard to figure out how descriptive language was used in the past.
This is what I was wondering! That would explain how it seems to be told in a matter of fact manner rather than explicitly say it's lore or fantastical.
Makes me wonder what they meant when describing a four legged creature with a man's head and three rows of teeth
Thanks great video!