The Hyborian Age - an essay by Robert E. Howard on the Conan the Barbarian setting

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  • @conanelcimerio
    @conanelcimerio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    [Stɪdʒia], no [Stɪgia]

    • @ifenewsome505
      @ifenewsome505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      idk how to even make those characters on a keyboard

    • @shaftlamer
      @shaftlamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol at name

    • @patrickmullane30
      @patrickmullane30 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He most certainly did but just as certainly kitbashed geography history eons cultures but wonderfully 😂❤

    • @Arnaere
      @Arnaere 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Greek does not have a 'j' sound. It would have been a gamma sound.

  • @brindlebriar
    @brindlebriar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Clearly, the guy knew a lot of real History.

    • @jburt779
      @jburt779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He did. And he read voraciously.

    • @juliankirby9880
      @juliankirby9880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And lots of false history. He seems to have researched the weird stuff that we now know to be some pseudo history. Like lemuria.

    • @brindlebriar
      @brindlebriar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@juliankirby9880 You know this how? There's a difference between knowledge and belief.
      _I_ certainly don't know whether or not there was ever a place called Lemuria. How could I possibly know that?

    • @Hero_Of_Old
      @Hero_Of_Old 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@juliankirby9880 you mean real history that has been supressed

    • @grendel8342
      @grendel8342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@juliankirby9880 He read about fictional continents, older concepts in history, science, and over all history to form his writing in a more interesting way. This doesn't mean he literally believed it existed, thats like saying anyone who researches the bigfoot myth believes in actual sasquatches.

  • @graveatlas3482
    @graveatlas3482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I know it's been a solid while since this has been posted, and I am fairly late to the party, but my Hyborian Age itch came back full force and then I found this. Well done sir, and may Crom be with you!

  • @dominickholmes3721
    @dominickholmes3721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Thank you so much for this. I quit life for an hour, dusted off my Hyborian Age map and had a great time following along.

  • @dragonchr15
    @dragonchr15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Howard was very well educated and knowledgeable about other cultures even non-Western ones.....surprising for someone who grew in rural Texas in the 1920s....

  • @jonathanwells223
    @jonathanwells223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Rule number 1 of empire building: never teach a potential enemy how to effectively attack you
    Rule number 2 of empire building: never attack your allies
    Rule number 3 of empire building: never over-tax your populace
    Rule number 4 of empire building: never overextend your armies

    • @dragonchr15
      @dragonchr15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There should be something in there about convincing conquered people that they are better off under imperial rule than independent nations....

    • @riassslave558
      @riassslave558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't forget 'An allied Kingdoms Princesses are a no-no🧐☝

    • @SweetChicagoGator
      @SweetChicagoGator ปีที่แล้ว

      Always have great armies ! No such thing as overextended !! This is why we are well protected in the US with our $700 trillion defense budget.

    • @SweetChicagoGator
      @SweetChicagoGator ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dragonchr15
      NO ! NO Putrid monatchy !

    • @SweetChicagoGator
      @SweetChicagoGator ปีที่แล้ว

      @@riassslave558
      Not true slave boy ! 😁
      Alll is fair in Love & war.

  • @riassslave558
    @riassslave558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brilliant I haven't read this since i was a kid in the 70's thanx!🤘🤔

  • @whome5091
    @whome5091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This is very appreciated and appealing to the ear. The story is epic and worthy of telling. Thanks for the videos.👍

  • @JB-1138
    @JB-1138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Good job.
    Because of this video I just bought the first Conan book.

    • @dennismartin5821
      @dennismartin5821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I loved it when I was a kid. I still do, great world building, and stories.

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is a complete collection a blackbook and there is a matching chluthulu one

    • @skwerlmouse
      @skwerlmouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Turtle Anton yah Es z I’m z u

    • @chrissteckler7250
      @chrissteckler7250 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Enjoy!

    • @hairylettuce686
      @hairylettuce686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Savage Sword of Conan is a pretty good uncensored series if you're into graphic novels.

  • @Mephilis78
    @Mephilis78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    In the context of Conan, this is like Howard's "Silmarilian", or "War of the Ring" book.

    • @deanwaller8283
      @deanwaller8283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only far less prosey and better told.

    • @Mephilis78
      @Mephilis78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@deanwaller8283 Yeah, the Silmarilian feels lIke reading the Old Testament lol

    • @KesselRunner606
      @KesselRunner606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Silmarilion reads like a very true work of mythology. It encompasses history with theology and even astronomy. It's a story that tells you how mountains were formed, how stars came to shine, where the wind comes from. And it tells how Good and Evil came into the world. It could, in a very real sense, be the basis of a religion.
      While Howard's essay is far shorter and more brief, it has a very real sense of an actual secular _history._ Like all Conan's book, there's a gritty realism to it. It reads like an essay of a larger body of work one would submit for a Historical Undergrauduate Degree. And both have similarities. Both have Atlantis and its collapse as a central pivotal moment (Numenor in Tolkien).
      Apparently, according to L Sprague DeCamp, who met Tolkein at one point, he mentioned he "rather liked" Howard's work.

  • @keithbell9348
    @keithbell9348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Kull of Atlantis. Bran Mac Morn, chief king of the Picts. Then there is Solomon Kane.
    But Conan the Cimmerean of Hyborea, is the toughest of his characters.

    • @frankberst9849
      @frankberst9849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'd have to say that Kull is just as fearsome, ferocious, and formidable a warrior as Conan. Kull was the colossus of the Thurian Age, and a legendary demigod by Conan's time, wiping out the Serpent Men and driving them to extinction virtually single-handedly. An absolutely titanic feat. Now that's tough.

    • @keithbell9348
      @keithbell9348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frankberst9849 Shows how much I know. Thanks for revealing that.

    • @frankberst9849
      @frankberst9849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No problem bro. I love Conan and all of Howard's creations but King Kull has always been by far my personal favorite. If you haven't already, check out his two greatest Kull stories - The Shadow Kingdom and By This Axe I Rule. You won't be disappointed l promise you.

    • @hellsing507
      @hellsing507 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I love Conan to death but Solomon Kane is still my most favorite, I love the English Gothic setting and the unyielding zealous moralist Kane is. My favorite paragraph described Kane finding a raped and murdered woman on the road and he covered her up, swearing no oath to god or devil he just said "Men will die for this" no question, no philosophical meandering, just pure godly justice.

    • @frankberst9849
      @frankberst9849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hellsing507 l too am a huge Conan fan, but there's always been something about the character of Kull than appeals to me much more. I think he's a much deeper, much more interesting personality than Conan, inhabiting an even more dangerous and mysterious world. And l agree with what you've observed about Solomon Kane, my second favorite Howard character behind Kull. Kane is like the living sword of God's righteous wrath. Some might call him a fanatic, but his unshakeable moral core and holy code of honor are at once sacred and immutable.

  • @adamkember
    @adamkember 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    56:43 - So in this fiction, if the Cimmerian lands became what we know as England, Ireland, and Scotland, then in a broad sense that would make Conan pre-Celtic?

    • @graveatlas3482
      @graveatlas3482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I know I'm a bit late, but yes. Cimmerian people became the Celts in Howard's works.

    • @noybmyob9663
      @noybmyob9663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes.

    • @viktord2025
      @viktord2025 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Hyborian Age is set 10,000 years before the first ice age, as the history of the Hyborian Age is cyclical in nature

    • @aaronrashott3514
      @aaronrashott3514 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cimmeria was a real place. North of turkey, west of Kazakhstan. I've never been sure if howard was going for this reality or if conan was Celtic. Because a lot of details about conan seem Celtic.

  • @zekun4741
    @zekun4741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One thing I did not quite understand until reading 400 pages of Conan stories, is that "Hyborian", although gives the name to the Age and the Supercontinent that the stories are set in, is actually a word which refers to the people of the West, the Hyborians, which includes Nordheim, Cimmeria, Aquilonian, Hyperborea, Kosh, Nemedia, Zingara, Argos, Zamora and many more. Hyborian basically means European or white people. In Khauran it's explained that the royalty and nobility are Hyborian, described with white European traits, while the commoner population are not, they are local aboriginals and described as more swarthy. Stygia, Turan and Shem are obviously not Hyborians.

    • @seanstuckey4849
      @seanstuckey4849 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      From what I can tell, The Hyborians are based indo-European cultures, while Shem and Stygia are based on Semitic cultures while Turan is based on Indo-Iranian cultures

    • @aaronrashott3514
      @aaronrashott3514 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stygia= Egyptian, Turan = Iran,Iraq, Shem = Jewish , Palestinian area

  • @abrahemsamander3967
    @abrahemsamander3967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love Robert e Howard. Your narration was perfect! Felt like an actual history, but very engaging.

  • @elvarwinston
    @elvarwinston 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I like the Conan stories a lot however as I'm not a native speaker I do find it hard to read them as they are full of difficult words .The images his writing conjures in your head though while reading is excellent and the world is just as fascinating if not more. I listened to this while looking at maps of the world found on google and it made it even better. Its very immersive and I cant wait to explore it more through Howards stories. I just love the idea of different races in war/alliances, Dangerous jungles full of savage's/deserts etc. Are there any other books that have as immersive worlds like Howard's?

    • @jimlassiter749
      @jimlassiter749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would recommend Thieves World (they may be out of print which would be a damn shame), World Of Tiers & Ringworld. Also, the various RingWorld books & extended Niven Universe stories are pretty good too. The Gor book series are also damn good too... Stay away from the old really crappy Gor movie....
      I would recommend more but my 2000 or so books are in storage...

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's more sci fantasy, but the 80s and 90s Battletech novels. 2000 and later? Not so much.

    • @ConspiratorialReport
      @ConspiratorialReport 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I read the words while listening to someone else reads the stories which gives me time to pause and look up the words.

    • @AOkie68
      @AOkie68 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out de Camp and Lin Carter. They finished some of Howard's stories and even wrote some on their own when stories were incomplete

    • @TA-by9wv
      @TA-by9wv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Clark ashton smith's hyperborea and zothique stories are amazing, as well as Jack Vance's dying earth stories. Those may be difficult to read though. You could try Michael moorcocks elric saga the stories are great and in my opinion easier to read than Howard's writing, mainly because moorcocks stuff was written more recently, and because of that it has less antiquated words.

  • @Thetemplar33
    @Thetemplar33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Conan is one of the missing primarchs of 40k

    • @chadsknnr
      @chadsknnr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Close! Conan IS The Emperor of Man . . . .

    • @MrHullRockers
      @MrHullRockers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@chadsknnr Unlikely with his aversion to magic.

    • @chadsknnr
      @chadsknnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MrHullRockers Different time, different role . . . .

    • @groundedorca3039
      @groundedorca3039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lmfaooo
      Also known as Hercules, Samson, Gilgamesh or Kevin.

    • @heymay724
      @heymay724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      your mistaking him with Sigmar

  • @Fenris77
    @Fenris77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Really awesome presentation.

  • @professor4202
    @professor4202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that was an enjoyable way to spend an hour. thanks!

  • @orlandomarin3031
    @orlandomarin3031 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He exposed esoteric history to the masses in a way that they could handle

  • @DivineMasculine0101
    @DivineMasculine0101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Truth is stranger than fiction.

  • @Mirepoix_Jones
    @Mirepoix_Jones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great narration!

  • @fasthandshero85
    @fasthandshero85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really enjoyed this!

  • @leopoldjenkins
    @leopoldjenkins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Greatly enjoyed this.

  • @blaircolquhoun7780
    @blaircolquhoun7780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tis was in the Lanccer edition of the Conan stories and was divided into two parts.

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, i noticed there was somehow a common base between the two. Thanks for pointing that out.

    • @blaircolquhoun7780
      @blaircolquhoun7780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Arkanoid1212 Remember the 1990s cttoonn Conan the Advenurer? It was the first time he was made kid friendly because the writers toned down his cwenching and whoring.

    • @blaircolquhoun7780
      @blaircolquhoun7780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Arkanoid1212 You're welcome.

  • @TheLastRoman0000
    @TheLastRoman0000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good work.

  • @jasonsantos3037
    @jasonsantos3037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I learn more in the hyperborean age that happened today's world.

  • @raukoring
    @raukoring 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome reading thanks man

  • @crystalsoul9565
    @crystalsoul9565 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love your videos, but could you please make some playlists? Like Lovecraft, Conan, Essays, Warhammer 40k etc? Because sometimes the title is not enough to clearly separate the different worlds or to distinguish the videos. I would really appreciate it!

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes, i suppose so. Time to build it up again, i guess.

  • @ras573
    @ras573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The narrator sounds like Lex Fridman.

  • @pauls3585
    @pauls3585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you for this video

  • @howdyahworkthisthing1520
    @howdyahworkthisthing1520 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! Just wow. 👍🏻

  • @cpthurme
    @cpthurme 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good reading

  • @Zennofobic
    @Zennofobic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Stygian, the best!

  • @PAGoldenglovechamp06
    @PAGoldenglovechamp06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man this is super interesting where can I learn more about this stuff

  • @johannesvonmalos7505
    @johannesvonmalos7505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I wonder what story’s take place in the country of the black kings ?

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      An interesting question. Queen of te black coast for sure. One had to associate the stories to a map.

    • @JB-1138
      @JB-1138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wakanda forever!

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ^^

    • @TheLastRoman0000
      @TheLastRoman0000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think he also chased Toth Amon down there after becoming king.

    • @TheStonehammerFiles
      @TheStonehammerFiles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Red Nails and Jewels of Gwahlur.

  • @pavelyankouski4913
    @pavelyankouski4913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After reaching the resource limit i will stop using computers completely, technology make life too easy. No internet, no computers only books movies and life. Combination of book tale and the alternative map - genius. Fallout games are very simmilar, and a lot of other US entertainment production, Howard is underrated, almost unknown genius

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best of luck to you, may you find what you desire.

  • @VinterNacht_
    @VinterNacht_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Did you have to delete the readings of the Conan books? I can't find them anymore!

  • @Stormg0d
    @Stormg0d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It's pronounced Sti-gee-ah!!

  • @jaads7910
    @jaads7910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Howard was way ahead of the time,

  • @sophiawilson8696
    @sophiawilson8696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This look like India? Or end of Africa?. I just Google this I find Shem might be Africa. Stygia might be Egypt, Sumer is Mesopotamia the Hydrodian age is about 10,000 BCE. Keshan is Kesh or Nubia. Darfar is Sudan. Khitai is China, Afghulistan is Afghanistan. Punt is Somalia is Horn of Africa. Kush is North Africa, I know I put this before Shem is Arabia, Palestine, Syria. Cimmerian is Russia which that Conan is from. The Conan wiki reads that Eurasia and Africa join together there is no seas.

    • @RICHGTV305
      @RICHGTV305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Therefore Conan aka Konan is a Moor

    • @anoobthatcould8659
      @anoobthatcould8659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is forsure in the so called new world or western Hemisphere. I think the grand canyon gives context to the Country of Black Kings along with the Land of Shem being right to great lake region which can be looked into as Lebanon which has that land of Iran to the so called east

    • @noybmyob9663
      @noybmyob9663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Conan is Canaan.

    • @Sassssky
      @Sassssky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@anoobthatcould8659 Shem is the middle East/Levant/where Jesus was born. Stygia is Egypt. India is a peninsular but on the other side of the continent.

    • @anoobthatcould8659
      @anoobthatcould8659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sassssky brutha u got to look into the history of the americas which get mixed with atlantis chronology.... Im literally a descended from the Shamen or Medicine Men of Potawatomi Tribe .... These are the men of Shem that you speak of that could turn themselves into the vehicle or UFOs which shem means vehicle or Automation.... Yes you are right Osiris or Jesus would rise in the West.... Dont take my word for it look it up theres cedars in the Great lake region

  • @SandroSensei
    @SandroSensei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I dont like the 10.000 BC timeperiod they (not howard) put the hyborian age in. To me its to short. It would better fit 30.000 BC. What do you think? 🤔

    • @Dan-xt7sv
      @Dan-xt7sv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I imagine the sinking of Atlantis to symbolize to the bronze age collapse, which happened ~1200 BC.

    • @ManiacMayhem7256
      @ManiacMayhem7256 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not really. The whole idea is that these civilizations led to the earliest ones. At the end of this essay would be Sumer. 30k BC is too long ago imo. 10000 BC is preferable to me

    • @aaronrashott3514
      @aaronrashott3514 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It could have started then, but the end lines up with the Younger Dryas impact

  • @aFoxyFox.
    @aFoxyFox. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example.
    Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male
    Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male
    Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female
    Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male
    Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery
    The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male
    Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God
    Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male
    Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male
    Set of Stygia
    Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female
    Derketa of the Black Kingdoms
    Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male
    The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery
    Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness
    Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male
    Lord of the Black Throne
    Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male
    Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male
    Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female
    Earth-Mother
    Shub-Niggurath
    Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts
    Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male
    Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male
    Gullah of Pictland
    Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female
    The Black Mother
    Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male
    Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, ProphecyFemale The Ivory Goddess
    Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male
    Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male
    Adonis
    Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent, Damballah of Black Kingdoms
    Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess
    Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil
    Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy
    The God of Yota-Pong
    Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils
    Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant
    Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes, Camazotz
    Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant
    Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud
    Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age
    Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods
    Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god
    Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god
    Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods
    Cimmerian gods
    Crom - Cimmerian god
    Lir - Cimmerian god
    Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir
    Badb - Cimmerian war goddess
    Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility
    Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty
    Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war
    Diancecht
    Dagda
    Hyborian gods
    Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king
    Mitra - Hyborian god
    Anu - Corinthian sky god
    Fear - Hyborian god
    Fate - Hyborian god
    Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess
    Death - Hyborian god
    Time - Hyborian god
    Darkness - Hyborian god
    Light - Hyborian god
    Night - Hyborian god
    Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods
    Nightmare - Hyborian god
    Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil
    Night of the World - Hyborian god
    Stygian gods
    Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon
    Set - Stygian Serpent-god
    Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god
    Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods
    Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure
    Shemitish gods
    Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves
    Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess
    Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure
    Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war
    Adonis - Shemitish god
    Dagon - Shemitish fish god
    Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon
    Devil - Shemitish god
    Pteor - Pelishtim god
    Vendhyan gods
    Asura - Vendhyan god
    Yizil - Vendhyan god
    Kosalan god
    Yajur - Kosalan god
    Gods of the Black Kingdoms
    Jullah - Kushite god
    Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan
    Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god
    Ajujo, the Dark One - Kushite god
    Gwahlur - Keshani god
    Derketa Queen of the Dead - Kushite goddess
    Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts
    Ivory Woman of Punt
    Hyrkanian gods
    Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god
    Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god
    Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld
    Tarim - Hyrkanian god
    Zamorian god
    spider-god of Yezud
    Pictish gods and demi-gods
    Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts
    Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son
    Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god, gorilla-god of Gullah
    Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god
    Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars
    Khitan gods
    Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun
    Yun - Khitan god
    Other gods and demi-gods
    gods of Yag
    Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster
    Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god
    Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal
    dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl
    Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis
    gods and goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis
    Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor
    blonde demigod
    blonde demigod's father
    devil from the outer dark/bat demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women

    • @mjayb83
      @mjayb83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Black or dark, in this context doesn't mean, Sub-Saharan africans...for our afro-centrist 'friends'.

  • @Humanophage
    @Humanophage ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could someone suggest more fantasy works like that, without dialogues and protagonists? Something like Herodotus' Histories or various travelogues, or like fantasy setting books for RPGs.

    • @matthewedon
      @matthewedon 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The SIlmariallion might be what you're looking for

  • @PAGoldenglovechamp06
    @PAGoldenglovechamp06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who were these black kings

    • @aaronrashott3514
      @aaronrashott3514 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They wuz kangs.

    • @PAGoldenglovechamp06
      @PAGoldenglovechamp06 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aaronrashott3514 is that what u heard ur mother yelling out as she satisfied her bbc craving ?

  • @Shnickers123
    @Shnickers123 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I believe this is the true history of our known world and I’ve also come to find that there are more lands that are being hidden outside the known continents and islands of our current maps, the earth is much larger than what we believe….

    • @Hartwik
      @Hartwik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The story ignores plate tectonics. This can't be the true story of the world.

  • @andresalvarez1732
    @andresalvarez1732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤️

  • @turtleanton6539
    @turtleanton6539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @jeremykern7806
    @jeremykern7806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I belive howard had human evolution down to a T. He knew enough and estimated the rest.

  • @mikedunn8130
    @mikedunn8130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this better not be hagga

  • @jaads7910
    @jaads7910 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought he was Sumerians

  • @danielbracken776
    @danielbracken776 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pistol packing Pete Robert e Howard

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cimmerians are f.ing OP. They slay every nation on their way and they do it without any presence of technological advantage. Its like they are using a cheat code. I love Howard's work but when it came to Cimmerians it becomes a bit ridiculous. This diminishes my enjoyment from his fictional history a little.

    • @jonathanstewart9850
      @jonathanstewart9850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aquilonians could slap them if I’m not mistaken

    • @crankywombat2598
      @crankywombat2598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What are you going on about?.. I think your the one who needs to go learn some more about this lore kid.

    • @jonathanstewart9850
      @jonathanstewart9850 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@crankywombat2598 lmao ok nerd

    • @zekun4741
      @zekun4741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Cimmerians in the Hyborian Age are based on Scythians but with some Irish traits and homeland, depicted as as the ancestors of Irish people. In real life the Cimmerians were part of the Scythian cultures, and the Scythians absolutely defeated everyone who tried to conquer them. Darius the Great was defeated by the Scythians, Cyrus the Great was defeated by the Scythians and Alexander the Great was defeated by the Scythians. The Hyborian Cimmerians are OP because they're based on a very OP real life people. And the Persians and Greeks saw the Scythians as barbarians. So I don't see a reason why this would diminish your enjoyment.

    • @alfieingrouille1528
      @alfieingrouille1528 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤓

  • @Rombizio
    @Rombizio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ssss tee jee ya. Not Sss tee guee a.

  • @Lucky14th
    @Lucky14th 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks cause I cant read!

  • @stephentaylor2119
    @stephentaylor2119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pronounced CONN-an, not Koh-NAN

  • @merketarif126
    @merketarif126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Old World of known Heros was Turkic World. The world of Conans spreading as the first Horsrieders in every corner of the world establishing our Mytholgy. What do you thing where the word Alp (mountains-Turkic Warrior/Hero) come from?

  • @johngilson7085
    @johngilson7085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was the 666th like, is that bad?

  • @BryinWillis-e8g
    @BryinWillis-e8g 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Z

  • @SweetChicagoGator
    @SweetChicagoGator ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why can you not find good readers/narrators, but instead expressionless monotone voices like this young man?! 🙄

  • @tomurg
    @tomurg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    44:52 ASOIAF reference?

  • @nickfooz
    @nickfooz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Commendable effort, but a teenager’s voice, I can’t... I just can’t. It almost feels like you’re reading fan fiction. I need my George Guidall for this sort of thing.

    • @Arkanoid1212
      @Arkanoid1212  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i have always been fond of hours long lectures about... fluff - there are two others i know of and which are also here and there are a few setting introductions... mmmh maybe i should look into diversifying this some more

    • @ericbell564
      @ericbell564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chode

    • @Not_An_Alien
      @Not_An_Alien 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That seems like one of those thoughts one should keep to oneself. Like, "A wonderful thesis, but your face is ugly."

    • @nickfooz
      @nickfooz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Not_An_Alien I’m sorry I offended anyone. But how can I keep this to myself? The voice is a major component in this, and it should be pleasant and fitting to the material. Intelligibility isn’t the only thing that’s important. I understand those qualities are subjective, but it’s the typical sort of opinion one shares for this sort of thing.

    • @thebilldozer7970
      @thebilldozer7970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think you did good kid.