It always cracked me up that star trek was so obviously just high fantasy set in space, but its really hard to get fans to admit it. The vulcan are clearly just space elves. Long life, emotional control, wisdom, master craftsman, ancient... The Tellerite are obvious dwarfs, Ferangi are Goblin, Romulan are dark elves, klingon are orcs. The technology they use is also more similar to magic than sci-fi. They even have Q, the trickster diety... Its also funny that Star Gate actually dealt with the Norse gods directly, yet managed to make it feel like Scifi more than myth or fantasy.
Here's how I look at it: All fantasy is fiction. Science Fiction, as a genre, uses futuristic technology advancements (realistic or not from our point of view) to ask philosophical questions that matter today. The Science Fantasy genre is less concerned with asking those questions and just wants to present entertainment in an interesting setting. Splitting hairs here but that's what nerds do. I'd call Star Trek a science fiction setting with fantasy elements while calling Star Wars a science fantasy setting with some science fiction elements. I definitely see the parallels you see between fantasy races and the peoples in Star Trek.
@@thoi412 I disagree with you about science fiction being more relevant than fantasy. I'd agree that the best sci-fi is relevant but the distinction lies in whether the setting is in a plausible future or imagined time past (though possibly future). Star Wars is modern fantasy. I put it in the camp with Tolkien and ancient myth (Lucas was into Joseph Cambell). Star Trek is much closer to science fiction like 2001: A Space Odessy and Contact but still infused with fantasy / mythic elements. Discussing Star Trek is obviously a touchy subject....like the virgin Mary. Look at Wells, Verne, Asimov and Clarke compared to Lucas or Roddenberry. Pure science fiction attempts to remain in the plausible future while great television and movies often seem more concerned with entertainment and less with social impact. I love it all, but I think the way you broke it down disparages myth and fantasy.
@GaryRine you're very welcome. I was actually working on some fan fiction a while back where a meeting of the various races occurs around earth, and something happens that sends the whole station crashing to earth thousands of years prior. They have to hide themselves from the past earthlings so as not to change the timeline, but end up being the source of the myths in a sort of Boot-Strap timeloop kind of way. It involves multiple generations, and the technology becomes the inspiration for magic. It was more of a collection of short stories retconning various myths to fit in the ST universe. I kind of want to pick it back up now...
This is actually true of science fiction more broadly. The whole modern genre is rooted more firmly in the occult and fantastical stories of the late 19th century, not in hard science, which is why it is so rife with psychic powers and space gods and other nonsense.
In Filipino, we call them "Diwata". The term is generalized with Elves, Fairies, and Forest Spirits. They are usually depicted wearing bright white garments with pale skin that appear as if they are glowing. They are said to be benevolent and reward folk who take care of the environment. However, they can bring curses to people who violate their domain. Which is why when we were children, we were taught to respect forests and overgrown places and ask permission and say "tabi-tabi po" whenever we would even take a piss.
I felt the Nature spirits, Fairies where lived in Alaska liked me because I recycled , composted or burned everything! I heard the Flute of Pan playing outside and I picked up my guitar and started singing and they played along, t was some kind of initiation! As I finished the flute was playing inside my head and I could turn it on and off the next couple months!
In Ireland, they never speak of elves, but fairies. I was treated to some real rural believers when I was there for a couple months in 1988. Some rural people, at least at that time, still believed in them as much as anything. The old Irish monetary unit, the Punt, featured a watermark of a "Banshee," which was not depicted as a horrible demon-like female, but a beautiful young, but sorrowful woman (fairie) in mourning. The "Wail of the Banshee" was not a screech, but a moan of sorrow. They said that if someone was about to die, they would hear the "Cry of the Banshee." That way the listener was filled with dread.
In the Indian Vedas they have the Ribhus whose name comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Elf. They are also connected with the sun, skillfulness and are artisans.
This is spot on. I'm very surprised the video did not mention it. Mythological concepts are complex, fuzzy and intertwined: etymological connections are by comparisom more solid and susceptible to precise definition. The etymological connection of elves (< alphr- ) with Latin albus, 'white' cannot be stressed too much: it takes the connection with 'whiteness', 'brightness' - and probably the sun - back to the splitting of the Germanic and Italic languages. But Rbhus take us even further back, to the split away of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. And its important that what we can take back to that very early period is not just relatively vague connections around, whiteness, brightness and the sun, but a rather (relatively) precisely defined semi-divine being. This raises a lot of other questions .....
So you claim it comes from the same PIE root as Elf. Can you provide a reconstruction or are you just talking out of your a**? Well, I'm pretty sure it's the latter ...
Random Folknames: the plant Elecampane was known as 'Elf-dock,' or 'Elf-wort,' & the Krummholz tree is known as 'Elfin-wood' or 'Elfin-tree.' Another term for when someone is bewitched is 'Elf-stricken.' ...a cool obsolete term that I think we should bring back into usage...Thanks for another fascinating video, skal!
Elves or Elf-life beings are present in the folklore of many European people, they have different names, but similar characteristics. The Slavic people call them Vili, Romanians call them Zâne (the Dark Elves are called in Romanian Iele). The Ancient Greeks called the Elves Nymphs, Nymphe in Ancient Greek meaning both Elf and bride, both Elves/Nymphs and brides are dressed in white. In modern Greek mythology, the Elves are called Nereids (in Antiquity Nereids were only the water Nymphs, not all Nymphs). In Romania and Greece there very recent testimonies of Elves, of the feared ”women in white” or the ”brides”.
In Bulgaria the " women in white " are called "samodiva" . Legend says that they gather at night to dance on a large open field and if anyone see them he or she is bewitched to join and dance with them . The women they leave until the brink of exaustion and the men they dance with until their hearts burst . They are also found in cursed or evil places taking the form of beautiful white colored and innocent looking animals ( white kittens , white puplies , white geese/swans etc ) and if you're walking late at night near those places , they follow you until you enter your home , never breaking eye contact with you and stay outside until the first roosters crook 😐
@@nekrox1 Those women in white in Romania are called ”Iele” (at least most of the time) and they behave the same and are feared by mortals in the same way. In Greece, the Nereids are similar. It is clearly it is the same mythological/folklore typology. I call it the Dark Elf type.
I once had a very realistic dream where I was sitting on the porch of a solitary Victorian house under the moonlight, a beautiful witch sitting next to me. She had a pet albino bear, named Angelica, sitting in front of her. I was in constant eye-contact with this bear, and felt that my life depended on it. I broke eye-contact for a split second and the bear immediately lost all its domesticated qualities and became a dangerous wild animal. I sprinted to my car with the now-vicious animal chasing at my heels. I awoke in total terror.
I always felt there was a difference between elves and dwarves in the germanic tradition. One is linked to the heavens while the other dwelt beneath the earth and waters. Elves are the blessed dead and protectors of the community, while the dwarves are the chthonic craftsmen, givers of technical inspiration.
Yes the Elves came from beyond yggdrasil this planetary tree. tey settles up on some upper fruits one might say, not the heavens but quite up there. after they had a war internally in their own peoples, those that lost the world were cast down into the shaddow, to the world /realm of the dweagr, they are refugees there and have changed much. the dokk alfra dark elf. this is why pp call the drwarves --elves,,, they are two peoples who share a realm. very different beings. the elves have many realms off yggdrasil or this world tree..some have migrated....lets say.... into different pockets of dimension and space time, they life in different places, between dreams, space, and time. truly amazing. if you want to meet them study sharmanism, its a dicipline to leave your body to dream in the astral. and or get taken to meet them with a sharman to stabilize the dream etc. its quite easy, but its a serious discipline most humans struggle to devote to such things . its a huge subject, bigger that any other
In the Norse myths the Elves (Alfar) and Dwarves (Dvergar) were formed from maggots that came out of the corpse of Ymr the first and largest Giant. Some of them followed the giants; who hated the Aesir gods for murdering Ymr and they became the Dark Elves because they lived in the ancient world where there was no sun; another group favored the Aesir gods because they enjoyed the beauty and light and warmth of the worlds created from Ymr's remains and became the Light Elves. Others wanted no part in the feud so they stayed on Earth (Midyarth in more accurate Norse (as near as I can tell from studying the Norse Runic alphabet) - Middle-Earth from Tolkien) and they split between those who favored the forests - the Brown Elves; and those who favored the mountains; the Dwarves. It's possible that the latter two diverged more over time.
What's really wild is my name means "king of the elves" or "elf council" and my brother died just weeks after my conception and I always felt like he's a part of me.. certainly is a guide. So I really resonate with the "blessed dead"... thank you for sharing that
@@WickedPrince3D Pretty sure it more like midgarthr. in English the g was soft and said 'y' both yard and garth from gardaz albeit by way of garthr and geard 'yey-ard'. Midgarthr in Norse and Middangeard in Englisc (old English).
I'm glad you made the connection with not only the daoine sìth, but the daemons of Hesiod and the roman Lares. When i first learned that elves were probably the great honored ancestors "residing" in the burial mounds of ages past, i was immediately reminded of the daemons. Hesiod's explanation of spirits of men from a golden age fits really well with the Elves of mythology.
Many, many years ago, in high school in fact, I became very interested in Elves, and the whole mythology from the Ways, to Codes of Conduct to carrying salt and bred in one's pocket; I found it weird that every culture had basically the same stories.
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The similarities with Hungarian elf / fairy mythology is interesting. In Hungarian the word for them is “tündér” meaning “shining/radiant” with a hint of it being a mirage. They are associated with swamps, forests and mounds. They are said to be beautiful, can be helpful but often lure young men into the forest with their lights. There are folk tales about their mounds leading to elven/fairy kingdoms. Many a hero gets an elven bride as his reward for his bravery and compassion, often aided by hares, cats, foxes and deers. They are also connected to dreaming and sleep in general. They really are a mixture of fairies and elves and loads of places and businesses are named “fairy/epf garden” or “fairy/elf way”. There is a popular legend about an entire geographical region in Transyilvania being part of an Elven Kingdom that was renamed to Swindler’s Isle after humans swindled the elves to get their land in some underhanded bargain.
Elves are also a really important part of chinese mythology and culture. 仙 (xian) which are almost identical to the archetype of western elves are described; “as immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous.”
The immortals/sages though are not just spirits, they are humans who have perfected themselves according to the dao. Elves are a bit more like tudigong in my opinion, maybe a bit less powerful/more ambiguous in their relationship with human beings.
In the modern days, Greeks refer to elves as ξωτικά. The word comes from the adjective εξωτικός which means exotic. Exotic as a word accociates the elves with the devil (ο έξω από δω) or with an exotic (foreign) appearance. Also we may refer to elves as αερικά (wind creatures) that carry deseases with the wind.
@@GholaTleilaxu actually angels in greek are called άγγελοι. The word angel originates from the latin angelus, which in turn originates from the ancient greek άγγελος which means messenger.
In African mythology elves are called Yumboes as they elves in the mythology of the Wolof people in Senegal. They are also called 'Bakhna Rakhna', which means "Good People." They are described as being about 2 feet tall with silver hair, yellow eyes and pearly-white skin as they’re skin and hair are white due to the spirits of the dead human attaching themselves to them. Pretty much it seems that there is an elf in almost every part of the world as I only thought it to be a European thing based on movies and Tolkien.
Human being, lived along side other types of humanoid species for a considerably far longer period of time than we have been without them. So it makes sense that these myths come from that period of long prehistory when we coexisted with other hominoids.
One of the ancient Egyptian gods was Bes, a dwarf, who was unusual in being portrayed face-on rather than in profile. He was a god of dance, fun, and mischief, but had the power to dispel evil not only from the home but from one's dreams. He was often invoked to protect women in childbirth. The god originally came from the area of the Dogon tribe.
Modern Tatars still have names - Alfiya (exalted), Eldar (master), Elmira (beautiful), Alfira (exalted), Sariya (night clouds), Sohel (star), Enje (pearl), Emilia (ray of light) , Albina (light), Ainur (crescent light), Almir (leader), Elfer (divine nectar), Elvir (protector). Don't you think that there are somehow too many coincidences for the people living near the Ural Mountains?
The Norse/Germanic tribes lived near the Slavic tribes for a very long time. Many myths cross-pollinated back and forth. In fact there are some myths that seem world-wide; such as the myths of the great flood that drowned (nearly) all life.
@@WickedPrince3D We know for a fact there was a worldwide great flood about 12,000 years ago. A passing comet flew by Earth, and many large pieces broke off, hitting the 2-mile-high ice sheets in North America, Greenland, and Europe, causing instant catastrophic flooding.
@@NotAnnaJones Huh, news to me, but interesting. I think there is a line somewhere about "in every myth is a hint of truth." So it wouldn't surprise me.
@@WickedPrince3D I'm surprised you don't know about this. There is overwhelming global evidence of this happening. We know for sure there was a global flood when the ice age ice sheets went into rapid melt around 12,000 years ago and made the water rise 100 to 400 meters on the coasts of the world. They have also found massive legendary cities off the coasts of places like India that were drownded underwater, and many other things, like the pyramids of Giza being underwatrer about 12,000 years ago for a period of time.
"most "myths" have a grain of truth at their core." Not surprising all the ancient peoples around the world knew of Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Dragons, and the rest. Even if the different societies never had direct contact or trade. IE: Asia and the Americas, Egypt and the Caribbean etc. The Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe all had dragon and Elvish folklore, long before the first "official" and "historical" contact. Wen the preacher's went west to convert the "redman" to Christianity, they were shocked to learn the "redman" knew of Noa and the flood, Cane murdering Able, and other "old testament" and even some "new testament" stories/myths for millennia, in their own creation stories. Ditto the natives of central and south America. Somewhat begs the question:"Could the 'redman' be the lost tribe of Israel from when Kain was driven from the Garden of Eden?"
I've been hearing alot of rumors and info about Agartha, or Agarthans - an advanced society of subterranean humanoids beneath Antarctica - perhaps related to humans, but are very pale, tall, with white hair. I feel that if they were living on the surface at some time long ago, then perhaps their species/culture is what gave rise to the legend of Elves, or Aelfin people.
I'm always super happy to see a new video by you pop up. You make some of the best videos of this type, and on a quite broad array of subjects. I always know I'm in for something fascinating and enjoyable, that also teaches me things I never would have learned elsewhere.
-Realizing that they could not destroy the Elvin beings, the Malevolent devised an alternate strategy. Instead of trying to destroy what could not be destroyed, the Malevolent used a powerful curse which would imprison the Elf spirit-beings into the bodies and minds of human beings thus negating the Elves' ability to remember themselves let alone remember and use their incredible abilities. ....But over time, some imprisoned Elf soul-spirits began to remember.... Time comes when it sees fit.
I've read "Alvin" is from Saxon for "friend or friend of elves." Elves are absolutely, totally cool in every way. The good people are beautifully spiritual.
This was great, I learned so much from this video even though I’ve seen other content on elves before. You really covered everything and connected the dots. Thanks, as always…Stand Tall!
It has been decades since I last perused my own in-depth research while studying rune lore, but I swear I came across one telling that attributed the smith to the guise of Odhin when he would visit Midgard in hermit form to test the hospitality of Jarls and such. He was hobbled (one of the reasons this fable struck me and remembered, because a mortal was able to inflict such a grievous wound on a god) and actually had to be rescued as he [here I may be confounding with another fable, but believe this one true(er)] had been missed in his rule in Asgard and the realms were suffering. Implying more than just turmoil, but atmospheric and even changes on land. Think earthquakes and volcanos. As most fables such as these arose from tempts to explain natural effects and creation. The fable also hints that it had been approaching another of Odhnn’s torpor stages and why he would have been susceptible to being injured by a mere mortal. During these torpor stages he regains is energy and life force to once again take up his “spear and shield” and delay the coming of Ragnorok. Also see my separate comment to the host, specifically regarding weather and epoch change.
Or, at least treat your servants well. Roman slaves were often the best friend of their masters, and loved theme enough to die for and with them. It is the same in many cultures.
@@karenabrams8986 😂 Well, in Chinese and Israeli culture, becoming a eunuch was a matter of CHOICE; but certainly no forceful removal of anyone's genitals; unless of course it is conclusively proven that they have raped a child. Then we take their ability to do so.
In Germany, Elves are called Elfen/Elben/Alben. In Germany is a river called the Elbe, a mountain range called the Alpen and the number 11=Elf. Apparently there are connections there.
I have some old german folk lore books, they are described as deons whose sin was great enough to be pulled down from heaven but not great enough to be pulled into hell.
Ask the Icelanders! They are friends with them. But the pointed ears are an Disneys invention. The Greek have known the Satyrs, who had goat feet and pointed ears.
I've been building a fantasy setting primarily rooted in the original, mythical conceptions of various fantasy tropes, and your videos have been a huge help in this. You're about to force me to completely change my take on elves, aren't you? Edit: I actually won't have to change much if anything. You've given me some new ideas, though, so thanks.
You’re content is always excellent.. I intend to use many of your videos for my history class for my children and for the teaching of our families personal history.
I’m not overly concerned with how my auto correct on my cell phone puts down my key stokes.. my point is made.. it is kinda presumptuous don’t you think? You must really think a lot of yourself to bother with a comment such as this. You are probably weak, you have never held a shovel or swung a pick axe have you? Have you ever been punched, have you been in a real fight? Doubtful. I’m glad you are capable of proper punctuation.. maybe that will help you when reality comes crashing down on you. When the lights go out I’m certain this ability will serve you well.
Thank you. Indepth, though a somewhat convoluted mix of origins and influences, it is with great gratitude you provide us with such insight, sewing the threads together.
So the origin and literal meaning of Elvis Presley's name can be interpreted as "Elf-Wise and Priestly". That seems apropos for someone who cast a spell of sorts over a great number of people. This presentation does a good job of explaining and connecting a number of Indo-European mythical concepts, and helps provide a window into the world our ancestors inhabited and their thoughts about how it was organized in a spiritual manner.
If the Elves were linked to the moon, and they were said to impregnate women, and elf shot was a sickness, could elf shot be the period? You bleed when you are shot with an arrow, hormonal changes, and the cleansing of the uterus could be seen as a sickness, it's also a time for fertility to be renewed, so if it was believed that elves were involved, and they would come to impregnate, the link that they make women sick to get them to have their babies makes a lot of sense. It would even make sense if they saw mood changes during the period as an elf trick to get the man to leave so the elf could impregnate her.
I dig it and appreciate your insightful correlation. Intuition is an amazing trait. I do this also and often, yet it makes me feel set apart, different, an outcast. So, it was personally important to have let you know... never stop spinning your mental magic! 🧝🏽♂️🧙🏽♂️🧚🏼♀️
we call them tetangga, which literally means "neighbors" because they live next to us in the forests or woods. we used to trade home-cooked foods or grains etc.
@@Manwendlil more like elf of the lord of the rings. beautiful people with pointy ears and no philtrum lines between lips and nose. they live in their own pocket dimension. we live next to their portal. and the portal is always seamless like in lord of the rings. there is no magic gate or anything. they are just like us but a bit more advance in tech, my dad once said you can find prototype cars already mainstream in their world. but we are their center of universe, their fashion taste, lifestyle, and tech are centered to us. once in a war time 1948, they hired a shadow puppet performers from my mom's village, the director knew they are elves but they went to their place anyway. they got paid with ginger, all the gingers they can get. the director told the performers to not complain as it is a dire time and everything was scarce so they have to be grateful at least they are getting paid. each performers took the ginger, some of them took a full of sack others just one finger of ginger while complaining. the next morning after they went back to the village the ginger payment turn into gold nuggets.
17:03 It's actually very interesting up until the 17th century all fruits and even some nuts and mushrooms were all referred to as apples. So they probably weren't referring towards the type of apples that we're familiar with. 🙂
The Cherokee speak of the Nunne'hi--'The People Who Live Anywhere' or 'The People Under the Hill' and are described intriguingly as almost identical as Tolkien's Elves. And of course, there are the Turehu in Maori folklore of Aotearoa/NZ, interestingly these beings even MORE resemble the Elves of Middle Earth. I find it interesting; perhaps LOTR tourism could provide the actual Turehu/Eldar a way to assimilate into modern society!
Thor has red hair. Would be nice for a mythology channel to depict the mythological Thor and not the Marvel blond. (Minor quibble. I love the channel. Keep up the great work).
Fantastic video. This is quite grounding for me. Been working on a fantasy world off on the side and this has really really helped. It was all very interesting, but the end part tied it all together for me; When you mentioned the conscious and unconscious mind. The Jungian understanding of the human psyche is the model that my world is build upon (different realms representing different aspects of (un)consciousness). Watching this has really validated some of the threads I've been fraying at with regards to unravelling and understanding the essence of profound meaning within mythology and fantasy literature. Berserk is a perfect piece of fiction regarding this; Because on the surface it's "Swish-CLANG Big Sword goes chop chop", then you learn the deeper psychological notions the artist was hinting at through his depictions of particular trees in certain scenes. Thanks for this particular piece of the puzzle.
8:45 As a Norwegian and with an interest in etymology, you seem to have a very good understanding of Norse. In modern Norwegian, the verb, to "skille" is to "divide", not only as in cleaving a log in two, as your illustration show, but also to skille for example two or more different things into their more pure components. To make a border, or to divide a treasure for example, or to skille impurities from the more pure origin, as in alchemy.
I think elves originated from Corded Ware encounters with Early European Farmers. Their fear of metal, underground dances and rituals in neolithic mounds, farmer stone arrowheads called elfshot, slighter and smaller people, elf women seducing men, association with megaliths, etc. That's all EEF.
Superb. Brilliant and thought provoking. Tolkien , especially at the end of his life , pondered over the true nature and origins of the elves and their immortality.
You bring up Odin's Raven-chant as reference a lot for possible Proto-Indo Euro meanings, but the oldest attestation to Hrafnagaldr Óðins only goes back to the 1600s
This is very good, but you have made a few mistakes that you might like to clear up. Firstly, the "original name of Britain" was not Albion, but attested to be something close to the modern Welsh 'Prydain' "Prettanikē" in the earliest Greek accounts. Similarly, 'Albion' does not conclusively refer to "the white cliffs of Dover". There are two reasons for this being unlikely. The first was that the crossing to Dover was mostly seen as a stretch of dangerous and hazardous sea, so that the route via the Scilly Isles to Cornwall and Devon was preferred by many. There are no chalk deposit cliffs in that region, so their sight of Britain would not be accounted as 'white'. Secondly and more importantly, Bernhard Maier in 'The Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture' stresses that the word 'Albion' is probably cognate with Middle Welsh 'elfydd', meaning world or land, possibly also with 'Albiorix', the name of a Gaulish god with the possible meaning of 'king of the World/land.' The Celtic foundation of the name Albion probably referred to Britain being the world "above ground", illuminated by the sun, parallel to the "world below" of the Otherworld. There is a third possibly that Albion derives from 'Alba" meaning 'mountain', a word that remains in our modern 'Alps' and 'Albania', though many linguists dismiss this possibility. If you were to say the oldest "attested" name was 'Albion', then that is more factually correct, however in doing so you are allowing foreign writers to dictate the name of a land inhabited by speakers who later corrected once trade began to Πρεττανία (Prettanía) and Βρεττανία (Brettanía 'Britain'), Βρεττανός (Brettanós 'Briton'). However, Britain was inhabited before Celtic expansion from Europe and thus the name that its aboriginal people gave to the land is lost to us, but undoubtedly its oldest name.
Great info! Thanks! I got Albion from Avalon,parting the myst(illumination) . I learned also the Alps contained more Celts than below the Alp regions. Either way something still points me to the North...
I love all the information, and I love the beautiful pictures that grace your video. And you have a very smooth, easy to listen to voice :) Loved it!!!!!
Question about Thjalfi and Roskva. If they are elves, may it explain why they stay as kids while traveling with Thor? Thats the first time I Heard of it and I find it very cool idea. Kinda makes sense Thor would stop at home of elves to sleep i , or have servants that are elves and not mortals. Other gods could make fun of him for having regular humans as servants. Btw. I like the idea that Ivaldi was just a Vanir god of fertility and he just got around both elves and dwarves like Zeus. Could explain how his soms knew gods and could create stuff even gods could use. Wayland is also named Volund and considere god of Smith in saxon/germanic folklore. And since most gods are related to Odin, I like the idea Volund was Odin’s another bastard son from an elf woman. Or related to Vanirs.
I love your channel. I just found you channel and subscribed, but have you ever thought about getting rid of the strobe light filter? It is annoying at best but also, as one who deals with epilepsy, it makes me a little nervous to watch some parts. Have you ever thought about it?
polynesian mythology, fillipino mytholgy and malaysian mythology also have their own versions of elves? hakuturi (polynesian), engkanto & dalaketnon (fillipino) and orang bunian (malaysian)
Wonderful as ever. Sometime could we have an outline of fairy lore - are they the same as elves but Celtic instead of Germanic? Also, where does one find the numerous beautiful images that appear in these uplifting Fortress of Lugh videos? ?
a lot of the images in this video were clearly AI generated. unfortunately, the best AI art is invariably lost under the sheer volume of AI generated art that gets cranked out constantly.
Just imagine if MCU's Thor has two elves has his servants. I can see how it goes. At first, he most likely treated them not quite well and tend to ignore their advices. But after what happened between him and Loki, he most likely apologized to them and treat them better. By the time of Avengers: Infinity War, Thor most likely ordered them to leave with the other refugees to make sure they survived. And knowing that they are no match to Thanos, they most likely obeyed his command.
This channel just doesn’t stop pumping out quality content. Brilliant work. I pretty much discard the negative connotations from Christian texts on Elves. Just Christian’s trying to demonise (quite literally) our heritage.
My bedside book from when I 7 until well in my teens was "Götter und Helden der Germanen" (Peterich, 1955). From what I learned there, the Germanic tribes, at least the ones of the early Middle Ages, believed in two types of elves, the light elves and the dark elves. The dark elves were said to be terrible to behold and the light elves beautiful as the sun. But that's where the similarities end, as both were dwarves. The dwarf Alberich was an elf, so much so, that his name is the origin of "Oberon". Thus, the dark elves would have been the dwarfs and the light elves would be fairies and sprites. Of course, the lines are fuzzy and time mixed things up a lot. Tolkien and our modern image of the "elves" is very influences by the Irish Tuatha de Danaan, who were actually the gods of the pre-Christian Irish, but as interpreted by Christian monks a few centuries later. Something that is 100% modern is the idea of Elves with pointy ears. Specially with these donkey ears that seem to be the latest hype in depicting elves.
Germanic tribes lived next to Northern tribes, which they considered to possess magical powers. With shamans of which some were light and some dark. The light ones ascended to the sky and the dark ones descended to the underground. Hunted with bows and arrows. Some had darker appearance and some fair. Some were shorter and some taller and some even considerably so. Some lived in dugouts and still traditionally do so today. Pointy ears they did not have, though.
@@ConontheBinarian Yes they did. Not all tribes did, but these ones did. They were known for magical archery skills. I'm sure they didn't use high-powered rifles, because they weren't invented then.
@@ConontheBinarian They were thought to possess magical powers. There's a difference between what was believed and what was true. The funny thing is, that what most likely was true and was known to be true at the time, has become pointy eared creatures living beyond the sun, because people have started to take shamanistic believes literally.
The El had long heads. Almost all the "ELves" of the past 5000 years were El, human hybrids. It would be interesting to find out if King Tut's family's ears were preserved in the mummy wrappings, as they had long heads. The weird fold in the ear is still present in a portion of humans today... the pointy ear genetics live on from our Elohim ancestors.
I've thought about this and have come to the tentative theory based mostly by what they are and what they say. They can't lie - but twist the truth. They're not good enough for Heaven but not bad enough for hell. Most can be described as living (not spirits, though they cavort with spirits) but with long life. And they live in a pocket dimension. I think they are the last of the Nephilim.
Can you make a video about the man Snorri Surrelson himself? I guess a video about him could also in general be a video about Iceland's preservation of Old Norse tales and Language
Wow, dearest contributor of so much detailed knowledge of the elves, dwarfs and other outer worldly figures like Gods and Godesses; it was a lot to take in. So, thank you for your research and detailed story-telling. Especially I liked the connectedness and similarities of nearly all of the ancient cultures. All were experienced by human beings but on a level of mythology and not reason, and all of them would bow to the female part of creation as well, as I understand it. What I was still missing were some psychological insights into the nature of the myths themselves, meaning the wonder of human life and its connectedness to its otherworldly origins and history (or her story respectively) on the one hand and the wonders of recreation both in a physical way as in a spiritual way of beings descendants of other powers or of our own powers leading into the belief of Karma. So far, so good, thank you anyway for your contribution to our magical or mythical related connectedness with Mother-Father-God, Mother Mary and Jesus Christ which you don't mention but which in my opinion are the solution of the problem to the human identity crisis to which the mythogical stories of all times are a reflection of. Always yours, Elimar
@@greypilgrim2028 Thank you for your openness. dear friend. I am convinced though that this is not the question. It's more the question where mythology ends and reality begins.
@@Aberelimar Very good point. I can be a little sluggish at times. Thank you for your prompt reply. Concerning reality though, I found Morpheus's description in Matrix very unsettling.
@@henriettaabeyta1457 trolls in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore can be big or small, be human or beast. They mainly lived in knit tight groups outside of civilization or society and rarely helped humans. The name troll is associated with magic
@@dylansearcy3966 Well all nine of worlds of Norse have their association with magic. But I know my vocabulary of mythology from both Scandinavia, as well the less shared similarities in the old Prehispanic. But it's the Celtic history I strong enthusiasm of. The elf species would be said to be numerous if people shared language more often.
They are animistic beings or "nature spirits", amd they form and fashion what we call Nature. Each element uas its own apecific being associated wirh it. Elves take care of flowers, plants and trees.
I wonder how this connects (if at all) with the history and philology of "gnomes." When Tolkein first began writing his mythology in 1917, he names the noldor 'gnomes' before he changed their name to 'elves.'
Tolkien was heavily influenced by Kalevala, the Finnish and Karelian epic. In Finnish folklore elves and gnomes are the same or very similar beings. The Noldor also spoke Quenya, for which Tolkien took a lot of influence from the Finnish language.
@@mateokarlvonpavlovic8295 some of the letters between Tolkien and his son betray that idea. The channel Indeepgeek covers them. Tolkien not only describes it as a "secondary world" (like a fantasy), but a real world mythological history taking place some "8000" years ago (Tolkien's words).
@@stephenarachtingi8678 do you really believe that, he wrote lotr since he knew norse mythology slavic mythology and celtic one. And of course the message in book is christian. I mean many things that you see on yt might be to twisted. And to be honest gnomes might be a part of fairies, dont know or they might be Just diff creatures. My Grand grandfather saw elvs and they were big as humans and had pointed Nose and ears he saw them with goat legs like satirs but they also have normal human legs. They were ypung beautiful women. I know what you mean now. To be honest he was inspired by mythology and added beings to his book and he also made up some beings to. I wouldnt say mythology since mythology isnt quiet fake like supernatural beings. Their philosophy of earth might be fake but not every story in it. So fantasy is fully made up while mythology might not be.
Elwyn is Welsh and means “befriended by the elves.” Obviously pre-Christian and recognized an individual of elevated status. During this period someone with close relationships with elves was considered blessed.
According to Tim Clarkson, biographer of Alfred the Great's daughter Aethelflaed, she had only one child, a daughter named Elfwynn, which he also translates "elf--friend" but implies that the name is Anglo-Saxon not Welsh.
There is no indication in the Eddas that elves or dwarves (dark elves) are different sizes and many references which would lead one to believe that they are human size. Same goes for the jotunna
TH-cam suggested this video and I needed a break from what I was researching, well you connected this to what I am researching, haha. May I know your sources connecting Freyr to Iranian and Zoroastrian beliefs? Thank you.
13:20 There's also a physical location in Eastern Norway called Alvheim, or "Elf Home". It's interesting to notice that what's said to be the physical location, not far south-east of the Oslo-fjord, is the one area closest to both Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and though, I can imagine, as an area with constant feuds of ownership and the reason for a lot of bloodshed and death, and even a division of the same peoples into many tribes.
"Bes" Bes was the Egyptian god of play and recreation. He was envisioned as a "full-faced, bow-legged dwarf with an oversized head, goggle eyes, protruding tongue, bushy tail and usually a large feathered crown as a head-dress. "Representations of an almost identical dwarf-god became widespread across the Near East during the first millennium BC and are common in Syria, Palestine, and Arabia. This god's name in Assyrian and Babylonian may have been Pessû. Bes seems to have been the only Egyptian god who became widely worshipped throughout Mesopotamia. His role in Mesopotamian religion was however closer to that of a type of apotropaic creature (native examples of which include lahmu, kusarikku, mushussu etc.) than a deity proper.
Heres a aspect I want to point out about the death boats. This is my view as a Clairvoyant and researcher into everything "hidden". that when the proverbial deluge happened and the esoteric meaning of a Rainbow...ie the Promise of God. Was really a division of spectrums of realities. Better known as "the Veils" that separates our idea of reality from many others. One of these "between" realities I personally believe to be all water and that all sorts of entities including the traveling human spirit needs a boat to travel where they need to go. If your with out a boat then you can pay a fiery/Ferry man to take you or risk being enslaved on other ships/barges for many types of hyper dimensional entities. So for myself I'm already making my own boat to be buried with...I don't think the size matters since its been found in many graves are toy boats for just the same reason. So the paranormal side to my belief in this is that ive not only seen mass amounts of the spirits of the dead and many types of other entities traveling on ghost ships of all sizes and from all around the world but I've also been able to document them during my own field research..which I won't share or publicize due to oaths. A good example of these watery in-betweens is this scene in Pirates of the Caribbean th-cam.com/video/9o3riOOr74w/w-d-xo.html or the story of Charon the Ferryman ..I ask myself could the river Acheron/Styx be not a river but a type of purgatory reality? Guess I'll find out eventually.
Tolkien - elves are tall and fair, possessing a graceful and ethereal beauty. They have pointed ears, slanted eyes, and are known for their radiant and ageless appearance. Elves are often described as being physically superior to humans, with exceptional strength, agility, and keen senses... and the Santa kind.
Elves have never been described as having pointed ears, neither in Tolkien's works or Sagas and Eddas, it's a mainstream popularization by Peter Jackson who created the popular triology films of Lord of the Rings.
@@twilightknight2333 Not sure where that came from but another copy/paste from Quora, "The question of whether Elves have pointed ears is controversial. In his narratives, Tolkien never describes them as having such. Exceptionally beautiful mortals can be mistaken for Elves (e.g., Morwen Eledhwen, Turin Turambar, Erendis wife of Aldarion), and it seems that this would be unlikely if their ears were distinctly different. On the other hand, in one of his letters, Tolkien says that Hobbit ears are slightly pointed and "elfin." In a linguistic note on the word "lasse" (leaf) in HoME 5 (I think), he says that Elves' ears were more leaf-shaped than those of Men. So their ears may or may not have been somewhat pointed, but they probably didn't look like Vulcans."
It always cracked me up that star trek was so obviously just high fantasy set in space, but its really hard to get fans to admit it.
The vulcan are clearly just space elves. Long life, emotional control, wisdom, master craftsman, ancient...
The Tellerite are obvious dwarfs, Ferangi are Goblin, Romulan are dark elves, klingon are orcs.
The technology they use is also more similar to magic than sci-fi.
They even have Q, the trickster diety...
Its also funny that Star Gate actually dealt with the Norse gods directly, yet managed to make it feel like Scifi more than myth or fantasy.
Here's how I look at it:
All fantasy is fiction.
Science Fiction, as a genre, uses futuristic technology advancements (realistic or not from our point of view) to ask philosophical questions that matter today.
The Science Fantasy genre is less concerned with asking those questions and just wants to present entertainment in an interesting setting.
Splitting hairs here but that's what nerds do.
I'd call Star Trek a science fiction setting with fantasy elements while calling Star Wars a science fantasy setting with some science fiction elements.
I definitely see the parallels you see between fantasy races and the peoples in Star Trek.
Very interesting take on Star Trek... never thought of it that way, thanks for expanding my understanding of a beloved series...👍
@@thoi412 I disagree with you about science fiction being more relevant than fantasy. I'd agree that the best sci-fi is relevant but the distinction lies in whether the setting is in a plausible future or imagined time past (though possibly future). Star Wars is modern fantasy. I put it in the camp with Tolkien and ancient myth (Lucas was into Joseph Cambell). Star Trek is much closer to science fiction like 2001: A Space Odessy and Contact but still infused with fantasy / mythic elements. Discussing Star Trek is obviously a touchy subject....like the virgin Mary. Look at Wells, Verne, Asimov and Clarke compared to Lucas or Roddenberry. Pure science fiction attempts to remain in the plausible future while great television and movies often seem more concerned with entertainment and less with social impact. I love it all, but I think the way you broke it down disparages myth and fantasy.
@GaryRine you're very welcome. I was actually working on some fan fiction a while back where a meeting of the various races occurs around earth, and something happens that sends the whole station crashing to earth thousands of years prior.
They have to hide themselves from the past earthlings so as not to change the timeline, but end up being the source of the myths in a sort of Boot-Strap timeloop kind of way.
It involves multiple generations, and the technology becomes the inspiration for magic.
It was more of a collection of short stories retconning various myths to fit in the ST universe.
I kind of want to pick it back up now...
This is actually true of science fiction more broadly. The whole modern genre is rooted more firmly in the occult and fantastical stories of the late 19th century, not in hard science, which is why it is so rife with psychic powers and space gods and other nonsense.
In Filipino, we call them "Diwata".
The term is generalized with Elves, Fairies, and Forest Spirits. They are usually depicted wearing bright white garments with pale skin that appear as if they are glowing. They are said to be benevolent and reward folk who take care of the environment. However, they can bring curses to people who violate their domain. Which is why when we were children, we were taught to respect forests and overgrown places and ask permission and say "tabi-tabi po" whenever we would even take a piss.
That's pretty much the same folk tradition as in Ireland.
@AudeROndt "excuse me"
I felt the Nature spirits, Fairies where lived in Alaska liked me because I recycled , composted or burned everything! I heard the Flute of Pan playing outside and I picked up my guitar and started singing and they played along, t was some kind of initiation! As I finished the flute was playing inside my head and I could turn it on and off the next couple months!
In English, we call them knife-ears.
In India they are known as De-wata, same as you guys, just a variation in pronounciation
In Ireland, they never speak of elves, but fairies. I was treated to some real rural believers when I was there for a couple months in 1988. Some rural people, at least at that time, still believed in them as much as anything. The old Irish monetary unit, the Punt, featured a watermark of a "Banshee," which was not depicted as a horrible demon-like female, but a beautiful young, but sorrowful woman (fairie) in mourning. The "Wail of the Banshee" was not a screech, but a moan of sorrow. They said that if someone was about to die, they would hear the "Cry of the Banshee." That way the listener was filled with dread.
Reminds me of the painting, 'The Scream' 😱 😢
In the Indian Vedas they have the Ribhus whose name comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Elf. They are also connected with the sun, skillfulness and are artisans.
Gandharvas are elves.
This is spot on. I'm very surprised the video did not mention it. Mythological concepts are complex, fuzzy and intertwined: etymological connections are by comparisom more solid and susceptible to precise definition. The etymological connection of elves (< alphr- ) with Latin albus, 'white' cannot be stressed too much: it takes the connection with 'whiteness', 'brightness' - and probably the sun - back to the splitting of the Germanic and Italic languages. But Rbhus take us even further back, to the split away of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. And its important that what we can take back to that very early period is not just relatively vague connections around, whiteness, brightness and the sun, but a rather (relatively) precisely defined semi-divine being. This raises a lot of other questions .....
So you claim it comes from the same PIE root as Elf. Can you provide a reconstruction or are you just talking out of your a**?
Well, I'm pretty sure it's the latter ...
@@Jumpoable Wrong.
@@philipthornhill2337 Incredible. It took you so many words to simply say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Random Folknames: the plant Elecampane was known as 'Elf-dock,' or 'Elf-wort,' & the Krummholz tree is known as 'Elfin-wood' or 'Elfin-tree.' Another term for when someone is bewitched is 'Elf-stricken.' ...a cool obsolete term that I think we should bring back into usage...Thanks for another fascinating video, skal!
Alfred: elf friend. Eldrige: elf lord.
@@LeeGee Nice!
I've been Elf stricken my entire life.
@@alwilliams5177 Haha! I've been accused of 'elf striking' others my whole life, how ironic... ;)
@@LeeGeeElf-counsel not elf-friend.
Elves or Elf-life beings are present in the folklore of many European people, they have different names, but similar characteristics. The Slavic people call them Vili, Romanians call them Zâne (the Dark Elves are called in Romanian Iele). The Ancient Greeks called the Elves Nymphs, Nymphe in Ancient Greek meaning both Elf and bride, both Elves/Nymphs and brides are dressed in white. In modern Greek mythology, the Elves are called Nereids (in Antiquity Nereids were only the water Nymphs, not all Nymphs). In Romania and Greece there very recent testimonies of Elves, of the feared ”women in white” or the ”brides”.
I think nymphs in General are the closest thing to Elves in Greek mythology.
In Bulgaria the " women in white " are called "samodiva" . Legend says that they gather at night to dance on a large open field and if anyone see them he or she is bewitched to join and dance with them . The women they leave until the brink of exaustion and the men they dance with until their hearts burst . They are also found in cursed or evil places taking the form of beautiful white colored and innocent looking animals ( white kittens , white puplies , white geese/swans etc ) and if you're walking late at night near those places , they follow you until you enter your home , never breaking eye contact with you and stay outside until the first roosters crook 😐
@@michasalamon8315 In Ancient Greek mythology, yes. In modern Greek mythology, they go by the name of Nereids.
@@nekrox1 Those women in white in Romania are called ”Iele” (at least most of the time) and they behave the same and are feared by mortals in the same way. In Greece, the Nereids are similar. It is clearly it is the same mythological/folklore typology. I call it the Dark Elf type.
I once had a very realistic dream where I was sitting on the porch of a solitary Victorian house under the moonlight, a beautiful witch sitting next to me. She had a pet albino bear, named Angelica, sitting in front of her. I was in constant eye-contact with this bear, and felt that my life depended on it. I broke eye-contact for a split second and the bear immediately lost all its domesticated qualities and became a dangerous wild animal. I sprinted to my car with the now-vicious animal chasing at my heels. I awoke in total terror.
I always felt there was a difference between elves and dwarves in the germanic tradition. One is linked to the heavens while the other dwelt beneath the earth and waters. Elves are the blessed dead and protectors of the community, while the dwarves are the chthonic craftsmen, givers of technical inspiration.
Water Nymphs and Fire Salamanders as well, and Gnomes are n the earth!
Yes the Elves came from beyond yggdrasil this planetary tree. tey settles up on some upper fruits one might say, not the heavens but quite up there. after they had a war internally in their own peoples, those that lost the world were cast down into the shaddow, to the world /realm of the dweagr, they are refugees there and have changed much. the dokk alfra dark elf. this is why pp call the drwarves --elves,,, they are two peoples who share a realm. very different beings. the elves have many realms off yggdrasil or this world tree..some have migrated....lets say.... into different pockets of dimension and space time, they life in different places, between dreams, space, and time. truly amazing. if you want to meet them study sharmanism, its a dicipline to leave your body to dream in the astral. and or get taken to meet them with a sharman to stabilize the dream etc. its quite easy, but its a serious discipline most humans struggle to devote to such things . its a huge subject, bigger that any other
In the Norse myths the Elves (Alfar) and Dwarves (Dvergar) were formed from maggots that came out of the corpse of Ymr the first and largest Giant. Some of them followed the giants; who hated the Aesir gods for murdering Ymr and they became the Dark Elves because they lived in the ancient world where there was no sun; another group favored the Aesir gods because they enjoyed the beauty and light and warmth of the worlds created from Ymr's remains and became the Light Elves. Others wanted no part in the feud so they stayed on Earth (Midyarth in more accurate Norse (as near as I can tell from studying the Norse Runic alphabet) - Middle-Earth from Tolkien) and they split between those who favored the forests - the Brown Elves; and those who favored the mountains; the Dwarves. It's possible that the latter two diverged more over time.
What's really wild is my name means "king of the elves" or "elf council" and my brother died just weeks after my conception and I always felt like he's a part of me.. certainly is a guide. So I really resonate with the "blessed dead"... thank you for sharing that
@@WickedPrince3D Pretty sure it more like midgarthr. in English the g was soft and said 'y' both yard and garth from gardaz albeit by way of garthr and geard 'yey-ard'. Midgarthr in Norse and Middangeard in Englisc (old English).
I'm glad you made the connection with not only the daoine sìth, but the daemons of Hesiod and the roman Lares. When i first learned that elves were probably the great honored ancestors "residing" in the burial mounds of ages past, i was immediately reminded of the daemons. Hesiod's explanation of spirits of men from a golden age fits really well with the Elves of mythology.
Many, many years ago, in high school in fact, I became very interested in Elves, and the whole mythology from the Ways, to Codes of Conduct to carrying salt and bred in one's pocket; I found it weird that every culture had basically the same stories.
The El had long heads.
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Nagas had long heads too
I think the Naga are fey.
Maybe Annunaki, but that’s terrifying.
I prefer fey 🖤
The similarities with Hungarian elf / fairy mythology is interesting. In Hungarian the word for them is “tündér” meaning “shining/radiant” with a hint of it being a mirage. They are associated with swamps, forests and mounds. They are said to be beautiful, can be helpful but often lure young men into the forest with their lights.
There are folk tales about their mounds leading to elven/fairy kingdoms. Many a hero gets an elven bride as his reward for his bravery and compassion, often aided by hares, cats, foxes and deers.
They are also connected to dreaming and sleep in general. They really are a mixture of fairies and elves and loads of places and businesses are named “fairy/epf garden” or “fairy/elf way”.
There is a popular legend about an entire geographical region in Transyilvania being part of an Elven Kingdom that was renamed to Swindler’s Isle after humans swindled the elves to get their land in some underhanded bargain.
tündér in Magyar and thunder in English because everything is random, random words in random worlds :)
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Absolutely!
Indubitably.
Elves are also a really important part of chinese mythology and culture. 仙 (xian) which are almost identical to the archetype of western elves are described;
“as immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous.”
You hint at the truly catholic dharmic religions that spread right across the northern hemisphere.
The immortals/sages though are not just spirits, they are humans who have perfected themselves according to the dao. Elves are a bit more like tudigong in my opinion, maybe a bit less powerful/more ambiguous in their relationship with human beings.
In the modern days, Greeks refer to elves as ξωτικά. The word comes from the adjective εξωτικός which means exotic. Exotic as a word accociates the elves with the devil (ο έξω από δω) or with an exotic (foreign) appearance. Also we may refer to elves as αερικά (wind creatures) that carry deseases with the wind.
That describes angels.
@@GholaTleilaxu actually angels in greek are called άγγελοι. The word angel originates from the latin angelus, which in turn originates from the ancient greek άγγελος which means messenger.
In African mythology elves are called Yumboes as they elves in the mythology of the Wolof people in Senegal. They are also called 'Bakhna Rakhna', which means "Good People." They are described as being about 2 feet tall with silver hair, yellow eyes and pearly-white skin as they’re skin and hair are white due to the spirits of the dead human attaching themselves to them. Pretty much it seems that there is an elf in almost every part of the world as I only thought it to be a European thing based on movies and Tolkien.
Yep. Every culture has lore of "elves".
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@krow5099 Elves originally came from Norse mythology, not Tolkien. Tolkien definitely put his own twist on them though.
Human being, lived along side other types of humanoid species for a considerably far longer period of time than we have been without them. So it makes sense that these myths come from that period of long prehistory when we coexisted with other hominoids.
This ties into missing 411 so well it's really frightening.
Really? I always figured it was the cartel responsible
Cartel = elf carts. They are grocery shopping for humans @@worm_vaquero
One of the ancient Egyptian gods was Bes, a dwarf, who was unusual in being portrayed face-on rather than in profile. He was a god of dance, fun, and mischief, but had the power to dispel evil not only from the home but from one's dreams. He was often invoked to protect women in childbirth. The god originally came from the area of the Dogon tribe.
Funny you should say that, Bez was the percussionist dancer from the band Happy Mondays.
He was actually a diety of the pygmies.
Modern Tatars still have names - Alfiya (exalted), Eldar (master), Elmira (beautiful), Alfira (exalted), Sariya (night clouds), Sohel (star), Enje (pearl), Emilia (ray of light) , Albina (light), Ainur (crescent light), Almir (leader), Elfer (divine nectar), Elvir (protector). Don't you think that there are somehow too many coincidences for the people living near the Ural Mountains?
The Norse/Germanic tribes lived near the Slavic tribes for a very long time. Many myths cross-pollinated back and forth. In fact there are some myths that seem world-wide; such as the myths of the great flood that drowned (nearly) all life.
@@WickedPrince3D We know for a fact there was a worldwide great flood about 12,000 years ago. A passing comet flew by Earth, and many large pieces broke off, hitting the 2-mile-high ice sheets in North America, Greenland, and Europe, causing instant catastrophic flooding.
@@NotAnnaJones Huh, news to me, but interesting. I think there is a line somewhere about "in every myth is a hint of truth." So it wouldn't surprise me.
@@WickedPrince3D I'm surprised you don't know about this. There is overwhelming global evidence of this happening. We know for sure there was a global flood when the ice age ice sheets went into rapid melt around 12,000 years ago and made the water rise 100 to 400 meters on the coasts of the world. They have also found massive legendary cities off the coasts of places like India that were drownded underwater, and many other things, like the pyramids of Giza being underwatrer about 12,000 years ago for a period of time.
Go to Human Phenotypes to look at the Uralids, as well as other Sibirid and Tungid types. It's like we still have some traces of that blood around.
Nothing is better, then another video on mythical creatures by Fortress!
In Sweden elves are dancing and forming the fog clouds over bogs and lakes in the early morning
It's amazing how many ancient stories are so similar.
They're all mostly connected to the first human civilization.
Remnants of the first religion
"most "myths" have a grain of truth at their core."
Not surprising all the ancient peoples around the world knew of Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Dragons, and the rest. Even if the different societies never had direct contact or trade. IE: Asia and the Americas, Egypt and the Caribbean etc.
The Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe all had dragon and Elvish folklore, long before the first "official" and "historical" contact.
Wen the preacher's went west to convert the "redman" to Christianity, they were shocked to learn the "redman" knew of Noa and the flood, Cane murdering Able, and other "old testament" and even some "new testament" stories/myths for millennia, in their own creation stories. Ditto the natives of central and south America.
Somewhat begs the question:"Could the 'redman' be the lost tribe of Israel from when Kain was driven from the Garden of Eden?"
I've been hearing alot of rumors and info about Agartha, or Agarthans - an advanced society of subterranean humanoids beneath Antarctica - perhaps related to humans, but are very pale, tall, with white hair. I feel that if they were living on the surface at some time long ago, then perhaps their species/culture is what gave rise to the legend of Elves, or Aelfin people.
History became legend. Legend became myth. LOTR is a true story.
I'm always super happy to see a new video by you pop up. You make some of the best videos of this type, and on a quite broad array of subjects. I always know I'm in for something fascinating and enjoyable, that also teaches me things I never would have learned elsewhere.
-Realizing that they could not destroy the Elvin beings, the Malevolent devised an alternate strategy. Instead of trying to destroy what could not be destroyed, the Malevolent used a powerful curse which would imprison the Elf spirit-beings into the bodies and minds of human beings thus negating the Elves' ability to remember themselves let alone remember and use their incredible abilities.
....But over time, some imprisoned Elf soul-spirits began to remember....
Time comes when it sees fit.
Nice.😃🧝🏻♀️🧝🏻
I see you, my kindred.
Did you write that? 😇
@@cywarr yes, I did, but I didn't write it so much as a fictional account, more as a possibility; mythological or not.
@@skyden24195 It's very nice.
Thanks to this I’ll never be able to see Freya in God of War without knowing that shes technically being called “Lady Lady”.
One of my favorite places on TH-cam! Definitely one of the places to learn about our ancestors!
Thank you for all your hard work!
Now the Elf sickness comes from eating too many of those ultra processed cookies.
Nice.
LOL I guess eating too many of either Keebler cookies or Christmas cookies can cause elf sickness.
I've read "Alvin" is from Saxon for "friend or friend of elves." Elves are absolutely, totally cool in every way. The good people are beautifully spiritual.
We wuz elves..
@@We-Wuz-Great-201we was Dökkálfar n shiet!
@@We-Wuz-Great-201😂😂😂😂😂😂 wtf... your comment is absolutely beautiful. ❤
I love it.. my name means "king of the elves or elf council." I love that so many names today have elven roots haha
@@erdelegy that's so dope
This is such a great video. Elves are arguably one of, if not the, most fascinating races in Fantasy. At least they are my favorite.
This was great, I learned so much from this video even though I’ve seen other content on elves before. You really covered everything and connected the dots. Thanks, as always…Stand Tall!
Moral of the blacksmith story. Don’t keep slaves. Then they can’t kill your children. I think that was the message of Exodus too.
It has been decades since I last perused my own in-depth research while studying rune lore, but I swear I came across one telling that attributed the smith to the guise of Odhin when he would visit Midgard in hermit form to test the hospitality of Jarls and such. He was hobbled (one of the reasons this fable struck me and remembered, because a mortal was able to inflict such a grievous wound on a god) and actually had to be rescued as he [here I may be confounding with another fable, but believe this one true(er)] had been missed in his rule in Asgard and the realms were suffering. Implying more than just turmoil, but atmospheric and even changes on land. Think earthquakes and volcanos. As most fables such as these arose from tempts to explain natural effects and creation. The fable also hints that it had been approaching another of Odhnn’s torpor stages and why he would have been susceptible to being injured by a mere mortal. During these torpor stages he regains is energy and life force to once again take up his “spear and shield” and delay the coming of Ragnorok. Also see my separate comment to the host, specifically regarding weather and epoch change.
20 politically correct social credits to you
Or, at least treat your servants well.
Roman slaves were often the best friend of their masters, and loved theme enough to die for and with them. It is the same in many cultures.
@@chivalrousjack so no eunuchs?!
@@karenabrams8986 😂 Well, in Chinese and Israeli culture, becoming a eunuch was a matter of CHOICE; but certainly no forceful removal of anyone's genitals; unless of course it is conclusively proven that they have raped a child. Then we take their ability to do so.
In Germany, Elves are called Elfen/Elben/Alben.
In Germany is a river called the Elbe, a mountain range called the Alpen and the number 11=Elf.
Apparently there are connections there.
Alfar is the oldest German word for elves. Elf vocabulary clearly expanded when Vikings and Celts followed each other.
I have some old german folk lore books, they are described as deons whose sin was great enough to be pulled down from heaven but not great enough to be pulled into hell.
The solar disc also looks very much like a symbol in Tibetan Buddhism. First time I am here. Subscribed 💖
Impressive use of linguistics in a very valuable academic treatment of the subject. Thank you!🙏
Ask the Icelanders! They are friends with them. But the pointed ears are an Disneys invention. The Greek have known the Satyrs, who had goat feet and pointed ears.
pointed ears are a victorian british invention.
I've been building a fantasy setting primarily rooted in the original, mythical conceptions of various fantasy tropes, and your videos have been a huge help in this.
You're about to force me to completely change my take on elves, aren't you?
Edit: I actually won't have to change much if anything. You've given me some new ideas, though, so thanks.
You’re content is always excellent.. I intend to use many of your videos for my history class for my children and for the teaching of our families personal history.
Teach the children the difference between you're & your 👍
I’m not overly concerned with how my auto correct on my cell phone puts down my key stokes.. my point is made.. it is kinda presumptuous don’t you think? You must really think a lot of yourself to bother with a comment such as this. You are probably weak, you have never held a shovel or swung a pick axe have you? Have you ever been punched, have you been in a real fight? Doubtful. I’m glad you are capable of proper punctuation.. maybe that will help you when reality comes crashing down on you. When the lights go out I’m certain this ability will serve you well.
Relax! It's online. You're presumptuous yourself.
Great work, as usual! I am glad to see your channel is climbing in subscribers, you deserve it!
Thank you.
Indepth, though a somewhat convoluted mix of origins and influences, it is with great gratitude you provide us with such insight, sewing the threads together.
So the origin and literal meaning of Elvis Presley's name can be interpreted as "Elf-Wise and Priestly". That seems apropos for someone who cast a spell of sorts over a great number of people.
This presentation does a good job of explaining and connecting a number of Indo-European mythical concepts, and helps provide a window into the world our ancestors inhabited and their thoughts about how it was organized in a spiritual manner.
These stories are so beautiful
If the Elves were linked to the moon, and they were said to impregnate women, and elf shot was a sickness, could elf shot be the period? You bleed when you are shot with an arrow, hormonal changes, and the cleansing of the uterus could be seen as a sickness, it's also a time for fertility to be renewed, so if it was believed that elves were involved, and they would come to impregnate, the link that they make women sick to get them to have their babies makes a lot of sense.
It would even make sense if they saw mood changes during the period as an elf trick to get the man to leave so the elf could impregnate her.
Monaseocnes ie moonsickness meant lunacy in old English but can also mean menstruation.
I dig it and appreciate your insightful correlation. Intuition is an amazing trait. I do this also and often, yet it makes me feel set apart, different, an outcast. So, it was personally important to have let you know... never stop spinning your mental magic! 🧝🏽♂️🧙🏽♂️🧚🏼♀️
Great imagery and stories. Thank you
we call them tetangga, which literally means "neighbors" because they live next to us in the forests or woods.
we used to trade home-cooked foods or grains etc.
like the Children of the Forest?
@@Manwendlil more like elf of the lord of the rings. beautiful people with pointy ears and no philtrum lines between lips and nose.
they live in their own pocket dimension. we live next to their portal. and the portal is always seamless like in lord of the rings.
there is no magic gate or anything.
they are just like us but a bit more advance in tech, my dad once said you can find prototype cars already mainstream in their world.
but we are their center of universe, their fashion taste, lifestyle, and tech are centered to us.
once in a war time 1948, they hired a shadow puppet performers from my mom's village, the director knew they are elves but they went to their place anyway.
they got paid with ginger, all the gingers they can get.
the director told the performers to not complain as it is a dire time and everything was scarce so they have to be grateful at least they are getting paid.
each performers took the ginger, some of them took a full of sack others just one finger of ginger while complaining.
the next morning after they went back to the village the ginger payment turn into gold nuggets.
17:03 It's actually very interesting up until the 17th century all fruits and even some nuts and mushrooms were all referred to as apples. So they probably weren't referring towards the type of apples that we're familiar with. 🙂
Wow! Incredible video!! Really loved this deep dive. Keep up the amazing work, Sir
I love the visuals throughout this doco
Always enjoy the history behind my ancestral mythology. Thank you!
I just found you, and have subscribed. Your research, content and voice are amazing, so I'll be sharing.
The Cherokee speak of the Nunne'hi--'The People Who Live Anywhere' or 'The People Under the Hill' and are described intriguingly as almost identical as Tolkien's Elves.
And of course, there are the Turehu in Maori folklore of Aotearoa/NZ, interestingly these beings even MORE resemble the Elves of Middle Earth. I find it interesting; perhaps LOTR tourism could provide the actual Turehu/Eldar a way to assimilate into modern society!
I can't tell you how grateful I am for your work. You are one of the best channels on TH-cam.
I think you just did... ;)
Utterly spellbound by your new episode thank you Kevin ❤😊
Thor has red hair. Would be nice for a mythology channel to depict the mythological Thor and not the Marvel blond. (Minor quibble. I love the channel. Keep up the great work).
Fantastic video.
This is quite grounding for me.
Been working on a fantasy world off on the side and this has really really helped. It was all very interesting, but the end part tied it all together for me; When you mentioned the conscious and unconscious mind.
The Jungian understanding of the human psyche is the model that my world is build upon (different realms representing different aspects of (un)consciousness).
Watching this has really validated some of the threads I've been fraying at with regards to unravelling and understanding the essence of profound meaning within mythology and fantasy literature.
Berserk is a perfect piece of fiction regarding this; Because on the surface it's "Swish-CLANG Big Sword goes chop chop", then you learn the deeper psychological notions the artist was hinting at through his depictions of particular trees in certain scenes.
Thanks for this particular piece of the puzzle.
8:45 As a Norwegian and with an interest in etymology, you seem to have a very good understanding of Norse. In modern Norwegian, the verb, to "skille" is to "divide", not only as in cleaving a log in two, as your illustration show, but also to skille for example two or more different things into their more pure components. To make a border, or to divide a treasure for example, or to skille impurities from the more pure origin, as in alchemy.
I think elves originated from Corded Ware encounters with Early European Farmers. Their fear of metal, underground dances and rituals in neolithic mounds, farmer stone arrowheads called elfshot, slighter and smaller people, elf women seducing men, association with megaliths, etc. That's all EEF.
This was the most intelligent and informative TH-cam I have seen. Telling the truth about the Fae Well done.
Superb. Brilliant and thought provoking.
Tolkien , especially at the end of his life , pondered over the true nature and origins of the elves and their immortality.
You bring up Odin's Raven-chant as reference a lot for possible Proto-Indo Euro meanings, but the oldest attestation to Hrafnagaldr Óðins only goes back to the 1600s
Fantastic assembly of diverse information. Thank you!
Amazing video! 😊 very interesting and informative.
This is very good, but you have made a few mistakes that you might like to clear up. Firstly, the "original name of Britain" was not Albion, but attested to be something close to the modern Welsh 'Prydain' "Prettanikē" in the earliest Greek accounts. Similarly, 'Albion' does not conclusively refer to "the white cliffs of Dover". There are two reasons for this being unlikely. The first was that the crossing to Dover was mostly seen as a stretch of dangerous and hazardous sea, so that the route via the Scilly Isles to Cornwall and Devon was preferred by many. There are no chalk deposit cliffs in that region, so their sight of Britain would not be accounted as 'white'. Secondly and more importantly, Bernhard Maier in 'The Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture' stresses that the word 'Albion' is probably cognate with Middle Welsh 'elfydd', meaning world or land, possibly also with 'Albiorix', the name of a Gaulish god with the possible meaning of 'king of the World/land.' The Celtic foundation of the name Albion probably referred to Britain being the world "above ground", illuminated by the sun, parallel to the "world below" of the Otherworld. There is a third possibly that Albion derives from 'Alba" meaning 'mountain', a word that remains in our modern 'Alps' and 'Albania', though many linguists dismiss this possibility.
If you were to say the oldest "attested" name was 'Albion', then that is more factually correct, however in doing so you are allowing foreign writers to dictate the name of a land inhabited by speakers who later corrected once trade began to Πρεττανία (Prettanía) and Βρεττανία (Brettanía 'Britain'), Βρεττανός (Brettanós 'Briton'). However, Britain was inhabited before Celtic expansion from Europe and thus the name that its aboriginal people gave to the land is lost to us, but undoubtedly its oldest name.
Great info! Thanks! I got Albion from Avalon,parting the myst(illumination) . I learned also the Alps contained more Celts than below the Alp regions. Either way something still points me to the North...
I love all the information, and I love the beautiful pictures that grace your video. And you have a very smooth, easy to listen to voice :) Loved it!!!!!
Question about Thjalfi and Roskva. If they are elves, may it explain why they stay as kids while traveling with Thor? Thats the first time I Heard of it and I find it very cool idea. Kinda makes sense Thor would stop at home of elves to sleep i , or have servants that are elves and not mortals. Other gods could make fun of him for having regular humans as servants.
Btw. I like the idea that Ivaldi was just a Vanir god of fertility and he just got around both elves and dwarves like Zeus. Could explain how his soms knew gods and could create stuff even gods could use.
Wayland is also named Volund and considere god of Smith in saxon/germanic folklore. And since most gods are related to Odin, I like the idea Volund was Odin’s another bastard son from an elf woman. Or related to Vanirs.
I love your channel. I just found you channel and subscribed, but have you ever thought about getting rid of the strobe light filter?
It is annoying at best but also, as one who deals with epilepsy, it makes me a little nervous to watch some parts.
Have you ever thought about it?
Strobe light filter? Do you mean the one that is supposed to mimic like an old film?
polynesian mythology, fillipino mytholgy and malaysian mythology also have their own versions of elves? hakuturi (polynesian), engkanto & dalaketnon (fillipino) and orang bunian (malaysian)
Such a good video. Thank you. Your narration and the added sounds were great
Wonderful as ever. Sometime could we have an outline of fairy lore - are they the same as elves but Celtic instead of Germanic? Also, where does one find the numerous beautiful images that appear in these uplifting Fortress of Lugh videos? ?
a lot of the images in this video were clearly AI generated. unfortunately, the best AI art is invariably lost under the sheer volume of AI generated art that gets cranked out constantly.
It is possible to take screenshots off of TH-cam 💛🌸🌿🦋🌊🐋🌈🌅
The El, Elohim, Elves, were our ancestors, they had long heads.
Hey Kevin you caught my attention with this video I'm finding it very informative 👍👍👍.
17:37 Star Wars Tattoo of the Empire on the sea elf maiden model. 😂 noice!
I love this kind of videos, it's soo interesting to know the origins of word and myths 😊👍❤️
This is one of a handfull of channels I subscribe to.
Just imagine if MCU's Thor has two elves has his servants. I can see how it goes. At first, he most likely treated them not quite well and tend to ignore their advices. But after what happened between him and Loki, he most likely apologized to them and treat them better. By the time of Avengers: Infinity War, Thor most likely ordered them to leave with the other refugees to make sure they survived. And knowing that they are no match to Thanos, they most likely obeyed his command.
This channel just doesn’t stop pumping out quality content. Brilliant work.
I pretty much discard the negative connotations from Christian texts on Elves. Just Christian’s trying to demonise (quite literally) our heritage.
My bedside book from when I 7 until well in my teens was "Götter und Helden der Germanen" (Peterich, 1955).
From what I learned there, the Germanic tribes, at least the ones of the early Middle Ages, believed in two types of elves, the light elves and the dark elves. The dark elves were said to be terrible to behold and the light elves beautiful as the sun.
But that's where the similarities end, as both were dwarves. The dwarf Alberich was an elf, so much so, that his name is the origin of "Oberon".
Thus, the dark elves would have been the dwarfs and the light elves would be fairies and sprites.
Of course, the lines are fuzzy and time mixed things up a lot. Tolkien and our modern image of the "elves" is very influences by the Irish Tuatha de Danaan, who were actually the gods of the pre-Christian Irish, but as interpreted by Christian monks a few centuries later.
Something that is 100% modern is the idea of Elves with pointy ears. Specially with these donkey ears that seem to be the latest hype in depicting elves.
Germanic tribes lived next to Northern tribes, which they considered to possess magical powers. With shamans of which some were light and some dark. The light ones ascended to the sky and the dark ones descended to the underground. Hunted with bows and arrows. Some had darker appearance and some fair. Some were shorter and some taller and some even considerably so. Some lived in dugouts and still traditionally do so today. Pointy ears they did not have, though.
@@ConontheBinarian Yes they did. Not all tribes did, but these ones did. They were known for magical archery skills. I'm sure they didn't use high-powered rifles, because they weren't invented then.
@@ConontheBinarian They were thought to possess magical powers. There's a difference between what was believed and what was true. The funny thing is, that what most likely was true and was known to be true at the time, has become pointy eared creatures living beyond the sun, because people have started to take shamanistic believes literally.
The El had long heads. Almost all the "ELves" of the past 5000 years were El, human hybrids. It would be interesting to find out if King Tut's family's ears were preserved in the mummy wrappings, as they had long heads. The weird fold in the ear is still present in a portion of humans today... the pointy ear genetics live on from our Elohim ancestors.
Freya and her brother are Inanna and Shamash from Sumerian religion. The norse were influnced by Sumerian lore.
I've thought about this and have come to the tentative theory based mostly by what they are and what they say. They can't lie - but twist the truth. They're not good enough for Heaven but not bad enough for hell. Most can be described as living (not spirits, though they cavort with spirits) but with long life. And they live in a pocket dimension. I think they are the last of the Nephilim.
You should ask to be a guest on the Jive Talk podcast with Thomas Rowsell.
Can you make a video about the man Snorri Surrelson himself?
I guess a video about him could also in general be a video about Iceland's preservation of Old Norse tales and Language
Wow, dearest contributor of so much detailed knowledge of the elves, dwarfs and other outer worldly figures like Gods and Godesses; it was a lot to take in. So, thank you for your research and detailed story-telling. Especially I liked the connectedness and similarities of nearly all of the ancient cultures. All were experienced by human beings but on a level of mythology and not reason, and all of them would bow to the female part of creation as well, as I understand it.
What I was still missing were some psychological insights into the nature of the myths themselves, meaning the wonder of human life and its connectedness to its otherworldly origins and history (or her story respectively) on the one hand and the wonders of recreation both in a physical way as in a spiritual way of beings descendants of other powers or of our own powers leading into the belief of Karma.
So far, so good, thank you anyway for your contribution to our magical or mythical related connectedness with Mother-Father-God, Mother Mary and Jesus Christ which you don't mention but which in my opinion are the solution of the problem to the human identity crisis to which the mythogical stories of all times are a reflection of.
Always yours,
Elimar
@Aberelimar: Ever wondered where mythology ends and fantasy begins? I have and am still no closer to an answer. In time, maybe.
@@greypilgrim2028 Thank you for your openness. dear friend. I am convinced though that this is not the question. It's more the question where mythology ends and reality begins.
@@Aberelimar Very good point. I can be a little sluggish at times. Thank you for your prompt reply.
Concerning reality though, I found Morpheus's description in Matrix very unsettling.
This is awesome ❤
I really enjoyed your narration and the gorgeous artwork. It was a beautifully done video.
Dwarves didn't necessarily have to be short in Norse mythology. They could either be small or larger than a man.
Literally in English that wasn't the dwarf, it's the silence of troll changes, between Norse trolls being short and Scottish trolls later being huge.
@@henriettaabeyta1457 trolls in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore can be big or small, be human or beast. They mainly lived in knit tight groups outside of civilization or society and rarely helped humans. The name troll is associated with magic
@@dylansearcy3966 Well all nine of worlds of Norse have their association with magic. But I know my vocabulary of mythology from both Scandinavia, as well the less shared similarities in the old Prehispanic. But it's the Celtic history I strong enthusiasm of. The elf species would be said to be numerous if people shared language more often.
Fantastic clarification abundant here! Thank you!
Thanks for the awesome video! 🙂👍
Time stamp at 4:05 beefcake totally took a hit to the balls with that hammer’s hilt, lol.
😮😱😭good sleuthing friend...😂
They are animistic beings or "nature spirits", amd they form and fashion what we call Nature. Each element uas its own apecific being associated wirh it. Elves take care of flowers, plants and trees.
Gee, that highest realm, the one around the sun, will be pretty empty eh! Basically one maybe two in the entire place!
I wonder how this connects (if at all) with the history and philology of "gnomes." When Tolkein first began writing his mythology in 1917, he names the noldor 'gnomes' before he changed their name to 'elves.'
Tolkien was heavily influenced by Kalevala, the Finnish and Karelian epic. In Finnish folklore elves and gnomes are the same or very similar beings. The Noldor also spoke Quenya, for which Tolkien took a lot of influence from the Finnish language.
Weren't they already elves, but Noldor specifically were going to make "gnomes" a subgroup of elves?
this wasnt a mythology but fantasy.
@@mateokarlvonpavlovic8295 some of the letters between Tolkien and his son betray that idea. The channel Indeepgeek covers them. Tolkien not only describes it as a "secondary world" (like a fantasy), but a real world mythological history taking place some "8000" years ago (Tolkien's words).
@@stephenarachtingi8678 do you really believe that, he wrote lotr since he knew norse mythology slavic mythology and celtic one. And of course the message in book is christian. I mean many things that you see on yt might be to twisted. And to be honest gnomes might be a part of fairies, dont know or they might be Just diff creatures. My Grand grandfather saw elvs and they were big as humans and had pointed Nose and ears he saw them with goat legs like satirs but they also have normal human legs. They were ypung beautiful women. I know what you mean now. To be honest he was inspired by mythology and added beings to his book and he also made up some beings to. I wouldnt say mythology since mythology isnt quiet fake like supernatural beings. Their philosophy of earth might be fake but not every story in it. So fantasy is fully made up while mythology might not be.
Very fascinating video; thanks for posting.
Elwyn is Welsh and means “befriended by the elves.” Obviously pre-Christian and recognized an individual of elevated status. During this period someone with close relationships with elves was considered blessed.
According to Tim Clarkson, biographer of Alfred the Great's daughter Aethelflaed, she had only one child, a daughter named Elfwynn, which he also translates "elf--friend" but implies that the name is Anglo-Saxon not Welsh.
Once heard that the Dwarves and Drow were one in the same before becoming distinct creatures. 🤔
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻
To be fair, Geoffrey Chaucer said a lot of things...
There is no indication in the Eddas that elves or dwarves (dark elves) are different sizes and many references which would lead one to believe that they are human size. Same goes for the jotunna
TH-cam suggested this video and I needed a break from what I was researching, well you connected this to what I am researching, haha. May I know your sources connecting Freyr to Iranian and Zoroastrian beliefs? Thank you.
13:20 There's also a physical location in Eastern Norway called Alvheim, or "Elf Home". It's interesting to notice that what's said to be the physical location, not far south-east of the Oslo-fjord, is the one area closest to both Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and though, I can imagine, as an area with constant feuds of ownership and the reason for a lot of bloodshed and death, and even a division of the same peoples into many tribes.
The artwork and depictions in this video are spectacularly beautiful
I'm sure the AI that generated them would be happy to hear that.
Fascinating and very interesting. I've subscribed and am looking forward to more of these captivating stories.
"Bes" Bes was the Egyptian god of play and recreation. He was envisioned as a "full-faced, bow-legged dwarf with an oversized head, goggle eyes, protruding tongue, bushy tail and usually a large feathered crown as a head-dress. "Representations of an almost identical dwarf-god became widespread across the Near East during the first millennium BC and are common in Syria, Palestine, and Arabia. This god's name in Assyrian and Babylonian may have been Pessû. Bes seems to have been the only Egyptian god who became widely worshipped throughout Mesopotamia. His role in Mesopotamian religion was however closer to that of a type of apotropaic creature (native examples of which include lahmu, kusarikku, mushussu etc.) than a deity proper.
again ..Such amazing work my friend, I have to say your work is getting better....keep it up.
Heres a aspect I want to point out about the death boats. This is my view as a Clairvoyant and researcher into everything "hidden". that when the proverbial deluge happened and the esoteric meaning of a Rainbow...ie the Promise of God. Was really a division of spectrums of realities. Better known as "the Veils" that separates our idea of reality from many others. One of these "between" realities I personally believe to be all water and that all sorts of entities including the traveling human spirit needs a boat to travel where they need to go. If your with out a boat then you can pay a fiery/Ferry man to take you or risk being enslaved on other ships/barges for many types of hyper dimensional entities. So for myself I'm already making my own boat to be buried with...I don't think the size matters since its been found in many graves are toy boats for just the same reason. So the paranormal side to my belief in this is that ive not only seen mass amounts of the spirits of the dead and many types of other entities traveling on ghost ships of all sizes and from all around the world but I've also been able to document them during my own field research..which I won't share or publicize due to oaths. A good example of these watery in-betweens is this scene in Pirates of the Caribbean th-cam.com/video/9o3riOOr74w/w-d-xo.html or the story of Charon the Ferryman ..I ask myself could the river Acheron/Styx be not a river but a type of purgatory reality? Guess I'll find out eventually.
Tolkien - elves are tall and fair, possessing a graceful and ethereal beauty. They have pointed ears, slanted eyes, and are known for their radiant and ageless appearance. Elves are often described as being physically superior to humans, with exceptional strength, agility, and keen senses... and the Santa kind.
Elves have never been described as having pointed ears, neither in Tolkien's works or Sagas and Eddas, it's a mainstream popularization by Peter Jackson who created the popular triology films of Lord of the Rings.
@@twilightknight2333 Not sure where that came from but another copy/paste from Quora, "The question of whether Elves have pointed ears is controversial. In his narratives, Tolkien never describes them as having such. Exceptionally beautiful mortals can be mistaken for Elves (e.g., Morwen Eledhwen, Turin Turambar, Erendis wife of Aldarion), and it seems that this would be unlikely if their ears were distinctly different. On the other hand, in one of his letters, Tolkien says that Hobbit ears are slightly pointed and "elfin." In a linguistic note on the word "lasse" (leaf) in HoME 5 (I think), he says that Elves' ears were more leaf-shaped than those of Men. So their ears may or may not have been somewhat pointed, but they probably didn't look like Vulcans."