Call to Maponos - Gaulish Celtic Song
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Music & vocals by Farya Faraji. Special thanks to the channel Gaisowiros for helping out with the pronunciation-make sure to check out their channel for info on Gaulish language, culture and customs. Please note that this isn’t an actual preserved piece of Gaulish music, but a modern hypothetical, extremely speculative reconstruction that is historically informed, and seeks to provide a plausible example of what Gaulish music may have sounded like by using their instruments.
I was asked before to make Gaulish-themed music, but the first question that came to mind was how to go about it. The easy, and in my opinion, lazy option would have been to make something Irish or Scottish sounding, full of fiddles and bagpipes, to draw from a vague and meaningless Celtic connection. Gaulish music sounded nothing like what we consider to be the “Celtic” sound. Celtic music as we understand it is specifically the 18th century-onwards forms of music in Ireland and Scotland primarily; it has no intrinsic connections to the Celtic ethnolinguistic family at large, and we shouldn’t imagine Briton, Pictish, Gaulish or Galatian music as sounding anything close to Irish/Scottish music just because of the Celtic connection-the linguistic connection does not extend to the musical traditions.
Instead, I thought it would be far more interesting to explore the actual soundscapes of the Gauls as it sounded. We have found remnants of their instruments, so the instruments palette is known to us, and this piece uses the lyre, pan flute, and bronze brass instruments, mainly the Carnyx. Bowed instruments like the fiddle did not exist in Antiquity, and there is no evidence to show that the Gauls played bagpipes. It is very likely that they adopted it from the Romans.
For the melody, I utilised a pentatonic structure. My reasoning was twofold: pentatonic structures are the most widely distributed across all of humanity, and are present in European music to a significant degree. Furthermore, they were widely used in the music of the Classical Greco-Roman world, which strengthens the chances of them being present in Gaulish music.
The lyrics are extracted from the Chamalières tablet, a lead tablet dated to between 50 B.C to 50 A.D, the words of which are an invokation to the deity Maponos, a god of youth equated with Apollo. I want to give special thanks again to the channel Gaisowiros for having helped out with the pronunciation.
Lyrics in Gaulish:
Andedion uediIumi diIiuion risun,
Aritu mapon aruerriIatin,
Iopites snIeððdic sos brixtia anderon!
English translation:
In the name of the good strength of the underworld gods,
I invoke Maponos of Arverion.
Pursue those with the magic of the infernals!
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You can buy this track and more of my work here: faryafaraji.bandcamp.com/album/voices-of-the-ancients-vol-iii
Music & vocals by Farya Faraji. Special thanks to the channel Gaisowiros for helping out with the pronunciation-make sure to check out their channel for info on Gaulish language, culture and customs. th-cam.com/users/Gaisowiros
Please note that this isn’t an actual preserved piece of Gaulish music, but a modern hypothetical, extremely speculative reconstruction that is historically informed, and seeks to provide a plausible example of what Gaulish music may have sounded like by using their instruments. The point of this was more to show that Gaulish music would have sounded very different from modern music of Ireland and Scotland, which is perceived as being quintessentially Celtic, rather than providing insight into Gaulish music itself first and foremost.
I was asked before to make Gaulish-themed music, but the first question that came to mind was how to go about it. The easy, and in my opinion, lazy option would have been to make something Irish or Scottish sounding, full of fiddles and bagpipes, to draw from a vague and meaningless Celtic connection. Gaulish music sounded nothing like what we consider to be the “Celtic” sound. Celtic music as we understand it is specifically the 18th century-onwards forms of music in Ireland and Scotland primarily; it has no intrinsic connections to the Celtic ethnolinguistic family at large, and we shouldn’t imagine Briton, Pictish, Gaulish or Galatian music as sounding anything close to Irish/Scottish music just because of the Celtic connection-the linguistic connection does not extend to the musical traditions.
Instead, I thought it would be far more interesting to explore the actual soundscapes of the Gauls as it sounded. We have found remnants of their instruments, so the instruments palette is known to us, and this piece uses the lyre, pan flute, and bronze brass instruments, mainly the Carnyx. Bowed instruments like the fiddle did not exist in Antiquity, and there is no evidence to show that the Gauls played bagpipes. It is very likely that they adopted it from the Romans.
For the melody, I utilised a pentatonic structure. My reasoning was twofold: pentatonic structures are the most widely distributed across all of humanity, and are present in European music to a significant degree. Furthermore, they were widely used in the music of the Classical Greco-Roman world, which strengthens the chances of them being present in Gaulish music.
The lyrics are extracted from the Chamalières tablet, a lead tablet dated to between 50 B.C to 50 A.D, the words of which are an invokation to the deity Maponos, a god of youth equated with Apollo. I want to give special thanks again to the channel Gaisowiros for having helped out with the pronunciation.
Lyrics in Gaulish:
Andedyon wediyumi diyiwion risun aritu mapon arwerrilatin
Lotites snieððdic sos brixtya anderon
English translation:
In the name of the good strength of the underworld gods,
I invoke Maponos of Arverion.
Pursue those with the magic of the infernals!
should do a song on the greatest gauls that ever lived Asterix and Obelix.
@@marcus4046 Sad Vercingetorix noises
Its sad that most people dont know that
And actually its really spell briXtia not brirhtia
@@servantofaeie1569 Sadly, probably not. By the time of Christianization, the Gauls had been pretty much Romanized.
I will never understand how you manage to release one of these bangers every 3 to 5 days with that level of dedication to deliver something at least as close to historically accurate as possible
Realmente, é algo absurdo!
Me lembro de Bach e quantas composições ele fazia e distribuía às igrejas, mas mesmo assim era um músico que estava meio que no anonimato em seu tempo.
Bangers, you said it. I could even imagine a (drumnbass) remix of this to be played at any rave and people being wild about it!
What I'm saying dude is more musically talented then any mainstream artist
Historically accurate??????
@@Dashuyan88 as possible*
Let's go ! Finally a Gaulish song !
finally...Gaulish
@@Deaabaldeabdeab Gaul is ancient France
@@linagreenlyfe6705 Not only ancient France, also parts of northern Italy, Luxembourgh, and Belgium, etc.
@@jo2236 Barbarians, living in trees while Rome,Greece and middle east were civilized
@@Unknown-bt5rd bro imagine not wearing pants
Amazing, more of this please! Even though I am of Scots-Irish descent myself, I often find that "Celtic" is 99% of the time represented purely by Irish and Scottish inspirations, with little representation for Britons, and even less for Gauls and Celtiberians.
Yes, the Insular Celts are the last living representatives of the Celtic world. The rest of the Continental Celts had been assimilated, so forgotten.
Don't forget about Wales or the isle of man 😉
@@tibsky1396 Not quite.
Brittany still remains.
@@georgewash8926 The Bretons are descendants of the insular Celts in Britannia. They found themselves massively in Gaul precisely because of the Anglo-Saxon invasion in the 5th-6th century. Culturally, they are closer to the Welsh for example.
@@tibsky1396 Yes you are right. Though I fail to see how their 1500 years old insular roots makes them an assimilated or forgotten culture on the continent.
If your point was that their briton ancestry disqualifies them as successors to the gallic cultures of the continent then I must apologize but your original comment lacked clarity.
The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium...
I like that story, the village is burned now btw and the men sold to slavery
@@justinianthegreat1444 asterix bad ending
Sounds like a good ending to me
there's still one man
how did y'all not get the reference lol
Being from the Arvernes region, Auvergne, i'm very happy you made this song, and since it's the boar hunting season here just like probably has been since humans are here, boars are a big thing for hunters here as we are the Charcuterie capital of France it's a tradition in most families even if less and less because of less time, to make with boar and pork everything :
Salted meats: pieces of pork (Palette, Jambonneau, etc.) preserved in brine or treated with dry salt, these like are wines and can be conserved for years and gain taste and value with years.
Dry products: all raw hams and sausages with small casing (boyau) and saucisson with the big casing (boyau). After salting, they are dried in a room with the right conditions and in auvergne the weather is ideal.
Sausages and sausages to be cooked: based on salted and flavored "sausage meat" before being put in a casing and the blood sausage the Boudin with vegetables (to me the most delicious thing about killing a pork).
Meat and offal pâtés: pâtés, mousses and cream spreads. Based on pork but mostly pork liver.
Candied: Head (snout, head cheese) and hoof (pig's trotter) products. (I don't like it but people had to eat everything back in the day, some people say they love it)
Tripe products: tripes, andouille and andouillette (The last two should only be tasted if you buy them at a very good charcuterie or make them yourself because you can't produce them quickly and must take your time otherwise they would taste like s*/, literally).
Terrines, pâtés and dumplings of pork meat in boiled sterilized jars.
If you do one again I would be pleased to hear an hunting song with slowly increasing pace with many Carnynx going full blow at times because really that's what they were about and what we are about many forests, wildlife and hunting 😄.
(Sorry if i made mistakes i don't know the english terms for certain words)
@Cookius Maximus Si tu as une cave ou une pièce qui reste a température constante toute l'année je te conseille d'acheter un cochon, demander de l'aide a tes voisins et apprendre l'art de la charcuterie auvergnate pour ne pas manger des "cochonneries" pleine de nitrites qui font grossir 😅car c'est bientôt la période du séchage vers fin novembre.
That’s very cool, the Celtic peoples have myths of hunting a great boar, especially King Arthur’s court hunting the king of boars. It’s very cool to see what was likely ancient Gaulish tradition still in practice
land of the vercingétorix! salutations
@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 fortunately this tradition is still very vivid in french countryside, not only in Auvergne, but also in Occitanie where i am from, and overall across all the country
We making it out of Gallia Narbonensis with this one 🔥🗣 🔥🗣 🔥🗣
Gallia Belgicae mentioned, wtf is a sustainable economy?!?!?!?!
Damn that was unexpected. I wasn't expecting a "historically accurate" peace of music/ reconstruction. Absolutely beautiful
the gaul languages is latin that made modern day France
@@narekserobyan9002 Gaulish, is a celtic language not latin, and isn't tje ancestor of modern French
@@narekserobyan9002 Gaulish was a different language from Latin. Modern French may have Gaulish influences, but it's a Romance language.
@@thibistharkuk2929 Gaulish is in fact a celtic language, but the gauls are the ancestors of the french people without any doubt, we have many records that can prove that.
@@matjsz I didn't deny this, however linguistically, French is a romance language. Also, let's not forget that other people group also mixed with the gauls, be they latin, greek, germanic and others
It was a pleasure helping you with these lyrics.
Suawelos, care barde!
Essi cantlon ro-dagon, carante!
Do you know gaulish?
@@mlipinski3396 I do know some Gaulish yes
@@Gaisowiros Does care barde means something along to "dear bard"? Seams similaire to "cher barde" in french
@@thibistharkuk2929 It does! "cher barde" and "care bardos" are cognates, but "cher barde" comes from "carus bardus" in Latin. The word "caros" from Gaulish could be from the same Indo-European root or it could be a borrowing.
I'm going to play this for my bride who's of Celtic descent and loves all things French 🇮🇪❤🇫🇷
Thanks bro i'm a breton celtic guy and i enjoy than you enjoy all things about french :)
@@hidekolawliet6543 Breizh Atao 😉
You forgot northern Italy 💪
dont be stupid. there is nothing such as celtic descent. Only Irish/Scottish/Welsch pretty much. And there is a huge difference between these two terms.
@@Ousvec we have celtic/germanic DNA, so he's right in a way
A song in the language of Vercingetorix, Ambiorix, and Brennus!
This man never fails.
Probably the best historical musician of TH-cam
"I know your only real enemy is one man and he is standing before you now. I'm giving myself to you, Caesar. Our women died for us. I give you my own life so that you may let my men live. If my men die, there will be nothing left of the Gauls, no one left to worship our gods. I beg you. Enslave my people if you need to, but let them live"
*Gallic King Vercingetorix while surrounding to Julius Caesar*
Farya, brother. You literally put every main stream artist to shame. You put out amazing music almost bi weekly. You're blessed with being the most musically talented person I know. It takes such skill to play all these instruments and to beable to nail it in so many languages is absolutely baffling to me.
exactly
tbf they did't have very complicated instruments they probably had some type of horn, drums, and maybe a rattle and thats it.
it would be an interesting topic to do one about the ancient celtiberians since we return to the celtic world
UP! Lusitanos, galaicos, cônios... Isso só na região de Portugal hein, na Espanha há ainda mais!
Opa... E quanto aos bascos?
@@kaykysoares9152 As a Mexican, I am very aware of several of the historical regions of Iberia, but I think that the Celtiberians would be the most interesting because of their mestizo culture of Celts and Iberians, but above all because They are the ones with the most information about their language. The rest of the Celtic peoples of Iberia disappeared without leaving much evidence beyond some names of places and people.
@@soslanroseft4750 verdade! As escritas paleohispânicas foram as primeiras formas de escrita encontradas na Europa Ocidental, se não me engano. Há muitos vestígios dos celtíberos a serem explorados!
@@soslanroseft4750 The Tartessians did leave quite a bit of stuff tho
@@kaykysoares9152 I know of its existence but it hasn't been translated so it doesn't have much value to make music
You have, not a new suscriber, like this was some kind of mere magazine, but someone who will look forward for your astonishing work.
Thanks a lot for your great dedication to music, history and cultures around the world.
Thanks alot! I appreciate it :)
Encore bravo et merci pour ton œuvre, qui devient une véritable encyclopédie musicale. Avec les groupes de métal et de folk, qui piochent arbitrairement les inspirations, l'histoire musicale est totalement malmenée. Tu l'as assez bien exprimée avec tes vidéos dissertations, la musique est le domaine de savoir le plus touché par les idées reçues je pense :c
This is the 1st When I think of goldfish people I usually think of bagpipes and marine instruments but this one using actual instruments sounds almost tribal to sort like what the African bands have and yet it's European at the same time
It's a tribalisha
Merci beaucoup! En effet, l’élément historique est relativement perdu dans la musique historique populaire, alors j’essaye de faire ma part pour le ramener :)
@@faryafaraji❤️💪 merci
Awesome as always, I'm waiting for the day you'll bless us with your version of "legio aeterna victrix"
Invicta centes multa
Yet they were defeated by the uncivilized, the ones they exploited. Barbarians
Now this, I did not expect! This is awesome, didn't even really think we had any idea what Gaulish music sounded like. Such a cool culture, too bad barely anything has survived from it.
Obelix'prayer for boar …😎
I've been hoping to hear you do their music again. Return of the vocal chameleon. I really love how thoughtfully you work to make lyrics that are as authentic to the way as they might have been heard by those who may have performed something like this in days long gone.
You bring honor to my ancestors and to me, you extraordinary man..
💙🌳🇨🇵
Again, you return with a BANGER! Amazing and I love all the historical details in the description.
_Merci pour le voyage dans le passé sans avoir besoin de la machine à remonter le temps_ 😁 👏👏👏👍
Merci Lise!
Nunca pensé escuchar una canción en un lenguaje muerto,me encanta tu trabajo Farya
Bienvenido a esta parte de TH-cam entonces! Hay un montón de vídeos por ahí en muchos idiomas muertos.
Arguably a dead dialect, but several islands in the English Channel still locally speak close cousin dialects.
@@eldermillennial8330 Distant cousins tbf, Gaulish lingustic continuum has always shown at least as much similarities to Latin than to Brythonic languages
I'm waiting for Norse songs!! I love your work 💙
Can't wait for the Dr. Crawford and Farya collab.
@@PRKLGaming that is the moment the world of history youtube has a achieved its peak content
That would be good!
WE MAKIN IT OUTTA ROME WITH THIS ONE 🔥‼️💯🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Farya, another stunner! Thank you for invoking Maponos for all of us!
I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the snake bite enter my brain
VOODOO VOODOO
So many of Gaul has been waiting this gallic
Beautiful stuff. Also, very appreciate the great information and details in the description
It really makes you wonder what nation is next? Maybe more of the Roman rivals like Dacia, Egypt or Germania? We'll see what Farya is cooking up
I'm Romanian, and supposedly the Dacians are our ancestors. But we have no idea how their language sounded like, not to speak about their music...
You are an extraordinary artist
Thank you arkadaş!
I have always wanted to hear something like this! Amazing as always. I'd love to hear more Gaulish music
WHAT I didn't think you'd actually do it you madman; it's beautiful
Always a perfection with farya faraji
Karantos imon, that's a brilliant piece! It would be great to hear more keltik songs! Hooray
Very unique and awesome choice, would hardly not find it elsewhere, you never disappoint!
Sindos essi cantlon ro-dagon, carant. Carâmî-i!
(This is a really good song, friend. I love it!)
This is exactly what I need in my life
Cool from france
Asterix' Song
Excellent! Et j'ai immédiatement reconnu les paroles de la plaque de Chamalières à cause de la chanson "Desuumis Luge" de Eluveitie
Merci😘
HOW MUCH SIR , how much are you talented ? Just amazing
Very interesting how much goes jnto creating a piece like this despite the gaps in our knowledge.
Excellent and I love your approach to how and why you did it this way.
It's amazing how similar Gaulish is to Latin. As a Latin student myself, I could understand nearly every word without a problem
Indeed, it could be made into an argument in the favor of the Italo-Celtic grouping linguistic hypothesis. I've encountered this anecdote where Julius Caesar preferred sending letters to his officers in Greek rather than Latin, because he thought Gaulish was similar enough to Latin that if intercepted, the Gauls may understand some of it. I don't know if this anecdote is true, but if it is, it's definitely interesting.
Fascinating anecdote, if true.
@@faryafaraji The anecdote is indeed true! De Bello Gallico 5.48: "Then with great rewards he induces a certain man of the Gallic horse to convey a letter to Cicero. This he sends written in Greek characters, lest the letter being intercepted, our measures should be discovered by the enemy." Though Caesar doesn't specifically say it's because Latin is close enough to Gaulish, or just that the Gauls knew Latin (but not Greek), I think the first conclusion is quite possible.
@@Gaisowiros For me,I think it's a mixture of both since Celtic & Italic came from the same branch thus have similar vocabulary,Gauls & Rome always fighting each other so eventually some Gauls knew some or many Latin words
@@faryafaraji it's kind of ironic because the Gauls didn't have a written language prior to the arrival of the Romans. And when they did create a writing system, they adopted Greek characters
Celtic Music at the start of Autumn I mean , It's Perfect !
Asterix and Obelix ??
a Celtic song just in time for the Samhain season.
Pour le Français d'ascendance armoricaine que je suis, j'ai pris plaisir à écouter cette chanson.
This is absolutely outstanding reconstruction ( I say this as if I would be able to catch mistakes) what I am trying to say is sets my imagination on fire 🔥!!!! 👍
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!
You make more honour for our Roots than most of French people ❤️🇨🇵
What are the parols at the beginning? True gaulic words?
You literally have a language that survived to these days still spoken in France, and I'm not talking about Breton, that arrived later.
@@irdcsWhich one then ?
Hey Farya, just wanna say you're a legend
I'll just humbly add in english a few ideas and questions about areas i'd love to be musically explored ! (pls excuse my Eng)
- Rhine region/Switzerland : are there musical differences with most gaulish music, or any enventual germanic music (I don't know if there is any) ? What are the musical evolutions of this region during the early middle ages as it becomes mostly allemanic and franconian ?
- Flanders in middle ages. For some historians, economically speaking, Brugge is the sister of Venise, so I suppose there are a lot of cultural life over there as well.
- Moldavian music, Ukrainian music (cossacks) : is there a turkish musical influence going with the cultural influence ?
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You've earned your new subscriber
Keep up this great work!!!
Love from Pakistan Pashtun 🇵🇰 ♥
And I have 1 request
If you can please make some Pashtun Tribal or ancient type of music
Please
I would be so honoured to hear that!
Farix Farajix
Teşekkürler kardeşim
Amazing music.
Sehr schön geworden ♥️👍🏻
Song might be good, but did you know your ancestors help the Romans exterminated Celtics in the ancient times?
@@bosanskenaufalevic7370 really?
Beatiful song and amazing performance, It would be amazing if you could try more balkan songs. Maybe albanian music from the south?
you take us around the time and place
Asterix
This song is the bomb.
Asterix theme
Vive la Gaule
fantastic!
I really like this one!
I shared this with my Italian speaking family members asking them if this sounded like Italian. They generally agreed yes that it’s because most of the words end in vowels. My Nonna said that the weird consonants made it out as non-Italian
Never fails to impress
Perfect song. Upload the La Llorona
All your works are magnificent works of art. they are all masterpieces that should be used in serials and movies. Your works in Turkish are indescribably extraordinary for me, but your work reflects the Welsh language and Celtic culture so well that I listen to it every day. The sound of the original musical instruments impressed the rhythm. All your works in all languages are very beautiful. This piece of yours is a wonderful, extraordinarily perfect song. thank you endlessly
Gaulois levez-vous !!!
I’m waiting for great leader and general Caesar to arrive.
J'aime bien sa , c'est bon! I like this alot , it's good!
Это просто великолепно 😍
From Russia with love ❤
Хоть я и украинец, но тут с тобой полностью согласен.
Песня топ, как и сам канал)
Старинная французская музыка, написанная иранцами, любимая русскими и одобренная украинцами.
В наши дни такая красота, кажется, ускользает.
Я желаю вам мира.
из Китая.
Old French music written by Iranians, loved by Russians and approved by Ukrainians.
These days, such beauty seems to be escaping.
I wish you peace.
from China.
i want to hear asterix and obelix sings this song !!!
I have a feeling that this song will be used on a new symphony but who knows?
Thank you for honoring my ancestors 🙏🏻 all the love from France 🇫🇷
Welcome back man
One of my favorite instruments is the carnyx. There is a short on YT that has a part in it that the musician plays two sounds from it and it sounds so war-like.
I love it but my friend gets scared hearing it, I told her it's because she must have Roman blood in her veins😂.
Damn this is catchy
100%!!!
My ancesters in my patrilineal line was gaulish ! Thanks !
idk about the flag but happy to finnaly see some Gaulish reperesantation
Well, gaul wasn't a one country but multiple tribes, so there isn't a flag but pig with green background is representetive
@@bahadrkara8177 yes but it was a fairly similar culture through and through, one language that could be understand from Anatolia to Brittany, the valleys of the Po to where the Rhine empties into the North Sea.
Vast was the reach of their culture, and thus many of us are their descendants
Très sympa !
I feel like there's a druid sacrificing animals to gods
Astérix e Obelix
Magnifique, signé DANAA LA BRETONNE QUI VIE EN AVERNIE AUVERGNE KELTIA🇨🇵💙🌳
Hace años aprendí algo de Celtibero ( el de España) y esta canción me encantó. Saludos :3, eres GRANDE ENTRE LOS GRANDES.
Belisarius - Epic Byzantine Music
let's GOO❤❤❤
1 year later and I still listening to this banger lets GOO❤❤❤❤
It would be nice to hear you singing some Jacobites’ songs like welcome royal Charlie
It’s probably the most mainstream one but for now I did sing the Skye Boat song, I’m preparing a Gaelic version too :)
@@faryafaraji Gallic is beautiful you can add some bagpipe effects in the background unless if you want to make it from the times of Gallia.
Btw I’m a huge fan
thank you
Good one Fraya
Nice!🇺🇲
It's so beautiful... Please, do your own gaulish song, with your own lyrics ( I hope you'll enjoy modern gaulish)
Had Gaulish ancestors ❤️
I think you can do one about Vercingetorix.
Bonita canción