Ospey's The Irish Wars 1485-1603 by Ian Heath also mentioned how the Irish frequently beheaded English soldiers 'never believing them to be fully dead till they have cut off their heads'.
There's quite a few ghastly headless apparitions in Celtic myth/ folklore as well. The Dullahan is a headless horseman & there are black carriages drawn by headless horses that I guess are harbingers of death if you see one. It's kind of wild how often decapitation & evil horses show up in the mythology & folklore.
I contemplated having the Dullahan be the topic of my next video! Did a write-up about him on the IrishMyths blog a few years back: irishmyths.com/2021/09/22/headless-horseman-history/
Amazing work and research, I see as well in Orkneyinga Saga and Njall's Saga with the Hiberno Scandinavian culture a link between these books and Kevin Murray's 'The early Finn Circle.' for me there is no doubt that the Irish Vikings also partake in head hunting culture.
Yeah, several of the things he brings up in the first 6 minutes caught my attention. They say the celtic priests drank out of skulls during rituals. There is an Etruscan myth delivered from the Greeks about an old seer who carried a skull around with him in a bag which aided him in his purposes, which is extremely reminiscent of Odin & Mimir. Plus, so many of the ritual substances are treated as ointments & potions, so you can almost imagine a practice, at one point, of drinking hallucinogenic teas from sacred skulls. That would also match up with why we see parts of bodies removed in some Norse & Germanic burials & why the Scandanavian toast is skal, & why most Germanic words for skull & bowl are related. As to the three head cultures atop poles- I've heard about similar things amongst the Slavs, too.
@@MrChristianDT Not everything has to be hallucinogenic. Priests at Mass drink red wine as part of the ritual. There's this idea that pagan practices always involved narcotics, it's just not supported. Nice observation about the link between skull and skal.
I believe that the head is the true seat of the soul. The reason is that the three words, "heart and soul" reverberate to me as being the heart and mind. Otherwise, why wouldn't it just say with "all of your heart" if the heart is the container of the soul, then the heart and soul wouldn't be mentioned separately. Just my little morsel of thought! Peace mercy, and God bless you all!
There is only one Irish God portrayed with 3 heads- Lugh. That appears to have been a common symbol for what was usually described as omnipotence, but as far as I can tell, it marked a favored god who could be invoked for just about any reason & existed in, at least, 3 different European religions- Celts (Lugh), Slavs (Triglav) & Thracians (Zalmoxis). The way these gods are described is also repeated with regards to Odin, though no evidence exists of adoption of the 3 head symbol for him.
i hadn't heard of Saultam getting his head cut off by his shield when riding his horse before, seems kinda weird that a warrior of Saultam's status (his wife is the kings sister and he is the brother of the former king) would be riding a horse at all and not in his chariot. anyways, cool video!
He's Sualtam mac Roich. His father Roich's name means great horse (ro-each) so there might be a tradition of horse riding there. Most of these guys are probably distant memories of old gods anyway so expecting them to always conform to human social norms is never going to work.
Do you think the myth of Mimir could have Celtic origins? I mean the Vanir cut his head off and given that the Vanir may have been the original gods in Scandinavia before the arrival of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and their Aesir gods I think there could be a connection
This adds a pretty ghastly element (potentially if your wrong) to the tradition of jack-o- lanterns and carved turnips on halloween. The implication being originally that by displaying the severed heads of the fallen in battle, decapitating them then later preserving it, you've captured the seat of their soul and imprisoned them on earth. Thus the when the hungry spirts of the deceased see the potentially chattering heads they might warn (the inhabitants of the house) or threaten the ravenous souls of what fate awaits them or their living descendedants should they attempt to harm said family.
@@damionkeeling3103 So a warning not to mess with someone who could potentially do some serious harm back to the restless dead or other malicious spirits?
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Ospey's The Irish Wars 1485-1603 by Ian Heath also mentioned how the Irish frequently beheaded English soldiers 'never believing them to be fully dead till they have cut off their heads'.
There's quite a few ghastly headless apparitions in Celtic myth/ folklore as well. The Dullahan is a headless horseman & there are black carriages drawn by headless horses that I guess are harbingers of death if you see one. It's kind of wild how often decapitation & evil horses show up in the mythology & folklore.
I contemplated having the Dullahan be the topic of my next video! Did a write-up about him on the IrishMyths blog a few years back: irishmyths.com/2021/09/22/headless-horseman-history/
Now I understand the Briton head hurlers from Rome Total War
Amazing work and research, I see as well in Orkneyinga Saga and Njall's Saga with the Hiberno Scandinavian culture a link between these books and Kevin Murray's 'The early Finn Circle.' for me there is no doubt that the Irish Vikings also partake in head hunting culture.
Yeah, several of the things he brings up in the first 6 minutes caught my attention. They say the celtic priests drank out of skulls during rituals. There is an Etruscan myth delivered from the Greeks about an old seer who carried a skull around with him in a bag which aided him in his purposes, which is extremely reminiscent of Odin & Mimir. Plus, so many of the ritual substances are treated as ointments & potions, so you can almost imagine a practice, at one point, of drinking hallucinogenic teas from sacred skulls. That would also match up with why we see parts of bodies removed in some Norse & Germanic burials & why the Scandanavian toast is skal, & why most Germanic words for skull & bowl are related. As to the three head cultures atop poles- I've heard about similar things amongst the Slavs, too.
@@MrChristianDT Not everything has to be hallucinogenic. Priests at Mass drink red wine as part of the ritual. There's this idea that pagan practices always involved narcotics, it's just not supported. Nice observation about the link between skull and skal.
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I believe that the head is the true seat of the soul. The reason is that the three words, "heart and soul" reverberate to me as being the heart and mind. Otherwise, why wouldn't it just say with "all of your heart" if the heart is the container of the soul, then the heart and soul wouldn't be mentioned separately. Just my little morsel of thought! Peace mercy, and God bless you all!
There is only one Irish God portrayed with 3 heads- Lugh. That appears to have been a common symbol for what was usually described as omnipotence, but as far as I can tell, it marked a favored god who could be invoked for just about any reason & existed in, at least, 3 different European religions- Celts (Lugh), Slavs (Triglav) & Thracians (Zalmoxis). The way these gods are described is also repeated with regards to Odin, though no evidence exists of adoption of the 3 head symbol for him.
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i hadn't heard of Saultam getting his head cut off by his shield when riding his horse before, seems kinda weird that a warrior of Saultam's status (his wife is the kings sister and he is the brother of the former king) would be riding a horse at all and not in his chariot.
anyways, cool video!
He's Sualtam mac Roich. His father Roich's name means great horse (ro-each) so there might be a tradition of horse riding there. Most of these guys are probably distant memories of old gods anyway so expecting them to always conform to human social norms is never going to work.
Do you think the myth of Mimir could have Celtic origins? I mean the Vanir cut his head off and given that the Vanir may have been the original gods in Scandinavia before the arrival of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and their Aesir gods I think there could be a connection
This adds a pretty ghastly element (potentially if your wrong) to the tradition of jack-o- lanterns and carved turnips on halloween. The implication being originally that by displaying the severed heads of the fallen in battle, decapitating them then later preserving it, you've captured the seat of their soul and imprisoned them on earth. Thus the when the hungry spirts of the deceased see the potentially chattering heads they might warn (the inhabitants of the house) or threaten the ravenous souls of what fate awaits them or their living descendedants should they attempt to harm said family.
Or the heads are there to protect the house because the taking of the head is taking its power and transferring it to the head owner.
@@damionkeeling3103 So a warning not to mess with someone who could potentially do some serious harm back to the restless dead or other malicious spirits?
So many Wilhelm screams
Was waiting for someone to notice 😱
Hmm,heady.
I still worship head if you know what I'm saying
You spend a lot of time starring at other guys junk.
I do
I appreciate you for this joke.
Bruh
@benjaminwinnie4626. I hear ya barking, big dagg.
Lost my head when i saw this hehehe
🤣🤣🤣 let it be known that for all of the puns I included in this video there were a million more I forced myself to leave out
Makes me think of the show 3rd Rock From The Sun, with the alien that channels the Big Giant Head, for mission instructions.
too many lies