This was THE best explanation of the Mithraic cult and mystery religion in general. Gosh, I hope this channel will continue on without Nick. He’s very much missed….and Mithras knows that Nick’s energy continues on for all the ages….forever as we know it.
if you're interested in more lecture on mithraism, you ought to check out david ulansey's lecture on it. it's also on youtube, and goes into the astrological aspect of the cult
Ever notice how Jewish nationalism against Rome and Greece gets mucho respect from all youtube experts but Roman nationalism, here, oh, they were nutty to defend their city.
I think the idea of underdogs, grossly outmatched numerically every time per your example, is always culturally compelling. What's so great about a trillion Persians or a trillion Romans steamrolling some Anatolians or Gauls? Now, the stories of those Greek colonies or Gaulish freedom fighters, those are stories of bravery. What is more interesting, tell me: the Romans figuring out solutions to problems, or those same Romans utilizing those solutions in routine ways? All history is important, Hall, even of peoples and cultures we d not resonate with, like, or care about superficially.
@@everettworld1765 I bet. It's absurd to me. Imagine being this guy, constantly speaking in a derisive tone, deciding to make a video about something that he can barely tolerate, and wants to show you how much he knows, and how much he hates it all at the same time: "So anyway, here's my hour long lecture about peoples and their religions, and why AS A HISTORIAN we don't know much about their stupid cultures."
Nuke Laloosh yeah I feel like the audio recorder really hurt the presentation of the video. I still enjoy them but I know what you mean. I think there are three episodes left and we shall move on to greener pastures!
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 There is an odd cadence to his voice. His phrases finish with an upward melodic trend that is confusing to the listener. Its a shame because this is really interesting subject matter.
Considering the winter and summer solstice sets on the astrological constellation at dawn, it might make sense that Mytrhos is also the sun. Constantine possibly was a part of this secret Astronomical cult. Perhaps Constantine calculated a comet or an eclipse and leveraged it as divine intervention, and won the undying devotion of his soldiers as well as opposing soldiers. Just a theory. I'm also open to the idea that he believed that Jesus talked to him.
@Boxcarcifer oh my gosh! no! the Last Supper was just a symbol of how when Jesus rises again, his spirit will live inside of us. Drinking the wine, which represented his blood, symbolized how his blood would be shed for all of us so that our sins can be washed away! the disciples didn't eat him! they were even surprised when he was gone from the tomb.
4:46 I suspect the invading enemy were the dread Pittsburgh Pirates, who sailed the mediterranean Ohio River, ravaging city and farm. 22:54 See?!! I TOLD yins!
@@corettaha7855 Hold up! For one, nothing this commenter said is anti-Semitic. Secondly, Nazis and anti-Semites are two different conceptual archetypes. If you're calling them a Nazi because their username is Germanic, then shame on you! Third, Christianity is absolutely a Hebrew sect, that's like their whole thing! Fourthly, never minding the cheerfulness and positivity of their tone, there is nothing incorrect or inappropriate in their comment, yet you chose a hostile tone! You made assumptions for lazy, and ultimately misplaced, virtue signalling! Shame on you!
I would have liked to have heard some discussion about cross-cultural influences with the Far East (specifically Japan) and the cult of Mothraism. This is a topic of active contemporary scholarship, as indicated by an article appearing in today's New York Times (Mothra: Yin to Godzilla’s Yang nyti.ms/2I328Da ). There's much more detailed discussion of Mothraism at this page as well: wikizilla.org/wiki/Mothra/First_Generation
23:15 I believe there were at least some women involved in Mothraism, particularly those two tiny chicks who guard the egg. (which begs the question of who came first?)
Monotheistic religions in general are pretty atheistic. Think about all of the Gods they don't believe in. If I tell a Polytheist I had an amazing experience of Jupiter, the Polytheist will probably take me at my word. A Christian would try to tell me I either imagined it or I met a demon rather than the King of the Roman Gods. That's pretty atheistic
@@mrnoedahl It will always be B.C., A.D. but if secular academia insists on B.C.E. and C.E. then we can call it Before Christian Era and Christian Era.
Talk is cheap. Read some Aquinas or Merton, and then get back to us with an actual educated opinion. Geez, have some respect. Divine Apollo has no cognate whatsoever with anything Augustine, Paul, the Desert Fathers, or Pope Francis believes in. Banish thee thine bigotry and ignorance, for divisiveness harms us all, and so do malformed ideas, far more so the spreading of them!
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This was THE best explanation of the Mithraic cult and mystery religion in general. Gosh, I hope this channel will continue on without Nick. He’s very much missed….and Mithras knows that Nick’s energy continues on for all the ages….forever as we know it.
if you're interested in more lecture on mithraism, you ought to check out david ulansey's lecture on it. it's also on youtube, and goes into the astrological aspect of the cult
Ever notice how Jewish nationalism against Rome and Greece gets mucho respect from all youtube experts but Roman nationalism, here, oh, they were nutty to defend their city.
I think the idea of underdogs, grossly outmatched numerically every time per your example, is always culturally compelling. What's so great about a trillion Persians or a trillion Romans steamrolling some Anatolians or Gauls? Now, the stories of those Greek colonies or Gaulish freedom fighters, those are stories of bravery. What is more interesting, tell me: the Romans figuring out solutions to problems, or those same Romans utilizing those solutions in routine ways? All history is important, Hall, even of peoples and cultures we d not resonate with, like, or care about superficially.
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Need to turn the volume up.
Hail to the Gods of Rome and Italy!
Great video ive learned so much thank you
It’s weird how you can tell so much about about the author but still very little about the topic from lectures and even books like these
Summed that up perfectly.
This guy sounds so bitter about everything that he's talking about.
He's surely a Christian.
@@everettworld1765
I bet. It's absurd to me. Imagine being this guy, constantly speaking in a derisive tone, deciding to make a video about something that he can barely tolerate, and wants to show you how much he knows, and how much he hates it all at the same time:
"So anyway, here's my hour long lecture about peoples and their religions, and why AS A HISTORIAN we don't know much about their stupid cultures."
Sounds like being that person would be exhausting.
It's not "bitterness": it's enunciated consonants.
Plus the microphone and recording is hissing the "s".
Nice lecture, though I suspect he assumes a lot about what's going on in the minds of people in antiquity..
So cool and brtaut0n.
@@histguy101 qq
hey nick, i've tried multiple vids with this narrator, but i just can't get past his vocals.
Nuke Laloosh yeah I feel like the audio recorder really hurt the presentation of the video. I still enjoy them but I know what you mean. I think there are three episodes left and we shall move on to greener pastures!
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 There is an odd cadence to his voice. His phrases finish with an upward melodic trend that is confusing to the listener. Its a shame because this is really interesting subject matter.
Ohhhhh, myyyy! Interesting, but fella sounds a bit like George Takei
Gets Evil Twin. Lol
George's Evil Twin.
Christians Christians Christians, morality blah blah
Considering the winter and summer solstice sets on the astrological constellation at dawn, it might make sense that Mytrhos is also the sun. Constantine possibly was a part of this secret Astronomical cult. Perhaps Constantine calculated a comet or an eclipse and leveraged it as divine intervention, and won the undying devotion of his soldiers as well as opposing soldiers. Just a theory. I'm also open to the idea that he believed that Jesus talked to him.
sound not clear
Is that Mechazawa?
To all these people finding it hard to disseminate and plow through the info ... Welcome to the Occult
How does anyone learn to read so flamboyantly? That can't be natural.......ooof. makes listening laborious.
I find it really relaxing to listen to on a hot evening, myself, but definitely not for everyone
Jm C right! I felt like my bitchy gay friend was gossiping to me about the romans
4:37 So... Was there only one Cincinnatus in Ancient Rome? Or were there multiple Cincinnati?
Lol
@Boxcarcifer oh my gosh! no! the Last Supper was just a symbol of how when Jesus rises again, his spirit will live inside of us. Drinking the wine, which represented his blood, symbolized how his blood would be shed for all of us so that our sins can be washed away! the disciples didn't eat him! they were even surprised when he was gone from the tomb.
@Boxcarcifer Were comments deleted in this thread? What does this have to do with Cincinnatus? or the price of rice in China for that matter?
A lot of words and not a trace of wisdom.
Think this was made by a staunch Evangelical Christian Republican much?
Yeah. Not me either. :-/
I got through about 8 minutes before saying “what the hell?” out loud and turning it off
4:46 I suspect the invading enemy were the dread Pittsburgh Pirates, who sailed the mediterranean Ohio River, ravaging city and farm.
22:54 See?!! I TOLD yins!
Congratulations! Very interesting (over)view about preparing the Romans to a cult based on an Hebrew sect : Christianity...
Werner van Nuffel no need to be anti Semitic you Nazi trash
@@corettaha7855 Hold up! For one, nothing this commenter said is anti-Semitic. Secondly, Nazis and anti-Semites are two different conceptual archetypes. If you're calling them a Nazi because their username is Germanic, then shame on you! Third, Christianity is absolutely a Hebrew sect, that's like their whole thing! Fourthly, never minding the cheerfulness and positivity of their tone, there is nothing incorrect or inappropriate in their comment, yet you chose a hostile tone! You made assumptions for lazy, and ultimately misplaced, virtue signalling! Shame on you!
Cybele is not pronounced "sibbelley" but rather "key-bell-lee"!
I would have liked to have heard some discussion about cross-cultural influences with the Far East (specifically Japan) and the cult of Mothraism. This is a topic of active contemporary scholarship, as indicated by an article appearing in today's New York Times (Mothra: Yin to Godzilla’s Yang nyti.ms/2I328Da ).
There's much more detailed discussion of Mothraism at this page as well: wikizilla.org/wiki/Mothra/First_Generation
23:15 I believe there were at least some women involved in Mothraism, particularly those two tiny chicks who guard the egg. (which begs the question of who came first?)
Romans saw early Christians as atheistic?
A single God is only one step away from no God.
@@mirr0rmirr0r
platitude
....try understanding?
Monotheistic religions in general are pretty atheistic. Think about all of the Gods they don't believe in. If I tell a Polytheist I had an amazing experience of Jupiter, the Polytheist will probably take me at my word. A Christian would try to tell me I either imagined it or I met a demon rather than the King of the Roman Gods. That's pretty atheistic
voice-over is ridiculous
Awful. I want to hear about the Roman beliefs, not Christianity.
That's B.C.not B.C.E. Before Christ, not Before the Communist Era.
B.C.E. (Before Christian Era)
C.E. (Christian Era)
@@Elsupermayan8870 it's supposed to be before the common era. But they should leave it at B.C and A.D.
@@mrnoedahl
It will always be B.C., A.D. but if secular academia insists on B.C.E. and C.E. then we can call it Before Christian Era and Christian Era.
@@Elsupermayan8870 I use communist Era just to bother them. This is part of the politically correct elete trying to de Christianize everything
@@mrnoedahl
Christian Era bothers them twice as much.
Still exists today known as catholicism
Talk is cheap. Read some Aquinas or Merton, and then get back to us with an actual educated opinion. Geez, have some respect. Divine Apollo has no cognate whatsoever with anything Augustine, Paul, the Desert Fathers, or Pope Francis believes in. Banish thee thine bigotry and ignorance, for divisiveness harms us all, and so do malformed ideas, far more so the spreading of them!