Category: History
The Raiders Desert Strike Force
All right. The Raiders, Desert Strike Force. I’m a raider, an Oakland Raider from the Bay to LA fuck them haters. If you don’t know what I’m singing, I apologize, but I know what I’m singing, so. All right, what do we got here?
You got the contents. The major comes to Cairo, Beirut, and Benghazi. What, how old is this? 1968. So I literally have no idea. Like I’ve heard of all these places because of 2000 wars. I didn’t know we were over there 200 or 40 years before. Benghazi again. Wait a minute, man. Benghazi. I think like if you watch the movie, right, Benghazi, it’s in these movies nowadays. Let’s go there. Benghazi again. Is this just forties or 6? What is this? 56. This is the seventies. So we’re in the twenties. So this is 50 years ago. And yet we’re still in, Benghazi. So it might be like Benghazi, like how they do the Terminator for like 7 terminators, whatever Benghazi seventh edition. Hehehe. 84. Benghazi again. All right. We’re going to look through some pictures. All right. We got some, they’re out there cooking, making dinner. Mind you, when I read the article, really we’ll go more into it, but I’m just curious.
All right. Yeah, here we go. Let’s get to the fun stuff, right? Weaponry. So right here and right here. Let me read you what they are. The top one is the German heavy armored car, SDKFZ 234, maximum speed 54 miles an hour, range 372 miles, four people to man it. It had a seven 92 millimeter machine gun and 175 cm, L desk 24 Canon. So you can look at it again. Now the bottom one, this is a German light armor. I’m not going to read all the numbers. Maximum speed, 50 miles an hour, and a range of 180 miles. So, that’s crazy. I would have actually thought that this one went further than this one, but I was wrong. This one’s like double the distance as this one. The same, the same machine gun, but this has a smaller canon on top of it. Now this is the, the Beretta eight millimeter machine gun. This weapon, the standard Italian medium machine gun was so reliable that on the rare occasions that they could capture both gun and ammunition, the Desert Raiders used it for in preference to their own Lewis gun.
So the Italians did make some good stuff besides clothes back in the olden days. And that’s mostly the basis on Benghazi, one more time. Now, obviously, like I said, I will be reading more of like what, what actually went on there, but there’s no more pictures for me to kind of explain. Yeah. Again, this is the thing, the Desert Raiders, right from the sixties. About the history and campaign and history of world war two. So this is the World War II Raiders. It’s pretty interesting. Who’s he?
I mean, if you get the book, you know what I’m saying? They got some like classic photos. I bet you all of these people are probably dead now, but these are just classic photos, man. Another picture of the Desert Raiders.
But yeah, I’m going to read back in Benghazi I might read a little bit more if it’s really interesting, not sure. But yeah, it’s always fun to go back in history and kind of see what’s going on and especially the older pictures. Cause you know, just, it really brings like life to, to everything. I mean the pants and everything. Yeah. I don’t know about the pants. We look a little different nowadays. But other than that, I mean, that literally could be taken yesterday. Right? This is kind of cool. Kind of think about people’s lives back in the olden days and what, what were they doing at that time when they took that picture? Right? But you know, it’s always fun to think.
A History Of Private Life
All right. Let’s look at some Medieval pictures. This is the A History Of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World. First, let’s try to see what we’ve got here, what are they talking about. So, we got the introduction, private power, public power. That’s already interesting. The use of private space. The emergence of the individual. Imagining the self. I like the whole private and public power that’s in the beginning of the book. So, let’s look in the back and see what we see. Okay. What are they doing here?
All right. So, I guess this is how they bathe back in the olden times, the Medieval. Not very sanitary at all. So, let me explain them to you. [foreign language 00:01:32] 1586. Different ways of bathing in a large tub with several other people over supper and the famous baths of Baden near Zurich where young and old men and women, sick and healthy, all swim together in the public pool as spectators look on and in swimming hole in the country, the natural form of basically swimming. Yeah, that’s gross, whatever. This is a lot about bathing, I guess.
Oh, this is the emergence of the individual. Oh, wow, they got a whole bunch of… I’ll just let you look at the pictures. Some type of medicine or something. Not really quite sure I’m all for this. What is going on here? What is this? Miniature decorating . So, I mean, I guess this is, because I’m seeing a lot of… This got to be me in a commune or something. What is this? I don’t get it. I’m going to let you all see. I’ll show you what I’m talking about. So, I guess a lot of people in their deathbeds. I have to read more. Their sleeping arrangements don’t make very much sense to me. And then, it just says France translation, [foreign language 00:03:30] bedroom library. I mean, it doesn’t… Well, thank you for the description, right? That didn’t say anything.
So, this is a 13th century knight. It doesn’t look anything like when I think of a knight, that’s nothing… That’s not what I’m imagining. It’s always good to see reality over Hollywood. So, here’s a kind of blueprints here. I’ll let you… There. You can pause right there and look for yourself. So, this is the blueprints of the palace of the Pope. What else we got in here? That’s a map. We can’t see what that is. What is… Imagining the self, all right. Space and imagination. No, let’s see. What do we see here? Okay, here. Let’s just… I’m going to read you a quick little excerpt.
The solitary man, all right? In the Middle Ages, the solitary man was considered dangerous. Baroque Tristan Mark, having learned that the adulterous couple is in the forest of Morrois summons his entourage to announce that he wishes to go out alone. “Go out alone,” they say. “Was ever a king so imprudent?” To which Mark responds, “I shall, therefore go without escort and leave my horse.” Excuse me. “I shall take with me neither companion nor squire for once I reject your company similarly.” Erex’s father responds to an unusual and dangerous situation by begging him to take along at least some of his knights. “A King’s son must not go alone.” 13th century narratives occasionally give quite a realistic account of the dangers to be expected in such circumstances. In left field [foreign language 00:06:11] the count of the someone’s daughter, right, on Theo’s daughter. A husband makes up his mind to reinforce his wife’s escort, but takes the wrong trail through the forest and was rewarded with the sight of his wife being raped by five men. Goodness gracious.
Didn’t see that one coming that kind of hit. In [foreign language 00:06:39] something, a young woman is able to join her lover and marry him only because the escort conducting her to her intended spouse does its job badly. A woman who traveled alone so upset the hero of Wanley that he married her to his great misfortune. Sometimes, though, solitude was deliberately sought and prolonged for extended periods. Hermits lived in cells, some with crude openings providing minimal contact with the outside world. These men performed a definite function for the community. They had abandoned and variably located some distance away. Ogrins hermits located in the forest of Morrois where for banished then exiles. Well, there you go. No wonder they were so crazy out there. They banished you out to the forest, of course, you were savage, all right? [foreign language 00:07:32] is not described, instead the narrative stresses its remoteness from civilization and a long journey through the bocage hedge fields which required to reach it.
All right. Solitude and meaning. I like that. That didn’t say anything early. All right, I mean, I got… I was looking at the solitary man. Next thing you know, we’re getting raped in a forest by five guys. Where did that even come from? Saw it to the meeting. All the landmarks in [inaudible 00:08:01] in that territory traversed by the knights of the round table and their various quests are basically symbols of the subordination of the earthly to the celestial. These zones of voluntary seclusion are pregnant with meeting, but it’s no accident that the meeting is secret and almost inaccessible and must be fettered out. Late 14th century literature highlighted the [inaudible 00:08:25] still further.
And so, it was a very special relation in the house of the King that he hears it. You have in the hermit surface between the wild and so… So, this solitary man, right? So, besides the wow story, it’s kind of throughout history, I’m guessing through the medieval times that we… It’s talking about like, [inaudible 00:09:14] and Yaren. The hermit serves as a link between wild and civilization and Christian origin who speak the language of good and evil is able to help. I said, [foreign language 00:09:27] or [foreign language 00:09:30] rejoin society here. You can look. You can pronounce it for yourself.
Here’s a quote to Lancelot. The hermit says, “No, but this vision is far richer and meaning than many may think. And now listen to me if you wish and I will tell you the origin of your race.” Okay. Not as interesting as I might’ve liked, but it’s still very interesting in its own regard. I mean, more the hermit was… I mean, if you all… Because even the shamans and all of them, they’re all living by themselves and they’re all kind of, even the Hollywood kind of depicts them as being Looney Toonies a little bit, but nice and man, whatever. I mean, that was kind of interesting. Like I said, I’m going to go over more of private power and public power. I just wanted to search through the book and see what else was in here. But, yeah, that’s pretty interesting.
Padua And The Tudors
Good morning. Box number five.
Let’s see, which one do I want to get the day started with? Its first thing in the morning. Just going to recap last night, before I went to bed. Talked about this one, box number five. We got this one, this one, la voila. I almost dropped it. And we also have Padua and the Tudors. So we’re going to go through Padua and the Tudors since it’s in my hand. So, let’s see what’s interesting about here, what’s in here.
The English Nation at Padua, students of law, students of medicine, natural philosophy. Let’s go see what they’re talking about. 73.
Okay. I left Oxford in 1503 to study medicine in Padua. The anonymous register of Merton College noted that, Padua was the most famous university for humane studies and was going to devote himself to The presenters for much of the foreign, essentially, Padua medicine and natural philosophy would extend influence on English Humanist studies and Aristotelianism… I don’t know how to pronounce this word, maybe you… That one, right there. Aristotelianism… Has been recognized only in the most fragmented ways, despite the examples. So.
So, wherever Padua is, right, Padua, I got to look on the map because it was part of the English colonies, I’m guessing, because I mean the English experience it. And they’re talking about the students of medicine and natural philosophy, the 16th century Padua studium was renowned above all for its medicine. And before the end of the 15th century, it had begun to absorb the movement in the field pioneered by Niccolò Leoniceno in Ferrara, and now described as medical humanism, was primarily intended to reconstruct the original words of the ancient Greek medical sources, especially of Hippocrates, and his interpreter, Galen. And of the chief source of ancient natural philosophy, Aristotle, to make their writings available in Greek and the new Latin translations. The medical students, as an essential steps towards a reformed, and academically moderated medical practice, and to challenge the position in academic. How to better amenable Arabic interpreters of the Greek tradition.
All right, this is actually pretty interesting. Because of the therapeutic importance of the medical samples in ancient medicine, and because of Galen’s evidence.
Hold on, let me just, instead of just trying to read it all to you, because I’m kind of reading out loud. Kind of like, wait Eric. Wait, wait, what?
So what I’m gathering through here is these people in the 1500s in Padua, they went there and they started their studies and then… This is the 1500s, so when they’re talking of medieval, which, I mean, it’s, what 200, 300 years before that? I mean, it doesn’t seem like it was a lot of years, but I’m only 36 so two, 300 years is a lot. So I guess the medieval times, because it could be all the way back to the 1100s.
So what he’s saying is the medicine, like the Greeks. You’ve got to remember, the Greeks were B.C. So in the media, they challenged the position in academic medicine held by medieval Arabic interpreters of Greek tradition. So what he’s saying is, right then around the 1500s, when they went to this place called Padua or whatever it’s called. At that point in time, the trend, the Greeks and the ancient medicine was interpreted through the Arabic’s, right. So they wanted to translate it basically towards English and be it more of the crusaders or whatever, Jesus. And so that’s what they set out to do on that part. I mean, yeah. I got to read some more. It’s pretty interesting. I mean, it goes on for…
Quite a few pages. I mean, it talks about all the way into the 1600s. So it talks a hundred years of what happens down there. Let’s see if we can find anything. .
All right, here we go. Talking about Greeks and everything. Henry Cuffe is one such student from around Harvey’s time. A pupil and colleague of Henry Savile in Oxford in the late 1570s and 1580s. Cuffe had been appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 59. Later became a client of the Earl of Essex, and was implicated in his rebellion. Okay. Licensed like a significant number of other members of the Essex. Cuffe matriculated at Padua in 1597. In 1600, he wrote a work of natural philosophy, which was printed post-mortemly in 1607. As the differences of the ages of man, it is impossible to establish a precise relationship between the philosophically eccentric, [inaudible 00:06:27] work which draws on Plato, Aristotle, Galen, and the hermetic writers.
Oh man, I can’t pronounce these words. Averroes, Avicenna, Paracelsus and [inaudible 00:06:46] studies in Padua. But the relationship itself is certainly embedded in the work. Okay. Let’s just get to where I thought it would say. Sometimes I had the whole paragraph. I need to read a paragraph. I’m trying to get to where it was at the bottom, but let’s see…
Long discussions… So when you’re reading in your head, all the words you can’t pronounce, it doesn’t matter. You just skip over it. [inaudible 00:07:14]. Half the time, again, if you can tell it’s a name, it’s a name. Right. So I mean, when you’re reading in your mind, who cares, if you can pronounce a name, right? It doesn’t matter. Or even like “philosophical,” if you, if you see the word a million times, you can look it up one time. It doesn’t matter if you can pronounce it, you just look at it and you know what it means.
It’s not very important… I mean, it probably is really important, but I got to read the whole chapter. Right. There’s a lot, it’s talking about the Greeks and everything, but I’m trying to like snap some out, but he’s long-winded so it’s not like today where it’s like, boom, and it hits you with like information where its really easy. This is like, you’ve got to read the whole bloody 30 pages for you to be able to explain what’s going on. Right. Because they’re doing it in a story-based, well, all these are kind of story basis. So it’s kind of different. Yeah. This poses more of a challenge, to just pick up and kind of get it.
Because then you don’t want to watch me read, but it’s already… Let me see one thing. What is Padua? Right? The university of Padua was one of Europe’s great centers of learning in the pre-modern period. Located in Northeast Italy, about 20 miles from Venice. The Padua Studium was officially founded in 1222 as a result of a student migration to the University’s bursity of Bologna.
In the course of the following century, it came to be recognized as a universitas scholarium. That is a self-governed legal corporation of scholars protected by Padua’s civil authorities. From 1260, it’s statues were confined, and from 1264 it’s chancellor, who was always the Bishop of Padua, conferred academic degrees by the Pope sanction. Before the period dealt with this in his study, the studium had already succeeded in attracting many important intellectual figures, including a number of the early humanities, the pioneers of the Renaissance classical revival. In the 14th century, these numbers and poet…
So, okay, so the Padua… Helps to read the introduction, right? So it’s Northwest, or Northeast Italy. It’s been around since the medieval time, like I said, the 1200s, which makes sense because we were in the 1500s in the Renaissance and everything he was talking in the medieval time.
Yeah. What I’ll also do is I’ll kind of give a history of everything, because it’s only seven pages, but I’m already over 10 minutes. So a place of knowledge and studying. So again, read, build your own library, and you can have your own Padua, right?
The Standard Library Of Natural History
All right. What are we going to look at today? Hmm. Let’s go to the other side. Let me see, is there anything over… Yeah, I think there might be something on the other side that might be interesting. Before we do that though, let’s go to… I don’t know. Let’s do this one. This is an old book. It’s the Standard Library of Natural History. Right? You would think that it’s about history and things. It got some really interesting things and it’s really interesting to see what people like, they thought of like indigenous people or from the olden times.
Cool. They got pictures. This is New Zealand and things. Let’s just start from the beginning. Okay. Well, as you see, there is no table of contents. We just jump right on into the book. That’s a little disappointing because now I don’t even know really where to start with you. So we are going to just, this is our show. This is Tonga and the Polynesian Islands. We got Bismarck Archipelago, Samoa, the Pitcairn Islands. Don’t even know what that means or where that is. New Caledonia. What’s really interesting is they all look black, don’t they. Literally. I mean, some of them are like lighter skinned black people, but they look… I mean like their facial features. Look.
I mean, literally you could… Where do you think that is? First guess, may be in Africa. But no, it’s not. It’s Australia. All right, now let’s learn about these people. What are they wearing? Right, so we’re going to learn about that. This is chapter what? Four? The Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra Philippines, Malay Peninsula. So we’re going to be learning about that, the Filipinos and Celebes, what a Celebe is and a Borneo.
So let’s see, we pass… Which I’ll include in this chapter a brief account of the very primitive Negritos of the Malaya Peninsula. Although geographically… Let me see where I’m at. The Negritos also found in the Philippines, but the chief race of this vast archipelago is the Malay. The Malay, which gives its name to the… I’m trying to… Or I’ll just read it right here. It’s easier to read for them. Is a branch of the great Mongolian division of mankind. It’s people are slim and of medium structure, some three or four inches below the average European height. Okay. Light brown skin. The face is somewhat square with high and prominent cheekbones. The eyes are black. The mouth is rather large. Okay.
Well-cut lips, the chin is round, the nose is short and quite unlike that of either European or the Negro. The hair is black, the beard… I don’t know if that’s who they’re talking about, I would say that their nose is kind of like a black person. But I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong. But yeah, this is pretty interesting. This should be a pretty interesting… So those are the Malays, right? How long is this chapter? I was feeling that this might be a… Yeah, this is a pretty long one. So I’m not going to be able to go through the entire chapter.
But, we will look at some of the… This is pretty interesting. Oh, wait a minute now. Now look at this. So later on, so this is a Negrito man, that’s what it says, right? Negrito, right? Negrito man. But he does not look at all resemblance of any characteristics of African descent. But then he kind of does right there. Right? Because like, look at the hair. This is interesting. So this is a group of Negritos. All right, I’m confused. So this is a pretty old book. So if they’re considering those Negritos, which is just Negro in Spanish, right?
I’m confused. When was this book written? So copyright 1908, right? So by 1908, if they’re Negritos. The reason I’m confused is because throughout all the history that, that I know Negrito and like or Negro is a black person, but these aren’t black. They don’t really match the same features, but if they’re called Negritos, then that changes everything because then every single person of color was considered Negrito back in 1906. Very interesting. So then that just makes the Negrito family much larger than we would think, so it’s just unifies the people of color much more.
Because if in the eyes of the European all of us were Negritos, then all of us would be considered the same and one large family, so we should unify with that in mind. All right. We’re reading more about it. It’s pretty interesting. The Malay, the… Like I said, it’s like a 30 page chapter. I only have 400 words, so I’m not going to be able to fit it all in there, but it’s very interesting just to kind of learn the history and see like the perception that people had over 114 years ago. All right.
The Cold War
All right. It’s called The Cold War, because I want to look at some pictures. All right. So can you see the picture? Let’s see what this is. That is the protestors in December 1944, University Street, Athens. Oh, wow. Look. This is the Czech Republic. We got more protesters, some more communist protesters. West Berlin boys stand on rubble mountain to wave at a transport plane bringing supplies during the Blockade. The last coal bags are loaded on a plane heading for Frankfurt. Wow. Coal bags? So they had the coals for energy. So West Berlin where they… It wasn’t really that bad?
Wow. So right here, we… This affected everything. So this is Shanghai outside of a market when the rice prices went higher once they took over as the Nationalist rule. And then this is North Korea. So if you remember a couple books… Well, I don’t remember how many books ago. This is 1950, so this is right around the time when the Kim dynasty.
The Hollywood Ten. All right, so these 10 people, I don’t know who they are, they pleaded not guilty in Contempt of Congress, February 4th, 1948. So, that in and of itself, we’ve got to figure out who these people are, The Hollywood Ten. What was Hollywood has to do with this?
Wow. Look at this. All right. So this is a protest in Iran. Right here, this is a captured Soviet tank in Budapest, Hungary while they’re flying the Hungarian flag. Right here, just imagine, this is West Berlin waving to people in East Berlin, right? Just imagine. And then right here, this is the policemen putting a wall to make it more sturdy so you couldn’t go between the Berlins. So now, at times, I don’t know how much people know about the past, but communism, like the cold war was huge. The Berlin Wall, they basically separated Berlin in West and East Berlin. And let’s say if one of your family members lived on one side and the other one on the other, just like this, as you see you weren’t allowed to see each other, right? And the internet didn’t exist, no Twitter or anything like that. You know what I mean?
And then this is Cuba, while we have a base in Cuba. This is really interesting. Just looking at pictures, I mean, a picture tell a story, man. It’s fun look at pictures.
Wow. Now, we’re looking at… When you think of the Cold War, you only really think of Russia or the Soviet Union. Now, we’re now looking at China, right, and Mao Zedong. The cultural revolution poster from the China People’s Republic, 1968. Look at the slogan. Their slogan is, “The many accomplish great things.” And on the top, it’s the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army reading the words of Mao Zedong, often known as the little red book in 1971. Wow.
So the Russian… We’re looking at pictures from 1944 in Athens, right? That was the first few pictures I was showing you was in the ’40s. Now, we’re talking all the way into the ’70s, right?
Demonstrators climb on board trucks in the center of Prague on the first day of the occupation, 1968. Oh, wow. So yeah, we’re talking. This is the Cold War. I mean, this is the Czech Republic. Now, we’re over basically in Cambodia right here. That’s in ’68.
All right. So this Cold War is way larger than… I didn’t know it incorporated so many different countries. Because look, down here, we have South Africa, in Angola. A convoy of South African Defense Force vehicles crosses a pontoon bridge over the Kavango River upon the withdrawal from Southern Angola, 1988. Yeah, 1989 is when the Berlin Wall came down. So we just went through the whole history of the war. This is very interesting. Residents of the coast inspect foreign references in the area, 1986, Afghanistan. Strike leader in Poland. Berliners celebrate the border opening at the Wall in 1989. So imagine, you hadn’t seen your family in almost 20-some odd years. And you see the difference of the pictures were in color.
So this is in 1990, they reunified Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people form a human chain from Tallinn, Estonia to Vilnius, Lithuania. Wow. That is extremely a lot of people. It’s like, from one country to another country, they held a wall in peace. That’s crazy. And the complete fall of the Soviet Union was here during the coup of Moscow.
So we kind of went through the whole… I mean, I didn’t read anything, didn’t really tell you anything, but I hope that was interesting to you as it was to me. Now through that, I don’t know, I really don’t even know what I’m going to read. It blew my mind because that was from 1944, basically the end of Hitler.
Oh, you know what we need to do. It’s not in this one. It’s in… Right? Do you remember? See if you’re paying attention, this is where it’s so great, you got to be reading and paying attention. If you remember on the presidency book, I said something about Stalin and Roosevelt. Stalin is USSR, Stalin, Cold War, Roosevelt. Now, we’re talking about two completely different books. I mean, I don’t know exact because I’m not writing an article on that particular, but it’d be very interesting to see where their perspective and this perspective over here, and then incorporate everything together. Because yes, history is out there but it’s not in one book, it’s not in two books, it’s not in a thousand books. It’s snippets here, snippets here, snippets here, snippets here, and snippets here, and you got to put it all together by yourself because nobody puts it together. Everyone puts it together in their own perspective, so I have to put it in my own perspective, right? So, that was very interesting. Very interesting. All right, onto the next one. See you later.
Early Man Prehistory and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
All right. Welcome back guys. Which one do I want you to talk about now? Remember, we are in box number two for the day. The first box, we only found three, but the second box was like more of a gold mine with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We found eight books in box number two, so don’t forget to buy your own box and start building your own library.
Early man.
Prehistory and the Civilizations of Ancient Near East. We have the earliest food gatherers, the later food gatherers, the food raisers. Okay, now we go part two, the Origins of Civilization. Civilization in Babylon, Egypt, Empires and subjects, the Syrian and the Persian Empires, the subjects.
Oh, that’s actually pretty interesting. Let’s go.
I mean, there’s a reason it’s taken me so long because a lot of this is really interesting because civilization of Babylon… This civilization of India or of Egypt. I would love to talk more about that, don’t get me wrong. However, it seems like everyone always talks about Egypt. If you go to YouTube, every thing on…if you go to history, you’re going to talk about three different things. You going to talk about Alexander the Great. You going to talk about the Romans and then you’re also going to talk about the Egyptians and then well four different things… And then Genghis Khan now, so it’s four different things and boom that’s like all of ancient history.
However, writing and law didn’t come from any of those. It came from the civilization of Babylon. So we’re going to… That’s what we’re going to do. Let’s go to 80.
What was that picture?
Wait a minute, I see… Look at the Neanderthal.
But you know, it’s kind of funny how they make him have white people hair, even though if he was from Africa, the Neanderthal would be impossible to have white people hair but you know tomatoe tomato, right? Who cares? Fake news. 80
Writing.
All right. Why we’re doing writing? Cause it’s the closest thing to reading, right? In order to read, something has to be written. So let’s go in a deep note bit about this.
By the time we have definitely passed from the prehistoric to the historic age, men could set down their ideas and describe events in writing. The Sumerians had begun to draw conventionalized pictograms represented as physical objects on clay tablets by about 3,500 BC. So what we’re looking at is this picture. Let me show you the picture. See the picture. So in that picture, as this is a clay tablet from Kish, about 3,500 BC on which the symbols are still pictograms, just below the head in the upper right corner is a threshing sledge, which oxen drew around and around on a threshing floor. Contrast the writing in the next picture almost 2000 years later.
So look at these pictures, these are more pictograms.
And when I say 2000 years later. 2000 years. Good God, Jesus died 2000 years ago. So when you put things in perspective, Jesus isn’t even that old. We only in 2020. So 2020 years since Jesus died or whatever or his birth, I don’t remember. But they’re talking about just for us to be able to figure out how to write took 2000 years. Think, just imagine how slow that took… That’s 2000 years.
300 years later, about 32 tablets shown that scribes took tremendous step by developing ideograms, that marks expressions, concepts, such as a day, and phonograms, symbols expressing symbolic phono type values as we might draw a B for the sound B. Interesting. I don’t want to go too far cause you know this can get you…
Wow.
So we’re just kind of skipping around and in that case few of us would learn how to read or write. First this script involved about 500 to 600 signs that many which were complicated in the ancient near East only professional scribes commonly wrote and the evidence they provide is usually most revealing for the upper classes unless commoners got into a lawsuit. Law. So this is super interesting. Just think about that. So it’s kind of like Chinese, they have characters for things. This is old, they all had characters.
All right. So right here, you can kind of see the steady progression.You see how the fish…
You can pause the video. Then when I go over it, you can look. We’ll go from the top row. The top one’s fish, ox, I can’t read, I can’t read, I can’t read, but we’ll go down like that and…
There it is. It goes from the original all the way to Sumerian, early Babylonian and down. So you can kind of see the natural progression of the drawing symbols, of how writing kind of seems, the early depictions of things. It’s just, this real was pretty easy and when you get over here, it’s like, oh my goodness, that’s a lot. So it’s more like Chinese in a sentence because each thing is… I mean, to be able to write in Chinese, that’s a lot of drawing.
All right, well, this is what we’re going to do. We’re going to go through… Well, I’m going to go through… I’m going to read because it’s really a small chapter of writing. It’s not as intense as I would’ve thought. So we’ll talk more about the Babylonians and the early civilizations, look at some more pictures.
I love how they break all the noses off. That’s amazing. Thank you for that. Fake news history. No, I’m just kidding.
All right. Talk to you guys later on… But this is pretty interesting. Hold on.
Civilization. Civilizations in Babylon. The idea of civilization needs precise description if we are to know how a civilization differs from a culture of uncivilized people.
Leave you on that. Leave you on that to ponder. What is the difference between civilization and culture?
History Of Mythology
What’s in store for us today? I seen something. You know, I’ve always been a fan of mythology and gods and well… Gods. So look at this. The History of Mythology. Got a little unicorn. Well, got two unicorns. Printed and bounded in China, 1999. Oh great, you can’t see the writing, that sucks. Okay. Well, chapter one creation, gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, demons and monsters, animals, the underworld, journeys, quests and trials, and worlds destroyed. All right, Let’s see if we can find…
Yell at me if you see some… Oh, rulers and warriors, that’s a force. All right, let’s go there. I think we might have pictures, so we’re going to kind of go through a little slow. All right, we’ll go through this real quick.
Principal. Greek/Roman equivalents. Zeus, Jupiter. Right? King of gods and the sky. Hera, Juno. His wife, marriage. Poseidon, Neptune. Is the sea. Athena and Minerva. The war of wisdom… The God of war, wisdom, and crafts. Apollo, Apollo. Light, intellect, and arts. Artemis, Diana, or Deanna. The moon and the huntress. Aries and Mars. War. Yeah, right. Hephaestus and Vulcan. Fire, the blacksmith. Well, how come we don’t learn all about these? I’ve heard of some of these, but not all of them. Aphrodite and Venus, the beauty and love. Eros and Cupid, her son, love, and desire. I didn’t know Cupid was Roman. That makes sense.
Hades and Pluto. Dis Pater. Demeter and Ceres. Fertility, crops. Yeah, this one. Persephone and Proserpina. The queen of the underworld. See, I’ve never heard of him. Where’s Hades? Yeah, Hades and Pluto… Wait a minute. Well, who’s her dad? Or who’s her mom? So, that’s weird. There’s no… She’s the queen of the underworld, but I don’t know, we’ll figure that out later. Dionysus and Bacchus, is wine and ecstasy. Hermes and Mercury, that’s… Divine messenger and a traveler. And Hercules, interesting.
Where were we going? Sorry, my memory is terrible. Warriors and something, right? Yeah. Yeah. 50. There we go, 50. I seen some… Yeah, here we go. We got the Egyptians over here. Oh, we got Aztec. Okay, so good, they don’t just with the European gods. They go the Chinese people. They got the middle… Or the… Yeah, baby. They got them all. They got the Americans, native Americans, obviously. Cosmic orders. Wow. This is… What is she doing over there? Look at this. You can use your imagination for what’s going on over there. Yeah. Look. Who are these people? Snakes’ role in creation. Here we go. This is an entrance to the Oba of Benin’s palace in West Africa. The python on the turret is a messenger of Olukun, the Yoruba Sea God. Well where… Oh, there we go. You see it? That’s interesting.
Don’t let me forget 50. That’s Shiva, well no, who is this? This is… No, it’s not Shiva. This is… Yeah, it is Shiva seated on a lotus throne, like Brahma, in a pose of yoga meditation. As destroyer his… Wait, that’s it? I always thought Shiva was a girl, but right here it says, “As destroyer his head is encircled by flames”. I would have thought that Shiva was a girl. Well, you learn something new every day.
Egyptian guy. There you go, in the Greek myth there are… See, I haven’t even got to 50, these picture books are difficult to get through. Accounts of how the first men created said that when the Titans ruled, the gods created men who never died and who lived among them. On the orders of Zeus, the artisan God Hephaestus, skilled in metalworking, creator of many gods’ weapons, also created the first woman, Pandora, to plague mankind. So look at that. That is… From the gate, from the beginning. The gods, the Greek gods, have said that the woman was created to plague mankind. That is not my opinion… That is literally what it says right here. They created Pandora to plague mankind. That’s a little harsh, don’t you think?
Before we go, because we’re already at six minutes, we’re already supposed to be done. We haven’t even got to where we’re going. All right. Rulers and warriors. See, the one thing I will notice it’s usually like, if you’ve noticed, the Greek ones are all about sex, dude, all about sex. They’re always half naked. You know what I’m saying? Then you got like a God over here. They always got like weapons and multiple arms and things within. It’s always to Greeks. If you notice they’re always drunk and they’re always half naked. The Roman Mars and Venus, who had more important and dignified roles, than their Greek counterparts, Ares and… Yeah, I guess.
Who’s this guy?
The black God. Oh, look at that. The black Goddess. The… Despite her beauty here, the fiercest form of Shiva. Now I’m confused. The last one said Shiva was a guy. Consort bellow. This is this one. Who is that? That is a Devi, the general name of Shiva’s consort, who represents the God Shakti or the female part of his nature. Her gentle form is, Oh man, I’m confused. What do you mean? It keeps going back and forth between his and hers. What are they, both men and female? Is that why they have two arms? So the… I know this one. Yeah, see? So I guess this one is the man and that’s the female. I don’t know, because they’re kind of going back and forth with everything. Well, there’s not very much going on here. I kind of have to read more. I don’t want you guys to just have to read it wrong with me, but that’s what the essays for. What I’m going to do is, cause it’s also takes me to page one-on-one when I read this, I’m going to try to get to the bottom of…
Okay. So no, no, that’s not Shiva. That’s not Shiva. That’s… I forgot, that’s Kali. We’re going to do a little research on who the hell is Kali. And then who is this guy? This is Devi. So Kali and Devi are warriors of some sort. All right, don’t forget. This one is the History of Mythology. It’s going to be pretty interesting. I apologize for getting distracted.