History Summarized: The Greek Age of Cities
Added 2024-03-15 15:00:06 +0000 UTCAncient Greece created a social ecosystem of numerous independent cities to cater to my tastes specifically.
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Sounds like a fun read! Axolotls are newts right?
Jason Veevaert
2024-03-16 10:22:43 +0000 UTC[I hope it's okay to post this here. It got considerably longer than I thought it was going to be.] I have a book recommendation for Red, and a video topic request for Blue! I just read The Sea-Ringed World, a fascinating collection of Indigenous myths [mainly South American, with a few others], collected by Indigenous authors and writers. My favourites are the one where a talking llama warns a shepherd about the great flood coming to wipe out humanity, and the two end up taking shelter on a mountain top along with a whole bunch of animals [including a fox, which had its poor tail stuck in the floodwaters and that's why foxes have white on the end of their tails], the one where prince falls in love with a lightning god with a snake for a leg, and the explanation as to where the Axolotl came from. [Short version: the gods sacrificed themselves in a sacred bonfire to bring forth the fifth world, but Queztalcoatl's nagual [animal spirit double] was too afraid and ran away and turned into an axolotl [literally means 'Xolotl in water'] to escape. Spoiler alert, it didn't work.] Anyway, I'm also going to get the 'companion' book written by the translator, Feathered Serpent-Dark Heart of Sky, a collection of Aztec stories specifically. Just from reading the preview, there's a part of the creation myth that has many parallels to a part of the Book of Enoch, which, to me, is indicative of how despite our differences, human culture still has many similarities to each other, and I think that's such an awesome and wonderful thing. I mean, Quetzalcoatl himself seems to have more in common with East Asian dragons than any of the usual Western suspects, with the whole 'divine flying snake/bringer of rain' thing. Since I'm in the middle of a mythology hyper-focus, and just generally have those kinds of myths on my mind right now, may I request a video on the history of some lesser known South American cultures, maybe some of the oldest, like the Toltec and Olmec? [I just checked the playlist, and the History Summarized video on the Maya, Aztec, and Inca was six years ago! Where did the time go?]
Kura
2024-03-16 01:58:42 +0000 UTCDo you think the Olympics started after a war as a sort of outlet for competition? Like, obviously a lot of people enjoy competing and combating with each other for personal and cultural bragging rights, but to do it in a way that doesn’t end numerous lives and destroy vital farmland? Like medieval jousting or esports!
Jason Veevaert
2024-03-16 00:43:20 +0000 UTC
