Sacred Rituals of Magic and Healing of the Indo-Europeans
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- The Indo-Europeans used their beliefs in magic to heal people, and in this video we explore why such magical rituals were important for hair and fingernails. By looking at these seemingly uninteresting items we can uncover some very important understanding about the culture of the Indo Europeans. And this in turn will allow us to explore magic in a much deeper way in some follow up videos.
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📚 References
Bruce Lincoln. Myth, Cosmos, and Society
Indogermanische Gebräuche beim Haarschneiden, in Analecta Graeciensia: Festschrift zum 42 Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner in Wien (Graz: Styria, 1893), pp. 53-59
Sankhāyana Grhya Sūtra 1.28
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 10.15
Philosophia Coins. Cp 87. 1982.
Atharva Veda 6.136
Pliny. Natural History. 12.37, 16.235, 26.30
Wilhelm Mannhardt, Germanische Mythen (Berlin: Ferdinand Schneider, 1858), p. 630
Adolf Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart, 4th ed. (Leipzig: Moritz Ruhl, 1925), p. 330
📑 Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:37 The Creation Myth of the Indo-Europeans
3:13 Balance within the Cosmos
5:27 The Cure to Baldness
17:05 The Importance of Hair and Fingernails
26:23 Sacred Rituals
Are there any particular rituals you would to know more about?
Coming of age, manhood womanhood rituals would be cool
have you done ancient egyptian burial rites?
also, were games of chance ever ritualized in the ancient world? like dice playing etc?
I always wondered what Odin's hanging himself onto Yggdrasil for nine days came from. I suppose it has to do with human sacrifice? It makes me think of the tarot card "Hanged Man", who hangs upside down from a tree blindfolded and is commonly associated with the search for spiritual enlightenment.
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I had a student tell me that they buried nails and hair after grooming so witches couldn’t use it for curses. Her whole family observed this
Can never be too careful
That makes sense, in that culture, since Witches often needed to steal things from others in order to do spells & hair & nails would be a fairly easy item to get from someone.
That does make it easier, but it is not the only way.
Thank you so much, very interesting. I am German 70 years old. My grandmother from my mothers side, living with us in the countryside in northern Germany in the 50ties always collected cut hair and fingernails from family members and buried them under an appletree at the property. She had warned us to be careful with such things. Also she recognised " evil stare " and taught us how to deal with that, some spells against it in spoken dialect. Some taboos were practised by her. My father laughed about all that, making her upset.
My grandmother died in 1958 , taking much traditional knowledge with her. She also was a fervent Christian. For example when my mother took lipstick, she screamed : the devil had come into the house. Times were changing....
But still I feel uncomfortable if I am not careful with my cut nails and hair. Usually I burn them.
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Fingernails, hair and tooth of children were kept, in Brittany, France. I'm 48, and my parents also did this.
@@alancattelliot4833 yes, teeth too !
@@KassandraFuria13May I ask from which region is your grandmother from ?
There’s gotta be something about nails and hair being parts of the person that continues to grow constantly. Which may make them seem more magical. Like, your skin can regrow when it has been injured, but after you’re healed, it doesn’t keep making more and more skin. Nails and hair are things that often (depending on culture) need to be cut. Injured, in a sense. If the earth/universe has a finite amount of resources that necessitates the role of recycling magic, our always growing nails and hair may have looked like a potent divine gift from the gods/earth/universe.
Regeneration seems key here.
That makes a lot of sense 💜
In Appalachia we always were told by grandma not to leave our hair in our brush or someone could curse you, also it is said to cut a baby's hair before their first birthday was to cut their life short. Fascinating video thank you for sharing 💚
My family too.
Another fascinating topic , noteworthy is the Hippocratic medicine based on 4 humours i.e. blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) which are influenced by 4 primordial elements i.e. fire, water , air, earth, therefore all medicine concerns with the equilibrium between the humours and elements , a system derived from archaic proto-indoeuropean.
Steppe medicine lol
Oh my god Jon, It seems so obvious when you explain about sacrifice and the parallels with the body and earth in the PIEM. But I never thought realized it until this vid! I love when something like this is taught to me. Thanks for this cool video!
Thank you.
The Romanians also have a tradition of clipping the hair of a child, one year after their birth. There is a whole ritual where the child would choose between 3 objects. Some keep the hair some bury it under a tree.
This really makes me think of our modern tradition of a baby’s first haircut. My mom kept locks of our hair from that day, though, it was not buried in the yard. Very interesting how things stay the same over time.
Society is made, maintained and reproduced in our 'daily lives' at sites of 'social reproduction' though the acts of tradition, ritual and habit. This is social science 101.
Not an exclusive notion to Endo-Euro culture. In ancient Native South American traditions of magic and sorcery, nail trimmings and hair needed to be burnt or buried, as it could lead to a direct contact with that person by evil beings finding it carelessly discarded. Clearly, there is some sort of remote connection to all the ancient cultures of the world.
I think that human beings, despite being from different races, religions, and regions, are fundamentally the same, and this extends to our psychology.
From our psychology come our myths, so it stands to reason that so many different cultures would have such similar myths.
What a journey! Thank you again. Looking forward to watching your next videos about the subject and many, many others.
Beautiful. A deeper understanding of sympathetic magick.
It makes sense that people would associate hair and fingernails with rebirth: these things tend to grow throughout our lives, even after we cut them, so to the eyes of our ancestors they must have mirrored the cycles of growth, death, and rebirth.
Another thing worth noting is that people once wrongly believed that hair and fingernails continued to grow after a person's death, when in fact, it was just the skin shriveling away from hair follicles and fingernails.
Once again, religion and religious stories serve as ways for man to explain the world to himself before science.
Another fine lesson Jon. Those who are open will see this; and alas, those who are not will not. Keep up your good work, I'm looking forward to part II.
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YES! I want a recommended reading list!
There must be something about burying your hair and nail clippings. The grandmother that lived with my neighbour (we were in the same class) mad3 sure all hair clippings were buried - I don't know if any magic spells were muttered or spken silently in the mind, but all the women had a fabulously thick and long hair. 😀
My grandmother had a similar ritual. Whenever we, her grandchildren, would cut or burn us on our hands or feet she would cut off some of our hair and tie it around the wound and leave it there for some minutes. After would take the hair, that was on the wound, and bury it in her garden. Our wounds healed very quickly. This is 20 to 30 years ago
Thankyou, these segments are just getting better and better. So much gratitude for your efforts. Cheers.
Thank you for your kind words.
For the record, I have watched your video on human sacrifice multiple times, and will probably do so again after this one, only om trying desperately to watch my month of backlog from YT so I won't miss more important videos that I really want to see. Love your work, Jon!
Thank you so much, I really do think the video on human sacrifice is very interesting, a fascinating look at how our ancestors ritualised the creation myth.
@@Crecganford, it's all fascinating! I was 8 years old when I began a lifelong pen-pal relationship with a girl in New Zealand (she actually passed away in January of 2023, though I will always love her!). About then, I was starting to learn about Greek & Roman mythologies, & to figure out that Christian mythology might not all represent actual hard facts.
Just a few days ago, my partner's daughter birthed his first grandson, and yesterday a video about Korean mythological creatures crossed my feed. I sent it to the new father (who is Korean), asking if he has any thoughts. "I might actually have something to talk with Elton about other than the Beatles!" I think, at just over a week old, Elton isn't ready for human sacrifice, though your material is all amazing!
The harvesting of ladanum here described, reminded me of a method of harvesting opium and hashish, moving through the fields, collecting the oily gum which adheres to hair or leather
I wonder if that's where the name Laudanum comes from for opium.
@@beth8775 laudanum was coined by Paracelsus for a medicine he mixed, supposed to contain gold and crushed pearls and many expensive ingredients, but probably owing its effectiveness to only one of them, opium. Perhaps from Latin laudare "to praise" (see laud), or from Latin ladanum "a gum resin," from Greek ladanon, a word perhaps of Semitic origin. Opium is a sticky resin.
I grew up in Ukraine. And we always burned our hair after cutting it. Mom said that someone might steal our hair and curse us. Or she kept the cut hair in a place hidden from strangers. She probably still has my and my sister's hair. She also said that birds can build nests from our hair and then we will have a headache.
The audio is not in sync 😂
The voice is not matching the lip movement.😊
It's okay on mine.
Yes, same problem here.
Yeah, seems everything past the intro in out of sync
voice over ?
Yep right after intro
Thank you. 👍😁❤️ Guess hair and fingernails were the parts of us that we could see physically growing just like the nature around us would grow. The rest of our bodies were always heading the other way when we passed our prime. Great video.
To me it seems there’s a sense in which it’s true. It’s not so much that where you put your nails/hair is likely to make much of a difference. But losing this mindset, not keeping practices that remind us to consider the earth with how we live or dispose of our waste has actually lead to a lot of chaos
Great vid, nice touch including the Norse boat of the dead! A curious choice for construction material but love the folklore behind it! 👍
We still do this. One of the common plant care tips is to put your hair from your brush in with your houseplants. Hair is high in nitrogen, a nutrient plants need to survive.
And we call this 'the medium'.
@@DJWESG1 I prefer to use eggshells and coffee grounds. You have to bury hair, but you can dry out the grounds and crush the shells and put them on top.
I would not normally drink tea but ill make an exception ❤😊 green tea will suffice 😅 I will tune in for this.
Crecganford has become my tea time. And I’m an American.
@@jenningscunningham642 cheers!
I prefer black teas or herbals. Green tea has WAY too much caffeine for me.
@@aariley2 I love caffeine 😅
Slightly different from what exactly was discussed in this video, but nevertheless connected. The ancients believed that if you wish something, it will happen. This belief has roots in the Albanian mentality and is reflected in the language. In Albanian, we have the "desired" form of the verb. It is used to wish somebody good or to oneself. This allows you to express the fillings much easier and naturally. For example, if you want to expect somebody to die in English, you say, "I wish you die". In the Albanian language, it will be just "weeks". So, by adding "sh" to the verb vdek (to die), you turn the verb into a curse. Or if you want to say to somebody I wish you live, in Albanian it will be "rrofsh" (which is also used to say thank you in informal conversations). Even though the translations are straightforward, the nuance of the meaning is slightly different. They are not just something you wish; they are wishes used as spells.
Since you mentioned cosmology, is there any belief you know in any culture which involves the superstition of not counting stars? In Albania, we are told not to count stars; otherwise, warts will appear on our hands. I don't know how and for what exact reason this is, but I wanted to see if you knew of similar beliefs that may explain it.
Eat grass to cure baldness. Looking at my tiny yard after cleaning up after my dog. "I guess I'm going bald."
I found this video so beautiful. I think it still makes a lot of sense to put hair and fingernail cuttings in the ground where their nutrients can recycle into new plants. Better than sending them to landfill.
The background music is beautiful ❤ what is it called? I love listening to your work it’s very informative and answers many questions!!
Thank you, and as for the music I get it from Artlist, it's royalty-free and there is a good choice of quality tracks.
@@Crecganford thank you. I shall take a look . Keep up your splendid work I really love learning from your research.
Grabbing my tea
Curious how you’d interpret the “dirt under the nail” of Inanna’s decent.
That is a very old motif, and I think I may touch on it in my video on the oldest creation myth.
The one ritual I grew up with and stay faithful to with my children too is St.George celebration May 5-6 as Albanians especially the Northern ones keep. It's called St.George but the ritual is all about the Kulçedra / Dragons and really has nothing to do with Christianity. In fact the ritual we can say starts on May first with the night of fires and it ends on May 6th
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Hey, you never talked about the 'Battle of 10 kings' in vedas. You said you will 2 years ago but till now you didn't. It's a crucial part of Indo-European history, especially the Indo-aryan. You should have covered it.
If part of head, torso, legs of Yemo were combined to make the King, does that imply that the Priests, Warriors and People were all incomplete due to the missing bits that made up the King?
It means the King was aware of how all the people he ruled over felt... And those people were missing the "inherent" ability to do the role of the others.
@@Crecganford I wonder where that leaves me in my life-long goal of being a pancompetent histomath. Also, I seem to often anger others by recognizing their motives because I understand them because I can see the world through their eyes. Oh, FUCK, I DON'T WANT TO BE KING. Forget I brought it up. [Also, a new point of fear. My name means 'Twin'. I'm doomed.]
Did Indo-Europeans have a ritual concerning umbilical cords and placentas of humans just like we do at least here in the Philippines?
3000 years later we've barely made any progress on that baldness cure
Male pattern baldness is driven by testosterone and recapitulates the pattern of the maternal grandfather. Fighting it is a refusal to accept one's proper place in one's lineage. Refusal to accept one's hereditary role is often what leads to the tragic disasters of legend, lore, myth and religion [if there is any real difference in the long run]. Look to the silver-backs' crowns.
What cures we have that actually work are VERY expensive.
i leave my cut hair out for the birds to make nests
Very interesting, but it was hard to watch as after the introduction the speech was out of synch.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm not sure why this is happening but I will try and fix it.
I plan on now saving all of my nail clippings and pestle and mortar-ing them, crushing them into powder, then saving them to make soil! What if how the romans and maya made their, terraria*? Or whatever their epic forgotten soil is called, hair takes so very long to breakdown, but if you crushed it, well, you might not make it out of that room alive ya know, due to paeticulate matter. Still! I love this and plan on encorporating this belief into my day to day.
You guys who want beards, please take mine! I'm tired of plucking my goat hairs out!
What aboot Us ' Nail- Biterz ' ?
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Hi, how come some south american myhology is similar to indo european religions? Is that just coincidence since there is no linguistic conection (like you said in other video)?
Also was egyptian mythology also influenced? Since it also shares similarities
Thx for answers
We all came from Africa. It would be odd if we didn't find similarities in myth all across the Earth.
@@demoncore5342 there is 30-60k years between leaving africa and entering america, shits crazy that we can preserve myth that long. But wouldnt there be similar myths in africa? I am not aware of any and apparently these myths originated in caucas reagion with endo-eu people long after enering america and leaving africa.
I know there is myth in australia about vulcanic eruption 37k years ago so not impossible
I am sorry , by " south american" do you mean pre-Coloumbian cultures ?
@@majidbineshgar7156 yeah of course
Depends on the myth. Some are incredibly old and travel such vast distances through time. Others are likely the product of people with no direct contact who created similar ideas imaginatively. Australian aborigines had myths in which black animals were originally white just as ancient Europeans did. Did they know of white species of these animals from when their ancestors lived in distant lands and so had to explain the existence of black species when they encountered them in new lands? In the Australian instance this is very possible but in the European case it seems to be a coincidence.
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Is the class called the providers a nice way of saying the slaves.
No, not at all, providers are the farmers.
Would this explain why people seek the horns of rhinos and scales of pangolins for medicinal purposes?
Interesting idea!!!! Could be!
I think, the horn of the rhinos, it is the standing position that is more important.
They drink tea made from dried up tiger pens for erectile disfunction.
audio/video out of sync with eachother and I can't take it. I spilt my tea.
I'm trying to fix it, but I may just have to re-upload the video... :(
@@Crecganford haha thank you for your reply sir. I love your videos and honestly I think most the time I just listen anyway, but it's hard for my ape brain to unsee or unthink things.
Yath kun vuchhith chhi kashiri hind zade kasin tsetas pyevan. Akh vuhur gatshne bronh chi shudis mas yiwan kasne ashmukame.
Let's see if I stop getting bald, nothing to lose :)
Your voice and video appears a fraction off in this clip
Yes, RUclips has done something odd to my video, and I can’t fix it :(
@@Crecganford still a good clip, no problem. Keep up the good work.
Chinese mandate of Heaven ...
Baldness is what bothers me the least))
cutting fingernails at night is considered a bad omen among turks...
Is there a reason, or just a don't? I'm curious.
@@demoncore5342 its superstition,but i believe it goes back to ancient belief...it would awake evil spirits...i just researched...most logical one it says it would bring bad luck...
how about sweeping the house at night?
(sweeps the good fortune out of the home in India and most countries it influenced, SE Asia down through Indonesia)
@@nukhetyavuz Thanks for response. Similar as our don't whistle at night, it either brings bad luck (why would you bring bad luck on your self?) or calls in demons. Guess those both are some long forgotten rituals rooted out and turned in to superstitions...
Curiously Iranians believe the same , there seems to be a lot of common believes between Iranians and citizens of Turkey.
haircuts are secular activities? well, going to my barber is like a deep red bucket of Hee Haw! on acid.
all of them except the mullet and the high and tight.
།ག་རེ་ཡེ་ནས་ཡོད་ཀྱང་ཐོག་མཐའ་མེད་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཡིན་དང་ཁྲིམས་འབབ།
Well, we do DNA testing by spit, I had an allergy analysis done by hair (validity questionable) and another by blood (ditto) and a gut flora analysis by, er, well . . . . On Star Trek they used old hair and a transporter to heal somebody . . . so ....... get yourself some ladanum, LOL.
That behavior kinda sucks. If someone is in pain, to cut their fingernails and then put them on a tree and then the pain to go to whoever goes by that tree. i mean it doesn't really matter if it works or not. The act itself kinda sucks and whoever did that was not really a cool person. i understand wanting the pain to go away, but believing in giving it to someone who's unaware, is sort of disappointing.
Its well proven that white people were originally Uralic-Altaic speakers NOT Indo-Europeans. IE were brown people from Hindustan immigrated to south Europe and later establishing Greece, Roman civilizations.
When did I ever specify the colour of a person? I don’t care what colour they are, makes not a bit of difference….
Love this- I like to put my nail and hair clippings in the soil of my house plants. Did not realize the Zoroastrians had a ritual for it and demons and lice might ensue if I was sloppy with the process. Adding ritual the everyday actions adds dimension to life - I appreciate your work and your generosity sharing with us🙏🏼🦋🪷
no the cosmogenic link - you should start yur own clinic (great stuff)
Thanks Jon! I love your work. Every video, wow! I am learning and learning. I soak up every word. I tell my Chinese wife about some of these things. She relates the Chinese old myths and stories. She laughs at our end of EurAsia with the prominence of the Bull (Elohim, All-h, "the strong one", Aleph, Alpha, A sideways Ox head). And thanks for never taking it .... that one direction. You keep it science based and great to hear every word. - I do wish we could know some deeply ancient African stories and how they relate. The San, Koi, Pygmies, the old hunter gatherer tribes, rare today but with deepest history there.