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'.
Oprah once ate someone's head. I witnessed it. Life will never be the same. I live every waking moment in fear. We locked eyes for a brief second with an understanding that death would not bring release but eternal hell in her realm.... Dr. Phil, please save mee!!!!
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/
They worshipped the head of the sperm which contains the GOD code (DNA). It was said that "the body acted out a strange wriggling dance before the head was severed from the body". Sperm making it's way into the egg in a wriggly fashion. If you look at the image of the female reproductive system it mirrors the shape of "Jesus crucified on the cross". Jesus is God made Man(ifest). Sperm is DNA made into Flesh. Transubstantiation is the sperm and egg becoming flesh and blood - literally. The Holy Mother Church is the female body. The altar is the womb. Once you wrap your head around the undisputable fact that Christian symbology centers around reverence for the body, male and female reproductive organs, sperm, egg, DNA it makes sense.
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.
For those that don't know, the Orkney Saga records Sigurd Eysteinsson killing one "Máel Brigte the Buck-Toothed" and attaching his severed head to his saddle where, depending on your taste, it either accidentally scratches or bites his leg leading to sepsis and death.
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.
Thanks for this comment, was waiting for someone to make the Lugh connection! As a nod to this, I have the Corleck Head morph into an image of Lugh at 13:32
@@ConstantChaos1Yes, but they're usually portrayed as seperate beings. Lugh is the only God often depicted in art with three heads. Those are two different things.
The reason we dressed up in Ireland was to confuse the spirits that could be about on Samhain, avoid bringing something home with you that you hadn't intended, etc. I always assumed that the scary faces on the lanterns seaeved a similar function 😁
Totally. All the dead rose up so you dressed up to blend in and the people gave out sweets and apples to appease the spirits and you were usurping that by pretending to be one.
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.
People say "Celtic culture" or something similar while assuming "celts" are native to Ireland and only those lads made all the folklore and mythss/belief. More to Ireland than the Celts and English influence.
If only someone had made a video explaining the differences between Irish and Celtic mythology 🧐 ruclips.net/video/3gPS8G5qhns/видео.htmlsi=UYGB7UgP6mMt_BW_
Definitely. And if you watch until the end, my conclusion is that the ancient Celts didn't actually worship heads-they worshiped their gods. Heads could be used to represent those gods and more generally heads were venerated because they were seen as the repository of the soul.
interesting! this very much aligns with the Cult of John the Baptist, and moreover their worship of his severed head...the graveyard scene in Hamlet appears be a subtle to allusion to some head worshipping as well. Alas poor Yorick...
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
Just got this video recommended and it is wonderfully done but I do have a question: Are there any records of celts using heads or even stuff that resembled heads for divination? Like tarot cards but… head.
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!
God is in the mind, shielded by the skull, we are extensions of that god tethered to Mother Earth, the flesh, we are the divine thoughts that seed, there is a universe in each of us, held captive by politics, religion & society’s version of entertainment.
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?
It's a real object (found the image via a Creative Commons search) but it doesn't have any historical/archaeological significance to the best of my knowledge
I read a bunch of Morgan Llewellyn novels when I was younger and she talked about the brain balls. I remember thinking that was like the ultimate Badass Flex. Lol
The forn nordic vikings also kept heads from amongst others their favorite enemies since they respected and loved a foe that could measure up to their own bravado.
@@AloysiusChristopher-pm7gg no we didn't That would be impossible first of all Cletic started in central Europe as a joint indo European culture called le téne Not al celts spread east from central Europe majority never met the cananites Also celtic wasn't one people they were seprate and did not veiw each other as fellow celts we didn't even call ourselves celts its a foreign label used by gauls Irish would never had any interaction over there we spread too ireland late bronze age from central Europe the culture now is a mix of indo European and le téne which is the celtic culture
@@AloysiusChristopher-pm7gg Proto Indo European is a language not a people Indo European is from western Europe too the indus Valley North India hence the name indo European, Indus European
There are stories in France of saints who eere behaeded by pagans, then carried their head yo sime meaningful place before dying. They're called "ceophalophorous saints", bead carrying saints. It's believed by some that those stories rise from Gaulsih pagan beliefs about heads
could the preservation of the heads of slain enemies have been to prevent transmigration of their souls so they couldn't seek revenge in the next life?
I am aware that they aren't just heads. But the heads are oversized. ”Almost all moai have overly large heads, which account for three-eighths of the size of the whole statue” -Wikipedia
In Anthroposophy there are three forces. Thinking, Feeling and Willing. Thinking is centered in the head. Feeling is centered in the heart. Willing is centered in the solar plexus. Celtic myths are all tied up with thinking, puzzles, conundrums and riddles, whereas Christian myths are tied to feeling. Not thinking. Christian culture depended on people doing as they were told... out of feelings of fear.
I've always hated that about Christianity. Christians are the least curious people you will ever meet, and they have no interest in anything that doesn't reinforce the beliefs they already hold.
@@AJWRAJWR In Ireland during the Witch Trials that swept Europe, Ireland burned 10 'Witches' in 300 years, and they were all in the English controlled zones. In Scotland 2500 were burned as witches. Mostly for making 'potions' to ease Child Birth, or disputes over inheritance.
Nah, I got it right. Go ahead and Google "when was Jesus born according to the Bible" and see what year you get and perhaps you'll understand why using BCE makes more sense.
@@Witchcraft_of_the_old_world I didn't even watch the whole video , there were multiple in the first few minutes and the last two videos I watched from the channel were doing the exact same thing, not helpful to our culture
@@Witchcraft_of_the_old_world yes I do , I aint got time to go put the video on again to remember and clarify to you the exact lies, its pretty obvious... this page is sharing alot of nonsense
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'.
If only the English soldiers had used their brains and left, they'd have kept their heads.
@@jc-16. brains are for war mongers not every day soldiers
@equinsuocha9174 but war is wroth and mongered by the soldiers.
@@jc-16. nah it’s 100% the puppeteers, just money making power plays to further seize control over the planet and sovereign autonomy
Oprah once ate someone's head. I witnessed it. Life will never be the same. I live every waking moment in fear.
We locked eyes for a brief second with an understanding that death would not bring release but eternal hell in her realm.... Dr. Phil, please save mee!!!!
As a pure blood Celt I can tell you clearly that the impulse to collect the skulls of enemy champions is a real thing.
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/
They worshipped the head of the sperm which contains the GOD code (DNA). It was said that "the body acted out a strange wriggling dance before the head was severed from the body". Sperm making it's way into the egg in a wriggly fashion.
If you look at the image of the female reproductive system it mirrors the shape of "Jesus crucified on the cross".
Jesus is God made Man(ifest). Sperm is DNA made into Flesh.
Transubstantiation is the sperm and egg becoming flesh and blood - literally.
The Holy Mother Church is the female body. The altar is the womb.
Once you wrap your head around the undisputable fact that Christian symbology centers around reverence for the body, male and female reproductive organs, sperm, egg, DNA it makes sense.
Thanks!
Whoa! Thank YOU so much!
Now I understand the Briton head hurlers from Rome Total War
The only ' Britons ' are on the west coast of Ireland, in remote Gaelic only speaking areas.
Ironically. lol 😂
How are they Britons? They're Gaels
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.
For those that don't know, the Orkney Saga records Sigurd Eysteinsson killing one "Máel Brigte the Buck-Toothed" and attaching his severed head to his saddle where, depending on your taste, it either accidentally scratches or bites his leg leading to sepsis and death.
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.
Thanks for this comment, was waiting for someone to make the Lugh connection! As a nod to this, I have the Corleck Head morph into an image of Lugh at 13:32
Odin had two ravens named "Thought" and "Memory", so make of that what you will. 🤷♂️
The giant of the welsh version of jack and the beanstalk has the heads too
There were many tripple gods/goddesses in celtic myth
@@ConstantChaos1Yes, but they're usually portrayed as seperate beings. Lugh is the only God often depicted in art with three heads. Those are two different things.
The reason we dressed up in Ireland was to confuse the spirits that could be about on Samhain, avoid bringing something home with you that you hadn't intended, etc. I always assumed that the scary faces on the lanterns seaeved a similar function 😁
Totally. All the dead rose up so you dressed up to blend in and the people gave out sweets and apples to appease the spirits and you were usurping that by pretending to be one.
The brainballs thing is mental, I've never heard of that before! The creativity of our ancestors never ceases to amaze...
I love this channel
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Interesting that the early worship of Bamphomet by the Crusaders CLEARLY state that its a 'Head' also
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.
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.
*King's sister
Don't let this video go to your head
People say "Celtic culture" or something similar while assuming "celts" are native to Ireland and only those lads made all the folklore and mythss/belief.
More to Ireland than the Celts and English influence.
If only someone had made a video explaining the differences between Irish and Celtic mythology 🧐 ruclips.net/video/3gPS8G5qhns/видео.htmlsi=UYGB7UgP6mMt_BW_
@irishmyths wouldn't veneration be more accurate than worship in this case?
Definitely. And if you watch until the end, my conclusion is that the ancient Celts didn't actually worship heads-they worshiped their gods. Heads could be used to represent those gods and more generally heads were venerated because they were seen as the repository of the soul.
Cu Chulainn was Mars in the Saturn Theory. Wall Thornhill gave great interviews explaining it further
interesting! this very much aligns with the Cult of John the Baptist, and moreover their worship of his severed head...the graveyard scene in Hamlet appears be a subtle to allusion to some head worshipping as well. Alas poor Yorick...
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
Probably, but the Norse had a head obsession of their own
I'm pretty sure all these old myths are related, either by being directly descended from the same original story, or by being adopted across cultures.
@@slappy8941All europeans are descended from Ancient anatolians who practiced Kabbalah.
The Now series of CDs was pretty bangin
Me and my Dad would carve a “Tumshie” every Halloween. Basically just as you said, a turnip instead of a pumpkin.
good to get ahead
The head being the most important part, well you can live without an arm or leg.....bit difficult without a head though.
Awesome 🎃
Thanks for watching!
So many Wilhelm screams
Was waiting for someone to notice 😱
Just got this video recommended and it is wonderfully done but I do have a question:
Are there any records of celts using heads or even stuff that resembled heads for divination? Like tarot cards but… head.
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!
To me it's like the brain produces consciousness, which after a time can function independently of the brain, and becomes our soul/spirit.
Soul isn't made of juice it doesn't need a container. 😂
@@JosephBontrager-o7gconsciousness can't function independently of even being awake....😂
God is in the mind, shielded by the skull, we are extensions of that god tethered to Mother Earth, the flesh, we are the divine thoughts that seed, there is a universe in each of us, held captive by politics, religion & society’s version of entertainment.
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?
Is the skull in the thumbnail real?
It's a real object (found the image via a Creative Commons search) but it doesn't have any historical/archaeological significance to the best of my knowledge
omg Bambie Thug had that symbol on her head she sang at the eurovision
I read a bunch of Morgan Llewellyn novels when I was younger and she talked about the brain balls. I remember thinking that was like the ultimate Badass Flex. Lol
The forn nordic vikings also kept heads from amongst others their favorite enemies since they respected and loved a foe that could measure up to their own bravado.
Don't celts germs and Nords share some similar traditions?
At 2:00 minutes, wtf is that?
This is an interesting read:
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book by Julian Jaynes
Its an ancient canaanite practice that both the Templars and the Nazi SS also carried out.
No its celtic.
@ The Celts got it from the Canaanites
@@AloysiusChristopher-pm7gg no we didn't
That would be impossible first of all
Cletic started in central Europe as a joint indo European culture called le téne
Not al celts spread east from central Europe majority never met the cananites
Also celtic wasn't one people they were seprate and did not veiw each other as fellow celts we didn't even call ourselves celts its a foreign label used by gauls
Irish would never had any interaction over there we spread too ireland late bronze age from central Europe the culture now is a mix of indo European and le téne which is the celtic culture
@@Trueghh right and who were the proto indo europeans and where did they come from?
@@AloysiusChristopher-pm7gg
Proto Indo European is a language not a people
Indo European is from western Europe too the indus Valley North India hence the name indo European, Indus European
Reminds me of Mount and Blade being ambushed by sea raiders, "That'sa nice head on yur showderz" " I Vill Trink From yur skull"
still to this day is a very common practice although now let say is metaphorically but same effects
There are stories in France of saints who eere behaeded by pagans, then carried their head yo sime meaningful place before dying. They're called "ceophalophorous saints", bead carrying saints. It's believed by some that those stories rise from Gaulsih pagan beliefs about heads
Super interesting, I'm going to read more about that! Thank you for sharing
Yep.
here in Portugal we have precisley the cult of the severed heads ahaha. left by celts ofc
could the preservation of the heads of slain enemies have been to prevent transmigration of their souls so they couldn't seek revenge in the next life?
Zemis, ancestral altar effigies. What is anti-zemi-tism ¿🙃
😰 Phew good job i watched your video, i was just about to go out with my razor sharp shield slung on my back. 🥴
My job here is done (thanks for watching!)
@@irishmyths My pleasure.
You can't use the Moai as an example of "other" cultures vererating heads. The Moai of Rapa Nui were FULL bodied statues.
I am aware that they aren't just heads. But the heads are oversized. ”Almost all moai have overly large heads, which account for three-eighths of the size of the whole statue” -Wikipedia
Nah raditz DEFINITELY has the hairiest balls, its cannon
Fuck I gota finish that game…… guess I can’t go homeless right yet
Basically they metal af!
Hmm,heady.
Makes me think of the show 3rd Rock From The Sun, with the alien that channels the Big Giant Head, for mission instructions.
Yeah Boii
There can be only one.
Who'll carve the pig?! ∆
Yeah Boii!!! 😂😅
Was waiting for this comment
@@irishmyths😁
Scottish aswell bro. Welsh Scottish and irish.
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
Cu Chulainn is pronounced CuHoolin/CuHoolain.
I know pyramids collapse between worlds. Piles of dog heads everywhere.
The morrigu are Gaelic
🏴☠️
In Anthroposophy there are three forces. Thinking, Feeling and Willing. Thinking is centered in the head. Feeling is centered in the heart. Willing is centered in the solar plexus. Celtic myths are all tied up with thinking, puzzles, conundrums and riddles, whereas Christian myths are tied to feeling. Not thinking. Christian culture depended on people doing as they were told... out of feelings of fear.
I've always hated that about Christianity. Christians are the least curious people you will ever meet, and they have no interest in anything that doesn't reinforce the beliefs they already hold.
@@slappy8941like paganism?
Are you talking about the same Christianity that gave the world Scholasticism and Academia? Whilst the pagans were illiterate.
@@AJWRAJWR In Ireland during the Witch Trials that swept Europe, Ireland burned 10 'Witches' in 300 years, and they were all in the English controlled zones. In Scotland 2500 were burned as witches. Mostly for making 'potions' to ease Child Birth, or disputes over inheritance.
Bagpipes
Still no head
Boii
Who cares?!
-Said every other country in the world
You can barely speak for yourself nevermimd every other country.
How many heads fit on a man’s shoulders ¿¿¿ how many heads fit on a woman’s shelters ¿¿🙃.....
Nothing more then a trophy.
Nothing too deep..
Trophy hunting.
Naturally.
What ?
They're English . It's perfectly justifiable lmao 😂😂 . . . ∆
BC no E
Nah, I got it right. Go ahead and Google "when was Jesus born according to the Bible" and see what year you get and perhaps you'll understand why using BCE makes more sense.
too many lies
Why? Where?
@@Witchcraft_of_the_old_world I didn't even watch the whole video , there were multiple in the first few minutes and the last two videos I watched from the channel were doing the exact same thing, not helpful to our culture
@@daibhidh would you mind clarifying?
@@Witchcraft_of_the_old_world yes I do , I aint got time to go put the video on again to remember and clarify to you the exact lies, its pretty obvious... this page is sharing alot of nonsense