Ritual Nudity in History and Religion - Ronald Hutton

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024

Комментарии • 113

  • @khaledadams4329
    @khaledadams4329 8 месяцев назад +91

    Nothing gets my attention like a lesson on the weirdness of our past with Professor Hutton.

    • @sugarpuddin
      @sugarpuddin 8 месяцев назад

      He speaks with authority yet has no experience.
      Like a professor of business who never built or run an actual business.

    • @lizb111
      @lizb111 8 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah why isn’t he 1000 years old or have a Time Machine, then he could have experience with the past cultures he speaks with such authority about! Lol

    • @kp6215
      @kp6215 8 месяцев назад

      Me Too 😁

    • @khaledadams4329
      @khaledadams4329 8 месяцев назад

      @St.Buddha_Brahman-Sun_of_Light Very true. :)

  • @unclemontypython
    @unclemontypython 8 месяцев назад +69

    Ronald is one of the hardest-working men in his field, and to be gifted with a fresh hour of him talking is always a pure delight. National treasure.

    • @HLBear
      @HLBear 8 месяцев назад +3

      International treasure. 😊❤

    • @unclemontypython
      @unclemontypython 8 месяцев назад

      @@HLBear You are quite correct!

    • @inregionecaecorum
      @inregionecaecorum 8 месяцев назад

      As I have said before, never a dull moment in his lectures.

  • @missbornlucky6676
    @missbornlucky6676 8 месяцев назад +16

    listening to Professor Hutton's lecture has always been and will always be a delight for me

  • @louisemay974
    @louisemay974 8 месяцев назад +13

    Thank you Gresham College. Another marvellous Professor Hutton talk, the man is indeed a national treasure - just wonderful.

  • @josephturner7569
    @josephturner7569 8 месяцев назад +48

    Granny Weatherwax had very definite views on this kind of thing.

    • @paganbaby7777
      @paganbaby7777 8 месяцев назад +11

      With quite a few remarks concerning the weather, nettles and the occasional hedgehog

    • @aprilcalhoun8984
      @aprilcalhoun8984 8 месяцев назад +7

      I do miss Granny

    • @josephturner7569
      @josephturner7569 8 месяцев назад +8

      @@paganbaby7777 And you know what they say about hedgehogs.

    • @josephturner7569
      @josephturner7569 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@aprilcalhoun8984 And her alter ego 😞. But, you know. The Creators final message. (No. Not that one 🙄).

    • @pixiepianoplayer114
      @pixiepianoplayer114 5 месяцев назад +1

      Granny liked Maypoles to before she was told about them thoroughly😊

  • @reversefulfillment9189
    @reversefulfillment9189 8 месяцев назад +12

    We have a large nude beach in Vancouver. I always loved going there and being amongst a thousand people just enjoying the sun and being free. The kind of people that show up there are a unique breed, 👌

    • @dariowestern
      @dariowestern 2 месяца назад +1

      Wreck Beach. Would love to visit there sometime. 🙂

  • @sosukelele
    @sosukelele 8 месяцев назад +29

    Unfortunately I am obligated to watch all of Professor Hutton's lectures to see if he ever misses. Yet to witness it

    • @pixiepianoplayer114
      @pixiepianoplayer114 5 месяцев назад

      I beleive you meant " Fortunately "
      Long live us Uke players as well so!😊

  • @minui8758
    @minui8758 8 месяцев назад +10

    Ok the bit on the initiation of ritual for early Xian Baptism is beyond fascinating!

    • @NathanDudani
      @NathanDudani 8 месяцев назад +1

      XPian

    • @minui8758
      @minui8758 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@NathanDudani I guess if we were being very pedantic it’d be ☧ian. But given the chi rho isn’t on most keyboards and everyone knows the meaning Xian is the standard abbreviation

  • @DragonborneRising
    @DragonborneRising 5 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoy his lectures, so informative, delivered in a way that's easy to understand, brilliant, just brilliant. Thank you Prof Hutton.

  • @lidivaljunior192
    @lidivaljunior192 Месяц назад

    Amazing lessons, mighty glad professor Hutton posted that fantastic knowledge about ancient wisdom, i am from Brasil, thanks for sharing with us. 💯🇧🇷

  • @GavinM161
    @GavinM161 8 месяцев назад +5

    Truly interesting lecture on something I had no particular interest in. Bravo Professor Hutton.

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 4 месяца назад

    Such a brilliant teacher and speaker! Thank you for sharing these. Wonderful lecture!

  • @jamiegallier2106
    @jamiegallier2106 8 месяцев назад +1

    Always an interesting discussion with Professor Hutton.

  • @thishandleistacken
    @thishandleistacken 8 месяцев назад +5

    In the tradition I was in for many years (one which pre-dates Wicca but greatly inspired it and which Gardener was familiar with, the O.T.O.) a particular initiation involves going nude then being given the robe of the Order (which is handmade by the initiate before attending the ceremony).

  • @frankshifreen
    @frankshifreen 8 месяцев назад +6

    great lecture

  • @dinnerwithfranklin2451
    @dinnerwithfranklin2451 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very interesting lecture. Thank you.

  • @gunkwretch3697
    @gunkwretch3697 7 месяцев назад +3

    One tradition he missed, from ancient Greece, see "The Liturgy of Love" translated by Dr John Opsopaus, referring to the teachings of Philotes, daughter of Aphrodite... but then Greeks had other orgiastic traditions with Dionysus too... This is like Greek Tantra in some ways.

  • @caitgems1
    @caitgems1 8 месяцев назад +4

    "You dirty old man"
    ~Harold Steptoe

  • @logiclust
    @logiclust 8 месяцев назад +30

    it's amazing how prudish people have become

  • @theseustoo
    @theseustoo 8 месяцев назад +5

    Hmmm... the original 'Olympic Games' were all performed nude... and were offered as a sacrifice to Zeus. So I suppose this can be seen as a form of ritual nudity, offered as worship.

  • @hive_indicator318
    @hive_indicator318 Месяц назад

    To all the people whining about how they don't like how he speaks, the entire presentation and transcript are linked in the description. Read the free information provided instead of complaining. Or don't, but shut up with the sniveling about sniffling either way

  • @ConLustig
    @ConLustig 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is such a great sociological analysis

  • @16252
    @16252 8 месяцев назад +4

    great thanks

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc94 8 месяцев назад +2

    gr8 questions tonite. gr8 lecture. _JC

  • @davidjames9626
    @davidjames9626 5 месяцев назад +1

    Irony here, this very English clothed example of our hang-upped cultured souls..

  • @hanbeihood3202
    @hanbeihood3202 8 месяцев назад

    Wonder what word(s) the Greeks of antiquity used for worship/religious rites

  • @MendocinoMotorenWerk
    @MendocinoMotorenWerk 8 месяцев назад +4

    I clickbaited myself by reading royal nudity instead of ritual nudity :-) when glancing across the subscriptions page

  • @kp6215
    @kp6215 8 месяцев назад +11

    I was invited to a nudist camp in 1977 had no embarrassment of no clothes but the men couldn't stop staring at me that I thought was reason why the men started these places for men's benefit never allow women power still in 2024.

  • @deadsteve2180
    @deadsteve2180 8 месяцев назад +6

    Love is the Law! Love under Will.

  • @jeffgrove1389
    @jeffgrove1389 8 месяцев назад +3

    The experience of nudity in nature and even more so at night takes you out of the “human” and gives you a closer approximation of an appreciation of each and everyone’s animality. In discarding the encoding inbuilt in the clothes you are wearing are laid aside. On another note - weren’t the original Olympic Games actually contested nude? Wasn’t this offering of your effort a religious offering.

  • @tracyrupp4882
    @tracyrupp4882 8 месяцев назад +11

    Aversion to nudity is a societal construct which has not served us well, creating an unnecessary barrier between two-legged beings and the natural world. The book "A Brief History of Nakedness" is a lovely visual jaunt for those who value the sky-clad state. (Poor Conan - a lot to give up for his chosen discipline).

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 8 месяцев назад +2

      Not if you live in a northern climate like I do.

    • @PeteOtton
      @PeteOtton 6 месяцев назад

      Conan actually wore clothes and armor in most of the stories. It was rare he didn't and it usually revolved around being shipwrecked or other disaster that destroyed his clothes.

  • @DeathRayGraphics
    @DeathRayGraphics 8 месяцев назад +15

    Was there ever a more click-baity piece of art than "Magical Nudity"?

  • @sarahlynn7807
    @sarahlynn7807 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very interesting!

  • @cmcg9035
    @cmcg9035 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for the lecture. I don't know what went on in Louisiana in the 1872, but Voodoo today does not contain magical nudity during services. There isn't the parallel with Wicca there.

  • @myparceltape1169
    @myparceltape1169 8 месяцев назад +4

    A woman seen broadcasting seed for the next year is described as a witch.
    The witness must have wanted some of that crop.

  • @VJacquette
    @VJacquette 8 месяцев назад +1

    What about sky-clad Jains? It's not ritualistic, but the men are supposed to be nude for religious/spiritual purposes.

  • @jarrettperdue3328
    @jarrettperdue3328 7 месяцев назад +1

    Next lecture: "How Ronald Got His Groove Back"?

  • @ScooterFXRS
    @ScooterFXRS 8 месяцев назад +7

    As a male I absolutely believe in magical nudity and when one finds it in mutual attraction, affection, and state of being in love.

    • @Mario-zn2fg
      @Mario-zn2fg 8 месяцев назад

      😊

    • @michaelbasher
      @michaelbasher 8 месяцев назад

      😊2

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 8 месяцев назад

      How ridiculous

    • @Smoug
      @Smoug 8 месяцев назад

      @@dshe8637 silence normie

  • @alexzicker
    @alexzicker 8 месяцев назад +9

    more people should go on holiday to the Brazilian beaches

  • @jl8217
    @jl8217 3 месяца назад

    Prof Hutton rules!

  • @sternderlmadam
    @sternderlmadam 3 месяца назад

    very very interesting content.. the microphone terrible though and hutton s sniffling doesn t help

  • @eldraque4556
    @eldraque4556 6 месяцев назад

    and it just so happened we had the key!

  • @HeerHalewijn
    @HeerHalewijn 6 месяцев назад

    Why start with ahistorical Wiccan practices?

  • @Abuamina001
    @Abuamina001 Месяц назад

    I feel like Dr. Victoria Bateman might have a strong opinion here.

  • @quantumcomata105
    @quantumcomata105 5 месяцев назад

    Let us restore Justice Via The Great Ball-court ⚽️. The Winners get their way; the loosers keep their heads. How bad do you want it? ~Checks & Balances of the Maia judicial system.

  • @migranthawker2952
    @migranthawker2952 7 месяцев назад

    For "Ritual" swap "we don't really know"!!!!

  • @theseustoo
    @theseustoo 8 месяцев назад +3

    Lol! "Conan the Bashful!" I'd love to see a movie by a young Arnold Schwartzenegger playing the lead role... And maybe Sophia Loren playing the female lead... Or Raquel Welch... Or Ursula Andress... or Elke Sommer... or... or... well... the list of candidates is very long. There were a lot of beautiful women around at that time. I'd have loved to be the casting director for such a movie! 😉

  • @maxsonthonax1020
    @maxsonthonax1020 7 месяцев назад

    What's the deal with Magical Nudity!

  • @gradyratliff2034
    @gradyratliff2034 8 месяцев назад

    Ordo...templi....oriensis...😊

  • @theseustoo
    @theseustoo 8 месяцев назад +2

    I hope the professor has recovered from the cold he seems to be suffering from... one cannot help but wonder how he caught it... personal research, perhaps? 🤔

  • @SerifSansSerif
    @SerifSansSerif 2 месяца назад

    God I hate the sexist questions at the end of each part of this series.
    The answer is simply "no". What we consider sexual dicotomies in the modern sense are European and more particularly post industrial revolution when divisions of labor could be further applied to lower classes than before.

  • @declassified1
    @declassified1 4 месяца назад

    Met him once ,managed to say the dumbest sentence I've ever uttered 🙄. It involved the Yew trees in his garden ...

  • @wolfa5151
    @wolfa5151 8 месяцев назад +4

    Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. ( Mark Twain)

    • @carlosgaspar8447
      @carlosgaspar8447 8 месяцев назад

      quotes were invented when the first tossed stone became the first tool.

  • @erickent4248
    @erickent4248 8 месяцев назад +1

    I guess there is not much evidence historically, but it felt like this speech was 90% conjecture.

  • @dieterschonefeld7428
    @dieterschonefeld7428 8 месяцев назад

    You are always serious and of interest, however on this one You are "out biking" so to speak.

  • @hermitthefrog8951
    @hermitthefrog8951 8 месяцев назад

    More likely they're just a bit randy.....

  • @davidjames9626
    @davidjames9626 3 месяца назад

    Oh really

  • @mikechristian-vn1le
    @mikechristian-vn1le Месяц назад

    Nudity makes us equal? How utterly absurd! I am an ugly old man (and a Christian who merely offers criticism). Youth and beauty are close cousins. Uniform robes not only cover our beauty and our ugliness but also strength. feebleness.

  • @life42theuniverse
    @life42theuniverse 8 месяцев назад +2

    A ritual of spring fertility now Easter.

    • @HLBear
      @HLBear 8 месяцев назад +1

      Oestara, aka spring equinox.

    • @hive_indicator318
      @hive_indicator318 Месяц назад

      Passover is a ritual of spring fertility?

  • @Mai-Gninwod
    @Mai-Gninwod 7 месяцев назад

    I know this man's mouth sounds more than my own mother's voice

  • @Wfhii
    @Wfhii 3 месяца назад

    Dry presentation

  • @hansleijonmarck9768
    @hansleijonmarck9768 8 месяцев назад +1

    "Engineering is as close you can come to Magic." Elon Musk

    • @marioicon
      @marioicon 4 месяца назад

      Said the Scientist 😂

  • @roughout
    @roughout 8 месяцев назад +8

    There is nothing wholesome about public nudity. Public and common nudity robes the sanctity reserved for husband and wife private relationships. We see increasing acceptance and it represents our degrading society.

    • @HLBear
      @HLBear 8 месяцев назад +13

      Thank you for sharing your own religious mores. Now, please listen and learn about history, and other religions' beliefs. He discusses the place of nudity in early Christianity, so it may be worth your while to listen.

  • @lw1zfog
    @lw1zfog 5 месяцев назад

    he’s a wrong’un

  • @DawnHub666
    @DawnHub666 5 месяцев назад

    Huge points here are completely wrong

    • @hive_indicator318
      @hive_indicator318 Месяц назад

      Care to elaborate, or does being vague actually inform people?

    • @DawnHub666
      @DawnHub666 Месяц назад

      @@hive_indicator318 cant remember what i was referring to actually.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 8 месяцев назад +2

    This kind of nonsense brings ridicule on the reputation of Gresham College.

  • @rhwinner
    @rhwinner 8 месяцев назад +1

    I am against nudity of all kinds.

  • @peterkiedron8949
    @peterkiedron8949 8 месяцев назад +3

    Nonsense

    • @HLBear
      @HLBear 8 месяцев назад +6

      Lots of other things to watch if history of human activity isn't your thing. :)

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 8 месяцев назад +1

      This is presented as history, but it is really a niche and personal opinion based in superstition and occult nonsense

    • @Smoug
      @Smoug 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@dshe8637braindead take