@@griffinv8382 yeah right? I came expecting yootoob true crime crap,only then I found a thoughtful study on anthropology, Very enjoyable! Thank you Horse Daddy!
@garethjones6342 yeah this was a genuinely well put together documentary. Tons of sources, examples, and different schools of thought to create this project. Praises all around to Horse daddy lol
I’m greatly relieved to find that not a single one of us searched for this video and instead had the algorithm shove it down our throats until watching it.
@@khanhphi710 I started seeing content like this after coming back from my seventh ban. It's like they think I'm some kind of psychopath because I won't stay banned lol
Dear Mr./Ms. FBI Agent, I would like to inform you that my viewing of this media is merely for entertainment and educational purposes. I am not a cannibal, and I am in no way attempting to dispose of a human corpse through bodily consumption. Regards, Magicaid
to clarify this is a philisophical discussion of cannibalism by the user horses, it is not a video for horses about how to cook and eat human beings, which i would also watch.
So, so lovely to see a channel that covers morbid subjects in a way that doesn't trivialize, sensationalize or flatten any nuance. In other words, respectful and informative. I'll subscribe for sure.
Southamerican historian here. Cannibalism is actually a very important topic when understanding the history of colonialism in America. The word, as you pointed out, relates to the Carib tribes, from which the name Caribbean comes from, but there's more about it. In Colombus diaries, there's a common situation: spanish sailors try to communicate with local caribbean tribes. Without any linguistical bridge (as would have been in the old world, there's always someone talking a dialect, a language from the same family) the only means of convey meaning was gesture and intuition. Miscommunication was common. The 4th of november of 1492, Columbus notes such an encounter where they talk about the sorrounding land and the captain thinks that there could be some people with the faces of dogs nearby, enemies of the arawaks indians Columbus was trying to communicate. He heard that the name of these dog-faced people was Canibal (Cannibal in spanish). By coincidence, or some weird mind trick when listening to an alien language, Columbus chose a very interesting word, with mythical roots even. There are other dog-faced people in the european myths, the cynocephalus, mentioned in several christian writings of the late middle ages and even some muslim texts. Humans with dog or jackal faces, like the Egyptian god Anubis. One of many tales of lost tribes and wild people that travelers share with their peers. In greek, the word for cynocephalus is related with the word we use today to designate all biological dogs: canids. In spanish dog is perro, but an older word for dog is can. The sharp teeths we all have on our jaws, are called canines, for the same reason. So, the world Canibal or Cannibal, doesn't come from greek, but from the greek induced imagination of one Genoese sailor, who misheard a sound in a language he didn't knew and thought of some strange tribe of dog-faced humans who eat people. From that point on, Cannibals started populating America. The Spanish conquest was a fairly regulated affair. As regualted as can be trying to control dangerous adventurers thousands of mile from a court in Madrid. But nonetheless, the Crown had some conditions regarding how and who was to be conquered, specially after the Laws of Burgos, in 1512. In those, and several other legal documents of the time, there was a key disctintion between the Good Indiands and the Bad Indianods. The first were calm and peaceful, the others, called Indios Bravos (mad, angry or even brave), were fair game for conquest. If an indigenous tribe classified as Indios Bravos, you could do anything to them: conquest, rape, slavery. One way to know if you were dealing with one or the other type of indians was asking the question: are they cannibals? If the answers is yes, then go forth, and conquer away, as violently as your heart desire. Do you see the loophole yet? Since cannibalism was a sure way to identify, accusations of cannibalism started to appear in America. Suddently every tribe was practicing cannibalism and so, conquistadors were in the right to pillage and exterminate them. Cannibals took over America, as you mentioned at the end of the video. Last one. In the 1920s there was a group of poets, writers and artists in brazil who studied the cannibal phenomen in America and concluded that Cannibalism had more to do with how Europeans saw the inhabitants of South America, not how we were inherently violent people. They saw also how Europeans exterminated local cultures and imposed their own morals and religions, cutting our cultural roots with the original inhabitants of our lands, those they called cannibals for centuries. They also saw how europeans looked down on americans (from all the continent) because even if you spoke their language perfeclty, or knew their art by heart, or could recite their literature better than them, they would still look down on you, undeserving of their european culture, the same they imposed on us for centuries. The group of artists, led by Oswaldo de Andrade, then made an artistic manifest: el Manifeisto Antropófago (the scientific word for human cannibalism, from antropos- man and fagos - to eat). In there, Oswaldo stated that since us southamericans are undeserving of the culture of the world, then we would eat it, consume it whole, devour it with violence, and usher and new age were there's no need to look up to the european achievements in culture and science, because they are not up, they are inside you, in your guts, digesting. Tupí or not Tupí, that is the question. Cool video.
Those Cynocephaly stories are wildly intriguing and I keep coming across that. "but an older word for dog is can": Interesting! Did not know this and always wondered why there is such a discrepancy to italian here. The italian word for dog is 'cane'. Many thanks for your highly interesting post!
One needs only look at south america today to see that you were undeserving of western culture... And to confirm your violent nature. Any order in the region at all can be solely credited to white admixture. A cope will forever remain a cope.
In case yall were wondering the mask in the thumbnail is an Asaro Mudman mask from the Asaro tribe of Goroka in Papua New Guinea. They don't really have anything to do with cannibalism and are more used in traditional dance. Fun fact: These masks were developed in the 1950s to attract tourists to what is now known as the Goroka show where they've become a staple.
Same thing with Polynesian flower patterns. They were created after European contact to be sold in Western markets. Traditional patterns are geometric.
I appreciate how careful you were to not sensationalize the topic at hand. I mean, maybe in the title and thumbnail but definitely not in the video itself.
Hi! I'm Uruguayan and even though I hadn't been born at the time of the plane accident in the Andes, my parents were. They remember the sheer terror they felt when they heard that the search was cancelled and all passengers had been presumed dead, and a whole new wave of horror when the news broke about what the survivors had endured. After some years, the survivors trekked to the site of the crash to memorialize it. Canessa is, to this day, one of the best cardiologists in the country, and there isn't a single soul in Uruguay that gets to forget about this ordeal. Truly chilling.
Fun fact, there's a story of a horse who, during the Napoleonic wars, ate an enemy officer. It's grown a fair bit, her rider, Marbot, only said she tore off the face of one man and disembowelled an officer, nothing about her munching on anyone.
The B-roll clip of that guy butchering the meat disturbs me. Not because the meat could be human. But because that guy's just fucking up that meat. Not following any of the muscles, cutting random misshapen pieces, cutting with the grain. WHO LET BRO COOK???
B Roll from the '40s through the '60s is ALL like this, pretty much everybody can find some sort of B roll of some jjob being done and be like "hey that's not how you do that at all!". Especially painful for tradesmen like chefs and carpenters.
imagine the FBI recieving 500k flags in a day... I imagine this has been a busy day at the office for them... by the way: Hello agents of the FBI even if I eat someone I live outside of the FBI jurisdiction so don't worry about me.
To the FBI agents, I am NOT a cannibal. I do NOT eat people. I will NEVER eat people. I am NOT watching this video to learn how to prepare someone, I’m just watching this due to morbid curiosity, not to know how to consume someone. Thank you. Regards, Ranch
I am Uruguayan. Ever since we are kids we are told about the story of the Rugbiers lost in the Andes. Here they are treated as heroes and never had nobody criticize the cannibalism part of the story.This year a new movie, more emotional than the previous ones came to cinemas produced by Netflix, Society of the Snow. I recommend it, but it mostly deals with the social aspect of their survivability. The strictly technical and far more gruesome book "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors" (written a year after the tragedy ) tells details such as the boys (age range was 19 to 24) splitting skulls and using the tops as plates, to running out of corpses and go into expeditions to find the ones that fell from the plane while crashing, just for one of them to say "that's my cousin, could we please not eat him". Amazing read.
@@zeag7187they were starving without any food for miles I would probably eat a dead guy too if it meant I would live. not to mention they waited for over a week before deciding to do such a thing and even then they were very upset about the situation. its not like they were murdering fellow survivors for their flesh from the get-go, morality is subjective
Im a sufferer of psychosis. Many of my episodes of psychosis focused around my delusions of needing things i truly didnt need. Generally physical sensastions. Sometimes it would express itself as hypersexuality, the need for touch. Other times it would express itself as the need of paralyzation, taking so many pills could allow myself to be completely still yet be completely out of body mentally. But the episodes that affect me the most are my needs to release and consume. Autocannibalism. My psychosis convinced me i needed to rid myself of the "bad" in me and let it filter through my system through bile and digestion. Wether it be eating my nails and skin, the follicals of hair i plucked that felt like bugs under my skin, blood from scratches and cuts that my delusional brain convinced me was making things right. Ive ate parts of myself when i was in no stable mental space in order to further the delusion my brain was making. It makes me wonder how those who cannibalize themselves or others came to the conclusion they needed to do such a thing. But i also empathize with them to an extent. Habits form from comfort, skin/hair picking is one thing but to eat is another. The choice of consumption is something that at points of my life i wasn't able to control. My own instability made it possible to consider consumption, and i have to extend my understanding to others and their own instability. Horses, you are certainly correct that cannibalism is generally the last straw. Not always. But the choice comes froms irrationality and desperation over a situation, external or internal. When we feel cornered we do things we may see as outlandish any other time, but in the moment we may run to what is most recognizable for comfort, despite if it is good for us or not.
i also suffered through psychosis so i totally get what you mean. My delusions were more on the paranoid side because every time I was served food I was CERTAIN it was genetically modified human flesh.. and the pizza only just "appeared" to be actual food because "they" wanted to trick me to become a cannibal (it was actual food) but me terrified and equally disgusted i refused to eat anything besides skimpy salads the whole time i was in the hospital. (the government funded type of salad that only has lettuce and a couple of tomatoes and a dressing pouch.) Lets just say i had blood sugar problems for a bit after eating like that for a month 😵💫
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when clicking on this but the algorithm has been pushing it down my throat for a while so I though I would give it a go. This is definitely one of the best video essays I have watched. Horses managed to treat a particularly gruesome subject with respect and through an intellectual and philosophical lense (which agreably opposes shock and reaction content these subjects are often turned into.) This is the kind of video that makes me love Yoututbe. The fact we can have such interesting and well made pieces out of this kind of subject is captivating, and the narration and editing were definitely was a huge plus. :)))
My mom was an English Teacher for middle schoolers. They always had a historical unit on the Donner Party. She would bring in beef jerky yearly during the lesson, and her students would think they were just getting treats for some reason. As they read through what happened to the Donner party her students would slowly stop eating one by one. Definitely a way to remember what happened!
To any person wondering why am I viewing this, I am NOT a cannibal nor have I EVER considered it in any way, shape, or form. My purpose for watching this is for entertainment in the form of educating myself on the topic, morbid curiosity, and out of the pure absurdity of the title. Sincerely, a piece of bread.
as someone who had a hyperfixation on the Uruguayan flight 571 and was able to meet and interview several of the survivors, i really appreciate the level of detail and respect you put into your telling of their story. many people will approach the story with disdain and a closed mind. they are wonderful people who survived the unimaginable, and it's refreshing to see someone educate others about it in a positive way.
It’s sad people make assumptions without understanding others first. That’s why so many people are so ignorant and will never see the damage they cause with it.
At the end they are just human, some are kind of rich assholes, some are sweet and down to earth, but even after everything they went through, they are human
@@xjk8977 Do not forget Mildred, the NPC that invades you, so they can kill and eat you, unlike all the the other NPCs that invade you for your souls and humanity. This goes on for all other games, if I'm not mistaken, with Anastasia the Tarnished eater existing on Elden Ring as well. Makes you think.
This channel is nuts in a very intelligent and rational way. Thanks for treating us all like decent, responsible members of society. Something to aim for, at least.
Did anyone else surprise tf out of themselves realizing you're already subscribed to this channel? Happened to me when i tried looking into its background ?
It feels impossible to find such a well thought out and sensitively discussed video essay / UA-cam documentary. I watched this a few hours after it came out solely because I thought it would be taken down before I had actually watched. Pleasantly surprised once the video started and it was an actual informative piece and not something based in shock value. coming back to it just to say it is nearly impossible to find content like yours on this platform.
Dear law enforcement, The reason I have chosen to watch this video is merely because of educational and entertainment reasons and I have no desire to eat my kin's flesh.
This video has literally been haunting me since it came out. I refused to watch it, but it's literally stayed on my for you page every single day since it first came out.
this video is a really good example of making anthropology more accessible! it was easy to follow, the sources are listed, and it felt very much like a refresher on my anthro courses
Outside of all the FBI jokes this is just such a well put-together and well researched video. It's so incredibly informative and objective, I'm stunned at the amount of information you were able to convey so simply and so clearly. Thank you, Horses, I'm excited to see what you put out in the future :)
I am grateful that you can make videos about content like this and not traverse into the pop-psych or sensationalist angles of it. I have a lot of respect for you for your comment about hating true crime.
@@vanessamichaels9512there are ethical ways of covering true crime, the goal of it should be to spread awareness and remember the victims, I suggest you always try to pick carefully when you consume true crime media and watch/read things that honour victims, feature the involved people and offer an empathetic look into their story
@@vanessamichaels9512yeah i tend to enjoy the content where they analyze interrogations, moreso than i do just shocking, sensationalized content that would probably feed the ego of the criminals spoken about
As an anthro-adjacent student (archeology) I would recommend watching the documentary called The Cannibal Tours, it’s more about the ethics of tourists and tourism and exploitation within it. But it’s bout a group of Europeans touring Papua New Guinea and the former cannibal tribes.
Thank you for doing this! Instead of focusing solely on gruesome facts for shock value, you explore the nuance and complexity, making these taboo subjects more engaging.
people only commenting in relation to the title of the video did not actually watch the video itself. come on i just spent 40 minutes of my life paying full attention to a video essay about cannibalism and it was awesome. personally, i’ve always been interested in cannibalism (not in that way, of course), and this is so far the best educative video - or essay in general - i’ve ever watched/read. i love how it goes deep into history, talking about different decades, cultures and places around the globe. i feel like just learned so many new things. just thanks to whoever worked in creating this phenomenal video, it’s perfectly done!
right, i'm quite disappointed that the comments have no sustenance agh. but it's also ironic, right? the video going into depth about the taboo of cannibalism and then the comment section reflecting that. regardless though, this topic is so interesting and it rocks !
@@crispharm8443I mean, it’s kinda expected though lol. Videos about caniballism are very rare, and people would be expected to mention that when it’s appearing on their UA-cam recommended
I would also appreciate whoever made this. We had the same thought. Thanks for appreciating it and explaining how you appreciate this video, it represents how i feel too
I tried avoiding this vid for soooo long, but it kept popping up on my feed. I finally gave in and honestly good video not what I was expecting but genuinely I'm very happy it wasn't lmao
Who else thought he would talk about the Wendigo, especially in the segment on survival cannibalism? Honestly now I'm hoping for him to do an entire video on native American culture and stories, not only does it seem like something Horses would do because he seems to enjoy showing generally unrepresented perspectives but it also just matches his vibe I think as a lot of his videos have to do with history or anthropology (such as this one) and he seems to enjoy the setting of North America, particularly forests, where many indigenous tribes live and where many stories (such as the wendigo) revolve around.
I usually avoid video essays about stories like the wendigo because of just how bastardised it tends to be, but honestly I'd really love to see that too
I was expecting this video to be mostly based on shock value (frankly, the title and thumbnail do give that impression), but I was actually positively surprised that this was a very nuanced discussion of a rather interesting topic. I was even eating a snack during the whole video, as the sociological tone and nature really were fascinating rather than disgusting.
Honestly, his heart was in the right place. Coming off the tail end of colonialism, and scientific racism (using head bumps to "prove" certain races were inferior). His book sounds like bad science, but arguing that Europeans dehumanized tribal people as 'bloodthirsty savages' to justify abusing them. B+ for effort, D- for accuracy
On a funny note, when spaniards made contact with the karankawa tribe in the 16th century, they expressed their outrage at the tribe’s practice of ritualistic cannibalism (a fate reserved only for ancient enemies slain in battle to prevent them from having a happy afterlife). Imagine the karankawa’s shock and horror when the spaniards proceeded to eat each other while stranded on a beach after refusing the “savages” offer of food and shelter after they were left stranded there.
@@itzakehrenberg3449absolutely did, theres proof. And europeans have always committed the act of cannibalism, they just pretend they dont for whatever reason. Even though their religion revolves around eating the flesh of their jewish zombie man-god
In my country, the indigenous tribes practice/used to practice "Anthropophagy" - the name of this type of cannibalism - which consists on the act of eating the bodies of enemies who possessed virtues deemed desirable to the tribe that was consuming the meat. Aside from that, other tribes have a custom of eating the ashes of a loved one's cremated body mixed in your regular food as a tradition of, like, keeping that person with you (literally) even after their passing.
This is such a sensitive, level-headed, and well-presented video. I want to give huge kudos to you for being perhaps the only content creator with the perspective and bravery to present the cultural importance of human sacrifice in ancient Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican cultures not as an atrocity but as what it was: a social norm, much like the social norms we live with today, many of which are equally horrifying if not nearly as visible. So often when I watch videos about Aztec, Maya, or Incan society, there is so much apologetic kowtowing about how human sacrifice was so awful, and I find that very distasteful and indicative of that racial bias toward societies of the global South. So it is deeply refreshing to see you present Mesoamerican culture, and, in fact, this widely-loathed topic in general, in such a clear-eyed way.
Respectfully - how would human sacrifice be anything other than awful? Particularly for the slave or captured soldier being sacrificed. Consuming the dead as a spiritual practice is different, however. But I don’t think that it is racist or ethnocentric to criticise certain aspects of certain cultures. As long as it’s done respectfully. It comes down to moral relativism/absolutism.
I think this part went way over the head of many viewers that are focussed on the utube ToS instead of the quality of the perspective given in this video (for example I was astounded by the level of european cannibalistic medicine that was going on parallel to the colonialism)
@@barryoffeastenders you're looking at it from the modern perspective - in a time where you dont even know what the sun is or how a day works you have to explain a few things, different cultures came up with different logics to do so - from an aztec perspective: how could one NOT be honored to be sacrificed to keep the world from ending?!
@@barryoffeastenders Human sacrifice, like all forms of murder, is awful. It's simply no more or less awful than all other forms of murder and human atrocity. It's also worth noting that many sacrifices were treated as kings for the year leading up to their sacrifice and fervently believed in sacrifice as a great honor, which, in some cases, would assure a comfortable place in the afterlife. It's impossible for us to say what those people felt as they approached their ends. How many atrocities have been committed and excused, or swept under the rug, on behalf of Abrahamic religions?
i always love when people talk about the uruguayan airforce incident, im glad you talked about it in the survival cannibalism section though, i think alot of people tend to focus and make the survivors out to be these terrible people because they had to eat their friends when in reality it was really the only option for them at the time
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Thanks daddy🤑
That was a really great video. I appreciate you making it. :)
@@griffinv8382 yeah right? I came expecting yootoob true crime crap,only then I found a thoughtful study on anthropology, Very enjoyable!
Thank you Horse Daddy!
@garethjones6342 yeah this was a genuinely well put together documentary. Tons of sources, examples, and different schools of thought to create this project. Praises all around to Horse daddy lol
@@70ft_dreadhead Balarke fan fr
I’m greatly relieved to find that not a single one of us searched for this video and instead had the algorithm shove it down our throats until watching it.
Yeah this kind of creeped me out
I have no clue how this came onto my algorithm 😭
Well um...
Fr wtf UA-cam
NOTLIKETHIS
saw this and thought “better watch before it gets taken down”
omg yesss
Better watch it before it's goodbye, Horses.
Goodbye Horses.
Good song, that happens to be in a movie with a cannibal.
3000 IQ joke.
Same!!
Bro same??😭
Watching it with my web cam untaped and shaking my head the whole time
LOL
😂😂😂😂 omg that's so funny 😂
Fuckin hilarious 😂😂😂
Underated comment 😂😂😂
😭😭😭
the fact that this video isn't age restricted is wild
This video is so intellectual, it is impossible for the algorithm to censor it!
kids are first who will adapt cannibalism
No swearing
whats wrong with it? Im 12 and think this is very useful information to help us survive in the future.
This is the craziest UA-cam recommendation I’ve ever had
You must not be on UA-cam that much, are you.
Lucky-
When users not even search for these kind of videos voluntarily ,UA-cam suggestion gotta be associated with FBI, Interpol and IRS
Fr same
Sames
@@khanhphi710 I started seeing content like this after coming back from my seventh ban. It's like they think I'm some kind of psychopath because I won't stay banned lol
Dear Mr./Ms. FBI Agent,
I would like to inform you that my viewing of this media is merely for entertainment and educational purposes. I am not a cannibal, and I am in no way attempting to dispose of a human corpse through bodily consumption.
Regards,
Magicaid
I second this
*retweet*
amen
Amen brother
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I reckon i third this.
to clarify this is a philisophical discussion of cannibalism by the user horses, it is not a video for horses about how to cook and eat human beings, which i would also watch.
Aww bummer
lmaooo
kiryu slamming fist on desk gif
@@JoiH_Squigs i apologize for the disappointment and im glad i could clear up any confusion about the labeling of this video.
1k likes and 3 replies?
crazy how 1.5 million people have seen this and i also clicked without having a second thought
Lmao So true. I even watched the whole vid............We r successfully on the FBI watchlist.
@@Romy-kj9mqthere’s not that many people on the watchlist
@sanakimchi88 r/woosh
It is really crazy if we think about it haha
humans are curious creatures
I love how UA-cam decided to recommend this
And it’s not taken down
It's vegan friendly
@jakethegreatest473 lol
For read dude
Same
We getting taken down with this one 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
45 minutes tops
Haha 🤘😆🤘
It survived 45.
clicked this as fast as possible to catch it before it gets taken down lmao
@@Donole131 phew, I made it in time for the first viewing!
Having a „Hello Fresh“ Ad before the video started was something else entirely! 😂
More like Hello Flesh
@samneibauer4241 this is way funnier than it needs to be
Yt algorithm stays on topic.
The gods like to play cruel jokes on us and it seems you got one😂
@@samneibauer4241quoted
So, so lovely to see a channel that covers morbid subjects in a way that doesn't trivialize, sensationalize or flatten any nuance. In other words, respectful and informative. I'll subscribe for sure.
Clicked for the title, stayed for the explanation left without knowing how to eat a person
Here for the title, left with something else
Hunger ? @@Kursalot
@@sokol7215A fear of prions disease
Clever, but you can't fool the FBI
OPEN UP!!
Same:3
me practicing autocannibalism when i eat dead skin off my lips
Yummy
I got cut by paper, I am now a cannibal
The delicious delicacy that is sunburn peel. Goldmember is secretly a movie about auto-cannibalism.
Eeew...you EAT it? You better come up with a religious ceremony for it, or plp might think you're weird.
Idk why better it actually kinda good😂
Imagine if you randomly get associated with a missing person and they see this on your history
Nah your fucked at that point 😭🙏
Damn....I'm screwed
If that happens, I’m cooked
@@planwea5472 you bet....hey get back on the flames
stoppp now i'm watching this stressed out 😭🙈
dear parent, this popped in my recommendation page and i just love watching documentary. i still love chicken
UA-cam asked me how happy I am with this recommendation 💀
For me it was incredibly useful
Very!
Was there an "Absolutely Elated!" option?
lol
Did you answer the question tho 🤨
Hello government,
This just appeared on my recomended page and I got curious, not in the action but in the video concept. Thank you xoxo
Me too government!
Me too :333
me too
Same
real
I cannot imagine the abject horror of having to eat another person just to survive. I am certain that was traumatizing and heartbreaking in itself.
If it's you or another person then it must be the other person who dies.
Yeah like the athletes who plane crashed in the snowy mountains and had to live by eating off of the dead people there.
You eat your fellow man to survive, I eat them because they're yummy. We are not the same
Imagine eating someone just to survive then 10 minutes later a hiker stumbles on you and you are rescued
@@___AVARICE___monkey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is gonna really screw up my recommendation feed, but couldn't resist
Horses: I’m so hungry..
Humans: How hungry?
lmfaooo😂
He's HUNGry like a horse
i love this ❤
This is actually brilliant
underrated comment
Southamerican historian here. Cannibalism is actually a very important topic when understanding the history of colonialism in America. The word, as you pointed out, relates to the Carib tribes, from which the name Caribbean comes from, but there's more about it. In Colombus diaries, there's a common situation: spanish sailors try to communicate with local caribbean tribes. Without any linguistical bridge (as would have been in the old world, there's always someone talking a dialect, a language from the same family) the only means of convey meaning was gesture and intuition. Miscommunication was common. The 4th of november of 1492, Columbus notes such an encounter where they talk about the sorrounding land and the captain thinks that there could be some people with the faces of dogs nearby, enemies of the arawaks indians Columbus was trying to communicate. He heard that the name of these dog-faced people was Canibal (Cannibal in spanish). By coincidence, or some weird mind trick when listening to an alien language, Columbus chose a very interesting word, with mythical roots even. There are other dog-faced people in the european myths, the cynocephalus, mentioned in several christian writings of the late middle ages and even some muslim texts. Humans with dog or jackal faces, like the Egyptian god Anubis. One of many tales of lost tribes and wild people that travelers share with their peers. In greek, the word for cynocephalus is related with the word we use today to designate all biological dogs: canids. In spanish dog is perro, but an older word for dog is can. The sharp teeths we all have on our jaws, are called canines, for the same reason. So, the world Canibal or Cannibal, doesn't come from greek, but from the greek induced imagination of one Genoese sailor, who misheard a sound in a language he didn't knew and thought of some strange tribe of dog-faced humans who eat people. From that point on, Cannibals started populating America.
The Spanish conquest was a fairly regulated affair. As regualted as can be trying to control dangerous adventurers thousands of mile from a court in Madrid. But nonetheless, the Crown had some conditions regarding how and who was to be conquered, specially after the Laws of Burgos, in 1512. In those, and several other legal documents of the time, there was a key disctintion between the Good Indiands and the Bad Indianods. The first were calm and peaceful, the others, called Indios Bravos (mad, angry or even brave), were fair game for conquest. If an indigenous tribe classified as Indios Bravos, you could do anything to them: conquest, rape, slavery. One way to know if you were dealing with one or the other type of indians was asking the question: are they cannibals? If the answers is yes, then go forth, and conquer away, as violently as your heart desire. Do you see the loophole yet? Since cannibalism was a sure way to identify, accusations of cannibalism started to appear in America. Suddently every tribe was practicing cannibalism and so, conquistadors were in the right to pillage and exterminate them. Cannibals took over America, as you mentioned at the end of the video.
Last one. In the 1920s there was a group of poets, writers and artists in brazil who studied the cannibal phenomen in America and concluded that Cannibalism had more to do with how Europeans saw the inhabitants of South America, not how we were inherently violent people. They saw also how Europeans exterminated local cultures and imposed their own morals and religions, cutting our cultural roots with the original inhabitants of our lands, those they called cannibals for centuries. They also saw how europeans looked down on americans (from all the continent) because even if you spoke their language perfeclty, or knew their art by heart, or could recite their literature better than them, they would still look down on you, undeserving of their european culture, the same they imposed on us for centuries. The group of artists, led by Oswaldo de Andrade, then made an artistic manifest: el Manifeisto Antropófago (the scientific word for human cannibalism, from antropos- man and fagos - to eat). In there, Oswaldo stated that since us southamericans are undeserving of the culture of the world, then we would eat it, consume it whole, devour it with violence, and usher and new age were there's no need to look up to the european achievements in culture and science, because they are not up, they are inside you, in your guts, digesting. Tupí or not Tupí, that is the question.
Cool video.
Those Cynocephaly stories are wildly intriguing and I keep coming across that.
"but an older word for dog is can": Interesting! Did not know this and always wondered why there is such a discrepancy to italian here. The italian word for dog is 'cane'.
Many thanks for your highly interesting post!
One needs only look at south america today to see that you were undeserving of western culture... And to confirm your violent nature.
Any order in the region at all can be solely credited to white admixture. A cope will forever remain a cope.
Cool comment🙂
Interesting read, thank you for sharing
TUPI OR NOT TUPI, very interesting info thank you
dawg I should NOT have chosen this as my lunch video
Why did you think it would be a good idea 😭
SAME IM REGRETTING IT
Me and my lunch staring at each other after seeing those bodies:🗿🗿
Did it while eating Ribs. It was a different experience.
this is my perfect lunch video
I didn’t search this up ok?? I was just looking at horse riding videos when I found this…please don’t come after me 🙏🙏🙏
Lots of Love, Luci 💕💕💕
In case yall were wondering the mask in the thumbnail is an Asaro Mudman mask from the Asaro tribe of Goroka in Papua New Guinea. They don't really have anything to do with cannibalism and are more used in traditional dance.
Fun fact: These masks were developed in the 1950s to attract tourists to what is now known as the Goroka show where they've become a staple.
i thought the masks were used to scare off enemies?
Same thing with Polynesian flower patterns. They were created after European contact to be sold in Western markets. Traditional patterns are geometric.
@@leche2905yes that as well
You are wrong I used to live in Goroka
Wait Goroko is in the Highlands region, right?
I appreciate how careful you were to not sensationalize the topic at hand. I mean, maybe in the title and thumbnail but definitely not in the video itself.
gotta get them clicks
thats the whole point of one
My dude is testing the youtube TOS one video at a time and I'm here for it
No way this one was monetized lol
This was incredibly interesting, glad it crossed my recommended videos!
Hi! I'm Uruguayan and even though I hadn't been born at the time of the plane accident in the Andes, my parents were. They remember the sheer terror they felt when they heard that the search was cancelled and all passengers had been presumed dead, and a whole new wave of horror when the news broke about what the survivors had endured. After some years, the survivors trekked to the site of the crash to memorialize it. Canessa is, to this day, one of the best cardiologists in the country, and there isn't a single soul in Uruguay that gets to forget about this ordeal. Truly chilling.
Arriba Uruguay carajo‼️‼️‼️‼️
I read the book of a survivor
On a plane on the way to my summer holoday.
Not my smartest move yet
The topic: 💀🔪🩸
The music:🎹🌼😌
Your pfp 💀
@@daizdamien1409Your pfp: 💿🤏👨🚀
We Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not We Cannibal, We Didn't Stop To Think If We Shouldibal.
"are you a cannibal or a cannotnibal?"
@@andypaulsibakoff9816 oh I can nibble!
I identify myself as a Cannonball.
I hungrily identify as an opportunist.
WHENEVER YOU TELL ME IM PRETTY
*THATS WHEN THE HUNGER REALLY HITS ME!!!* 😝😝😝😝
Wow, video essays are so entertaining. I love learning more
Human: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Horses:
Fun fact, there's a story of a horse who, during the Napoleonic wars, ate an enemy officer.
It's grown a fair bit, her rider, Marbot, only said she tore off the face of one man and disembowelled an officer, nothing about her munching on anyone.
That’s exactly what I thought of 😭
nice
I haven't laughed so hard in a while, thanks.
How hungry...
The B-roll clip of that guy butchering the meat disturbs me. Not because the meat could be human. But because that guy's just fucking up that meat. Not following any of the muscles, cutting random misshapen pieces, cutting with the grain. WHO LET BRO COOK???
Bro’s just cutting for the sake of cutting
You need help if thats the only part that disturbes you.
@@sempi8159 i sincerely hope you're vegetarian. Not being able to watch/accept how the sausage is made seems rather hypocritical to me
@@horrorhotel1999 Vegan even, what the original guy said was fucked up no matter what
B Roll from the '40s through the '60s is ALL like this, pretty much everybody can find some sort of B roll of some jjob being done and be like "hey that's not how you do that at all!". Especially painful for tradesmen like chefs and carpenters.
Dear FBI this is just UA-cam algorithm
Nothing suspicous here!
That's even worse!
I second this
imagine the FBI recieving 500k flags in a day... I imagine this has been a busy day at the office for them... by the way: Hello agents of the FBI even if I eat someone I live outside of the FBI jurisdiction so don't worry about me.
real.
UA-cam recommendations getting crazier day by day
FINALLY, A TUTORIAL
🤘😆🤘
Thank God! I've been making it up as I go along.
@@dontpickonme😂
I truly spit out my drink laughing when I read this comment! Thank u! Now I'm gonna go grab some paper towels.....
@@chilledghosty01 Glad to lend a hand...
Not mine tho
All jokes aside this video is very informative and honestly a good insight into human psychology and anthropology.
I'm coming for you
Agreed, i was watching this video with my mouth open
To the FBI agents,
I am NOT a cannibal. I do NOT eat people. I will NEVER eat people. I am NOT watching this video to learn how to prepare someone, I’m just watching this due to morbid curiosity, not to know how to consume someone.
Thank you.
Regards,
Ranch
What he said
Speak for yourself (this is a joke pls FBI sir, have mercy)
Sounds like something a cannibal would say
hello fellow army
FBI, I second to this message.
for context: i was taken down for posting an among us gaming video with my gamer tag as drunk monke.
and then there is this:
man i love youtube
Me: lying on bed at 3am can't sleep.
UA-cam: How to eat
A Human being.
Literally me right now 😅😅😂😂
That's my favorite glass animals album
Lmao it’s 5AM rn for me
2:47am close enough 😂
so real, 3:17 am
I am Uruguayan. Ever since we are kids we are told about the story of the Rugbiers lost in the Andes. Here they are treated as heroes and never had nobody criticize the cannibalism part of the story.This year a new movie, more emotional than the previous ones came to cinemas produced by Netflix, Society of the Snow. I recommend it, but it mostly deals with the social aspect of their survivability. The strictly technical and far more gruesome book "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors" (written a year after the tragedy ) tells details such as the boys (age range was 19 to 24) splitting skulls and using the tops as plates, to running out of corpses and go into expeditions to find the ones that fell from the plane while crashing, just for one of them to say "that's my cousin, could we please not eat him". Amazing read.
I mean cannibalism is morally wrong, it's not just about the law but it's simply awful and disgusting
@@zeag7187they were starving without any food for miles I would probably eat a dead guy too if it meant I would live. not to mention they waited for over a week before deciding to do such a thing and even then they were very upset about the situation. its not like they were murdering fellow survivors for their flesh from the get-go, morality is subjective
no way they used the skulls for plates thats crazy
@@zeag7187morality is a privilege for those who can afford it
@@zeag7187 man's gotta eat
Im a sufferer of psychosis. Many of my episodes of psychosis focused around my delusions of needing things i truly didnt need. Generally physical sensastions.
Sometimes it would express itself as hypersexuality, the need for touch. Other times it would express itself as the need of paralyzation, taking so many pills could allow myself to be completely still yet be completely out of body mentally. But the episodes that affect me the most are my needs to release and consume. Autocannibalism.
My psychosis convinced me i needed to rid myself of the "bad" in me and let it filter through my system through bile and digestion. Wether it be eating my nails and skin, the follicals of hair i plucked that felt like bugs under my skin, blood from scratches and cuts that my delusional brain convinced me was making things right. Ive ate parts of myself when i was in no stable mental space in order to further the delusion my brain was making. It makes me wonder how those who cannibalize themselves or others came to the conclusion they needed to do such a thing. But i also empathize with them to an extent. Habits form from comfort, skin/hair picking is one thing but to eat is another. The choice of consumption is something that at points of my life i wasn't able to control. My own instability made it possible to consider consumption, and i have to extend my understanding to others and their own instability.
Horses, you are certainly correct that cannibalism is generally the last straw. Not always. But the choice comes froms irrationality and desperation over a situation, external or internal. When we feel cornered we do things we may see as outlandish any other time, but in the moment we may run to what is most recognizable for comfort, despite if it is good for us or not.
Peace to you, fellow person!
Bless you ❤🙏
currently biting the inner part of cheek while writing this, you're not alone, mate! stay safe!
i also suffered through psychosis so i totally get what you mean. My delusions were more on the paranoid side because every time I was served food I was CERTAIN it was genetically modified human flesh.. and the pizza only just "appeared" to be actual food because "they" wanted to trick me to become a cannibal (it was actual food) but me terrified and equally disgusted i refused to eat anything besides skimpy salads the whole time i was in the hospital. (the government funded type of salad that only has lettuce and a couple of tomatoes and a dressing pouch.) Lets just say i had blood sugar problems for a bit after eating like that for a month 😵💫
Hope you are feeling better, friend!
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when clicking on this but the algorithm has been pushing it down my throat for a while so I though I would give it a go. This is definitely one of the best video essays I have watched. Horses managed to treat a particularly gruesome subject with respect and through an intellectual and philosophical lense (which agreably opposes shock and reaction content these subjects are often turned into.)
This is the kind of video that makes me love Yoututbe. The fact we can have such interesting and well made pieces out of this kind of subject is captivating, and the narration and editing were definitely was a huge plus. :)))
UA-cam : you can't say fuck
Also UA-cam : *Intense cannibalism footage*
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You said it 😂😂
@@offmefaceken4547?
Was there any footage of cannibalism?
This video contains no footage of cannibalism. That's just a sensationalist comment
My mom was an English Teacher for middle schoolers. They always had a historical unit on the Donner Party. She would bring in beef jerky yearly during the lesson, and her students would think they were just getting treats for some reason. As they read through what happened to the Donner party her students would slowly stop eating one by one. Definitely a way to remember what happened!
That one kid who keeps eating and asks for more.
@@smallandstressed2364 there was indeed always at least one!
@@MrD-ul2xkI was the one 😎
I love beef jerky
Lol i would have been the kid who is like "you know this is just beef right?"
To any person wondering why am I viewing this, I am NOT a cannibal nor have I EVER considered it in any way, shape, or form. My purpose for watching this is for entertainment in the form of educating myself on the topic, morbid curiosity, and out of the pure absurdity of the title.
Sincerely, a piece of bread.
but, imagine tho.
This is what they call "running a joke to the ground"
Or am I?
Same
Real
I was expecting a cooking tutorial or different recipes.
My lawyer advised me not to say if I was glad or dissatisfied with the outcome of the video.
as someone who had a hyperfixation on the Uruguayan flight 571 and was able to meet and interview several of the survivors, i really appreciate the level of detail and respect you put into your telling of their story. many people will approach the story with disdain and a closed mind. they are wonderful people who survived the unimaginable, and it's refreshing to see someone educate others about it in a positive way.
Were the interviews taped I would love to see them
@@lousywizard1098 unfortunately no, they were more like personal visits and conversations, but it was great!
It’s sad people make assumptions without understanding others first. That’s why so many people are so ignorant and will never see the damage they cause with it.
theres a show called yellowjackets that is very similar to their story, you might like it.
At the end they are just human, some are kind of rich assholes, some are sweet and down to earth, but even after everything they went through, they are human
we getting demonetized with this one 🔥🔥💯💯
already done brother B^) youtube is on the ball today
-michael
😆😆😆
@@HorsesOnYT jesus christ, already? Can't wait to get my own money so i can subscribe to your patreon!
See you there in a couple months❤
@@HorsesOnYT The devil himself replied.
@HorsesOnYT good thing the video is sponsored.
Them Aztec really tried keeping the sun going like they were dark souls characters trying to link the flame.
for real why didnt i know aztecs were really just playing darksouls irl. the lore is crazy similar
Try finger but hole
@@knox6382 What if, bear with me. . .Darksouls based some of its lore based on the Aztecs. . .just what if?
@@xjk8977 frankly, 50/50 that myazaki had the intention or not
@@xjk8977 Do not forget Mildred, the NPC that invades you, so they can kill and eat you, unlike all the the other NPCs that invade you for your souls and humanity. This goes on for all other games, if I'm not mistaken, with Anastasia the Tarnished eater existing on Elden Ring as well. Makes you think.
this turned into
from being recommended to me by youtube
to
being my main source of information for a presentation
How tf did biblically accurate angels lead me to cannibalism
Because eating human flesh a biblically sinful? Dude, idfk
"Mexico's Most Disturbing Cult" led me to this 😭
@yummy_dude ironically, the crusaders performed cannibalistic acts in their colonial sieges...so. welp.
@@autonomousfortune753
an anime girl with no legs arms no teeth and eyes led me to this
IDFK THAT ONE HANNIBAL EPISODE?😭
Shaking my head and sighing in disapproval the entire video so they know I ain’t bout that life
Lmao frfr
this is the first long video i'm watching entirely in english without subtitles! :)))
that’s amazing 😁
What an introduction :P
congrats!!
Nice job! Keep it up! ❤
Nice
i watched this video for the first time will fried out of my mind 😭 and now coming back i can actually appreciate this video, love the work!
I built this recommended page, brick by brick🗣️🔥🙏‼️
What were you watching for it to lead to this? 🤨
How did I end up here?
REAL
let bro cook
Bro be cooking us if you let him
let bro cook bro
Lets cook bro
Cook bro let’s
No don’t let bro cook
Guy : you are a snack 😉
Me : *sweats nervously*
Lol
Pause
You're a snack😉😘
And
You're a snack😈😈😈
calorie rich snack
Jeffery Dahmer: Yummy
This channel is nuts in a very intelligent and rational way. Thanks for treating us all like decent, responsible members of society. Something to aim for, at least.
shout out to everyone who got to see this before it gets taken down
I feel like all of these hilarious comments are like musicians on the Titanic.
“Gentlemen, it’s been an honor playing with you tonight.”
*an honor
@@JackParsons2h isn't a vowel
@@Dopesickgypsy The H be silent..
@@JackParsons2who's right
@@JackParsons2 thanks
Did anyone else surprise tf out of themselves realizing you're already subscribed to this channel? Happened to me when i tried looking into its background ?
I’m glad you dropped this right around lunch time
I'm enjoying a delicious, large beef gyudon bowl while watching this. Extra ginger.
I enjoyed a nice bowl of partially overcooked spaghetti, with undercooked garlic bread, the sauce has pork sausage in it.
*Hopefully not long-pork.*
To whoever this may concern, i did not search for this or find this useful. It was simply recommended to me by UA-cam
To the FBI, this is also applicable to me. I was merely wondering why this was in my suggestions and decided to check it out.
Me too
+1
Me too
"Remember, its only cannibalism if we're equals."-Hannibal Lecter
I was looking out for hannibal lecter comment and wondering why no one mentioned him ...
my regards to the chef *licks fingers*
fun fact, biologically there is no race. we are 99% all the same :)
@@nonkl8819 I'm pretty sure they meant like equals as in societal status, psychological knowing, and or superior brain activity
@@nonkl8819this is just factually wrong
Dude you're amazing, the amount of research, time and preparation this video must have taken is truly showing.
Good luck, +1 subscriber
I clicked this outta curiosity and dude hit me with *Visual Examples* .I dont even know if the meat shown in the vid is of animals
Humans are animals but you know what I mean.Just clarifying, just incase,,,
That shit literally jumpscared me
😞I don't know how to delete those images from my mind , Can someone help ?
@@tejukamble6821it's animal meat bro, why do you want their images deleted?
@@vivaldish7415 because my first time watching that close up meat with blood , it feel kind of scary . (Im not used to it)
Horses didn't just cook with this one, he prepared a feast
Emo Asuka?
Looks like someone from Evangelion
@@Gabriel_Ultrakillbecause it is
@@mentalasylumescapee 🫢
A feast of human flesh
It feels impossible to find such a well thought out and sensitively discussed video essay / UA-cam documentary. I watched this a few hours after it came out solely because I thought it would be taken down before I had actually watched. Pleasantly surprised once the video started and it was an actual informative piece and not something based in shock value. coming back to it just to say it is nearly impossible to find content like yours on this platform.
Dear law enforcement,
The reason I have chosen to watch this video is merely because of educational and entertainment reasons and I have no desire to eat my kin's flesh.
This video has literally been haunting me since it came out. I refused to watch it, but it's literally stayed on my for you page every single day since it first came out.
people say that the more stress the animal experiences the worse it's meat will taste so imagine how horrible human meat is (if that's true of course)
That's some sweet meat right there. Tender vittles.
They say the opposite in some dishes so who knows
Lol the Chinese believe the exact opposite
Eat the rich...
@@outrun7455lol yeah
this video is a really good example of making anthropology more accessible! it was easy to follow, the sources are listed, and it felt very much like a refresher on my anthro courses
I absolutely love the way how this video is narrated and edited it gives slight uneasiness in comfort
“Ferb, I know what we’re doing today”
thanks for the tutorial! been looking for this everywhere
Officer! This one right here ^
I just hope this is sarcasm🥲
Outside of all the FBI jokes this is just such a well put-together and well researched video. It's so incredibly informative and objective, I'm stunned at the amount of information you were able to convey so simply and so clearly. Thank you, Horses, I'm excited to see what you put out in the future :)
Hell yeah I've been waiting for a tutorial! Thanks man!
Imagine being stuck on a island with only two of you and you secretly searched "How to eat a human being."
imagine seeing the other person’s search history and there is ‘how to eat a human being’
Bro got cell connection but proceed to search how to fillet his only companion
@@trinitesalte4280 exactly my point
I am grateful that you can make videos about content like this and not traverse into the pop-psych or sensationalist angles of it. I have a lot of respect for you for your comment about hating true crime.
Agreed. I like true crime, but something about it always seemed.... off. This made a lot of sense to me.
@@vanessamichaels9512there are ethical ways of covering true crime, the goal of it should be to spread awareness and remember the victims, I suggest you always try to pick carefully when you consume true crime media and watch/read things that honour victims, feature the involved people and offer an empathetic look into their story
@@vanessamichaels9512yeah i tend to enjoy the content where they analyze interrogations, moreso than i do just shocking, sensationalized content that would probably feed the ego of the criminals spoken about
As an anthropology student, this video essay was fascinating, will def look deeper into the bibliography used here. Wonderful video!
As an anthro-adjacent student (archeology) I would recommend watching the documentary called The Cannibal Tours, it’s more about the ethics of tourists and tourism and exploitation within it. But it’s bout a group of Europeans touring Papua New Guinea and the former cannibal tribes.
@@cup_of_yellow thank you for the recommendation! (:
Thank you for doing this! Instead of focusing solely on gruesome facts for shock value, you explore the nuance and complexity, making these taboo subjects more engaging.
people only commenting in relation to the title of the video did not actually watch the video itself.
come on i just spent 40 minutes of my life paying full attention to a video essay about cannibalism and it was awesome.
personally, i’ve always been interested in cannibalism (not in that way, of course), and this is so far the best educative video - or essay in general - i’ve ever watched/read. i love how it goes deep into history, talking about different decades, cultures and places around the globe. i feel like just learned so many new things.
just thanks to whoever worked in creating this phenomenal video, it’s perfectly done!
Get help
right, i'm quite disappointed that the comments have no sustenance agh. but it's also ironic, right? the video going into depth about the taboo of cannibalism and then the comment section reflecting that. regardless though, this topic is so interesting and it rocks !
@@crispharm8443I mean, it’s kinda expected though lol. Videos about caniballism are very rare, and people would be expected to mention that when it’s appearing on their UA-cam recommended
I would also appreciate whoever made this. We had the same thought. Thanks for appreciating it and explaining how you appreciate this video, it represents how i feel too
@@dhruvil2005 get some drugs
I tried avoiding this vid for soooo long, but it kept popping up on my feed. I finally gave in and honestly good video not what I was expecting but genuinely I'm very happy it wasn't lmao
Bro this video just came out 💀
@@user-eu1jj5rc8x i kept avoiding it for 10 days
Why are you lying💀
Imagine having a headache then getting ground up skull as a remedy
22:13 I mean, even when talking about other animals, we tend to only eat these parts as last options as well
With the correct herbs and spices, I would assume.
A sum of 12 is ideal.
Easy on the rosemary, naturally.
Who else thought he would talk about the Wendigo, especially in the segment on survival cannibalism? Honestly now I'm hoping for him to do an entire video on native American culture and stories, not only does it seem like something Horses would do because he seems to enjoy showing generally unrepresented perspectives but it also just matches his vibe I think as a lot of his videos have to do with history or anthropology (such as this one) and he seems to enjoy the setting of North America, particularly forests, where many indigenous tribes live and where many stories (such as the wendigo) revolve around.
I usually avoid video essays about stories like the wendigo because of just how bastardised it tends to be, but honestly I'd really love to see that too
Ravenous is a delightful movie that centers around that.
There is interesting case of wendigo psychosis. Cree traper - Katist Chen/Swift Runner killed and ate his whole family
horsie upload, crashed my nine-axel turnpike double semi truck carrying tungsten cubes into a highway support so i can watch this video safely.
Does the fuel tank contain hydrogen, which invisible jet-flame now scorches dry woodlands or a residential accommodation perchance?
Bruh 😂😂
Holy shit
Quit kissing ass for likes
Great recipe. A must try. Thanks a lot!!! The most delicious thing I ever ate.
Well... I will try it Later... 😊 Which type of human taste Good?
@@RaniSingh_1000A.D The ones who are most dumb, their brains are literally as fresh as the time they were born and thus are the most delicious😋
You're one of my favorite video essayists. Thank you for what you do.
Would you recommend anything similar?
@@Gh_std_g Maybe Sisyphus55.
Mine too. One of my sleep-to-channels Do you have any other recommendations? 😊
@@m3kkR there absolutely is
I was expecting this video to be mostly based on shock value (frankly, the title and thumbnail do give that impression), but I was actually positively surprised that this was a very nuanced discussion of a rather interesting topic.
I was even eating a snack during the whole video, as the sociological tone and nature really were fascinating rather than disgusting.
Crazy that someone would try to gaslight the world into thinking cannibalism never happened.
fr. It's important to know history and the "why" of things so we can understand
Honestly, his heart was in the right place. Coming off the tail end of colonialism, and scientific racism (using head bumps to "prove" certain races were inferior).
His book sounds like bad science, but arguing that Europeans dehumanized tribal people as 'bloodthirsty savages' to justify abusing them.
B+ for effort, D- for accuracy
I swear I watch ONE Hannibal compilation and then I get recommended videos about cannibalism
On a funny note, when spaniards made contact with the karankawa tribe in the 16th century, they expressed their outrage at the tribe’s practice of ritualistic cannibalism (a fate reserved only for ancient enemies slain in battle to prevent them from having a happy afterlife).
Imagine the karankawa’s shock and horror when the spaniards proceeded to eat each other while stranded on a beach after refusing the “savages” offer of food and shelter after they were left stranded there.
Never happened.
@@itzakehrenberg3449absolutely did, theres proof. And europeans have always committed the act of cannibalism, they just pretend they dont for whatever reason. Even though their religion revolves around eating the flesh of their jewish zombie man-god
lol europe is best at irony
@@itzakehrenberg3449 get your ouija board and ask cabeza de vaca man idk, im tryna share autistic rambling i learned from youtube videos
@@guenonnn1337 Source? I made it the fuck f4ck up
In my country, the indigenous tribes practice/used to practice "Anthropophagy" - the name of this type of cannibalism - which consists on the act of eating the bodies of enemies who possessed virtues deemed desirable to the tribe that was consuming the meat. Aside from that, other tribes have a custom of eating the ashes of a loved one's cremated body mixed in your regular food as a tradition of, like, keeping that person with you (literally) even after their passing.
Went from passing to passing.
What country you from? I'm honestly curious now
@@AnythingMyGurl Hi! I'm from Brazil ^^
@@acqualilly oii!! eu sou do brasil também, acabei encontrando esse comentário e achei super interessante!! de que tribo você se refere?
This is such a sensitive, level-headed, and well-presented video. I want to give huge kudos to you for being perhaps the only content creator with the perspective and bravery to present the cultural importance of human sacrifice in ancient Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican cultures not as an atrocity but as what it was: a social norm, much like the social norms we live with today, many of which are equally horrifying if not nearly as visible. So often when I watch videos about Aztec, Maya, or Incan society, there is so much apologetic kowtowing about how human sacrifice was so awful, and I find that very distasteful and indicative of that racial bias toward societies of the global South. So it is deeply refreshing to see you present Mesoamerican culture, and, in fact, this widely-loathed topic in general, in such a clear-eyed way.
What are the other social norms? I'm legitimately interested in your take :)
Respectfully - how would human sacrifice be anything other than awful? Particularly for the slave or captured soldier being sacrificed. Consuming the dead as a spiritual practice is different, however. But I don’t think that it is racist or ethnocentric to criticise certain aspects of certain cultures. As long as it’s done respectfully. It comes down to moral relativism/absolutism.
I think this part went way over the head of many viewers that are focussed on the utube ToS instead of the quality of the perspective given in this video (for example I was astounded by the level of european cannibalistic medicine that was going on parallel to the colonialism)
@@barryoffeastenders you're looking at it from the modern perspective - in a time where you dont even know what the sun is or how a day works you have to explain a few things, different cultures came up with different logics to do so - from an aztec perspective: how could one NOT be honored to be sacrificed to keep the world from ending?!
@@barryoffeastenders Human sacrifice, like all forms of murder, is awful. It's simply no more or less awful than all other forms of murder and human atrocity. It's also worth noting that many sacrifices were treated as kings for the year leading up to their sacrifice and fervently believed in sacrifice as a great honor, which, in some cases, would assure a comfortable place in the afterlife. It's impossible for us to say what those people felt as they approached their ends. How many atrocities have been committed and excused, or swept under the rug, on behalf of Abrahamic religions?
i always love when people talk about the uruguayan airforce incident, im glad you talked about it in the survival cannibalism section though, i think alot of people tend to focus and make the survivors out to be these terrible people because they had to eat their friends when in reality it was really the only option for them at the time