Unicorns | The Paragon of Purity
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Many mythical creatures, such as dragons, are portrayed as being vicious and destructive. But one creature of legend stands out for its immeasurable beauty and embodiment of all that is good in the world: the unicorn! Famously depicted as a stunning white horse with a spiraled horn, the unicorn is said to gallop throughout the wilds of the world away from mankind. It cannot be subdued by brute force alone, though that would not stop many hunters from attempting it. A famous legend, but where did the myth of the unicorn begin?
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MUSIC:
"Relaxing Fantasy Music" by Elysio
"The Last Unicorn" cover by Caitybeldy music
CLIPS:
Footage of German forest and Indian Rhinoceros
OPENING:
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
John Howe
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Johannes Voss
Josu Solano
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Karin Wittig
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Lane Brown
Louise Meijer
Manuel Philes
Monika Andruszkiewicz
Pauline Muller
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Sara Tarr
Svetlana Ignatov
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Vadim Poleshchuk
REFERENCES:
“Unicorns and Other Magical Creatures” by John Hamilton
“Ctesias: On India” by Andrew Nichols
Allen, Judy. Fantasy and Magic Encyclopedia. Kingfisher, 2005
Walker, Barbara G. The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Castle Books, 1996
“The Brave Little Tailor” Grimm Fairy Tales, Jakub and Wilhelm Grimm
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The Last Unicorn is such a classic novel!!
I love the fact that you actually play an instrumental version of "The Last Unicorn" song in the video while you talk! 🦄👍
I 💝that song!
And I 💝 Unicorns! 🦄
Extra-noticeable and poignant at around 10 minutes in, where the art appears to depict Molly chastising the unicorn at their first meeting.
I just noticed that too:) Made me go back and rewatch it:)🦄🦄
When I hear a flute rendition of The Last Unicorn...brings a tear to my eye. That film was a great influence on my own world-building. I have an entire Nation of these animals and they retain many classical traits. They cover the entire visible color spectrum, including black. Same for their eyes. The First Queen was solid white and there was never another unicorn that looked like that, save one. Tempest is an Abhorred One, a solid black unicorn with red garnet eyes, but his appearance is the result of a curse set on his species back when the First Queen ruled. It appears at random and only one Abhorred One can exist at any given time. If it hadn't chosen to express itself through him, he would've been solid white himself. It was only recently discovered to be a curse because Tempest unleashed a magical burst of such great power, it disrupted the curse for a short time (and as aside, the burst was so strong, it would've leveled the mountains around him if it weren't for the World Masters being present).
Theoretically, all four known Abhorred Ones might have been solid white before the curse chose to express itself through them. I may never know and maybe it's a piece of lore I can leave ambiguious.
Unicorns are such a favorite of mine that my chimera persona, Phoenix, has the body of one with the tail of a scorpian and the additional horns of a ram. You can see her headshot as my profile pic there. She has some interesting lore behind why she looks the way she does and why she has her name. She's even connected to the Royal House of the Unicorn Nation (the current Queen is her genetic "mother" and they see each other as kin). Again, that would take an exposition into the deeper lore about how this happened which I won't get into here unless asked.
Have you published or posted your story anywhere? This sounds like a really interesting read.
Here's an interesting fact for everyone. the unicorn tapestry seen in 10:34 was used in the open of the movie The Last Unicorn. The only thing they did different was to focus on the animals and to do a little animation. Plus they had the unicorn stand on its hind legs at the end.
The fact you have the song "The Last Unicorn" playing in the background is awesome
I liked how you put in the flute orchestra of the last unicorn song for the end and especially name dropping the novel of the same name. Very befitting since the unicorn is a stable of fantasy, purity, and immortality
This is one of my favorite videos on your channel. I love unicorns, they are a good example of what beauty and purity truly is. I'm also a Christian and when I read a verse in the bible that mentioned unicorns I was shocked but it makes sense now of how that happened. As someone who loves Medieval history and fantasy films and shows seeing a unicorn on screen makes me smile like in Narnia and My Little Pony. Unicorns rule.
According to some interpretations Lamb is actually not a lamb, but a equine entity with peacock tail, more closer to griffin or unicorn (what "sword in the mouth" could actually reference).
@@TheRezro interesting
I don't know if anyone could hear the background music,but it was from the movie last unicorn and I loved that moive back when VHS was the big thing I watched so much they had to get it on DVD when that was the new thing I still to this day love that movie.
I couldn't stop smiling when I saw this pop into my alerts. I'm currently reading Beagle's "The Last Unicorn" and hearing the instrumental cover from the movie adaptation in the background of this video was so soothing. Easily one of my favorite fantasy creatures and this video was an absolute delight as the week comes to a close. Thank you for posting!!
Beautiful! Stunningly eloquent introduction & overall coverage of the unicorn! Be the unicorn mythical, it is indeed biblical, as well! My late, & great mom, loved unicorns, & she loved reading the Bible. And she showed me many passages in the scriptures where the unicorn is mentioned. One of those scriptures that comes readily to my mind is found in Numbers 23:22, where it speaks of how God brought the Israelites out of Egypt.,, & Israel, "shall have the strength of a unicorn!" Excellent video, my friend! Thanks for sharing this with us all!🌹💜🌍
It's believed that the unicorn myth was inspired by the Narwal, a whale with a horn in the middle of its forehead.
Or the Woolley rhino
Didn’t unicorn mythology predate the actual finding of physical narwhals?
Narwal don't have horns. They have tusks. So it is coming out of their mouth not their forehead
@@randomasgray I know that.
“It is believed” and then u say some 1st grade shit, complete with incorrect definition 😂 gotta love the internet
Love unicorns, this was really interesting!
Awesome video, I love these fantastical creatures
The term "Alicorn" is also what is used for the name of a Unicorn with Wings like a Pegasus in the modern times.
@RoachDoggJr Yet Alicorn has been adapted as the new name for a Winged Unicorn by the rest of society.
I've always had a thing for unicorns 🦄 Thank you!!
I didn’t even know that Rhinoceroses lived in India before now. One learns something new every day!
nice video, unicorns are among my favorite mythical creatures! there's just something so moving abt them to me.
AH! This video DID answer a question of mine! And yes, I'm aware I could have googled it, but never thought to. I always wondered why Scotland's national animal was the unicorn. It makes sense now! Thank you for answering a long unanswered question of mine!
Also I didn't know that unicorn's, the early versions in history, were supposedly colored as they were. I'm used to the modern white. The more you know! So much I did not know before, and now I do!
Thank you again for another wonderful, and informal, video!
I have a funny conspiracy theory that unicorns are real and the last of them lives and is protected in Scotland and the bagpipes scare away evil spirits 🦄
It was also suggested that the Unicorn's horn could also make one immortal.
Eh... power of unicorn actually come from stone known as Carbuncle (interestingly similar to Kitsune Star Ball). It is entirely possible that horn was actually etheric projection from the stone in the forehead. What again, may sound familiar (third eye?), especially as Unicorns also were prolific shapeshifters. It is why they are so hard to find.
I do love how we have romanticized this iconic mythical beast. Yes, the rhino is most likely the real world inspiration but personally I feel like there is an older, more ancient animal behind this mythic creature.... Elasmotherium fits the bill perfectly. They are bigger than a rhino and almost as big as a modern African elephant.
Plus, they finally died out around 7,000 years ago in the region of the Caucasus mountains.... that's pretty close to the Mesopotamian crescent where most of the earliest accounts of Unicorns come from.
And I love telling people Unicorns were real, but they were ugly 😁
Eh? It is more complicated then that... original myths originated from Mesopotamia and referenced misunderstanding regard they depiction of mountain ox (some speculate they also cult encounter remnants of Elasmoterium). Those unicorns were described as aggressive bulls attacking knights, in similar role to medieval dragons. Due to cultural osmosis Arabic people develop own version, what was semi-magical one horned Oryx antelope. All stuff about hunt come from it and may be ignored. Then Romans make the mess, mixing those two in hybryd specie (what people forget they did have claws) and on top of that confused with actual Rhinos. Roman sources then impacted legends in Europe, but were not identical.
In fact actual Medieval Unicorn is being known as Nicor, Nacken or Nixie . Those are shape shifting water spirits, what also show up in Equine form (though most likely are fairy dragons). Sometimes shown also as mystical stag, but usually they are so hard to find as they tend to take human form. As such generally benevolent, at least until provoked. There are also other legends. Chinese Qilin is actually mythologized interpretation of giraffe, when Japanese one is closer to rhino. Both are also covered by scales and as dragons carry magical orb (Star Ball). What is interesting Kitsunes (what make more sense then you think) and Unicrns also share that feature. In case of the later it is known as Carbuncle and it, instead horn (what is projection from stone) is source of Unicorn power.
The unicorn song by the Irish Rovers:
A long time ago, when the earth was still green
And there were more kinds of animals than you've ever seen
They'd run around free while the earth was being born
But the loveliest of all was the unicorn
There was green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
The loveliest of all was the unicorn
Now god seen some sinnin' and it gave him pain
And he says, "stand back, I'm going to make it rain"
He says, "hey, brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do
Build me a floating zoo"
And take some of them green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
Don't you forget my unicorn"
Old Noah was there to answer the call
He finished up making the ark just as the rain started fallin'
He marched in the animals two by two
And he called out as they went through
"Hey, Lord"
I've got your green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn
I just can't see no unicorn"
Then Noah looked out through the driving rain
Them unicorns was hiding, playing silly games
Kicking and splashing while the rain was pouring
Oh, them silly unicorns
There was green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Noah cried, "close the doors 'cause the rain is pourin'
And we just can't wait for no unicorns"
The ark started movin', it drifted with the tide
Them unicorns looked up from the rock and they cried
And the waters came down and sort of floated them away
And that's why you'll never see a unicorn, to this very day
You'll see green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
You're never gonna see no unicorn
Thanks for sharing!!
Originally written by Shel Silverstein and included in "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Love this song
@@hestiathena4917 love shel have the book got copy for my son will get a copy for my granddaughters
I love that song!!!
They also became popular with male viewers thanks to MLP: FiM.
They popularity was predating MLP
I heard of an old Greek legend that when Zeus was just a baby he was being watched over by a Goat named Amalthea, and one day with his great strength Zeus accidentally broke off one of her horns, and Amalthea became the first Unicorn.
i love this stuff!! so cool!!
Awesome as always
You just want to believe there's at least 1 of these out there in the world.
I love your Channel thanks
Lol Anyone else notice the theme song from The Last Unicorn movie playing in the background?
This made my day, thank you.
Funny story, Marco Polo mentioned unicorns on his travels to China which turned out to be real, albeit in the form of a (now extinct) Rhino species. And a Doje in Venice during the Renaissance ordered two after he thought that the other one was fake. I joke, but this is actually true.
Heart out to the background song. I'm alive!
Unicorn 🦄
‘Sangere de unicornio’ is something you should check out. It shows the darker side of man and unicorn.
cool there was some myth i about the unicorn but now i learn some more. i half expected to find that there was some dark myths about the unicorn but glad i was wrong.
I mean? It is complicated. Ancient depictions show it as animal, Medieval one were based on Nixies. What generally tend to ne benevolent. Put generally don't anger them.
@@TheRezro true but for any animal myth or not. No matter how nice any animal is don’t piss them off
Many people also confuse the term "Bicorn" for a Two-Horned Unicorn, but in Old English Tales the Bicorn is actually described as a Flesh-Eating Monster that is Part-Cow, Part-Panther, and has a Human-like Face, and it's counterpart is a Flesh-Eating Cow called a "Chichevache", some try calling a two-horned unicorn a "Duo-Corn", but according to "Urban Dictionary" a duocorn is what they call a Man dressed up as a unicorn(because men already have a horn in their lower regions if you catch my drift), which makes it sound like it's talking about a Male $+r1pp@r wearing unicorn underwear with a horn-like sleeve where the You-Know-What slides into(not really something that children need to see), so personally I prefer to address a two-horned unicorn as a "Two-nicorn"(Two + Unicorn = Twonicorn), and call a Three-Horned Unicorn a "Trinicorn"(Trinity + Unicorn = Trinicorn), just sharing my thoughts here.
Bicorn is actually fictional
@@TheRezro Most of the material used for Unicorns are also fictional, what's your point?
@@skurvay3429 My point is that it is not a mythology. Bicorn is literally from pop-novel.
@@TheRezro Honestly I doubt people even care Where it comes from as long as it's still interesting enough to catch their attention, plus is still in the Public Domain so it would be Free to be used by anyone, and the idea of an Evil Carnivorous Cow-Panther Monster does sound like something interesting for a Hero to fight against, Bovine Strength & Horns, Wild Cat Claws & Teeth, sounds like it would be right up there with the likes of the Griffon, or the Chimera, or the Manticore, or even the Criosphinx, the more Monsters we know about, the more material we have for Storytelling, just ask the guy who came up with the Gelatinous Cube for the D&D franchise.
Didn't The Tick once fight an evil flesh-eating cow?
Only Stories I can find with this sort of content are Fairy tale videos on UA-cam can;t even find old fantasy .
The last Unicorn 🤔? Never heard of it.
I just 🤍 #Unicorns🦄
💛 all your video's mate 👍.
The Bible mentions unicorn ( Douay Rheims Bible )
Men was unicorn, before he was cut in two in the corn on top of the head, creating duality and twin souls. At this time we started recovering our unity and our unicorn. And undivided mind. 2:59
The Last Unicorn song ? That's cute
I would have gone with Gloryhammer myself.
"The Paragon of Purity." Tell that to the citizens of Dundee under Angus McFife I.
FIREBALLS AND LIGHTNING ARE RAINING FROM THE SKY
CHAOS AND BLOODSHED WHILE ALL THE PEOPLE DIE
IN THIS EPIC BATTLE, BEGINS THE FINAL WAR
TRAGEDY WILL STRIKE THIS DAY, PREPARE FOR
THE UNICORN INVASION OF DUNDEE!
(Sigh)
When you find out the unicorn is just like any other innacuratly drawn animal in beastiaries, not a deliberate fantacy chreature.
I wish they were real maybe they are but humans would only try to kill them off
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The eye of Horus kemet 🇪🇬
I been trying to find Unicorns for all my life
Closest thing IRL is Oryx Antelope. Otherwise ask Hilary Clinton.
When you see it in dark age or medieval art.
I mean they didnt have a word for blue.
So I mean it's real loosey goose descriptions with ancient people
Or that they didn't know they were looking at al rhinos
The unicorn is what prehistoric Native Americans called the Wolly rino.
No woolly rhino in america
You should make a video talking about orcs.
Problem is that it is actually modern idea compiled from scraps of other legends. Most notably Dark Elves and god Orcus.
@@TheRezro The term comes from Beowulf, which Professor Tolkien translated, referring to a race of horrid goblin-like creatures.
Quite the opposite of the questing beast
There is a verse in the Bible that talks about behemoth leviathan and unicorn...seriously check it out..
Rhinos
#TheLastUnicorn 🦄 in the thumbnail
And it's not just for girls!
MU2024!
Unicorns aren't mythology they are a heavenly horses.Isaiah 34:7 so they are true and they does exist, I wanna ride one if I will come back here on earth 😅 in the war of the gods.😅😅
Oh I thought it was supposed to represent Jesus.
But you know that would be a boring story
I've seen both the phoenix and the unicorn used to represent Christ. The unicorn for reasons stated in the video and the phoenix for obvious reasons.
@@25Erix I mean, in some sources Lamb of God is depicted as peacock-tailed, rainbow-colored, griffin-like entity. What may be in some ways compared with medieval unicorn (TBH it look quite like Celestia from MLP), not to menton Buraq from Islam. At least until you ignore seven eyes and crown of horns. Seraphim which he is, are sometimes also described as beings of fire, either birdlike or serpents (what BTW some versions of legend also apply). So similarity on at least syncretic level is clear.
I have no choice but to be fascinated because it is my life and if there no Jesus or Mary Magdalene I would have never been born. She escaped and saved the life of my direct linkage and I am saved. ❤
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In the Kama Sutra the rhino horn is recommended as a condom. I guess every lady in the room just crossed their legs and swore? Kama Sutra is not a nice book. Second half is a guide to domestic abuse..
No such beast and Jesus Christ is NOT the son of the unicorn! NOT!!! Merely a nice fantasy.
The only unicorns that are alive today are the rhinos because they’re related to horses they have horns but regular horses don’t so for what I already know we already know that rhinos are the real unicorns. I just wish the Renaissance artists will be more realistic on the rhinos with horns since they’re related to horses those are the real unicorns usually the Indian rhino has one horn that’s the real unicorn as well.
Also these creatures look way too fun to see like since now as an adult now I realize the only dragons now are the Komodo dragons they’re big enough to eat a human .
@@tayahoneybear Oryx antelope has own unicorn legend and actual medieval myths are completely unrelated. Alsop giraffes also count as Chinese version.