Supernatural Queens and post-Pagan Goddesses by Ronald Hutton
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Professor Ronald Hutton presents his latest book “QUEENS OF THE WILD: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation”.
In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries.
Looking closely at four main figures-Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition-Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them. It was in fact nineteenth-century scholars who attempted to establish the narrative of pagan survival that persists today
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Professor Hutton is a national treasure. Wisdom and erudition presented with a dry wit while sporting a natty waistcoat. Gawd / the Gods / Gaia / the Faerie Queen bless him.
And a razor for a sense of humor!
That waistcoat is quite smart actually.
Whatever style you call that necktie is pretty witty too!
Amen / So mote it be. He is an international treasure, actually.
@@christopherdiedrich40 History Geeks, we wear your great-great-great-Grandad's clothes.
Reminds me of how often my mother brought up Mother Earth. She was insistent that I went to catechism for 7 years and both her parents and grandparents were fairly devout but she certainly talked about her more that Jesus or god growing up because…simply god was at church. Weather and the garden was a day to day experience
Thankyou for the privilege of hearing the wonderfully erudite and articulate Professor Hutton speak!
Always fascinating to learn from Prof Hutton.
Hey Doc. Fancy finding you here. lol.
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I have this book, both a hard copy and Audible. I can't wait for your next book on goddesses of love and war! I thought I commented once before but if not Prof. Hutton is a national treasure to the UK, and a gift to the rest of us! Thank you!
i thoroughly enjoy listening to prof Hutton's dissertations on mythology and folklore - such depth of knowledge and expertise in this field . His retelling of myths and storytelling is enchanting . I heard that Cailleach was also the name of a hammock or bed of the old woman placed near the heart of the house ( old woman in the chimney-corner.
Deeply interesting read - highly recommend
Ronald has been educating us for your years on related subjects and I feel deeply appreciative for this
Great powers they slowly brought out of themselves,
and looking backward they beheld the elves
that wrought on cunning forges in the mind,
and light and dark on secret looms entwined.
The indigenous people of the southern portion of Western Australia posses a mythological system that includes little hairy dwarf like men.
These go by three names, one of which is Bulyit.
Bulyits live in groves of a distinctive looking plant called the Balga (Xanthorrheoa pressii).
Children are warned not to venture into groves of Balga after dusk sets in or the Bulyits will take them.
Bulyits have a distinctive smell and are mischievous. They throw stones at your feet and give off a shrill whistle.
It is important to appease Bulyits, I knew a local Aboriginal man who would leave bottles of beer out on the back veranda to appease his Bulyits.
One story I heard was a morality tale where a young boy was grabbed by the arm by a Bulyit after chasing a young kangaroo into a grove of Balga having speared the young animal.
The Bulyit admonished the boy for spearing such a young animal and reminded him of his obligation to only take old animals and to care for the young.
I regularly walk my dog in local bushland at dawn and dusk. I can tell you where the Bulyits live, though I've never seen one.
There are many echoes of European myths here - it beggars belief they are not a pan human innate tendency of us as a species to manifest these characters.
There is a school of thought- Jungian I think- that suggests because our human brains are all wired in fundamentally similar ways, different people/ cultures are likely to independently produce similar myth/ folklore/ story motifs.
So kind to share your wisdom with those of us far away. Thank you.
Thank you for that brilliant lecture. I have only today found your channel and I will be a regular listener. Keep the papers coming🧤
Fascinating information. Thank- you, Professor Hutton.
Intresting
My late nana had the water babies book which I loved as a child
Been a Yorkshire lass
Thanks for sharing, shared.
Excellent thank you x
Excellent
Ah, this is wonderful. Id love to hear him compare the Essenes, the Druids, the Shaman Healers
Read his book 'Blood and Mistletoe' which is a history of the Druids in Britain.
Fantastic
Mm I have the book rare book Guernsey Folklore by McCulloch and there are stories of folklore which actually make me believe people saw these nature spirits and we have now lost this gift.
Having experienced a supernatural experience myself I did some research to find a man of means in the 1300 had undoubtedly conjured this thing
I like this fella'.
Just of camera, in the corner of the professor's study is a large blue police call box.
The Tardis?
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No.
A large blue police call box.
Nice vest/waistcoat
Mother Earth sounds like Sophia
The Aboriginal people of SW Australia practice fire stick farming, burning the forest to encourage it to regrow anew.
Young growth is more fertile and nutritious for wildlife.
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If I could ask this guy one question, I would like to understand the reasoning why he said that elves bring affliction to others. I have this understanding that if you afflict someone who is sacred, then you will be afflicted, and with the way this world works, people like to study you to see what you do, so they can imitate you, and then they discredit and defame you so that no one will know that they took their power from you and they are phony copy cats, for lack of a better vocabulary. Were they known as they were because of how the world is, and did they really disappear or do they just stay hidden?
Apollymi Mandylion is the APOLLO soul and the Bridgit Eire/Irish soul .
Interestingly, I like to say that while the religious practices might have died back. I feel that some Norse traditions did live on in remote regions such as Slavic cultures, Sweden, and even Norway.
Even the idea of the Ulfhedinn and Beserkir practices might have lived on into the time of the Varangian Guard in Constantinople. Emperor Basil the II requested assisted Vladmir the I of Kiev to send troops. Well these men were Saxons and Norse becoming the Varangian Guard. Also later in accounts that people of Constantinople complained the Norse and Saxons holding bonfires slamming shields into each other with howling and yelling.
This could be a tradition that was still carried on among warriors long after the christian convergence.
I use Native European Traditions. Everything except Christianity.
From what I know which is very little, those early people on the british isles were some real brutes. This opinion could have come from a bad Italian movie I saw many years ago.
Definitely not true. Read some books associated with the times you mean, or maybe check a few Time Team episodes. Civilization is largely civil and interested only in it's own day to day business: food, family.
Wonderful presentation but why are the questions text only? Very confusing and exclusionary for the visually impaired.
Sami-people?
Quite a lot of Estonians and other Balts wont agree either...probably ignored by academe until last 20 years
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Demonic stuff
Lol
goddesses with manly power -- diana, venus etc. -- are a possible a code which speaks of the author's homosexuality.
That makes no sense.
Cowardly opportunism
How?
@@jomancao2341 It's just the knee-jerk response to having your beliefs laid bare as false.
Lol
Fantastic thank you 🙏