Disturbing Ancient Rituals

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  2 роки тому +36

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    • @jiukumite
      @jiukumite 2 роки тому +8

      Propoganda ends at 1:57.

    • @isaaclux2128
      @isaaclux2128 2 роки тому +3

      It takes 10 seconds to sign up, and almost two minutes to get to the point.

    • @LJMpictures
      @LJMpictures 2 роки тому +1

      I feel like this video belongs on your darker side of history channel

    • @fredred8371
      @fredred8371 2 роки тому +2

      @@jiukumite Thank you. I always try to put a time stamp at the end of the ads too. Keep it up!

    • @albertbenoit4204
      @albertbenoit4204 2 роки тому

      @@isaaclux2128 tu try tu

  • @allisonalbozambrana6447
    @allisonalbozambrana6447 2 роки тому +101

    As a child in London I remember our Victorian home being renovated. Inside one of the chimneys a box was discovered containing a dead bird and various other items like small bottles sealed with wax and little packages tired with cord. Our builder said he'd seen lots of these and they were known as builder's sacrifices. Apparently children's shoes were often included too. He also explained about witch's bottles buried under the floors etc and apotropaic markings on the north facing roof beams of many houses to protect from evil. They were usually 7 vertical lines denoting the 7 sacraments and/or the Chi Rho sign for Christ. Many of these marks were done in the 17th and 18th centuries, long after the Protestant Reformation had reduced the number of sacraments to two.
    I find it fascinating how ancient traditions are adapted and evolved to be used even in relatively modern times

  • @nicelydunwell5681
    @nicelydunwell5681 2 роки тому +486

    As a builder, there's more than a few home owners I'd like to include in the foundation.

    • @noldo3837
      @noldo3837 2 роки тому +35

      I think this ritual was common among Italian-American community :D

    • @craigprosser9554
      @craigprosser9554 2 роки тому +30

      Ditto lots of homeowners think that of some of the more incompetent builders😂

    • @leesmith6792
      @leesmith6792 2 роки тому +4

      Amen to that brother!
      SGT Smith

    • @CarrionCrow993
      @CarrionCrow993 2 роки тому +1

      😂 I bet!

    • @debbiemoore2747
      @debbiemoore2747 2 роки тому +3

      Thank you. Needed that laugh 👌

  • @amberkat8147
    @amberkat8147 2 роки тому +45

    It pisses me off that they broke their word to that poor lady. A person ought to keep their word to the dead, since there's no way to apologize.

  • @malbogia8003
    @malbogia8003 2 роки тому +93

    "Hey guys let's slice our tongues and then have a big feast. Yes. That is absolutely the order these things should happen"

    • @madderhat5852
      @madderhat5852 2 роки тому +13

      No citrus please.

    • @noldo3837
      @noldo3837 2 роки тому

      I think non of them complained...

    • @susie9893
      @susie9893 2 роки тому +1

      My guess is they routinely used hallucinogenics and between that and the religious fervour (aka brainwashing) they barely noticed the pain

    • @laprincessa9787
      @laprincessa9787 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@susie9893😂😂😂I think they noticed the pain.😂😂😂😂

    • @ajax1812
      @ajax1812 6 місяців тому

      Hindsight is 2020

  • @gracerobertson5923
    @gracerobertson5923 2 роки тому +116

    I love how Simon has different personas for each channel he hosts. I found him on the today I found out channel but stayed a subscriber for the casual criminalist and while watching this I halfway expected him to talk about how hard the name pronunciations were. Thank you for your hard work and dedication Simon. You’re awesome!

    • @Mr2winners
      @Mr2winners 2 роки тому +7

      brain blaze is the one to view

    • @DaemonM
      @DaemonM 2 роки тому +2

      It's so jarring. I watched this channel first, and loved it, but then watched his others, realised he doesn't actually talk the way he narrates on this channel, and now I find it difficult to come back. Even though I find these vids really really interesting.

    • @jdw221221
      @jdw221221 2 роки тому +6

      Started with brain blaze, and now i half expect him to shout "AM I RIGHT PETER?!" on all his channels

  • @MushroomHedgehog
    @MushroomHedgehog 2 роки тому +297

    It’s been I don’t know how many years and I still can’t get enough of Simon’s pain from having to make damn near impossible pronunciations.

    • @definitelynotjasonmomoa
      @definitelynotjasonmomoa 2 роки тому +8

      Even if he would COMPLETELY run out of content (LOL!), I would still stick around just for that

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn 2 роки тому +12

      His pronunciation of aztec/spanish words is my favorite.

    • @stephk5797
      @stephk5797 2 роки тому +8

      He absolutely butchers everything Irish 🤣

    • @flowertrue
      @flowertrue 2 роки тому

      TBF that Mezzo-American stuff is impossible. No wonder people think they were aliens!

    • @zaranea7920
      @zaranea7920 2 роки тому +13

      Y'know what is the BEST butchering BY FAR...? Effortlessly :D it is so not effortless for him... He always says efforletlessly for what ever fucking reason xD??

  • @Name-xs3bd
    @Name-xs3bd 2 роки тому +55

    “Damn we mixed this concrete wrong, anyone have any ideas how we can get this foundation stable again?”
    “Have we buried any infants under it yet?”

  • @PositronWeaponD
    @PositronWeaponD 2 роки тому +76

    “Hitobashira” literally means “human pillar.” The Japanese are nothing if not incredibly straightforward with naming things.

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 2 роки тому +9

      Right? You gotta love a culture that is that straight forward. Like they would have seen a European Iron Maiden and renamed it a "Stabbing Coffin" or something, or seen a baptism and just name it a "Baby Dunking".

    • @PositronWeaponD
      @PositronWeaponD 2 роки тому +11

      @@Im-Not-a-Dog Looking at youkai names is especially fun with their obviousness. My personal favorite is called shirime, meaning “butt eye” (shiri = butt, me = eye). It’s a humanoid creature with an eyeball where its butthole should be. This particular youkai isn’t evil or anything…it just thinks surprising people is fun.

    • @seanmalloy7249
      @seanmalloy7249 2 роки тому +5

      One of the examples of straightforward, if amusing, names the Japanese give things is "yodare kake", the 'bib' of armor lames attached to the lower edge of the face armor which protected a samurai's neck and throat; the term literally means "dribble hang".

    • @larapalma3744
      @larapalma3744 2 роки тому +5

      German does this too
      Bra is bust holder lol

    • @PositronWeaponD
      @PositronWeaponD 2 роки тому

      @@larapalma3744 My sister studied abroad in Berlin and she actually told me this recently! But I love this specific example 😂😂😂 boob container

  • @anthonyh8989
    @anthonyh8989 2 роки тому +65

    "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs!" - British Governor, Charles Napier

    • @jandrews6254
      @jandrews6254 2 роки тому +1

      Jolly good show. Almost. Except for the burning alive.

    • @felidaebi6239
      @felidaebi6239 Рік тому +1

      i think he forgot witch hunt

    • @anthonyh8989
      @anthonyh8989 Рік тому +8

      @@felidaebi6239 Charles Napier's dates are 1782-1853. The last person to be burned for witchcraft in England was in 1727. The Witchcraft Act 1735 ended prosecutions for alleged witchcraft in England. So to be fair to the then British Governor, he wasn't wrong.

  • @NextEevolution
    @NextEevolution 2 роки тому +533

    "Following religious custom, a twelve year old widow is burned on a pyre to join her deceased husband in death."
    That single sentence contains an eyewatering number of tragedies.

    • @mattcromwell4308
      @mattcromwell4308 2 роки тому +22

      Wow, I didn't even think about that... How awful

    • @diamondtiara84
      @diamondtiara84 2 роки тому +1

      Especially people watching a twelve year old girl burn to death.

    • @rebella_alld5108
      @rebella_alld5108 2 роки тому +23

      I'm stunned. That's such a horrible ritual, it's hard to even comprehend.

    • @erismana2105
      @erismana2105 2 роки тому +4

      @Pops Mcgee * eye roll

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому +1

      Thought they abandoned that years ago?

  • @Emily_Charley
    @Emily_Charley 2 роки тому +63

    I would think sacrificing someone in the foundation or the structure of the building would only bring bad omens in the form of the ghost of the sacrifice haunting the building

    • @innawoods2131
      @innawoods2131 2 роки тому +1

      Ghosts don't exist, so building is even safer ;^)

    • @pantitapalittapongarnpim1581
      @pantitapalittapongarnpim1581 2 роки тому +3

      Actually, the belief is quite the opposite because they are based on religions that are about spirit worshiping not god worshiping. So ghosts are viewed very differently in those belief systems and having them around or even created deliberately or taken under your control can be beneficial for the people performing the ritual.
      But if you look at how spirit creations are done with some of these religions, like, yeah, no. Hell, no. Even when there's no explicit killing involved, still no.

    • @pambronson4467
      @pambronson4467 2 роки тому +12

      Bodies hidden in concrete create weak spots. Ghosts may not exist, but necrotic gas has power.

    • @jeffreyrobinson3555
      @jeffreyrobinson3555 2 роки тому

      The sprit of a sacrificial person is happiness in the next life

    • @rayyanadeem2354
      @rayyanadeem2354 2 роки тому

      You get your ideas from Hollywood horror flicks

  • @obscureorca
    @obscureorca 2 роки тому +25

    When he said some of the disturbing rituals are much more recent, I was like "Awesome, let's see who those freaks are that were sacrificing people for stupid reasons" only for the first example to be from my own culture.

  • @santeeblack3580
    @santeeblack3580 2 роки тому +39

    This couldda been a heck of a lot longer and darker.. I'm very surprised alot of sadistic things weren't listed.

    • @gtbkts
      @gtbkts 2 роки тому +1

      I was thinking the same thing. Probably gonna have a part 2 then.

    • @george40nelson4
      @george40nelson4 2 роки тому +3

      We have a local Somali population that practices female circumcision on very young girls. The local Feminists don't seem to mind at all. " It is truly a wonder how marvelously God created man to so well endure the suffering of others ". Voltaire.

    • @cameronhowe1110
      @cameronhowe1110 Рік тому

      @@george40nelson4firstly it’s an ancient Egyptian tradition. Also feminist do care about it.

  • @ndowroccus4168
    @ndowroccus4168 2 роки тому +23

    Keeping the head of an enemy…just feels something young children, trapped on an island, would end up doing…

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому +2

      Your childhood must have been very interesting.

    • @ryanparker4996
      @ryanparker4996 2 роки тому +11

      @@pakde8002 this is a literary reference, he's talking about Lord of the Flies, dude

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr 2 роки тому +1

      South Park kids maybe

    • @larapalma3744
      @larapalma3744 2 роки тому

      With flies lol

  • @luciustitius
    @luciustitius 2 роки тому +12

    As a great Bavarian philosopher once said: „Even the future isn‘t as bright as it once used to be.“

    • @aronsaga6514
      @aronsaga6514 2 роки тому +1

      truer words have never been said

  • @pakde8002
    @pakde8002 2 роки тому +58

    Animal sacrifices related to buildings are well documented in the British isles to ward off witchcraft . Collecting trophy heads was an important practice by some Celtic and Germanic tribes. Sati is recorded by westerners as late as the 1930's in Hindu Bali with a particular cremation mentioned where not only the wife but other young women or girls were burned. It was speculated that they were drugged as they appeared to go willingly into the fire. Animal sacrifices are still very common in Bali.

    • @Wooargh
      @Wooargh 2 роки тому +2

      So Europe does these literally disgusting rituals too. He said that every continent has done them but the US has never done any of them OMG.

    • @Sienisota
      @Sienisota 2 роки тому +11

      ​@@WooarghMost U.S Natives lived lives on the move, with very few, if any, permanent settlements. In such cultures it was usually the old and feeble who self sacrificed, by staying behind, once they became too weak to travel. In some northern cultures on Eurasia, elderly or sick "went for walk" in the snow, giving their life, so that those who were left, could eat their portion of winter storages.
      It seems that once a human population starts farming, they start oppressing each other with slavery, or limiting women into breeding machines... This is also when cultures start sacrificing young and healthy people, and the sacrifices seem less willing.
      Hunter gatherers seem to give more individual freedom, as long as you are born (and stay) healthy. Less discrimination based on arbitrary things like looks or sex. But once you became a burden, the community couldn't afford to look after you.

    • @Sienisota
      @Sienisota 2 роки тому +6

      On animal sacrifice, I head that many earlier Christians took the tradition of burying a dog on a new cemetery. It's spirit was supposed to guard the dead ones from demons or evil spirits. On new church grounds, too.
      I believe some cultures saw a black dog or a cat to be a best animal for such sacrifice? Italian homes saw a black cat as lucky, and Ireland saw them as unlucky, so perhaps that played a part?

    • @jcllien6932
      @jcllien6932 2 роки тому

      @@Wooargh bet there’s bodies in all the foundations of US state buildings !

    • @fairydreamz
      @fairydreamz 11 місяців тому

      Why would they do witch craft type things to ward off witchcraft? I don’t understand

  • @badger297
    @badger297 2 роки тому +3

    Bro that "binding of the years" shit is WILD! It stopped me in my tracks at work so I could pull my phone out and watch it. That kind of stuff is so intriguing to me. Love the content dude!

  • @robinderoos1166
    @robinderoos1166 2 роки тому +138

    By the warp! i suddenly have an idea for novel construction materials! Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 2 роки тому +74

    I bet Simon has a blood ritual he does with every new writer he keeps chained up in the Blazement
    #FreeDanny

    • @flowertrue
      @flowertrue 2 роки тому +9

      He's be more likely to perform a ritual sacrifice for the creation of each new channel.

    • @sventer198
      @sventer198 2 роки тому +2

      #KeepDanny

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому

      What we need here is a union organizer from WGA

  • @PotatoTrain
    @PotatoTrain 2 роки тому +11

    So important that we don't forget where we have come from and how critical protection of the vulnerable is.

  • @victordauphin2949
    @victordauphin2949 2 роки тому +14

    Hey maybe the reason it's so hard to get permits for construction is because the gods come and tell the city council not enough blood was spilt to build that addition on your house

    • @Kalebfenoir
      @Kalebfenoir 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe the reason certain constructions fail or seem shoddy even when built properly, or breakdown faster than they should is because they didn't get enough blood sacrifice in the construction process? Lol

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому +1

      There is a rather long local Australian take on what Noah, if asked by God today to build an Ark in Australia...he would fail because of the government bureaucracy around such a project and God doesn't end up flooding the world because our bureaucracy was punishment enough.

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому

      Didn't ancient pantheons have a god of bureaucracy? Certainly the Sumerians.

  • @hunterG60k
    @hunterG60k 2 роки тому +54

    I don't believe for a second that any of the women "performing" sati were doing so voluntarily, more likely it was a way to get rid of and extra mouth to feed by the family of the husband.

    • @MsPuffykinz
      @MsPuffykinz 2 роки тому +10

      100% although I will say. I bet like there was one. Just due to the odds. Romeo and Juliet style. But that’s it. Like easily 99.9999999% unwilling.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому +9

      I wouldn't take that bet. Different cultures that are way older than we can imagine have some messed up baggage. In India and Pakistan there's as bad or worse as Sati considered totally cool and normal there by some.

    • @Monica_Leigh
      @Monica_Leigh 2 роки тому +13

      I wonder how many of these women had young children. Super fucked up.

    • @myutube3109
      @myutube3109 2 роки тому

      @@Monica_Leigh 0 they probably were young children. Alot of Ancient people are fucked

    • @sventer198
      @sventer198 2 роки тому +9

      Agree!. They blame widows for their husband dying as they were “bad luck”. Made her impossible to marry off again.

  • @mattcromwell4308
    @mattcromwell4308 2 роки тому +65

    These types of sideprojects are fun 😎 a bit different from the usual and always stuff I've never heard about before 👍

    • @majorhayze
      @majorhayze 2 роки тому +2

      And you’ll never use other than trivial pursuit or who wants to be a millionaire lol

    • @Sideprojects
      @Sideprojects  2 роки тому +6

      Thanks :)

  • @danielcruz9569
    @danielcruz9569 2 роки тому +10

    Im mexican, and i live in mexico city relatively close to the hill of the star. It has been a natural reserve for little more than a hundred years, although the urban expansion means it is much smaller than in the 1900s. On the base of the reserve (not the hill, that starts way sooner but is urban landscape) there is a museum telling you about the sacrifice and ceremonies of the new fire, as well as old skeletons foumd on the hill. On the top of the hill, visible from everywhere where you can see the hill which is all high rise buildings, buildings in the hills to the east, or high enough houses like mine, you can see the syraight line that is the base of the pyramid where the sacrifices were made. Runners, cyclists, hikers, and tourists finish their tour of the hill in the pyramid, right next to the table where the sacrifices were made. The hill is beautiful, and from the pyramid you can see all of the city if visibility is good. You can even see mexicos tallest mountains, the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, active and sleeping volcanies respectively. If you want to see for yourself, go on google maps and search "cerro de la estrella". Cerro meaning hill, and estrella, star. God i love my city

    • @kayakat1869
      @kayakat1869 Рік тому +1

      I'd love to go there and see that!

  • @richardfredericks4069
    @richardfredericks4069 2 роки тому +16

    sacrificing someone and placing the body in the edifice, sounds like a perfect recipe for a really good haunting. Sometimes Nuke's Top 5 or 10, usually has some creepy content

  • @marcomcdowell8861
    @marcomcdowell8861 2 роки тому +14

    Religious dudes: We need a sacrifice. Who out there will put up less of a struggle and make this easy?
    Other religious dudes: Hmmm, I am a man, hence it shouldn't be me.
    Other religious dudes: We agree. Let us toss women, children, the lame and weak into the flames or bury them alive because we're stronger than them.
    Supreme religious dude: Yes. I will preside over it.

  • @Diesel257
    @Diesel257 2 роки тому +8

    How the first human sacrifice happened; probably.
    -Shaman "Alright guys as you know it won't rain and we've been dancing like crazy. What should we do? Well... We gotta kill Doug. Now, hear me out..."

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 2 роки тому +65

    Japanese Human Pillars are REALLY interesting since the majority of them aren't officially recorded so when doing restorations on very old structures there is actually a very likely possibility someone will come across one by random chance. They were put in walls, floors, sometimes even hidden rooms in addition to being put into the foundation. They where apparently usually carpenters and there is supposedly a superstition in Japan if you were building a fortification or other kind of building where the lay out needed to be kept secret the chief builder(s) that had to have the whole lay out memorized for the construction would become the pillar(s) to protect the security of the place.

    • @pambronson4467
      @pambronson4467 2 роки тому +3

      The Norse, the Egyptians, and even some Pirates utilized human offerings in this manner.

    • @CartoonHero1986
      @CartoonHero1986 2 роки тому +2

      @@pambronson4467 I'll have to go looking for those. Egyptians almost sounds like a given when you think about it and how they viewed death. But I never would have thought of the Norse or even Pirate Factions doing this... well maybe I could see it from the Norse since the whole "Odin hung himself in the tree of life" thing.

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому +2

      How can you tell how many of them were not workmen killed accidentally during the construction? I remember hearing that several workers were killed building 20th Century skyscrapers or even making spectacle movies. In ancient times, would it not be logical to bury them in situ?

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому +1

      @@pambronson4467 Pirates? You mean, like the Sea Peoples?

    • @CartoonHero1986
      @CartoonHero1986 2 роки тому +6

      I mean I am no expert and maybe that is the case for some of them. But it's to my understanding that these are both mummified as if they were ritualistically killed, dressed, and entombed with offerings and sacred scrolls. And they do not match known burial traditions for those eras and places. The biggest issue trying to know for sure is isolated Japan was so Xenophobic in some places very rural villages had almost cult like traditions and it was taboo to allow anyone outside the village to know about or see their rituals. It got so "diverse" from village to village and stories of really extreme rituals where making it back to the Palace more than once the Emperor or their Proxy had to send High Priests from the Imperial Temple/Sect to make sure people weren't getting crazy with their interpretation of the Shinto Religion essentially a Spiritual Wellness Check and even those High Priests were often threatened and shunned away from the more cult like villages as outsiders with no business seeing or knowing what they do. On top of all that it REALLY doesn't help that the more cult like villages often developed their form of Japanese Writing that only select people in the village could read to protect the taboo and secrecy of the village regarding their religious texts so some of what there is to go on today is mostly gibberish if the language died with the old villages.

  • @kennyrosenyc
    @kennyrosenyc 2 роки тому +3

    I love how his accent changes from a more formal one to something more guttural when he does the little end pieces advertising his other videos. It's like 'Hey, I can be strict, but I'm really a crazy person'.

  • @heegee35
    @heegee35 2 роки тому +6

    Please make a channel called "The past was the worst" and do videos comparing the past and how easy we have it in modern times

    • @boudicaastorm4540
      @boudicaastorm4540 2 роки тому +1

      We could forward all those videos to the people who go around saying "Oh, things were so much better when *I* was growing up, what has the world come to?" etc.

    • @1003JustinLaw
      @1003JustinLaw 24 дні тому

      Just to to Brain Braze bruv

  • @626games
    @626games 2 роки тому +21

    Seems to me like burying someone alive inside the walls of your castle is a great way to have a haunted castle. You know if ghosts were real

    • @johnmichael9713
      @johnmichael9713 2 роки тому

      But they're not, so.... stupid comment.

    • @KaeYoss
      @KaeYoss Рік тому

      In the case of Japan, the ghost of that dutiful sacrifice would probably help protect the place.

  • @minagica
    @minagica 2 роки тому +4

    The whole sacrificing people for buildings and especially burying people alive is effin gruesome. And it's all over the place, some strange strange pan proto spiritualism (not the best word) that kept popping up as recently as the 12-1300s
    Considering how the past was the worst and how central social pressure, bullying and perpetuating trauma over generations must have been on the ground realities, I can sort of understand how a depressed abused member of the community with solid paranormal beliefs could think that getting sacrificed at least served some purpose compared to the psychological hell their society was otherwise putting them through. And consider the love bombing present in so many human sacrifice traditions (at least across ancient and medieval Europe and South America)

  • @sleekoduck
    @sleekoduck 2 роки тому +3

    I seem to remember a cache of Viking skulls being found among the Nazca trophies (probably sailed off course and were lost), which makes me wonder what their final days were like.

    • @larrygrimaldi1400
      @larrygrimaldi1400 2 роки тому +4

      Did they sail up the Amazon then stagger into the desert? Or around the straights and up the Pacific coast, and over the mountains?.... or during a really warm summer, across Canada and down the Bering... Hard to get Vikings into the Nazca...

  • @Maverick8t88
    @Maverick8t88 2 роки тому +2

    I’m sorry, but at 6:05 when I saw a skull being excavated, I couldn’t help but think of Bully McGuire saying “I’m gonna put some dirt in your eye!”😂

  • @UnicornsPoopRainbows
    @UnicornsPoopRainbows 2 роки тому +8

    Seeing Simon come across ancient South American languages cracks me up every time 😂😂

  • @alyssajoyblack5007
    @alyssajoyblack5007 2 роки тому +3

    Geees and I thought my severe OCD rituals were fucked up! Awesome video as always- love from Australia x

  • @nodiggity9472
    @nodiggity9472 2 роки тому +4

    The Celts were Headhunters. A King would consult with the severed heads of his enemies before he made big decisions. The thinking behind it being that the heads never gave bad advice. Also, it minimised rivalries between other members of his council or warband. The King would consult with his homeboys, then go and discuss it with his collection of rotting heads before making his decision. What's the point of factions if the only thing that swayed the King were the dead voices of all the men he'd slain in battle? How badly do you want the King to make you a trusted advisor?

    • @KaeYoss
      @KaeYoss Рік тому +1

      Head of state

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 2 роки тому +3

    Very interesting, glad those rituals aren't common anymore!
    Human sacrifice and keeping heads as trophies are some morbid pursuits.
    Thank you for the video.

  • @markhough1027
    @markhough1027 2 роки тому +7

    The Irish used to keep heads outside their huts back in the day

  • @TheEarl777
    @TheEarl777 2 роки тому +2

    That was excellent thanks Simon.
    Particularly liked the sacrifice that involved lighting a fire inside the victim then carrying that flame around. Aztec Olympics

  • @GrubbJunker
    @GrubbJunker 2 роки тому +27

    I remember this weird ritual where you'd go to a place, look around, grab an item, then go in front of this person and say "I'd like to rent this tape, please". The two persons would then exchange this ancient papyrus-like object called "money" for this other ancient item called "tape". After some time, the person would then have to return the precious item to the structure.

    • @thephantomchannel5368
      @thephantomchannel5368 2 роки тому

      That practice was taken over by the cult of the Red Box. I have heard tales that now days you can sacrifice bits of coin to a spider cult known as the dark web.

    • @richardhockey8442
      @richardhockey8442 2 роки тому +6

      the temple 'buster of blocks' - where the ritual invocation 'be kind, rewind' could often be heard

    • @victoriahunter4684
      @victoriahunter4684 Рік тому

      I remember this ritual

  • @shaktipriestess2553
    @shaktipriestess2553 2 роки тому +3

    Traced my ancestors to the Scythians. To honor their leader they buried women, pets, etc. ate their own when they past, and drunk from the skulls of their enemies! My husband’s face when I mentioned this!

  • @frednone
    @frednone 2 роки тому +8

    I came across a story once, and I will be the first to admit that a story might be all it is, but, supposedly a local leader went to the Imperial Governor of the region to complain when Sati was banned.
    The Governor was somewhat perplexed and asked, "Why do you want to go around and burn people alive?"
    "It's our tradition," the local leader said.
    "Hmm, I see," the governor replied. "Traditions are important, we have one back in England where we hang people who burn other people alive.
    "So by all means follow your tradition, then we'll follow ours."

    • @arcotroll8530
      @arcotroll8530 2 роки тому +1

      It's most likely a story since I've heard variations of it in other places and cultures. It might have some basis in truth though, as in one real incident occured that went along these lines and it's legend spread around the world.

    • @greenanubis
      @greenanubis 2 роки тому +3

      Fuck*ng horrifying, yet completely understandable to hear that from the average human. In my parts we have a saying: "Better for the village to die than its tradition..."

  • @seanmalloy7249
    @seanmalloy7249 2 роки тому +1

    6:40 If I remember my reading, that would be "shyoo-teh-koot-lee".

  • @PhotogNT
    @PhotogNT 2 роки тому +2

    I remember seeing a documentary that included the entombing an Abbot, who willingly had himself entombed alive in the foundations of an Abby somewhere on the west coast of either Scotland or Ireland in the early years of Christianity.
    I have no idea if it really happened, however, I have found that the more more bizarre the story the more likely it is to have happened.

  • @xplainjade
    @xplainjade 2 роки тому +3

    I'm liking the more comfortable Simon. And I'm also liking the new beard cut. And then you see the pre recorded show... Beard's back...

  • @kaiying74
    @kaiying74 2 роки тому +2

    Oh Simon. You had me at Viewer Discretion.

  • @anngo4140
    @anngo4140 2 роки тому

    @5:04 there are rumors of the same morbid practice happening in Vietnam, most recently with a very famous apartment complex in HCMC in the 90s.

  • @PeachM0de
    @PeachM0de 2 роки тому +3

    Yes Simon, almost two weeks after recording we’re finally seeing this one.

  • @seakr9838
    @seakr9838 2 роки тому +108

    Were the husbands burned on the pyre of their dead wives? No? I thought not.

    • @AmericanBadger87
      @AmericanBadger87 2 роки тому +28

      Woman have historically been less valuable in most cultures, I don’t understand how this is surprising looking at the world we are in and what horrors still happen in some corners.

    • @amberkat8147
      @amberkat8147 2 роки тому

      No, because the all-important thing was the purity of the women. They couldn't remarry because if the bride wasn't a virgin when she married her husband would have no guarantee a child she conceived was his (I guess they locked up or restricted the women a lot, otherwise they'd have no confidence in that anyway), and caring for them would be a burden- so the solution was to kill them. They'd literally rather kill them than run the SLIGHTEST risk of being cuckolded. Maybe there was also an aspect of making sure the husbands were happy in the afterlife, but either way, it revolved solely around male concerns.

    • @joycebarricella3050
      @joycebarricella3050 2 роки тому +2

      Why not!!!!!!

    • @tpl608
      @tpl608 2 роки тому +5

      Guya are smarter. ;-)

    • @jeffduvall2279
      @jeffduvall2279 2 роки тому +5

      you can get a new wifex

  • @christopherfriend7402
    @christopherfriend7402 2 роки тому

    Just signed up for Morning Brew. Cheers.

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 2 роки тому +5

    🤫 1:58 to skip the ads 😉

  • @KingAlucard323
    @KingAlucard323 2 роки тому +1

    Simon Whistler aka Fact Boy is slowly taking over UA-cam with his influence and we will not rest until he has all the channels!!! lol good work Simon and cast you guys are amazing and keep me going most days!! much love from Oregon state!!!! long time fact boy fan!!!

  • @denisestinnett8904
    @denisestinnett8904 2 роки тому +19

    Would they throw the husband on the fire if the wife died? No, I don’t think so which is why it took so long to outlaw.

  • @missraydesigns
    @missraydesigns 2 роки тому

    Sometimes i watch a random youtube video and half expect you to just show up with another channel because you Simon, are fricken awesome *clap clap*

  • @gawaineross6119
    @gawaineross6119 2 роки тому +3

    Hindu widows had almost no social standing. They had no rights to any property. Good sons cared for their mother, but it wasn't required. A widow could go work in a temple as a sex worker, but this avenue wasn't open to high class women. Widows had few choices.

  • @steel8231
    @steel8231 2 роки тому +2

    Aren't they still occasionally finding kids buried under the corner stones of houses from like the 1600s in the UK?

  • @hollieBlu303
    @hollieBlu303 2 роки тому

    Shoe-teh-coot-li...yeah...had to look that one up. Just....wow! Another badass video btw. Thanks again for owning UA-cam!

  • @johnmichael9713
    @johnmichael9713 2 роки тому +2

    Two and a half minutes of advertisement, followed by eleven minutes of actual content, and another minute of advertising. Also interrupted by youtubes' own advertising. Not worth it.

    • @stanmans
      @stanmans 2 роки тому

      He lost me at the 1 minute point. I think he likes to hear himself talk

    • @julianne_warren
      @julianne_warren 2 роки тому

      A lot of ads can be filtered out by Adblock, but many youtubers use those annoying ads that are part of the video. 2 mins is a bit extreme, downvote. Personally, I mute the sound and move the bar until I reach the end of the ad. But I will make a note to myself which products and companies I will avoid in the future and will recommend to people around me not use them either. Seems to be a common practise more so every year.
      Nobody likes to be spoonfed bs ads. If the content is great, people will donate to the youtuber freely.

  • @Poillip
    @Poillip Рік тому +1

    "The past was the worst" i'm stealing that

  • @Yuzzirpski
    @Yuzzirpski 2 роки тому +1

    the ad about morning brew being better than coffee hurt me

  • @ryanroberts1104
    @ryanroberts1104 2 роки тому +1

    "Bob - I'm gonna need you to work some overtime on that project. Remember the post we were going to use? Now you're the post"

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr 2 роки тому

      "Look on the bright side. Your hard work wouldn't go unnoticed... until said post falls down, then well..." 🤷

  • @anabenko9395
    @anabenko9395 2 роки тому

    Hello from Balkans,Croatia.You did a good job reading a serbian name.
    Love all your chanels.

  • @kyrirhcp
    @kyrirhcp 4 місяці тому

    At 9:00 it reminds me of the way they celebrate Easter in Greece, where the priest will announce that Jesus was resurrected by saying "here receive the light (or knowledge)" and everyone will light their candles on a flame shared by the church and others then carry that home to be kept alight. The way religions all tied up and had the same traditions is fascinating.

  • @valeriejames4675
    @valeriejames4675 2 роки тому +1

    "It's not coffee. It's something better!"
    *HERESY DETECTED*

  • @tealablu3759
    @tealablu3759 2 роки тому +4

    Man, you didn’t bring up thesmophoria ☹️ I wanted to hear about Greek women making penis bread and sacrificing pigs and sobbing and punching each other while cursing 😂😂😂😂
    (At least that’s what I remember from my college friend’s project that I was an actress for) (I also was the scholar analyzing the festival and concluded that it was aliens before she told me to stick to the script 😂😂😂)

  • @andyyang3029
    @andyyang3029 2 роки тому

    Came back to watch this one again, so interesting and so dark 😎😎😎 do more like this!!!

  • @anti-Russia-sigma
    @anti-Russia-sigma 2 роки тому +1

    The Aztecs celebrated their New Years by sacrificing stuff & not sleeping.Today’s humans celebrate New Year by sacrificing time & not sleeping.I now see the similiarities between us & the Aztecs.

  • @christopherjagels5240
    @christopherjagels5240 2 роки тому +1

    Good morning Simon, and away we go!

  • @auntbee6993
    @auntbee6993 2 роки тому +2

    Can mortuary cannibalism be a future topic please?

  • @rrr00bb1
    @rrr00bb1 2 роки тому

    For a modern example: It is suggested that Imelda Marcos engineered some fatal construction accidents while building a cinema.

  • @ThatBonzaLife
    @ThatBonzaLife 9 місяців тому

    Hi Simon, can you do a video on eternal flames around the world.

  • @dougallee7066
    @dougallee7066 2 роки тому +1

    Peter and Iona Opie, in their magisterial Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, theorise that the jolly old song 'London Bridge is Falling Down' testifies to this practice of architectural human sacrifice. The bridge falls down over over and over again, whatever the quality of the materials used, until we "Set a man to watch it o'er".

  • @robpeabo509
    @robpeabo509 2 роки тому +7

    People can be so barbaric, sadly they still are. We have seen that on the news, Simon's various channels and probably experienced it ourselves.

  • @ackermanlol
    @ackermanlol 2 роки тому +6

    You should just put google translate's pronounciation of names to put yourself out of this misery 😂

    • @zaranea7920
      @zaranea7920 2 роки тому +1

      Pssssh stop giving him ideas. I basically live on Simon struggling to pronounce thing. On one misspronounciation of "effortlessly" i can feast for days :V

    • @mikdan8813
      @mikdan8813 2 роки тому +1

      He's an Anglo. He would be unable to repeat those pronunciations even if he heard them

  • @techfixr2012
    @techfixr2012 2 роки тому +11

    Simon puts out more videos than I have time to watch. Lol

    • @lynnmitzy1643
      @lynnmitzy1643 2 роки тому +1

      how many channels can one Simon have???

  • @ChopBassMan
    @ChopBassMan 2 роки тому

    ..."the pah-st was the wuhrst" brings a smile to my face every time I'm having a crappy day.

  • @XenoGen3sis
    @XenoGen3sis 2 роки тому

    Wasn’t Prometheus the Greek Titan who gave fire to the mortals? Not what ever name he said at 6:18

    • @lorinzylks4254
      @lorinzylks4254 2 роки тому

      He said Prometheus, it was just pronounced strangely

  • @EricHonaker
    @EricHonaker 2 роки тому +17

    Should have included some of the European examples, like immurement or anchorites.

    • @boudicaastorm4540
      @boudicaastorm4540 2 роки тому

      There were definitely a lot of nasty punishments/executions for Europeans accused of witchcraft, I know that's one good example. Idk if some people would call them 'rituals,' but things like that certainly happened often enough to be disturbing.
      Also, how hundreds, if not thousands, of people would show up to watch public executions in western Europe and cheer on the executioners. And sometimes attempt to drink the blood from beheaded people.

    • @sistermadrigalmorning233
      @sistermadrigalmorning233 2 роки тому +2

      Anchorites still exist, though 100% voluntarily. (I don't know if it ever wasn't voluntary, tbh, though I know becoming a nun often wasn't in the past. But anchorites had a window to talk to people through and an involuntary one would just be begging to leave one would think.)

  • @nichhodge8503
    @nichhodge8503 2 роки тому +1

    First time I became aware of the Hindu practice of burning widows alive was from the Willy Fogg cartoon in the 1980’s

  • @chrissirvid5845
    @chrissirvid5845 2 роки тому

    Always interesting, informative and entertaining 👍 team

  • @tysongrey5823
    @tysongrey5823 9 місяців тому

    I really like your story telling. I've been watching this sort of content for about 2yrs. Started when I found MrBallen. He's grown from about 1.1m to 8.4m in this time.
    Then there's Thoughty2 and Why Files, both equally great but in their very different presentation aspects. Then there's your channel that I have recently stumbled upon.
    I have faith that I will see the same growth from your channel over the months to come ❤🎉😊

  • @andyyang3029
    @andyyang3029 2 роки тому +7

    Viewer discretion for sure 😃 who came up with these in the first place? Construction isn't going to schedule, bury someone in the walls 😳

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому +1

      Okay, I'll sacrifice my wife!
      Legend

    • @grumpyoldman6767
      @grumpyoldman6767 2 роки тому

      It might be good at keeping the contractor on schedule…

  • @DanteTheAbyssalBeing
    @DanteTheAbyssalBeing 2 роки тому +19

    It's pretty interesting seeing just how imaginative and downright stupid religious ideas were throughout our history. Thank the non-existent deities we don't sacrifice people anymore.

    • @thevastexpanse3530
      @thevastexpanse3530 2 роки тому +4

      I have 0 doubt that human sacrifices still happen in todays age

    • @bartolomeothesatyr
      @bartolomeothesatyr 2 роки тому +1

      Every person who dies of preventable illness because they can't afford health insurance is a sacrifice to Mammon, metaphorically speaking.

    • @DonnaBarrHerself
      @DonnaBarrHerself 2 роки тому

      Texas is gleefully working up the murder of pregnant women.

    • @cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
      @cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 2 роки тому +1

      @@thevastexpanse3530 They do in Benin, and I'm sure many other places. People have committed ritual human sacrifice in modern day America, thankfully most have been caught and imprisoned. It's happened in Europe, too.

    • @DanielBrown-sn9op
      @DanielBrown-sn9op 2 роки тому +2

      How about you ask a Christian who they believe God is, and what is God like? You will find that these horrific ideas are/were our own, not Gods.

  • @PatClevenger0709
    @PatClevenger0709 Рік тому

    Is it bad that I listen to you in the background while I'm working, Simon?

  • @Nick-fh4wd
    @Nick-fh4wd 2 роки тому +1

    Just a random thought but do you think the bodies of MASTER MASONS were used in the foundations of important structures?? Possibly even willingly? Like an arranged burial circumstance made prior to their natural death.

  • @deniseroe5891
    @deniseroe5891 2 роки тому +12

    I feel your pain in the pronunciation of the Meso-American civilization’s. I have been there numerous times and can’t pronounce the names until I repeat then over and over. The “X” is usually silent.

    • @k33k32
      @k33k32 2 роки тому +4

      Nahuatl pronunciations are tricky for us westerners sometimes. I have found X to be pronouced as Sh...for instance Xipe Totec (god of spring and regeneration) is pronounced: "Sheepay Toe tek" Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire mentioned in this video is pronounced: "Shoota cootly"

    • @seanmalloy7249
      @seanmalloy7249 2 роки тому +1

      @@k33k32 More 'sh-you' than 'shoo', jammed together into one syllable, but that's close enough for legibility.

    • @HorrorHermitofHell
      @HorrorHermitofHell 2 роки тому +1

      Had to look in the comments as I'd heard this pronounced before but looking at it in written format I was like saywhaaaatlacootie

  • @CarbonatedGravy
    @CarbonatedGravy 6 місяців тому

    11:04 “At Lahore I saw a most beautiful young widow sacrificed, who could not, I think, have been more than twelve years of age”
    My god where do I even begin?

  • @jameshall4382
    @jameshall4382 10 місяців тому

    I find it amazing that lots of ancient cultures got the years length spot-on.
    I know, they weren't dumb, but still.

  • @ralphhuttner4589
    @ralphhuttner4589 2 роки тому

    This was only scratching the surface of this topic.

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 2 роки тому

    Good video 👍

  • @arizonatsunami
    @arizonatsunami 2 роки тому +2

    Does Simon use the same 10 facial expressions for every thumbnail? lol

  • @jonofthehill
    @jonofthehill 8 місяців тому

    "The past was the worst" needs a T shirt if it doesn't have one already.

  • @ericknutson8679
    @ericknutson8679 2 роки тому +3

    Die Hard, the best Xmas movie

  • @ryanziller220
    @ryanziller220 2 роки тому

    6:40 That reaction from a European sums up the 'brutal' disrespect shown to the native peoples of the 'Americas'. Superb! Racism with excellent timing from that man.

  • @highwind4559
    @highwind4559 2 роки тому +3

    Whistler, you mad genius, you! Thanks for teaching us about the things that school never dared to touch. ❤

    • @nothingnobody1454
      @nothingnobody1454 2 роки тому

      I finally know what the new addition to my house needs: a human pillar

    • @andrewtime2994
      @andrewtime2994 2 роки тому

      Learned about the Aztecs in High School (USA). A book in the reading curriculum, I think.

  • @mb5o
    @mb5o Рік тому +1

    The horrible stuff that people did/do in the name of religion and gods. If they had buried/sacrificed the priests, or whoever decided that a human sacrifice was needed, the practice would been very short lived.

  • @littlewillowlinda
    @littlewillowlinda 2 роки тому +1

    Is that where the flaming heart thing came from? O.o i knew about all of these practices bc i was an art history student. You get to see all the most painful and joyous parts of a society through their art, that's for sure.

  • @davelack553
    @davelack553 2 роки тому

    6:41 Yeah, you get a free pass on that one Simon.