Mr. Nicky on Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Mythology: Funny musical parodies (informative!)

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"Egyptian Mythology" comes out on top both as an overview of key aspects of that polytheistic ontology and as a parody of a music track that deserves to be mercilessly ridiculed, "Despasito (Remix)" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, ft. Justin Bieber.  Regarding the first objective, our current cultural context renders a clarification more important than it ought to be.  New age spiritualists nowadays overwhelmingly assert that ancient Egyptian mythology plays the role of first religion, that is, of first source or foundation, to present day religions worldwide.  This is false.  All contemporary theisms and deisms are rooted in a single occult ontology, and that system is the Zodiac, the birthplace of which is Mesopotamia.  Newspapers everywhere waste a page on a daily basis to con people with coy fortunetelling that nonetheless ends up having some effect by conditioning people into certain directions by virtue of repetition and co-occurrence alone.  The endless conditioning is the reason why leaders around the world still seek out "occult" sources of knowledge as these may provide means to move people without the people being moved knowing why they do whatever it is that they end up doing.

Mr. Nicky had already done a video back in 2016 called "Ancient Egypt" (embedded below), a   The title of the video follows the naming script that Mr. Nicky has chosen from the very beginning, I had not previously shared it because it is not historically on par with his other videos.  Like his other videos, it narrows down what would otherwise be potentially endless sets of history lessons concerning the main aspects of a civilization by focusing on one or two of its central - or representative - figures.  However, in the particular case of the video embedded below, the figure chosen is of little overall importance to the history of the society that is the subject matter.  Thus, I share it with you all now only because he mostly overcame this shortcoming by making the second video "Egyptian Mythology".  Still pretty funny though...

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"Ancient Egypt" is set to the tune of "Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5, making a depiction of something that no longer moves all the more hilarious.  Enjoy!

In Ancient Egypt's pyramidal structured society, the Pharaoh
deemed, treated, and revered as an incarnated deity,
 was at the top whilst farmers and slaves made up the bottom.

If you enjoyed that as much as I do, feel free to move on to other musical remakes / history primers by Mr. Nicky by clicking below:

Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome




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If you have a taste for musing on history, the links below will take you to all the posts related to the subject that have appeared on Cognitive Dynamics.  Some of these posts are more serious than others.  Most, but not all, include informative animated synopsis of important historical events. if not whole documentaries on the matter.  All in all, you may find that browsing through these is not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

How many Democracies are there today?

Borders Change: Short history primers on the Napoleonic Wars and the Unification Of Germany and Italy

Primer on Roman History: The Punic Wars, the conflicts that defined our world forever

Who were the Ancient Greeks?

Primer on Roman History: The Punic Wars, the conflicts that defined our world forever

A large part of understanding ourselves is being aware of the history that underlies the structures, symbols, and institutions that surround us, that we actively internalize (even if unaware), and that continually condition us to be a certain way and not another.  If you have some idea of how the brain works, you also know that the way us human beings presently behave is due in large part to the cultural evolution that has given way to the contexts that engulf us.

Our world would not be as it is without the Punic Wars having gone the way that they did. These massive, epic wars were fought between a Roman Republic that didn't yet control even all of Italy and a Carthage, settled by Phoenicians, that had an Empire that stretched through half of the north African shore, southern Spain, and the many islands just west of the Italian peninsula.

The following four short, animated videos provide an engaging account of all the elements that make the Punic Wars so engaging and so important.  Enjoy!

(For Mobile Users that may not be able to see the videos embedded below, please go to the following links: 1) Rome: The Punic Wars I  2) Rome: The Punic Wars II  3) Rome: The Punic Wars III  4) Rome: The Punic Wars IV)

Please see this Ancient Rome Song for a much shorter, musical historical primer of ancient Roman history.

Know yourself!

Ancient Rome song by Mr. Nicky

Chronological Timeframe of Ancient Rome, portraying the territorial extension

of the Roman Empire under the Rule of Octavian Augustus Caesar,

a time in history known as the Pax Romana, which is the theme

of the Mr. Nicky "Ancient Rome" video below.

The following is a fun, history primer on the days of the Augustian Pax Romana.  The song is a parody of "Thirft Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz.

I have posted elsewhere history primer parodies by Mr. Nicky, specifically on Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece.

I hope you enjoy the video below as much as I have... over and over again  :)

For Mobile users who cannot see the video above, here is Ancient Rome by Mr. Nicky.

Ancient Mesopotania Song by Mr. Nicky

UPDATED:Thanks to my own direct request to Mr. Nicky, he uploaded the original video, which cut off halfway.  Therefore, I have replaced the lyrics only video with the original filled with all sorts of informative visual imagery.



Many of the ideas we have today come from Ancient Mesopotamia.  This is particularly true in the spiritual or religious realm (e.g., think Zodiac) and in the domain of politics and history (e.g., think Empires).  The following is a brief and fun primer concerning the Ancient Mesopotamia.

The Hierophant, one of the most important

of the Major Arcana in Tarot decks.

A proper Tarot deck shows the Hierophant

with two fingers pointing towards the sky,

two towards the ground, and his thumb

toward himself.  There is another, lesser card,

that has the same hand expression.  Find it.

I wont spoil the surprise.

I have posted elsewhere historical primer parodies by Mr. Nicky, specifically on Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece.

This particular primer is set to the beat of "Crank Dat" by Soulja Boy Tell'em.

Enjoy!

For mobile users who cannot see the video above, here is Ancient Mesopotamia by Mr. Nicky.

Who were the Ancient Greeks?

Strange ritualistic lifestyles dotted the landscape of the Ancient Greek wide array of cultures.  The following BBC documentary provides a glimpse at many different facets of Ancient Greek life that seem strange to us now.  Though long, these videos are definitely worth watching.

For Mobile users who cannot see the video above, here is Who were the Ancient Greeks?  Part 1.

For Mobile users who cannot see the video above, here is Who were the Ancient Greeks?  Part 2.