Showing posts with label Musical Parodies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musical Parodies. Show all posts

27.4.18

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!




Egyptian Social Hierarchy
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.







25.7.15

The Surface of Light (Lion King Parody)


From Tim Blais, the young physicist who brought us the hilariously informative Bohemian Gravity based on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, comes this little nugget of wisdom that parodies the theme song to Disney's The Lion King.

Whereas Bohemian Gravity explores the specifics of Quantum Physics and String Theory, the video below delves into current projects to understand how light really behaves, an important topic because the prior supposition that the speed of light is a constant has been recently put into doubt, shaking up our current understanding of the universe. 

Instead of Timon and Pumba, this video showcases BICEP2and Planck, two of the bigger current projects that are looking into the history of the universe.



Without further ado, here is A Capella Science's The Surface of Light:



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