The Golden One - April 08, 2020


The Celts by Peter Berresford Ellis. Book Review. Warfare and Degeneracy


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In this episode I review The Celts by Peter Beresford Ellis. This book is a brief history of the Celtic peoples and gives a brief introduction to that time period. I discuss the role of the Celts in the Roman invasion of Gaul under Julius Caesar and how they were treated by the Romans. I also discuss the lack of discipline and central authority in the Celtic armies and how this could be applied to modern times.

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00:00:00.000 Greetings, my esteemed subscribers. Today I am back with yet another book review.
00:00:08.340 I have read The Celts by Peter Beresford Ellis. Now, I actually read this last year but I kept
00:00:14.340 some notes because I thought at one stage I would make a video talking about the lessons of this
00:00:20.400 book. Now, before I begin to elaborate on said book I would like to aware you all of the fact
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00:01:24.080 Patreon and Subscribestar. So check it out. First links in the description and I will hopefully see
00:01:29.780 you there. Now, anyway, on to the Celts. And as it says, it's a brief history of the Celts. It's not
00:01:38.460 overly thick. It's quite concise. And, you know, it gives a good introduction. If you want to delve
00:01:45.620 deeper into any particular area, there are, of course, plenty of other books. But this was
00:01:49.940 recommended to me to just give, you know, introduction to that time period. And I have a few
00:02:00.020 sections here in the book which I would like to elaborate on because I think that can...
00:02:05.980 It's a lesson from history that is applicable at our current stage in our civilization.
00:02:12.760 So first and foremost, in the chapter of Celtic Warriors, here you have Cernunnos. I don't know
00:02:22.020 if I even pronounced that correctly, but I posted actually this picture to Jotunheim Nutrition's
00:02:26.620 Instagram page the other day. If you're on Instagram, you can follow me there as well or
00:02:31.160 follow the supplement company. I tried to post a bit about mythology, etc. Primarily Nordic,
00:02:37.460 but also Celtic and Slavic and, you know, interesting stuff. So, yeah, anyway, on to the quote.
00:02:46.460 To the Celts, warfare was a matter of honor, which could begin and end in a personal single 0.71
00:02:52.000 combat. It was often a matter of individual courage. Generally, the Celts were not interested 0.92
00:02:57.460 in central authority and discipline. They thought and acted as individuals and were natural
00:03:03.960 anarchists. In modern times, these attributes are seen as laudable. In ancient times, they
00:03:10.960 were the reason for the downfall of the Celtic peoples.
00:03:15.960 Does this sound familiar to you? It sounds very familiar to me. You know, it's the curse of the
00:03:22.740 Western man, this constant individualism. Everyone wants to be his own boss and no one wants to
00:03:28.480 subjugate himself to a hierarchy or authority. And, you know, in comes someone who works as a collective,
00:03:35.480 completely demolishes the people at hand. So he's talking about the Roman invasion of Gaul, you know,
00:03:41.880 Romans under the blasphemous Julius Caesar. I don't like Caesar. I will talk about this in a later
00:03:48.420 video. But briefly, I don't like him because of the way he treated Vercingetorix. I think it was
00:03:52.860 completely unnecessary to treat Vercingetorix with the lack of respect. You know, if you have won a
00:03:58.640 great victory, you can show some humility because then you can afford, you don't need to humiliate a
00:04:04.240 vanquished foe. So basically what happened was that when Vercingetorix surrendered to Caesar,
00:04:11.380 he was brought to Rome and was held captive there until Caesar had completed his conquest of Gaul.
00:04:17.800 And upon the return of Caesar to Rome, when they had their triumph, they brought out Vercingetorix to be 0.81
00:04:25.620 executed, basically. So not a particularly glorious and honorable end. If I had been Caesar, I would have
00:04:32.040 perhaps executed him with honor directly or come up with some other solution. But the way it was
00:04:39.900 handled now is not something I can endorse. That's another video, though, just throwing it out there.
00:04:45.640 I'm not a fan of Julius Caesar. Now, anyway, point being, the Celts, the Gauls, fought, as it says,
00:04:52.080 as individuals. The Romans came in with their, you know, military hierarchy, military discipline and
00:04:58.560 conquered the Gauls. So think of that today. All libertarians, at this moment in time, we can't
00:05:06.920 afford to be all too individualistic. We need to work as a collective if we are to overcome the
00:05:13.540 challenges that our great civilization stands in the midst of. So anyway, that was one worthy lesson.
00:05:24.260 Another worthy lesson, or something I thought was interesting, at least. It's also the aforementioned
00:05:32.960 Julius Caesar. And I quote from the book here. However, Caesar goes overboard when he says of the
00:05:40.720 British Celts. And this is a quote from Caesar then. Wives are shared between groups of 10 or 12 men,
00:05:47.320 especially between brothers and between fathers and sons. But offspring of these unions are counted as
00:05:53.440 the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first. And then the author,
00:06:02.260 so Peter Beresford Ellis, continues.
00:06:04.640 This is a total misrepresentation of the polygamous society of the early Celts. The Romans seemed 0.97
00:06:11.120 preoccupied with a liberated attitude of the early Celts. Dio Cassius comments on the fact that
00:06:18.080 the Empress Julia Augusta criticized what she saw as a lack of morals in the way Celtic women were free to 0.96
00:06:26.560 choose their husbands and lovers and did so openly without subterfuge. The object of her criticism
00:06:32.960 was the wife of a North British chieftain named Argen Tokoxos. No idea if I pronounced that correctly,
00:06:40.620 but yeah, a British chieftain at least. The encounter took place early in the 3rd century AD.
00:06:48.140 According to Dio Cassius, the wife of Argen Tokoxos, turned to the Empress and replied with dignity.
00:06:56.940 We Celtic women obey the demands of nature in a more moral way than the women of Rome. We consort
00:07:03.560 openly with the best men, but you of Rome allow yourselves to be debauched in secret by the vilest.
00:07:11.720 It is not recorded how the Empress reacted. So yeah, they're having a bit back and forth,
00:07:16.920 the British Celtic women and the Roman women on who is more degenerate basically. And there is 0.99
00:07:23.720 something to be said here about conquering others and finding it just cause for war, it just cause for 1.00
00:07:31.880 colonization, etc. And that is, if you have an immoral people, if you have a people who are degenerate,
00:07:38.600 you know, as Caesar says, these Gauls, these Celts, they share wives between 10 men. You obviously feel
00:07:46.200 a disgust in your body just hearing that. Now, Caesar lied. It was not the case that the Celts had this
00:07:51.720 sort of unnatural family constellations, but he says this to justify his own conquest because no one likes
00:07:59.480 promiscuity, basically. And that is also used as an excuse to conquer a people. So if we take today's
00:08:08.440 example, if you have Muslims on one hand who have maybe a stricter moral code than our contemporary
00:08:17.880 Western liberals have, you know, it can be seen as a just cause to bring Islam or bring some more moral 0.89
00:08:27.640 moral guideline to these degenerates. Same thing here. You know, they say the other side is more
00:08:35.720 degenerate to prove their own moral superiority. And if you have a moral advantage, you have a better 0.91
00:08:42.840 claim to your own independence. So it's almost like the Romans say, you know, you're degenerates, 0.80
00:08:48.440 we need to conquer you. The British say you and Rome are the true degenerates because you, 0.95
00:08:55.480 and I quote again, I thought it was a fun quote here. You allow yourself to be, you allow yourself
00:09:03.160 to be debauched in secret by the vilest. And you know, the Romans were quite degenerate, especially 1.00
00:09:08.760 towards the end of the Roman Empire. So yeah, important lesson. Don't be degenerate. Then I have
00:09:17.160 another little thing I thought was interesting here. So another passage here. Like their fellow
00:09:25.880 Indo-Europeans, the Hindus, the Celts regarded water with veneration and they had their sacred rivers.
00:09:33.720 They bathed in them and offered votive gifts to the deities of the springs and rivers. These
00:09:40.600 offerings included wooden models of themselves or the affected part of their limbs together with all
00:09:46.680 manner of treasures. Most Celtic river names are identified with goddesses. The Marne, for example,
00:09:54.280 comes from Matrona, which means mother. So yeah, I thought that was a, you know, a nice little
00:10:02.840 thing to know. The sacredness of waters and the shared similarities between ancient religions.
00:10:12.040 Now, of course, if any Indian men of power are watching this, you need to clean up your rivers. 1.00
00:10:17.960 It's sacrilegious to pollute them so much. But anyway, this is not a video about such sad matters. I'm just
00:10:26.040 throwing it out there. If you believe in a religion who views rivers etc as holy, you can't pollute them.
00:10:33.640 Now on to the last thing in the book I thought was worthy of mentioning is the following. And I quote
00:10:41.000 from the book, they also noticed that the motions of the moon could in some cases affect men and women
00:10:47.320 and their mental attitudes. From these initial observations, they developed a belief that the
00:10:52.920 motions of what were then thought of as stars influenced individuals and events on earth.
00:10:59.880 So what you're talking also about here is the moon. And this, of course, correlates with something I have
00:11:07.800 written about and talked a little bit about. And I thought to, yeah,
00:11:13.880 tie it into what they're talking about here. Full moon can alter your...
00:11:18.840 And this might be a bit... I don't have any exact scientific study. I have looked at some studies
00:11:25.800 that says that there are more violent crime during full moon. These were two British studies.
00:11:31.400 You can google them if you want. So here is one study titled full moon and crime. And you can see in
00:11:38.920 the abstract here that the incidents of crimes reported to three police stations in different towns,
00:11:45.480 one rural, one urban, one industrial, was studied to see if it varied with the days of the lunar cycle.
00:11:52.680 The incident of crimes committed on full moon days were much higher than on all other days. I can link
00:11:59.400 this in the description box below as well. But anyway, I've noticed on myself that I am a bit stronger
00:12:05.960 during full moon, that I have, you know, prepared exactly the same. I have actually tested this. I did this
00:12:13.240 last year. So I did deadlifts on as many full moons as I could and compared it to the non-full moon
00:12:19.880 deadlifting sessions. And I noticed there was a difference. I couldn't explain it in any other way
00:12:25.640 than it was full moon. Then, of course, it could have been a bit of placebo as well. That, you know,
00:12:29.800 I thought now is full moon, so now I will be extra strong. But there might be something in it. There
00:12:35.320 might be something that ties into the legends of werewolves as well. You know, that you have
00:12:41.560 men transforming into werewolves during full moon because it alters your mentality a bit. And you can
00:12:49.080 think about this yourself. Do you have problems sleeping during full moon? You might be a bit more
00:12:53.480 agitated. I know I am. I have a harder time sleeping in full moon. So, yeah, that is interesting to,
00:12:59.800 you know, many different cultures have this relationship with a moon, with a full moon.
00:13:06.840 Something primordial. Also, I will admit when I created the
00:13:11.640 Varulvsbrygd, which means werewolves brew. So the pre-workout, it was intended to take during full
00:13:17.800 moons. Then, of course, you can take it every day if you want, just that it's quite high in
00:13:23.080 caffeine. So, but yeah, I wanted to invoke that feel of, you know, you transform into a werewolf
00:13:29.240 during full moon, become extra aggressive, have a really good session in the temple of iron,
00:13:33.880 make the most out of the ancient knowledge we can derive from cultures and mythologies. So,
00:13:42.920 full moon, deadlift. And I will make a wild hunt video on it, you know, where I encourage you to
00:13:48.280 deadlift during full moon. But I will do it when the corona pandemic is over and we can all get back
00:13:54.520 to the gym. So anyway, that was just some thoughts I picked up while reading this. Otherwise, yeah,
00:14:00.600 it's a really good introduction. It talks about quite a lot of different things, agriculture,
00:14:06.520 societal issues, relations, wars, everything. So yeah, I can recommend it if you're interested in
00:14:13.560 in the Celts. So, thank you for watching and have a great rest of your day. XOXO, BOO!