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Ammon Hillman puts the power of the language on the table before the grammar starts. The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae counts about one hundred ten million words in Greek and 1.6 million unique word forms, while attested biblical Hebrew holds roughly eight thousand words, a couple thousand of them hapax legomena, words that only show up once. The difference is shown on a single root. Take historia (ἱστορία), remove the vowels, and you are left with the sigma-tau-rho consonant frame; the vowels are tuners that carry meaning while the root stays put. Historia means inquiry and scientific observation, and the verb historeō (ἱστορέω) means to ask the oracle a question.
The same root is then followed through the oistros (οἶστρος) family, where it spells the gadfly. Oistraō (οἰστράω) is to sting, to go mad, to rage, the word that names Io’s frenzy and gives English estrus, and the christ base sits inside this frame: chriō (χρίω) means to touch the surface, to rub or anoint with scented unguents, and to rub or infect with poison into a peplos (πέπλος), a strip of cloth, the way Medea poisons the robe and Heracles is killed by the shirt. The family then compounds: oistrobolē (οἰστροβολή) is the dart of love, oistrophoros the wanderer of frenzy, and oistraplaneia (οἰστραπλανεία) the wandering of madness, the word that exposes Jude’s wandering stars, asteres planētai (ἀστέρες πλανῆται), as cult terminology, and the same root spells the star, aster (ἀστήρ).
The homework is the building block of unit one. The seven vowels are the seven spheres of the cosmos, the diphthongs carry a hidden digamma in the upsilon, and nouns move through five cases: nominative as the subject, genitive as possession, dative as the indirect object, and accusative as the direct object. The first declension shows psychē (ψυχή) bending to psychēs, psychēi, and psychēn, and the drill is the advice John Scarborough gave: thirty minutes a day, because if you stop working Greek it leaks. The closer is Mark 16, where the believer takes up serpents and drinks the thanasima, the death inducers, without harm, the one product the episode finds Jesus endorsing.
Full Video Transcript
Time to work.
Back to the Lady Babylon.
This is Amon Yu tonight, and we have a lot of ground to cover.
We have some places to go that you haven’t been.
I know that it’ll be a little bit uncomfortable for you at times, but you’ll have to stretch to adapt.
Good job.
What I want to bring to you, first of all, is a clip tonight.
Oh, God.
and i want to say thank you to everybody involved with the music and with the videos
with all of the alphabet videos those are fantastic people are pouring in with
with with uh support for pushing forward i totally respect that that takes initiative i respect that
um tonight i want to begin with a little clip from gnostic informant i just want to give you
a taste it’s a kick in your teeth are you ready for some history that you didn’t know are you
ready for some of the dark dark goodness ah some of that anti-matter here we go um chewy i’m gonna
have chewy run this clip right up front right up front hit it according to saint epiphanes
the following passage is from a lost gospel called the greater questions of the mayor jesus took
Mary Magdalene aside and brought her to the top of the mountain. Praying, he produced a woman
from his side. He began to have sex with her. Then, partaking of his omission, he says,
Eat my flesh and drink my blood, thus we must do that we may live. And when Mary was alarmed,
she fell to the ground. He raised her up and said to her, O thou of little faith,
wherefore didst thou doubt and they say that this is the meaning of the gospel if i have told you
earthly things and you believe not how shall you believe in the heavenly things and so when you see
the son of man ascending up where he was before in other words when you see the omission being
partaken of it where it came and then christ said except you eat my flesh and drink my blood one
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven jesus was asking mary to drink his semen and the disciples
were disturbed and replied all right so i wanted you to see that ancient source um fantastic it’s
his epiphanius we’re talking about and epiphanius is gonna be um preserving for us a whole bunch of
the history of early christianity and people like to poo-poo him they like to say oh epiphanius
everything you say is wrong and questionable because oh it’s so disgusting now on the classic
side it’s not so disgusting it’s things that they’re doing in mystery cult so it’s not shocking
and it shouldn’t be taken it should be handled as a source i was reading epiphanius today um
because gnostic mentioned mentioned uh him and uh he says very very very clearly look the pagans
right those greek authors as he talks about them as the greek authors in different fields you know
historiographers etc etc you know it’s very sophisticated good stuff and he says hey um
these greek people you know um they’re always invoking calling upon this muse and um this
muse is an earthly daimon and then he differentiates the muse from the christian daimon
who is called the tyrant and that christian power is um able to do certain things blah blah blah
says epiphanes and then he goes through a list he goes through a list of all of these different
sects oh my god it must be a thousand of those things no it’s not a thousand it’s probably
i don’t know i didn’t count them but it’s dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens so a couple
hundred at least um yeah maybe a hundred maybe a hundred anywho what i want you to notice is one of
them has a gospel one of these christian groups has a gospel where jesus takes mary magdalene
up into the mountain oh god it’s gonna go back from here isn’t it yes it is don’t worry about
it fits right into the mystery but what does mary magdalene do she is forcibly the receptacle
of the haima of jesus for those of you who thought these things are all made up i want you to realize
they’re coming to us right out of the greek right out of the greek and as people begin to see this
and they begin to say, oh my, you know, there’s always that awakening, that moment, that punch
in the face, right? You mean Jesus was up in the mountain with Mary Magdalene? It makes sense about
why they were calling her prostitute and all that kind of stuff like that. It makes sense. Let’s
jump, let’s jump head first, right into some words tonight. Now, Aminu, tonight, technically,
we’re looking we’re starting unit one because everybody hit the alphabet and
we all know it we all know it we can say it now if they stop us and make us to
the alphabet walk lines we can say it don’t do that though um here we go and
unit one and what I want to introduce you to what is unique to almond you that
you won’t get anywhere else is I’m gonna show you how words work in the hands of
great great mother this is gorgeous give me the first one get no give me the first one over the
top over the top beautiful give me the first one here we go before before we get there i need you
to know for reference sake because you’re going to be dealing with people from the biblical study
side and the religious history and that the religious history is a little bit better but
the biblical study side those people are awful and they take the reality and they contort it
And they say there’s a reality that is ours, the Christian reality, and it’s this fairy tale.
And then there’s paganism and everything else, right?
And the two are not the same thing.
They’re differentiating between two people walking down the same Roman sidewalk.
Oh, God, what lies.
We’re going to get rid of the first linguistic lie tonight.
As you’re sitting here in Ammon, you and you are entering into the study of ancient Greek.
I want you to realize what ancient Greek is.
What does it say to you?
It says, how many words did ancient Hebrew have?
Because the biblical studies people are going to be throwing Hebrew at you.
It’s completely irrelevant, completely, historically irrelevant.
It is a lie, a language of fabrication.
How do we know that?
Look, look, how many words did ancient Hebrew have?
according to the Gilad Zuckerman. The number of attested biblical Hebrew words is 8,198,
of which some 2,000 are hapoxlegomena. The number of biblical Hebrew roots on which many of these
words are based is around 2,000. Okay, bear that in mind. Bear that in mind. Ready? Hit me with the
TLG. This is the Thesaurus Lingua Graecae. It’s a program that was put together when I was in
graduate school had nothing to do with it right and it’s able to search you’re able to be able to
to do searches on specific words and find all the examples of where they are in the 4 000 plus
authors that we have okay watch the number of greek words in the corpus amounts to 110
million 110 million oh my god you are so beautiful lady greek you are so beautiful 110 million
You can’t even fathom how much thankery has been, while the number of unique word forms,
and this is the one that’s really important. I want you to pay attention as future classical
philologists. I want you to pay attention. Unique word forms is at 1.6 million. How many did we
have in Hebrew? A couple thousand. And of those, there’s a lot of place names and whatnot. So you
only got a few thousand words that have been left behind, right? Through a fabrication process
have been left behind. It’s really unworkable. It’s unworkable. What does the Greek have? It’s
got 1.6 million, okay? 1.6 million unique words. And you are going to start forming those unique
words and i’m going to show you today how to do that are you ready i’m going to flash up a word
boom historia look people how is that spelled iota sigma tau omicron rho iota alpha where is the
accent it’s over the iota it’s historia not historia okay nice and what is that little
looks like the open an open quotation over the iota that is the rough breathing which means
we’re going to add an h sound historia not historia but historia fantastic look look how
gorgeous this is now what does this word mean i want you to look at this word and mentally i want
want you to kill every vowel. What are our vowels here? Yoda, Omicron, Yoda, Alpha. I want you to
kill them. And what do you have left? You have Sigma, Tau, Rho. What is that you say? That doesn’t
seem nice. All the vowels are doing in Greek is tuning the bass, tuning that root, tuning it.
Watch this. Historia. Sigma Tau Rho. This is our root. Go to the next one. And what do we do with
that root? First of all, what does the word Historia mean? Notice they’re going to give you
inquiry right up front, right? Think about this. Think about this. When you’re reading at the third
grade level of the Torah from the Masoretic texts that they back translated in a thousand,
right? Anno Domini. When you’re reading at that third grade level, you’re not going to be able
to get the nuances that you can in the Greek. Watch. Inquiry. Look at under A. Are you ready?
People. People. Systematic or scientific observation. Is that sexy? Is that sexy?
It’s not sheep, right? It’s sexy. It’s not sheep. It’s sexy. Oh, God, look at it. Linguistic
sexiness. Geometry, talking about in relation to geometry. Knowledge obtained or information,
right? What is that science that we’re going to be using? It’s an attempt to obtain knowledge,
baby. It says on the Temple of Apollo, know yourself. These people are all about gnosis.
They’re all about understanding. And that is what is in the word historia. Now, I tell
all of my Greek students. I tell them, when you’re looking at a word, most of the time,
the overwhelming majority of the time, that word is going to be derived from a verb, from an action.
Not always, but a good majority of the time, go back to the verb. Always go back to the verb
that this word comes from. Next slide. And you’ll see where it’ll give you a kind of a sense.
First of all, what do we have up here?
Look what happened to my word.
It’s like a rabbit.
It had a whole bunch.
Under the fertility god of ancient Greek,
it had a whole bunch of offspring while we were sitting there talking.
Look at these.
Historeo, right at the top there.
Practice, people.
Historeo.
There’s your verb.
There’s your verb.
And you want to know what that verb means?
It means to ask the oracle your question.
Isn’t that gorgeous?
Historema. Historeteon. Historia. You like that? Look, as we’re going through, what are you
noticing as your eyes, as your eyes, you’re moving over these words, are you noticing the same
root? The same root. Look, when we get about halfway down, we have historiografia. What do
you think historiography is if I tell you graph is the root for writing
historiography the very idea now that’s a pretty good word for the SATs you know
I mean that’s a pretty good one this is not one that everybody uses today and a
lot of these Greek words that you’re going to come across that the Anglo
saxon tongue has managed to to hijack um those concepts you’re gonna notice they’re kind of at a
you know it’s kind of at an elevated level technically right what is historiography yes
yes oh love it love it and what else do we have what else do we have here at the bottom
um yeah historian what is a historian that’s a fact baby that’s a fact it’s an incident
it’s reality and occurrence really oh that’s what we our minds going now give me give me some of the
english oh sorry give me the next one here’s the verb people that we’re looking for and i want you
to say it since you’re learning the greek spell it out for me yoda sigma tau omicron rho epsilon
omega historeo and you realize by the way you realize that 730 people this is the biggest
freaking greek class on the planet it’s the biggest ancient greek class on the planet and
for those of you because there’s been so many orders for the greek is put off for a long time
you can’t get these things for a long time there are avenues i want you to mingle with the community
the satanic congregation and i want you to find out how it’s possible for you to for you to be
able to learn this ancient Greek without the privilege of money. Yeah. I want you to find it.
I know there are those of you who are looking. Keep looking, right? Good. Fantastic. Historeo.
How do we say it? Historeo. And funny thing is, the joke’s on all of us because you’re never
going to see this form because those last two vowels are going to get subsumed into one.
They’re going to get, that omega is going to suck that epsilon in.
Greek vowels, ancient Greek vowels are tuners.
They’re tuners.
And some of them have different powers.
And that omega is the ultimate black hole.
It will suck in whatever, whatever, whatever vowel you want to put in there.
Lovely.
Here’s the verb that it comes from, right?
Give me the next one.
Now, what happens?
You say, well, this looks like a totally different word.
Nope, it’s not. What is this? Oystras. Excuse me? Oystras. Did he say estrus? Yes, I did.
This is where we get estrus from. But I want you to notice, kill the vowels and that terminal sigma.
That terminal sigma is just dressing. It’s part of the declension, right? It’s just telling you
what case it is. This is syntax we’re dealing with, baby. We’re going to get into syntax and
I’ll tell you what it is, but it’s just dressing for what it’s doing in the sentence. It’s just
telling you, hey, I’m going to be the subjects in the sentence, right? So it’s not part of the root.
What happens when you kill the vowels? You get sigma, tau, rho. Wait a minute. You mean if I
modify that front vowel that I can change the word? You’re starting to get it. You’re starting
get it you see how they play you see how they play this is music this is freaking music oxford just
did a great bit on reclaiming the aulos on that musical instrument read instrument they did a
fantastic job with notation of music oh god those nerds they’re classicists right this is the kind
of stuff that advances the study, that advances our understanding of history. Theology doesn’t
do that. Theology is not meant to do that. There is no inquiry in theology. You are not meant to
ask a question, right? Hence, hail Satan. Fantastic. Let’s go to the next one. Boom.
Oystrao. Look, here’s another one. Now you can slightly tune it, slightly tune it from the alpha
it to the epsilon and what’s going to happen it’s going to slightly change its meaning yeah now
people in different regions we use different vowels have a propensity to different vowels
okay fine um you’ve got to find register you’ve got to find the place where that word is anchored
and that place is that root sigma tau rho keep thinking sigma tau rho another word this is just
you don’t have to memorize this. I just want you to follow. Everybody should be following the Greek
when it’s individual words. I’m going to give you a giant definition here now. Are you ready?
I want you to see this. Oistrao, the former in plural. Okay, fine. You don’t have to give us
all the… Look, and they give us the beautiful ones in Theocritus. Oh, God. Look at the oistresa.
What does it mean? Properly of the gadfly, the oistrus. It’s to sting, to sting. Look at
definition number two roman numeral number two to go mad and to rage it’s used of io raging that’s
where we get our concept of estrus frenzy frenzy is this a sexual frenzy yes it is yes it is okay
hit me with the next one keep them in the zone watch this people um this is the argument okay
so let me let me step back having just seen what we’re doing we’re working with word bases
and we’re following words through time we’re following definitions though right i’ve got some
ancient definitions for those that i’m going to bring up um look what happens here what have i
got here i’ve got the verb now that the word christ is based in this is the base of christ
and christing what is it now i told you it’s to be stung by that gadfly and everybody says
oh, the biblical scholar Dan McClellan steps up, and what is his refutation of that? His
refutation is, oh, look, he picks the bottom. He picks the bottom definition. You know what?
He didn’t read. Dan, you didn’t read anything between the top and the bottom, and that is not
an academic. You see, that’s not scientific because you picked the bottom one. What are
you talking about? Do you know how to read these definitions, Dan? You don’t. They are marked with
the Greek interior to the definition so that you can follow the word as it develops. Something
Victorian classical philologists gave us that biblical scholars do not learn. Are you ready?
Put your Greek where your mouth is. Put it up there. Blow it up. I want you to look. Look at
number um at the end of the first paragraph to touch the surface of the body is this really a
thing about contact it’s about application look at definition roman numeral number one to rob
anoint with scented unguents is oil okay so you get any idea application some kind of unguents
Are unguents drugs? Yes. In antiquity, unguents are pharmaca. Anything to affect your balance
is going to affect the physiological balance, according to the doctors. It’s going to be
a drug. And look at the third line under Roman numeral number one, at the end of it,
to rub or infect with poison. And they’re talking about a peplos. They’re talking about a piece of
fabric, right? They’re talking about a dress, but some kind of clothing into which you have
impregnated. You have creode something. Do we have examples of all of these taking of poisons and
putting them into clothing? Yes. A very good example is Heracles. Remember, he’s the one who
puts on the shirt that’s full of the poison. What happens to him? It kills him. Remember what Medea
does she poisons that pep loss that that woman wears and hers bursts into flame isn’t that cool
and it’s the the more water you throw on it the just it just it just eats the water
it’s like some kind of napalm naughty people oh god and um so do we have the impregnation of this
uh of the different strips and bandages and all that kind of stuff sure all of that is there and
all of that is within the definition of christing right right now so you can take your biblical
hebrew scholar and you can set him back and he can say something that’s absurd but you cannot tell
the difference that’s what this class is for for you to be able to tell the difference so that you
don’t get taken out now i want i want to say something i’m i’m going to go ahead and say this
put down you put down your stylus for a minute if we’re in rome we’d be riding with a stylus
and a wax tablet put down your stylus and if and this one christian guy he got murdered by
all students because he was doing nasty stuff but anyway um i want to tell you today they stabbed
him with their stylus isn’t that would that be a terrible way to die um anywho um you know things
get out of hand um what’s going on somebody there was a guest i’m not even going to say the dude’s
name because it’s shameful this is a psa this is a public service announcement okay um there are
people out there who will intellectually lure you into a back alley and they will
they will do things to your brain that you know maybe you didn’t realize at the time that was
going on you can go see a counselor but they could talk it out you know what i mean but they
did things to your brain i saw this happen oh god it was terrible it was terrible it was dark
and it was on joe rogan just yesterday day before um i think it was yesterday’s is when i saw it
um and somebody came on started talking smack about cuneiform now and it was apparent right
away, even to a classicist, a classical philologist. We don’t do cuneiform, but as a
classical philologist, you have to have a certain exposure. So I took an entire semester with
Norman Yoffe, who is one of the world’s premier experts on cuneiform. And it’s amazing to see
an artist at work who actually does the job. It’s humbling. I sat through the whole class
And I was just humbled by the work. Then to see a guy go on Joe Rogan and to give some kind of,
oh God, it always goes back to some kind of profiteering. Yeah, some kind of profiteering.
It’s amazing. And it makes me feel bad because to see people led down that pathway, oh my God,
Shame, shame on people. Shame on people for not executing the skill, but claiming the honor. Shame on you people, Anunnaki. Anunnaki. Y’all ought to be embarrassed. Y’all ought to be embarrassed.
I’ll tell him I’ll tell him what Anunnaki are I’ll tell him tell him that the Greeks show him
shame on you people you know what they were they were people who it says had great knowledge of
the drugs right we just did this and they taught the drugs and how to use it the medicine isn’t
that glorious that’s glorious they were they had it going on people how is it they had so much
going on? I don’t know. Give me the next one. Here, I want to just give you a variation
of all the different forms of, now you can take your oysterus. Now remember, I said oyster mania,
right? The mania, the madness that comes from the gadfly’s sting, right? From the sting.
Here, a whole bunch of different words. I just want you to see them and they’re all based
in the oistrus. This is not a tiny concept in antiquity. This thing is all over the place
before, during the New Testament, and after, flooding the culture. So for Dan McClellan not
to know this, it’s only because Dan McClellan does not read ancient Greek. Give me the next one.
That’s always the weakness. Every biblical scholar you know, take them back to the source.
you can take what i’m giving you everybody here tonight you can take this skill and you can
you can do things to the preachers and the teachers that will um they’ll end up holding
their hands up like uh right oh god it’s gorgeous look at some of these you could be mad and
passionate look oh i’m mad driven by the gadfly mad passion staying in the madness oh it’s staying
oh it hurts give me the next one bring it i just want you to see his chorus look at the bottom
very bottom line this is a genuine chorus right it’s about bacchus’s mother and
why am i bringing in bacchus because you can’t have oysters without bacchus you cannot have a
Christ, without Bacchus. Look at the last line. Oistre feis, Dionusoi. Oistre feis, Dionusoi.
Stung to madness by Dionysus. Next one. I wanted you to see it. I wanted you to see it. I’ve got
it written out. Maybe you don’t need to see it so much anymore, but I wanted you to see it. Go ahead.
there it is remember this phrase people look at this phrase omicron iota sigma tau rho eta theta
epsilon iota sigma oyster face yeah stone and there’s dionysus there’s dionysus okay um it’s
built into the culture so that when i say it and i’m giving you that honest information a guy like
Dan, Dan McClellan from a back alley. He can come in and he can say, hey, I’m going to get touchy
feely. I’m going to put my hands into your brain and I’m going to touch and feel some theology on
you. Yeah, it is. I agree. It’s dishonest at its best. It’s dishonest at its worst. It’s something
that Desaad would do, or write about at least. It’s despicable. How does this stuff get by? I
don’t know. We’re the watchers. I hope they’re not watching. Give me the next one. Oistresis,
mad passion. I just want you to see the word next to this, phrenon, phrenon, and people are going to
say, oh my God, corpus hermeticum, right? When people get all excited and they talk to me about
the hermetic corpus, you know, or they want, I want to talk about it, right? If you haven’t read
that thing in greek you you haven’t gone there please people please understand this is our chance
at a renaissance mad passion look at the friend on that’s a medical one the friend on yeah okay
you’re engaging your friend give me the next one boom boom look at this one this is look at
to smart at the gadfly sting right that kentron that that next word there that that’s the sting
That’s what Paul says. That’s his thorn. It’s the sting that he’s given him. And notice that he says
it’s the sting in my flesh, in my flesh. Can’t stand it, can you? Come here, Timothy. Come here,
Timothy. Lydia, give me some boys, says Paul. Nasty Paul the apostle. Nasty. Bad guy. Hit the next one.
Boom. What is this? Oystroboleo. Look, you can strike something with a sting. What is it used
of? Of the dart of love. Oystroboleo. Now think about this. How difficult would it be in English
to come up with one word that was a striking, stinging dart fired from the God of love?
You’re not going to get that. You’re not going to get that in English. No, you’re not.
anglo-saxons don’t think like that right marching through the bogs baby go back to your bogs hey by
the way um i wanted to just throw out there really quick there’s a really great project that’s being
done um by a guy who goes by the name old boy a-u-l-d-b-o-y and he went to see the purple
that they just found in england right and everybody’s oh right here’s purple there’s
more coming right there’s more prophecy coming um and he’s making excellent videos that are
historically grounded and the reason i mentioned this at amanu is because he has gone through the
intensive greek course yes yeah now he’s at the intermediate level and he’s reading yeah he’s
reading and he will tell you oh god greek it’s so mammoth it’s so huge right the more you the more
you talk to somebody who said more and more greek the more respect they have for the language it is
it is endless like this we’re talking about we’re dealing with one root tonight can you believe that
oh god hit us with the next one chewy hit us with the next one oistradenato driven round and round
by the gadfly do you feel do you feel people like sometimes you got oyster you’re oistradenetic
Think about that word.
How are we going to do that in English?
My brain is out of the influence.
You see, it does.
It all matters.
As you’re being grown as a child, it all matters what language you’re speaking.
It matters.
Look what they got to with Mother Greek.
Look what they got to.
All of your science, driven round and round by the gadfly.
Give me the next one.
I want to keep hitting this.
Look, oistrophoros.
Now, people, do you see what’s happening?
Now we’re taking multiple roots and we’re putting them together. Here, you see the sigma tau rho
root because you’re killing. You’re killing all the vowels. And then you see the phi rho root.
And what is that? That’s the bearing root. The verb to bear or to carry is ferro. So what is it
when you carry the
oysters. You are
maddening.
You know what, lover?
You carry the oysters.
Who is it? Does it say
here at the bottom? Look at this name right under here.
People. People who are just learning
Greek, sound this out. This is P
Alpha Phi Yoda Eta.
Paphia.
Paphia. Notice the accents
on the Yoda. Paphia.
Now, who is Paphia?
That’s Paphia in Aphrodite.
Wait a minute. The maddening goddess is Aphrodite? What? What do you think we’ve been doing here?
It’s Bacchic, and I’m leading you to Aphrodite. That is exactly what the Bacchic cult does.
They even had an expression for it, Ace Aphrodite, and straight up to Aphrodite. Love it.
Oh, you see, it’s Uranian. You didn’t realize all of this cult was Uranian, did you? Did you?
they had a contest on Thera. Who was more beautiful, Medea or Achilles’ mother? And
those idiots said it was Achilles’ mother. And that’s how we know that all Cretans are liars,
right? Because everybody knew that was not the answer. Yeah, yeah, you had to be there,
right? And then Thera blew up. I don’t know what happened. Let’s go to the next one.
I, what is this? Oistrogenetor. What is that? It is a creator of frenzy. And who is this? Remember,
all of this is coming from that bite of the Christ, the gadfly. We are in that situation
of Christing. We have that sting. We have that sting. The doctors say, you put it right in your
eyes. And who is bringing it? It’s Eros, baby. It’s Eros. Of course it is. Who’s the god of the
mysteries, right? Eros. You didn’t realize that Eros, oh, remember, he’s got wings. Have you ever
seen the devil fly? Have you ever seen the devil fly? He flies on golden wings. Oh, isn’t that
amazing? You didn’t realize that Eros, and you see, now, if we had that sect that Epiphanius
calls the Satanists.
If you don’t believe me, go read Epiphanius.
If we had that sect of Satanists
around, you’d see
the exact overlap
between Eros and
Lucifer. Who is that
most handsome? You know
who that is? It’s the guy who scrapes his armpits
and gives it to
the Ewa, to the Eve,
Zoe, life baby.
Scrapes his armpits? Yeah.
I don’t know. It’s got something.
It’s got something in it.
Hedros, they call it.
Love it.
Let’s go to the next one.
Quickly here.
Oistramania.
Finally, here it is.
Dan McClellan, that’s for you.
Look it up.
Figure it out.
Go to the next one.
Oistraplaneia.
Now, watch this, people.
Just by using the words, right, the bases, what I’m going to do is I’m going to explain to you.
I’m going to open up a passage of the Bible that has never been opened before.
Dan McClellan can look at this.
and be humbled be humbled watch this people this is the power of classical philology baby
oyster planea what is the plan root the p lambda nu root that is the wandering root we get planetes
we get wandering planets you know what the planets are they’re wanderers they didn’t call them
planets you and i call them planets when you see venus you thank to yourself planet you don’t thank
wanderer and i need you to go deep now go back to the original wandering oysters
wandering mania causing the wanderings of madness are you ready are you ready to see how it’s in the
the Bible. Hit it. Hit it. I know we’re going to get to the book in just a second.
What’s happening? What is this saying? It says there are some dudes, right? And this is the
problem. Judah’s been talking about some dudes that are infiltrating. They’re Christians who
are practicing in a way that he doesn’t like. And he calls them, look at that second line,
and ostitis planeti, ostitis planeti. Now, you don’t see the mental side of this unless you
read ancient Greek texts, and you know there is an association between the madness or ecstasy of
prophecy and the wandering of the mind. These are stars, ostitis. Look at that word ostitis,
take off the, kill the vowels, kill the alpha, kill the epsilon, kill the second epsilon and
sigma well what do you get sigma tau rho on a monkey what uh what did you think yeah they’re
they’re friggin aliens seriously what have we done with the science for the last 200 friggin years
people it’s like walking into the museum and taking a dump on the on the history section
what are you doing dude scientific inquiry scientific inquiry shame on shame on you sellers
you sellouts go go in the back alleys that’s what you’re all about it’s disgusting go to the next
one we get an eye on there but i want to continue on um what are the seventh from adam this guy named
enoch i’m translating what this is what jude says what did the seventh from adam say now i want you
you to notice he’s quoting, right? He’s quoting, right? Okay. I want you to realize dealing with
sources, right? You’re going to be reading Greek and you’re going to be reading quotes of other
people. When Epiphanius talks about Jesus Christ, who was arrested in public park with a naked boy
screaming, I’m not a trafficker. When he talks about him performing a sexual act on Mary in a
mountain as a part of salvation, as a part of drink my heima, baby, and eat my flesh, you know,
as a part of that. It’s coming from sources, right? You can track all this stuff. This is not
guesswork. It is crime scene investigation, and we have evidence. Give me the next one. Boom. I’m
going to get to the lesson. Just give me a second, right? What’s happening? What’s happening? Oh my
god these people these people who are inserting themselves it says they’re inserting themselves
right and they’re following ancient custom right because they’re written about a while ago
it says they’re going to be a sebas what is that that’s not having saba not having that proper
reverence for the gods right and what did they do they took the the harita they took the harita
That grace of God, and they transformed it into what?
Aselgia.
Give me the next slide.
What is the Aselgia?
What’s going on, people?
What do you do when you’re Aselgic?
Licentious or wanton violence?
Licentiousness.
Yeah, okay.
You can do what you want.
I got a whole, okay, it’s going to be six of us and two of them.
You can do whatever you want to the two of them.
Okay. We will help and we will assist and we will facilitate. Yeah. And what happens in Vegas stays
in Vegas. Right. Okay. All right. Hit me with the next one. Hit me with the next one. Oyster
plagues because I suddenly am stung by the gadfly and driven wild and I am a balkant Christ. I am a
Spock and Christ the bit of anything take it down for a minute tree of anything that I’ve told you
this will make the biggest splash because this will drive a
wedge
Into between the false history that’s been built up for you full of this Christian theology
Judeo Christian monist theology
This will destroy it the name the word Christ’s not a name. It’s title the word Christ
is a drug term. Jesus was a drug guy. We just looked at putting drugs onto cloth. Do you remember
the woman who had the issue of blood? What does she do? All she had to do was touch him. All she
had to do was touch him. You know why? Because that Christ was Christed and he was walking around
high and full of drugs. They put them on their clothing. Now, some of you say, how stupid is
that? Well, some of the sophisticated ones, you could light that stuff on fire, make a little
impression on people. Some of that stuff would be immediately toxic. Oh, fantastic. You know what I
do if I’m a priestess and I’m eight years old and I’m getting up every morning, I’m training to be
one of the Medusae. You know what I do? I cut. I make lateral cuts in my arms and then I take a
linen bandage and I impregnate it with drugs that I then put over. And those drugs are the ones that
we’re all taking from the snakes because that’s what they’re teaching us to do now is to handle
those snakes. Because if you’re a good Christian and you follow Jesus’s precise words, you will
take up snakes and you’ll start drinking death drugs and they won’t hurt you. Do you see? It’s
the real Jesus. It’s the real Jesus. Hit the next one. And you can get there through the words.
Oistrodes. That’s fine. Raging or frantic. Give me the next one. No problem. We’re hitting it.
Here’s the word for star. Aster. And I wanted you to see it. Same root again, people. Same root.
Fantastic. Give me the next one. Fantastic. Boom. Boom. Here’s Jude. Who do I not want you to be?
i don’t want you to be like these people why because from they’ve been practicing this mystery
for a long time and it always ends up in sodom and gomorrah you know they’re using the same methods
right and what are they doing they’re going after that heteros sarx right that that other flesh the
other meat yeah and what are they doing they’re providing an example they’re providing an example
of that ionic fire right that ionic fire they’re gonna be subject to decay because they are
harnessing the ionic fire now this is the part i told you there’s no christian who knows what this
means none none well i don’t know maybe there is maybe there is somewhere who got his greek in gear
or hers and really pushed i would say hers but you know realistically bible studies doesn’t really
encourage i mean they do have you know it’s i don’t know i don’t know um yeah the first thing
i noticed about classics was it was majority women in my department yeah and i thought how
how nice look at this the women are encouraged to study this right because it doesn’t say women
submit it doesn’t say that it’s got all sorts of stuff but look at it look at this thing i found
I’ve got this word I found for you guys tonight. It’s gorgeous. I haven’t seen it before. Keep
going. Keep going. We’ll run up to it. We’re running up to it. This is the word just ekpornelo.
I’ve seen this one a lot. To commit fornication, people. What are the people doing? I want you to
notice, Dan. I want Dan McClellan here right now. Dan, get over here. Get over here, Dan.
That’s because you claimed it and didn’t rate it. Now, let’s see. Epornelo, Dan, it means to commit
fornication but it’s also idolatry dan look and they’re pulling your septuagint there
they’re pulling your septuagint dan there’s a source oh my god oh my god you didn’t realize
the mystery was sexual did you the very same word what does fornication mean that’s a what a
victorian says to mean sex just sex sex baby just sex for sex sake boom temple of aphrodite
baby, right? Oh, God. God, sex is bad, right? Yahoo hates sex. Jesus hates sex. Who does Jesus
end up with? He ends up with those that he can dominate. He ends up with little kids in a public
park. Yeah. What’s going on? What’s the psychology? Who knows? It’s not up to me. I don’t care
anyway, right? I do care ultimately, but it’s not up to me to decide what was going on in Jesus
christ said when he was arrested in a public park with a naked kid look at the next verse here from
jude oh god what are they doing in the end just look at the last word what do these people end
up doing they end up blaspheming they end up blaspheming and look at this first word on the
second line me i knew sin everybody spell it out mu yoda alpha yoda new omicron oops long sigma
yoda nu me i knew sin accent over the yoda now the yoda and the alpha are a diphthong we’re about to
look at those me i knew see you like that what does it mean to me i know it means to stain
means to stain yourself do you know what now hang on before you start thinking like a victorian or
start thinking like a somebody who’s you know telling some kind of theological line um it
literally means sustain and so in the greek word itself is that concept whether whether or not you
put a religious you know twist on it or not the idea of staining is there and who stains not only
these people who are practicing this cult but you know this this form of christianity but um also
Also, those who are giving us the knowledge.
You remember the sons of God that came into the daughters of men in Enoch?
Yes, on Sunday.
No, Monday.
Do you remember those?
This is who he’s talking about, right?
They stained themselves.
Yeah, they stained themselves.
And what do they end up entering into?
They end up entering into blasphemy.
Blasphemy.
okay when jesus christ was arrested with that kid there was an element of blasphemy thrown into his
trial yeah if you can call it a trial yeah because you know lace days are lace days people keep
asking me about lace days remember don’t forget julius caesar was taken captive he was uh kidnapped
by lace days by lace die excuse me the plural and what did he do as soon as he got away he came back
and crucified them. Why? Because you crucify traffickers. You crucify them. You crucify them.
When I’m saying traffickers, I’m talking about people who exchange children. I’m not talking
about the slave trade. The legitimate Mediterranean slave trade is not trafficking. I’m talking about
people who show up and abduct your young kids to sell them as sexual objects. That is a lace
taste. That is what Jesus is defending himself as not being when he is arrested with that kid.
Everybody knows lace dye get crucified. They deserve to die that way. They deserve it. You
mean people were saying Jesus deserved. Now you understand what the crowd was doing. You understand
it was there for a ride, right? Oh, God. I’m sorry. Let’s keep going. Let’s keep going. We all know
this, right? No, we don’t. Here’s the word I found for you. Perfect timing. Look at this. This is for
everybody who just wants something delicious. Are you ready? Inupneastria. Inupneastria. What is
that she who dreams and it’s the title of a book look the person who did this the person who did
this made up this word to talk about to be you know what her what her story was who’s this about
it’s about she who dreams i love that i love that look we’ve got in english a little phrase
she who dreams you don’t need that in greek you make up one concept one concept oh god the power
is amazing give me give me the next one give me the next one finally i don’t want to um for the
text wise i don’t i don’t want to belabor anything we’ve got to jump um but i just want you to notice
that second and last line we got dimonia we got dimonia if you start at verse 16 i’m just gonna
translate this for you. This is Jesus, right, at the end of Mark. The one who believes and is
baptized will be saved. The one who doesn’t believe will be judged. And for those who believe,
there will be signs that they do. In my name, they will cast out demons. They’ll speak in new
languages. And what else do they do? They’ll take up serpents. And when I say take up, I don’t just
mean lift. I mean to take up as a practice, to take up as a way of life. They’ll take up serpentry
and they’ll drink whenever. It says whenever. Whenever they drink the death inducers,
it won’t hurt them. That is a true Christian from the mouth of Jesus the Christ himself.
dan mcclellan you do not recognize the christ as a drug term because you don’t read greek
dan mcclellan you don’t recognize the christ as the one who drinks the thana simon who takes the
christing and who is resurrected because you have never done that then you are uninitiated
not only are you uninitiated in the mystery you are uninitiated in ancient greek shame on you for
taking glory that’s not yours go to the next one boom okay we’re gonna jump here’s the lifting up
serpents yeah we got it we got it we got it already go to the next one here we go peep um
oh you know what i’m gonna go ahead i’m gonna jump right to the end jump uh jump right to our
right to this let’s see oh i had so much prepared for you people but i don’t want
to take up an inordinate amount of time um let us go for people who are asking me about the book
again please ask around i know if your conditions don’t allow you i know there’s ways to get it
right and the cheapest ways possible yes fantastic i don’t want anybody to be held
back because they cannot get a book right and thank you for crashing the thank you for crashing
the people at the um publisher too go give me give me that one okay look there are a couple of very
important little paragraphs little charts that i need you to know as you are reading unit one i
tell people get your alphabet down that’s what you need if you’ve gotten your alphabet down
and if you’re able to begin looking at Greek words and pronouncing them you’re
in a good spot but what I want you to do is I want you to read unit one and I
want you to try to do those first five exercises in unit one and I’m gonna walk
you through those now if you’ve done them great if you’re going to do them
great but I want you to notice I’m gonna give you only the stuff that you need
this is the stuff that it’s gonna get us through this specialized training are
you ready? Look at these diphthongs on the left. What is a diphthong? A diphthong is when you take
two vowels and you put them together. What vowels are we talking about? Alpha, epsilon, eta, iota,
omicron, upsilon, omega. I’ll say that one more time. Alpha, epsilon, eta, iota, omicron,
epsilon, omega. Seven vowels. Those are the seven spheres of the cosmos. Wait, what? Those are the
seven spheres of the cosmos. What is cosmos? It is the organization of the universe. It’s the
organization. Are you ready? The organization has those seven vowels. Alpha, epsilon, eta,
Yoda, Omicron, Upsilon, Omega. Okay. When you combine those together, like the first one that
we have is Alpha, Yoda, Alpha, Yoda. And when you take two vowels and they combine into one,
they make one noise, right? You go from Alpha, Yoda is A, E, combine them together and you get
I, I, makes a different sound. Epsilon, Yoda, you have E in the Epsilon, E in the Yoda.
When you combine them together, A, okay?
And that’s what I want.
I want you to follow this pronunciation for oi, we.
Look at, oops, okay, wait a minute.
Look at Upsilon Iota, and you’re going to think that’s ooh and E, right?
So, we, we, something like that.
Notice that you get a W sound that starts coming out.
Why?
Because there’s a digamma hiding in that Upsilon.
You mean that consonant is in there being close with that vowel?
you know it happens right oh love it we we hear the W oops Ilana Yoda is we we
be us is the word for Sun oops Ilana you know Omicron Sigma we us good you’re
gonna get vocabulary don’t worry so people focus on this chart get all of
your diphthongs down so you can pronounce words you can pronounce words
like the words they give you in the example. Look, you’ve got the first word there, aither.
Aither. See the diphthong I on the front of it? Good. Practice that. Get it down. Go to the next
one. Go to the next one. Word roots, I tell you. Give me a blow up. Look at this chart at the
bottom, this box. Summary of Greek cases. I want you to look at these five cases. What are cases?
Cases are a part of noun, adjectives.
Participants have cases.
Yeah.
Now, what do you do with a case?
Just think about a noun for a minute.
And this is where everybody learns this, so don’t be embarrassed.
A verb is your action.
It’s the word that’s the doing, the jumping, the running, the being.
Being is doing too.
Yeah.
What is a noun?
It’s, you know, we call it the person, place, or thing.
What I want you to know is the nouns are the things that can be doing or can have things
done to them. They are the dressing for the verb. Okay. I get it. Watch this. Each of them
has cases. What does that mean? It means the end of the word will change, changing its case.
What cases do we have? Do you need to think through this? No. Stop trying to if you get
confused. Whenever you get confused, in ancient Greek, stop thinking. I tell my students this all
the time. Nobody ever trusts me until they get to a point where they understand what it means.
Stop thinking. What do you need to know? You need to know these five cases. Every noun is going to
have five cases. The first case is called the nominative. Yeah, that’s all I need you to say.
spit that out. How many cases? Five. Okay. Thank you very much. What’s the first one? Nominative.
What is the first case? Nominative. Nominative. Nominative. What is the second? Genitive. Third.
Dative. Fourth. Accusative. What is that fifth type of case that they were? Vocative. Vocative.
Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to use those first four cases all the time. And every
once in a while. We’re going to use that fifth case. And when we do, I’ll make it obvious for
you because all we’re going to memorize are those first four. I don’t want you memorizing vocatives.
I want you memorizing nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and always in that order.
Nominative. Now I’m going to tell you this once what each of those is. The nominative case is the
subject. That’s all I want. I don’t want you to think about it. I want you to be able to say
when I yell at you in your face, what is the nominative case? And you will say, it is the
subject. What is the genitive case? It is the case of possession. What is the dative case?
It’s the indirect object. I don’t even know what an indirect object is. You say, I don’t care.
I need you to know that the dative case is an indirect object. Just stop there. What’s the
accusative, a direct object. Isn’t that nice? Nominative, subject, genitive, possession,
dative, indirect object, accusative, direct object. That’s all I need you to do. The vocative
is a case of address, and it’s barely used. Okay, so we’re not going to, we’re going to worry about
the top four. Next one. Give you the next one. What else do I need you to focus on in chapter one?
These are first declension nouns. Now, what does that mean? What is declension? Think of a
declension as a family or a group of nouns. We’re going to have three in Greek. We’re going to have
three. This is the first, and most of these are feminine. They are feminine. What? You mean nouns
can have gender? Yes. Yes. What are the genders that we have in Greek? We have masculine, feminine,
neuter. Masculine, feminine, neuter. Masculine, feminine, and neuter. That’s all I want you to
know. MFN. Are you ready? Here’s some feminine ones for you. And what happens? What is going on
in this chart? It’s a little dash with a letter or a couple of letters after it. And that little
dash is telling you, you can take this and put it on the end of the base of a noun in order to make
it that case. For example, the word for soul is psuche. You hear the A on the end of it? That’s
the nominative. Psuche. It’s the subject. The soul lives. The soul’s the subject. The soul eats
worms. The soul is the subject. It’s got an end in that A to tell the person who’s reading it,
Oh, this is a subject, bro.
Okay?
Look at the one underneath that.
Genitive.
Ace.
What happens when you add ace and make psuches?
It means of the soul.
It’s possessive of the soul.
The purpose of the soul is blah, blah, blah.
The purpose of the soul.
Then it’s got to be psuches.
It’s got to end with that eta sigma.
What about the dative?
It’s an eta with a little tiny iota.
Everybody see the little tiny iota?
subscript. And what’s an iota subscript? An iota subscript is a tiny miniaturized iota that you
place underneath the vowel. And that’s a dative. I told you that’s the indirect object. Dative,
indirect object. How do we translate that in Greek? To, for, or with. You’re going to start
with those. To, for, or with. To the soul. Psyche. For the soul. Psyche. With the soul. Psyche.
How did you do that? I did it with my soul. Psuche. All I have to say is psuche with that ending,
and the person knows, oh, this is an indirect object. This is something that can be an
instrument. Wow, fantastic. How’d you do it? I did it with my soul. And then finally, the accusative.
Look at the accusative, ein. Look at the accusative, ein. You see the ein anew after the accusative?
When you attach that to the word psuche, it becomes psuchein. What does that mean? It means
that’s being acted on by the verb. I eat the spaghetti. I got to put spaghetti in the accusative
case because it is being accused. It’s being acted upon by the verb. I kick the ball. The ball was in
the accusative case. I love my soul. Oh, that sounds so, doesn’t that sound creepy? That sounds
like something, something. What do you call those people, Chewie, walk around saying you gotta love
yourself? I don’t know. Hippies? I don’t know. Go to the next one. Look at this, people. Now,
here’s the second, oh, wait, go back, go back. In all fairness, I’m sorry. I just did the singular.
I want you to notice it says underneath it, it says nominative plural, right? So then you’re
to have to add the alpha iota if you want to say souls as the subject souls do something you got
to add alpha iota so i forgot to tell you with nouns we’ve got a singular form and a plural form
dog singular dogs plural look what we do in english we add an s english is a lightly inflected
language our our nouns are going to be lightly declined right we’ve got a oh look what we got
we’ve got dogs we add an s and all of a sudden it’s plural all right well the greek has its own
plural endings right you’ll see them there okay i want you to um i want you to be satisfied with
that go to the next one go to the next one what do you need to know from this this is the take
home replay this back to yourself here are second declension nouns and look at their endings they’re
different from the first declension and most of these are masculine or neuter masculine or neuter
typical word second declension word that you get in your vocabulary is anthropos the word for human
we get anthropology from it right human a human in the nominative case is an anthropos but when
we switch to the genitive case we want to say of the human we say anthropo and our accent changes
position. Anthropo. Now, you don’t have to worry about, don’t worry about accents right now. I know
people fret over accents. And I’m going to tell you exactly what they told me at California Berkeley
when I took the intensive course. And for those of you who want to say, oh, that’s political.
That’s just something political. You morons. I didn’t have more than five seconds to myself.
We went to school for eight hours a day, came home and did four to six hours of work for the
next day to prep for the next day oh there’s no politics but i have berkeley is freaking awesome
their classics was freaking awesome um watch this people look at the endings here they’re
going to change and you’re going to be able to look at those endings say oh okay this is how
they’re this is how they relay a case to me nominative genitive date of a key nominative
date of accusative hit me with the next one i just want you to see the words written out
we’ve only got one two more of these i want you to see the words written out look at this
oh they give you logos logos right right up front logos logos logo logo log on now
um these are just examples right of now the next one is anthropos there it is
anthropo right you can see how it changes they’re just going to walk you through how these words
are going to change now what do you need to do you need to do exactly what i needed to do
you need to make mental slots for all of these paradigms. All of these ladders of endings that
we go through, you should memorize them. What are the feminine endings? A, ace, a, ain. I,
own, ice, us. That was both singular and plural I just gave you. And I can do that in my sleep.
A, ace, a, ain. I, own, ice, us. You have to get to that point where you can just,
it becomes muscle memory for you. So these charts that I’m showing you, I want you to memorize
those endings. I want you to memorize the feminine of the first, the masculine and the neuter of the
second. Okay. Masculine and neuter of the second. Give me the next chart. Give me the next chart.
Finally, what else does unit one give us? It gives us the definite article,
this thing at the top in this box, and you’re going to notice, oh, look, it’s got nominative.
It’s also got cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, singular, and then underneath that,
nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, plural, right? Dog is subject. Dog is possession. Dog is
indirect object. Dog as direct object in the singular, and then same thing in the plural.
Now, look at the feminine. It’s going to give you feminine forms, and look at the neuter. It’s
to give you neuter forms and you’re going to notice look at the feminine for example it’s an
ada you say wait a minute that’s what that just looks just like the the ending on the first
declension nouns yes it does right look at the genitive ace is the ending that looks like just
like the noun so you really aren’t learning new forms here you have to memorize this definite
article i want you to do it in this way i want you to take the masculine column and i want you
you to go right down. I want you to take the feminine column and go right down. Neuter and
go right down. Masculine, right? I want you to be able to do that. You’ve got to be able to
exercise. Some of you will hate this and you’ll say this is the worst part of Greek. And there
are a whole bunch of English boys and girls who agree with you from 100 years ago. Because what
would those English do in their classes all day? They would recite these declensions. They would
recite the endings of verbs. And you think, what a waste of time. No, no, no. What you’re doing is
you’re programming yourself to be able to function within this heavily inflected language. When I say
inflected, I mean the endings of words are going to change. That change will tell you what the
word is doing. You, most of my audience, okay, if I’m talking to modern Greeks or something,
never mind. But most of you, those of you who speak English as your primary language,
you’re used to word order, right? Those Anglo-Saxons were like, oh God, how do we make
life easy? I know. We’ll put everything in order. And the first thing I say has got to be the
subject. Then you’ve got to say the verb. Then you’ve got to say the direct object, right? We’ll
do it by word order. That’s how we’ll tell. I ate the spaghetti. I can’t say the spaghetti ate I
because then I’m thinking about spaghetti eating someone because my stupid English brain is stuck
in word order and it’s going to affect everything you do from now on. Greek does not use word order.
Think about that for a minute. An ancient Greek passage can spit at you 50 words and you don’t
get the main verb until the end of the thing. You don’t really know what’s going on until the very
end you’re just juggling a stuff in your brain do you see what i mean in order to allow you
to be able to juggle this we’ve got to get the muscle memory we’ve got to get the muscle memory
down i need you to memorize the definite article okay what i’m going to do you take it down take
it down sherry what i’m going to do for next week look there are 880 this is officially the largest
ever ancient great class largest ever right we should be proud of this and we
should nurture this and get ourselves the right place now listen to me if you
need a pep talk if you’re not doing this every day if you’re not taking this book
that you’ve got if you’re not looking at unit one for 30 minutes a day very bare
minimum 30 and you can do this on the toilet you do it in your car when you’re
not driving. You can do it, you know, at a restaurant when you’re waiting for your beloved
to show up. You can do it wherever you’ve got a few extra minutes, drinking a little bit.
Read the vocabulary list and try to pronounce the vocabulary list from unit one over T with your
spouse, driving them crazy. And they’ll look at you like, what? This stuff’s crazy, right? But
you’ve got to put in a certain amount of work. I’m going to give you this as a final
kind of, you know, inspiration tonight. There is a place that I need to take you. I need to
take you to the gym. And if you stop working out, you’re not going to make it. You’ll fall
by the wayside. The very, one of the very earliest instructions that I remember from
John Scarborough, my advisor, was that if you stop, it leaks. You can take a professor who’s
had 50 years of translation. And if that professor stops for a couple of weeks, he or she is going
to leak. They’re going to leak because it is not a spoken language. It’s specifically a language
that we just translate. Unless you are actively working it, you are losing what you have built up.
You have to make constant progress. And even if that is just 30 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day,
imagine that if i told you i have a magic pill maybe this would be our commercial because we
don’t have commercials because we’re not here for the friggin money but if i had a pill for you and
i said if you take this every day it will grow your brain your brain your head will get bigger
people will look at you and be like damn what’s happening to your head bro and it’ll be big
because it’s growing if i had that pill for you i do it’s greek and your brain doesn’t need to
get physically bigger. It needs to make more connections. The Greek’s going to allow you to
do that. Thank you to the 800 some people who are consistently, almost 900. Thank you to the
900 people who are making this officially the biggest class. Somebody write to Guinness.
Okay. I taught at university. I taught at a giant university, University of Wisconsin.
listen, I’m the only graduate student to ever teach medical terms by myself. When a professor
had a, she had a maternity leave, right? So I took over the class. And there were hundreds of people
in the class. I think we had like 270, something like that. I’ve been in myth classes where there
are five teaching assistants, each of us with 120 students, right? I’ve been in classes of a
thousand people. And I can tell you something. This is the only ancient Greek course with this
many people. Look what we did. I want to revel in this and I want to say, hey, Harvard, watch what
happens. Watch what happens when you take out the greed and when people just want to be able to use
the instrument. When you free people, this is what happens. Thank you for coming tonight and we will
be on Friday night for a traditional Lady Babylon and I look forward to bringing you yet one more
peeling back of that unreality to show you the beauty of what is.
Thank you for coming tonight.
Hail Satan.
Medea she will call
Witch queen of the dragons
Medea mamma mia
Dreams come true my dear
She’ll knock you on the rear
Put something in your beer
Hot purple they eat fetus
Bleed out skin go deeper
Peepers to the creepers
Smoking sensamia
Ancient Greek we read her
Venom from the teether
Bloody oozy seeper
Grim to the reaper
Indica Hania, hit you on the beeper
My girl’s poisonous, hit you with a kiss
I’m dripping, gripping her lips
Poisonous, with a kiss in her lips
Source: Lady Babylon