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The lesson in this Ammon U hour is fury, and the Greek that teaches it is Euripides’ tragedy Orestes. The son has killed his mother, Clytemnestra, and the episode says that mom is no ordinary figure: she is the drakaina (δράκαινα). When Orestes speaks to her ghost, he begs her not to cast upon him the blood-faced, dragon-formed maidens, the haimatōpous kai drakontōdeis koras (αἱματωποὺς καὶ δρακοντώδεις κόρας). Those maidens are the korai, and in this telling they are the priestesses of the dead whose one job is to chase a killer.
Ammon Hillman walks through the words one at a time. Orestes cries out to Apollo that the dog-eyed, gorgon-faced women are on him, kynōpides gorgōpes (κυνώπιδες γοργῶπες), and the Erinnyes (Ἐρινύες) grab at him to throw him into Tartarus. Tartarus is described as the place of punishment inside the realm of the queen of the underworld, where the wrongs of souls are purged rather than buried. The escape route comes when Apollo tells Orestes to take up the bow, toxa (τόξα), because the arrows carry the venom, ios (ἰός), that makes the furies scatter. The show closes the loop: Orestes must enter the mania, and the venom, not the weapon alone, is what the dragon-priestess way is built on.
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We’re going to start early.
Welcome to Lady Babylon.
This is Ammon Hugh.
And I’m here to bring you into the blessed inner chamber of Mother Greek.
Oh, God.
That’s why I couldn’t help it, people.
I had to start early.
I’m sorry.
I know that.
I know I’m jerking you around with times, too.
But you know what?
you can play this later for the live audience for the live audience today that i’m in you
i want you to sit there and use your mind fantastic oh god just suck this stuff in
just it doesn’t get any better it doesn’t get any better people this is fantastic
fantastic material that i’ve brought you today it’s a little bit scary it’s a little bit scary
hail satan scary oh god after the echidna gift holy mackerel right what is he doing people
this document has driven me crazy it has driven me crazy i know i know you’re saying well you’re
just acting normal. Trust me. For me, this is crazy. We’re going to have two days today and
tomorrow. And today we’re going to look into her face with some Greek. Oh God. And just bring you
along. Just trust me. It’s for you to learn. It’s for you to learn. And we’re going to bring you
her face as you learn your Greek oh god what kind of course is this it’s called the dude went crazy
after reading this it’s the echidna do you understand me it’s the echidna what is the
okay quick well I have my sanity thank you hey I’m in you fantastic well I have my sanity
What is the theme for today? The theme for today is fury. The theme for today is mania. The theme
for today is punishment. Do you understand? Punishment. I thought we were getting off
without it right right no let us see the echidna oh god who am i gonna summon people now look we’ve
got two runs we’ve got today’s run and tomorrow’s run and then i am on a secret mission it’s going
Fantastic. I am on a secret mission for the rest of the week and the weekend, right? Fantastic. Oh, my God. And I cannot wait to report back to you. Oh, God. Now, at the devil’s discretion, correct? At the devil’s discretion. Oh, what is our topic today? Mania, people. Mania.
I want you to look at somebody very important in antiquity.
Is that Orestes?
Oh, hey, Bacchus, fantastic, fantastic.
If you get a chance, bring me up an Orestes.
Here he is.
Here he is, people.
Why is Orestes screaming like this?
Why is Orestes screaming?
Because he just killed mommy.
He did what?
He killed his mother.
and when i say kill i’m not talking about pushing a button pulling the trigger i’m not talking about
that i’m talking about he has killed her with the pokey thing slaughter slaughter people slaughter
he could have at least been like odysseus with the bows remember where odysseus is in the beginning
of the odyssey where is he people everybody knows now and when we see this thing the odyssey thing
coming out, people. If I don’t see Odysseus looking for bow poison with which to Christ his
arrows, I’m going to be pissed. I’m going to be really pissed, bro. Seriously. Oh, God. Are you
ready for this? Are you ready for this? Okay. We’re talking about, oh, God. Was that us? That
wasn’t us, was it? Fantastic. People, what kind of slaughter are we talking about? We’re talking
about the slaughter of a son killing his mother. Oh, God. Right? Mom killed dad. Oh, so son kills
mom and this mom is is no nobody oh i forgot to tell you she is the drakina this is the son of
the drakina oh god have you heard of the serpent on the breast this is that drakina holy mackerel
this is famous stuff right yeah it was a big deal it was a big deal in antiquity everybody’s who’s
who’s dramatizing it, is dramatizing it, right? It’s a huge deal. Orestes. Go back to that picture
of Orestes with his sister. Who is this? Not yet. There we go. Who is Orestes trying to be helped
by? Oh, God. It’s his sister, right? Of course, because she knows. She’s seen everything. She’s
a witness. Man, come on. Come on. And what’s happening to our resties? What’s wrong with
them, dude? Can’t he just, okay, justifiable homicide? No, the world doesn’t work that way.
That’s your faith world. Because let me tell you the reality. When you murder someone,
and that includes nymphs in trees, when you murder, when you take life, do you know what
happens? You create erinues. You create fury, and that fury haunts you. It’s her one job to haunt
you, and if you have a fury following you because of a murder, you know what this feels like. Yes,
Fantastic. Oh, God. Do you see the forces that the Greeks recognized with their gorgeous, gorgeous language?
Do you see that? Oh, my God, the force of the fury. Fantastic.
What does this have to do with Echidna, with the Echidna, the great queen?
and my learning of ancient greek bring up the first yep let me navigate turn me into a tiny
pumpkin there we go okay people don’t don’t don’t take this uh the wrong way but i just want you to
see something gorgeous i just really want you to see something gorgeous now is it that’s good
centered and everything. People, I just want you to look here back at the tragedy of Euripides
called the Orestes, right? How fantastic. Look at these lines. This is a complete set, right?
Just look at this phrase right here. Maybe blow this up a little bit. No, that’s the best we can
do. Okay, people, look at it. Oh, mother. Who is Orestes talking to? He’s talking to his mommy.
oh mother people do you see these first two words this omega and this word next to it
mother what are you getting them to do i’m getting them to call upon demons do you understand me
oh may tear oh god see that mu eta tau epsilon rho what is this thing people it’s a first of all
it’s a noun right but it’s a noun in the vocative case baby we are calling out to someone calling
out. Oh, mother. What does Orestes say? Oh, God. What is he asking you to do? I need help.
I am asking you as a suppliant, not me, I am asking you not to what?
Not to cast upon me.
What is she going to throw?
What is she going to throw upon him?
Are you going to make it big?
Look at the second line, people.
Tos haimatopous, kai drakontodes koras.
Look at this last word.
What is she putting upon him? This ghost of his dead mother that he murdered. She’s putting upon
him the maidens, the Korai, the Korai who are blood-faced, the Korai who are blood-faced and
dragon formed. Do you see? Do you see who cries out for the blood of the mother? Do you see how
the magic works? Oh my god, you people, it’s fantastic. Oh, it’s fantastic. Look, it’s the
oh fantastic it’s the raven close to raven i’m gonna call that raven fred from now on i hope
it’s a male give me the next one oh god no what are you doing where are we going no
sorry there we go i didn’t mean next thank you chewy fantastic what does it say at the bottom
these people or what what are these furies they right right they jump on top of me
right they’re all over me now press here to the uh right there oh fantastic and we get that
section oh perfect thank you thank you have you brought up a little bit more is that all we can
blow no that’s it okay here people i want you to see this look at their in bold there’s the
line that we just looked at and you can see the word in yellow oh it’s not oh give me a second
people sure he says getting some interference from the empire all right fantastic look at the
word that’s highlighted there in yellow help me read it people delta rho alpha kappa omicron
new tau omega with a nice accent over it look at the accent over the omega delta epsilon iota
and a terminal sigma terminal sigma what is that spell says mr fucking rogers
Drakon Todes. Drakon Todes. Oh, don’t you love it? What are those Korahs? Do you know what a Korah
is? That’s who we worship. Blow me up, people. You’ve got to understand with this Greek that
you’re learning. That is who we worship in our most important mystery initiation. Do you
understand? This is who we worship, right? The Korah. This is the queen of the underworld. This
is Echidna. This is her petrification. By the way, by the way, people, I always quality check
to follow my translations. And last time in the great book of incredible mania,
Um, I translated porosis, I translated porosis as porosis.
I said she, um, she of the, she is the fire of the soul, or the soul on fire.
No, that was porosis, right?
It’s porosis, which is petrification.
Oh, God.
Ah, isn’t that gorgeous?
Petrification.
My God.
I don’t know how much.
this is too hot too much hotness you know what i mean it’s just it’s hot this stuff is radioactive
it’s fissile as we’re sitting here talking to you give it give me back the text oh fantastic
here we are um now what does it mean to be blood eyed or blood faced right f-a-c-e-d right so the
eye and the face think of your glance your glare like if you sit and glare at someone if you’re
sitting there right now just glare at them and imagine there’s a beam nice to imagine there’s
a beam that goes between you and them okay that is that ops okay that is that thing that you can
and it connects you with another being, right?
Right?
Fantastic.
Now, impress upon that blood, blood, blood ops.
Do you see what I’m doing, people?
I’m trying to show you the Greek for the first time, okay?
The blood ops.
Oh, God, I love it.
I love it.
Fantastic.
Right?
the blood stare the blood stare of the dragons people ask me where do vampires come from yeah
yeah oh god it’s gorgeous give me the put him back up there put a rest these back up let’s
see him flop around a little bit he flops around electra’s trying to hold on to my god you know
he’s going nuts man right now what’s he saying this line here is 260 all fully but now look
people it’s just like it’s just like oh mate here above with this just highlight this all foib
look at that look at that okay oh mate what’s he doing he’s calling out again but this time he’s
calling out to phoebe to phoebus to phoebus and who is phoebus that is phoebus apollo the shining
one right and what’s he saying oh god apoc tenus say me somebody’s killing me oh god
They’re killing me.
Who’s killing you?
Cunopides.
Gorgopes.
These are those dog-gazing, gorgon-faced ladies.
Ah, the Korai.
Do you understand?
Right?
Who’s got the dogs?
Who’s got the dogs?
People don’t realize that Heracles, master of the mystery,
he took over the mystery initially.
right the dogs they are chasing him he is screaming to his god of the guitar to save him
he’s gonna tell you what that god told him to do this is okay absolutely this is absolutely
phenomenal right now blow it up people oh god now people i want you to go down
What are these…
No, I never can do it.
What are…
With one hand.
They’re both.
Give me that one, too.
What are these Korai who are following him?
Who are these girls that are following him?
They are the Hierei.
They are the priestesses.
The priestesses of what?
In Eron of the dead.
the priestesses of the dead and then it says they are good fear fear inducing goddesses
goddesses of the dead do you see what the echidna priesthood does do you see what it does
where is the froth on the lips of the guardian dogs where is it oh you took that myth so far you
they rammed it in your backside and now that’s all you can compute oh my god trust me people
in these ancient texts the drugs will bring out the reality yeah the drugs just focus on the drugs
man you don’t don’t believe me do you not believe me there are drugs that they’re using here okay
well let’s see go back go back you challenge you dare you dare challenge me look at the line down
here arrestee said let me go let me go you’re one of my erinues look at the last word here
Eri nuon. Eri nuon. Are you hearing it? Eri nuon. The accent is over the epsilon,
so you should just spend a little bit of extra time on it. Eri nuon, right? Eri nuon. Eri nuon.
Fantastic. Of the Irenues, he says, they’re grabbing my waist. And what are they doing?
They’re doing that, highlight this last part of the line right here, in order to throw him into
Tartarus. Do you know what Tartarus is? Is this, by the way, this is before the Bible was ever
written, right? Anything that you’ve heard about Tartarus is coming from the unreality of the
writers of the Bible. Yeah, from the third century BC. It’s amazing. It’s absolutely amazing. This is
the original. Here’s the original Tartarus. Okay. And what is Tartarus? It is a place within the
under. What is the under? It’s where everything of earth goes to the under. And there is a queen
of the under. Do you understand? And she has a place called Tartarus in her kingdom, right?
And that is a place of punishment. It is a place where all the rights and wrongs of the souls
can be purged. Do you understand me? Tartarus, that’s what we need. The queen of Tartarus.
Oh, God. Now do you understand why we see the Korah in the initiation at Eleusis,
the most important. You understand? Because Eleusis brings us straight to face to face with
the reality that you are all about to embark upon and bring you back. Do you see? This is what
mystery is, so that you may be born again. And these are the sisters of punishment. You understand
punishment. Dike, justice may flee humanity because of greed, but she does not flee in the
realm where she is honored. And these furies honor her. And these furies, the blood that is requisite
for their existence spreads like a virus they called it in antiquity a pollution miasma
do you understand pollution okay fantastic so you mean i can be standing next to a murderer
and just through contact with that murderer that’s pollution can spread yes
Yes. Yes. How do I treat that pollution? You must be purged. Do you know they purged military forces
with drugs inducing psychosis for the sake of the people who had to generate furies? Do you see why
this is all medical cult? This is for healing people. You can’t have any healing without
purgation. You’ve created furies. We are part of a generation, I am told by the watchers.
We are part of a generation that watches genocide. Where does all that guilt go when none of us
does what’s right? It spreads to all of us. Yeah. And what drives that guilt? Your greed.
your greed god isn’t it gorgeous do you remember the chorus of the furies your greed stains your
soul with a stench of ruin yeah fantastic okay hit the text one more time i want to finish our
intro to text this way fantastic boom watch this people were we were in tartarus go to the next
page oh this is this way boom okay people look here at the top arrestees right here at the top
it says dos look at that that’s a nice word people those of you just starting the intro
dos delta omicron sigma with an accent but this time the accent is leaning the other way it’s
not leaning forwards leaning backwards right it’s kind of sloping down instead of sloping up all
Are we going to differentiate those?
Nope.
They’re talking about pitch.
We’re not using pitch.
We’re just using these as stress accents.
This is a grov.
Forget about it.
The other one wasn’t acute.
Look at the next word.
Toxa.
Tau, Omicron, C, Alpha.
There’s no way to blow that up.
It’s okay.
It’s okay.
Don’t worry.
This one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Toxa.
Right?
Oh, look at that.
Tau, Omicron, C, Alpha.
What does that mean?
people, right? Think of toxicology. This means bow. In the plural, it means arrows or a multitude
of bows, depending upon the context. Give me the arrows. What does he ask for? He asks for the
arrows because that’s what Apollo told him would cause the Furies to flee. Odysseus is out looking
for that very same arrow poison. There is a maddening way prophet must walk. You may not
follow Apollo unless you enter the mania. Isn’t that gorgeous? Now, you know why they had such
high standards for the oracles, right? It’s a rigorous training process, right? It’s just
beautiful when you start looking at what they’re doing it’s just amazing orestes wants the bow
he wants the bow how can a bow solve all of your problems because the eos comes from your bow
the eos is the venom of the dragon you walk the way of the dragon korai you are the satanic
bockic chorus do you understand this is the people that we’re dealing with is this not the most
gorgeous and incredible group of people oh my god oh my god why did i bring this but show me
show me this really quick and then i want to go to text oh here wait wait well um can they see this
share okay people look at line 270 look at the last two words money ah sin money ah sin that’s
the first one money ah sin here where i’m putting the accent not money ah sin or money ah sin but
Maniassin. What’s the next word? Lusemassin. Lusemassin. Lusemassin. Isn’t that nice? Lusemassin.
What is Maniassin? Look at the first five letters. Mu, alpha, nu, iota, alpha. What is that?
It’s from a verb that means to enter into a state of mania, frenzied, oracular mania.
You have seen this when musicians perform at the precise moment that they appear to be
overcome by a demonic force and used.
That is the moment.
That is the moment.
Isn’t it nice?
And it’s Lucemasin, right? Lucemasin. Maniac rages. Maniac rages of insanity, people. Lyssa. Lyssa is madness, right? Lyssa is madness.
Do you know what happens when a dog, when one of those dogs, okay, when one of the Heracles dogs bites you, those frigging foaming, crazy purple foaming mouth dogs will cause you to enter into a state of lissa.
do you understand lissa if you don’t believe me go ask the doctors they’ll tell you oh yeah
lissa causes hydrophobia oh god do you know what you got to do with people who are under her
influence yet this is the treatment people right because people don’t want to be around water what
happens you got to get a couple of big strong men to hold them underwater isn’t that isn’t that nice
yeah dunk them baby why that’s what happens when you get polluted stupid all right now
through your mind should be going several pellets of that mental shotgun blast that’s highly
effective across different across many different pathways okay fantastic fantastic it’s an enigma
ride oh god the sphinx is back strangled me timmy shut up oh god he’s so stupid
give me that’s not even worth my time anymore i’m starting to think i did something wrong man
did i piss the devil off is that why he gave me timmy you know what it was people it was in that
christian show it was in a christian radio show bring him and i don’t remember this last night
i remember this as i was thinking more um the do you remember chewie the uh somebody was trying to
lure timmy into a trailer it was
and his name was timmy he’s like i don’t know okay all right sorry sorry sorry
oh god it was on the radio people and they of course they got like a 30 year old dude
to pretend to be a 10 year old timmy give me yeah i was supposed to look people it was a public
service announcement who’s gonna go in somebody’s trailer you don’t know dude seriously come on man
ryan’s supposed to help and teach kids instead all we got was timmy who of course went in there
oh god and then we had to hear everything oh jesus forgive us all give me the next one
let this cup pass man sometimes i think jesus had it right dude he’s like look i can go so far
right i can only go so far to get the cure do you understand me ah fantastic here people what i want
you to see here um let’s go to i want did i have anything here that was of value i just wanted to
know i didn’t really see anything there that was um i have purposely this is what i wanted people
to be able to see can i share my screen right now and just go up and down that dragons list people
i just want to give you one more thing here um for those of you who understand what we’re doing
and what we’re uncovering and the significance of the dragons and who they are. You can hear
a little bit when I was just talking to you about vampires, right? What is this thing that we are
uncovering, right? Yes, yes, exactly. You and I are exactly in the same place, all right? A little
bit of the past, a little bit of the future, and now we have some present because we are in the same
place oh god we did get married monists retreat fantastic they did the monists are cowards aren’t
they they are look you know how hard it is to get a monist to discuss the bible with you when you
tell them that jesus was arrested with a naked kid all of a sudden it’s like oh never mind right
Oh, God.
People, all of these sources I’m about to show you, the yellow is going to have some form of the dragon cult, dragon references in it, right?
We just put that one in blue at the bottom, right?
That’s okay.
I’m going to go through these fast, and I just want you to see some of the authors.
Notice that this is 100.
So remember that.
Hang on.
Share this again in a second.
remember when who’s that biblical scholar no ermine remember when dr ermine said i don’t
imagine that christ probably doesn’t appear before before the septuagint before the septuagint right
and all you gotta do is go do a tlg search and find it oh my god it’s not only mentioned but
if you put in all the variants, in-christing, perichristing, catechristing, pro-christing,
nobody ever checks those, right? Antichristing. If you put those in, you’re going to find this
shit all over the place before the Bible, right? What does that teach you? What did that teach us?
It taught us that somebody with total authority had no understanding of what he was doing.
It shows that the person who would say something like that hasn’t read anything before the Septuagint, at least that.
That’s the bare minimum you could say.
And what’s funny is it’s so much outside of the Bible.
It’s thousands of times, people.
Thousands, look it up.
It’s in the tens of thousands.
Once people see this, they’re gobsmacked, and rightly so.
Show us the dragons.
right people say who is this secretive sect they’re not secretive they’re all over the
friggin place look at this this is within 100 right within 100 we’re already only up to
euripides in the fifth okay euripides euripides euripides right funny side right fantastic
fantastic look how many times wow it’s a lot just for one look how many times just that here’s the
ion look it’s in the ion right we talked about it in the ion fantastic let’s just keep scrolling
people look here’s iphigenia look people here’s the title the name of the author euripides this
is his tragic right it’s tragedian he’s telling you he’s a tragedian and this is iphigenia in
taurus right fantastic and it gives you a little date century after that fifth bc oh that’s nice
that’s nice people right i want you to start using this tool it’s the tlg right now i don’t
usually advance students that get on to tlg right i only started using it when i was a graduate
student when it was on disc they didn’t have this format right they didn’t have this platform for it
so i used it heavily for my dissertation because i wanted to know how many times does the word
plague appear in athenian literature you know fantastic oh yeah you know it baby okay where
are we going oh look people just feel some of these sources here’s hair uh hercules right
heracles heracles is the way the greeks said it right oh look at this electra has the dragon of
course of course right who is mommy mommy is the dracina mommy’s the dracina look at see it’s in
the fragments that we don’t even have right oh god there’s the oma dracontos oh my god people
you know what that oma does that oma rules the invisible it’s like an invisible ray coming from
that gaze that rules the universe oh my god they had one called oma dios right oma dios oh god
love it love it fantastic there it is again let’s see if i can do you any if i can do us any fun
time there we go no okay now oh you gotta present wait go back to it real quick hang on paper we’re
just yeah you gotta give us there we go blow it up blow it way up because i can’t see that for it
people i right now look what it says it’s a little bit deceiving it’s a little bit deceiving
poetic right it’s a poetic word that’s rare in prose that’s a cop-out right that’s a cop-out
it’s like saying well you know we kind of understand what this word means but not really
right look at look at how it transforms people look up here at the top we have oma as our in
as our entry and i’m deepening whenever i accent an omicron i deepen it to an omega it should be
Alma, right? And what is, but I’d naturally do that, so pardon me. Look at the next, look at
what it says then, eol. That’s eolic. In the eolian dialect, you just read in your intro
about different dialects of Greek. Eolian is here. Isn’t that nice? Eolian. And what happens?
It transforms in eolian to oppa, oppa, right? As the eye. And you say, how does that muse? I want
you to notice that muse can transform into pot peas right oh god mute to pee mute pee look at
the transformation okay just that’s all i just want you to i just want okay we’ve got ones that
that nightly one different expressions you have radiance right of that lampros that’s shining in
your eyes. They talk about, metaphorically, you can talk about that part of the soul. Now, look what
happens, though. Look at number two, Roman numeral number two, the eye of heaven. People, the eye of
heaven is the sun, and all they’re doing is pulling this out of text. The eye of heaven is the sun.
Look at aetheros, right? The eye of the ether is the sun. Think about the physics for a minute.
The eye of the ether is the sun, okay? Light, that which brings light. Wait, what? A source of light.
And that source of light is, of course, look at number two under Roman numeral number three,
the apple of an eye right right anything precious anything precious now number four is what i was
talking to you about before this eye becomes a face or form becomes a face or a form and look
what we look what happens if you fall if you follow the examples uh-oh you can have an erotic
eye face, to eroticon, to eroticon. What do you think about that? You see, what I’m doing here
is I’m trying to show you how the creators of this lexicon in 1850s, how they managed to come
up with definitions right fantastic oh god it’s gorgeous people oh don’t you love it all right
anyway um let’s go back and what i want to do is hit the i want to hit uh the textbook now people
you have been assigned this introduction for a few times and i just want to take a look
at some of it i want you to walk through some of it with me and i want you to realize that i know
that you’re going to be doing this at your own pace you’re going to be doing this at your own
pace so um i know there are many of you who have done the introduction you’re nice and happy just
for us to fly through it but i want to point out you know just a couple of very important things
are we share in share mode okay so this is the book yay drake an intensive course look at him
he’s got his laptop with him no that’s not a laptop that’s a wax pad the equivalence of the
ancient you know it’s the ancient ipad right anyway he’s there with his stylus and it’s got
wax on it right so he can do his writing writing on wax and then erase it you didn’t know the
greeks invented school did you they did they did greek an intensive course and people say oh
he’s not he doesn’t know what he’s talking about other cultures had other cultures had schools if
they did they would have left us libraries and since they didn’t too bad i know there’s somebody
i know there’s always somebody in india screaming about origins listen let me just take take that
to make an announcement to my friends who are on the side of india in the great war
between dionysus and the gods of india um he won right sorry sorry that’s what the that’s what the
let the records show when when you’re left with the records that’s all that matters right that’s
all that matters is those records, the language. Oh, God. It’s no wonder those German classicists
of the 1930s were so good. Do you know? Do you know what they were looking for? The Brits in
the 1850s set them on to it. It’s amazing, people. It’s amazing. Who is the first? You’ll know exactly
what I’m talking about historically, if I say in antiquity, who is the first legitimate queen
of the Aryan people, right? Who is that? It’s Medea, right? The very transformation to the
Medes, to calling themselves Medes, was because of her following the tech that she has developed,
the Christing tech, okay? You’ll notice in Chewy’s images today, you’ll notice some of the people
have white hair. Is there a reason for that? Yes, it’s because of the drugs they’re using.
They’re described that way. It’s because of the drugs. Do you know you can take your face and
transform it with the right drugs? That you just need toxins, right? Everybody in California who’s
been to a Botox clinic, right? Now it’s that basic, right? Now imagine if you didn’t just
have one. Imagine if you had hundreds, right? Imagine if you had a thousand, right? What can
you do? You can combine these things. You can change them and you can create. And that is what
is happening. Do you see why people were so willing to elect her as queen? Ah, it’s fantastic.
Babylonians too, people. Babylonians too. Love it. And it’s not until her return that the monists
can get their final circle jerk in. Isn’t that funny? You know why? Because it’s already written
in the history this greek is already there before the monists show up it took the egyptians just one
generation to do what is it’s going to take us 2 000 years and what is that almond to bring you
the light of reality because look people nobody wants to worship the the dude who was arrested
in the park with a naked kid right who wants to worship like it satanic congregation we got
Anybody out there care to worship a dude who was arrested in a public park?
I know you’re sitting here waiting for the introduction.
You can sit here, right?
Fast forward me if you’re that miffed, right?
There’s always students in class like that.
What do you do?
You ask them to sit in the back.
That’s what you do.
Sit in the back.
Take a break, right?
I used to love teaching seminarians.
Oh, God.
but i had them reading greek by the end of it you know what i mean and they were changed for it so
fantastic shout out to all my former seminarian students i hope you rip some ass with that greek
give me the next here we go people go back here’s our greek and intensive course just scroll down
look at this let’s just take a little trip you see these two guys hansen and quinn oh yeah right
oh god they set up a couple of programs one in new york and one in berkeley right oh god i went
to the one in berkeley right after they set it up oh it’s fantastic or not right after it may
have been a few years i don’t know but i was there early on anyway okay we don’t care let’s go let’s
go to acknowledge the fact that this is your text and they’re going to tell you how to use this text
that is you know one of the things and bold face etc etc so that’s good you’re responsible for that
right now people look here look here at the contents table of contents look the greek language
the greek alphabet right you got to start with the alphabet of course rough and smooth breathing
what is that that’s just whether the beginning it’s just whether a vowel has a ha a puff of air
like an english h on it right long and short vowels what does that mean diphthongs oh god
what’s a diphthong right iota subscripts oh god and the ad script oh you’re scaring me right no
no this is all basic alphabet stuff do not worry classification of consonants that’ll be interesting
to look at do i care if you memorize the terminology absolutely not punctuation and
capitalization, right? I’m surprised there’s even people. The original is not capitalized,
and they run the letters together, okay? So all of the punctuation that you’re going to see in
Greek is going to be put in by somebody else. Blow me up. One of the reasons that Mother Greek is so
sophisticated is that she doesn’t need breaks between words and sentences. Do you understand
me? She doesn’t need a break between two sentences. Why? Mother Greek has little
tiny words, tiny words, particular words, particles floating. Mother Greek takes
them and puts them into her language and says this is gonna signify that the
thing that came before it is the reason for its existence. We translate a lot of
these things in english as things like therefore and so and because of this stuff like that
right mother greek says this line of greek boom boom boom boom is a song it’s just a song
and i’m going to tell you how it flows how the river goes up and down and oh god over some falls
here this is rough this is smooth the language itself tells you that you don’t need a period
you know what a period says it says hey bog trotting english speaking dumbass stop stop
you got to be told when to stop in english do you understand why because it’s bog trotting people
okay right this is a sophisticated you know language this is a lady that we’re gonna have
to give some, you know, first of all, some space to. All I want you to do is look in her over.
Do you understand? Look what you’ve stumbled into. This is who you’re going to be with,
right? Take a minute. Shut your mouth, right? Close your mouth and just look at her. Fantastic.
Appreciate her, right? Appreciate her. Okay, let’s go to the right back there. Oh, good.
Then we’ve got some accents.
People, I tell everybody when they start this course,
don’t worry about the accents.
I want you to read it to see how they work,
but then I want you to totally drop it out of your concern, okay?
I want you to drop it from your concern,
and I want you just to focus on learning what the text is telling you to learn.
That’s why this is stuck into an intro, right?
Fantastic.
now um then it goes on uh to describe to us how the book is going to flow units one two and three
people will be kind of our basic units before which we will have an exam that i’ll give to
you here and i’ll show you examples and i’ll translate with you right so i’m doing this so
you can keep up with me right what i want you to do is just focus on that first hurdle this is a
hurdle at the end of Unit 3. If you can take this exam and you can pass it, you can get a 90% or
better, you should go on. If you can’t, you should go back to the beginning of your book and you
should read the chapters again. You should work on the exercises again, right? It’s my job if you
are sitting here in front of me, and I so prefer that, people. I so prefer that to not being able
to reach out and touch you you know what i mean that didn’t sound right oh my god you know what
i mean in an intellectual way right i would reach out be able to touch and to express and
see what happens you start talking about reaching out and touching people and sirens in the
background right now why can nobody get away with it except for jesus except for jesus people
I mean, there’s others too, but, you know, in antiquity, they’re all over the place.
But the problem is, you know, anyway, let’s go to the back to the text.
Okay, let’s get this intro.
All right.
I just want to fast forward then because all I want you worrying about now is the first hurdle.
And the first hurdle is the Unit 3 exam.
Now, if you have already taken the Unit 3 exam and you feel comfortable with the outcome, right,
I am happy for you just to not listen and to fast-forward and I’ll give you
more lessons coming very quickly tomorrow as well let’s go to the intro
what are things that you need to notice in in the intro look people the basic
history of the Greek language right they’re talking about indo-european and
this is grim brothers influence that’s fine that’s fine the most important
paragraph here is the bottom one. This book presents Attic Greek. That’s our dialect, people,
Attic, the dialect of Athens as it appears in prose authors of the 5th and 4th centuries BC,
the Greek of Plato, Lysias, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Thucydides. Look at these names, people. These
are big names, right? Attic prose lays the foundation for reading the poetry of Attic
tragedy and comedy, okay, and the closely related Ionic dialect of the historian Herodotus
and the archaic Ionic poetry of Homer, okay? Do you see that? How the Attic Greek as a base or
as a core will help you to spring off. When you spring off to Ionian, you’ll understand the
differences to another dialect, make me big, to another dialect that has different ways of
thinking different influences and a lot of this is geographical right remember
these are these are geographical regions now thankfully the Ionians right the
Dorian’s the Athenians the Aeolians right the Europeans fortunately they’re
all in very very similar terrain with very very similar influences but the
The languages, the dialects are still developing under very peculiar influences, like the Ionian
dialect generates the scientific Greek.
All of the physics, all of the early medicine.
When my instructor told me, he’s like, you’re going to have to learn the Ionian, focus on
the Ionian, right?
I was like, oh, fantastic.
if you started with Attic, Ionianism, with the exception of the technical terms, Ionian is
considerably easier. Yeah, it is. It is. Why is that? You could probably debate. You could probably
debate forever. Who knows? Give me the text again. Why that is, people. Write Hippocrates.
Get your Hippocrates out. Not just Herodotus, but your Hippocrates too. People, I’m going to say
the alphabet one more time just so that you can have it. Ready? Alpha, beta, gamma, delta,
epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, p, rho, sigma, tau,
epsilon, phi, he, psi, omega. Okay? All right. We’ve got all of our letters there,
and they gave you nice little words there
here on this little chart.
If you forget how to pronounce, right?
Oh, God.
I love this one, too.
Look, the zeta.
What is it?
Is it a delta zeta,
or is it a sigma delta,
or a delta sigma?
And the answer to that is yes.
That one’s going to throw you, right?
And it throws everybody.
He said, let’s just pretend it’s a good old-fashioned English Z, right?
Oh, fantastic.
I love these.
Okay, let’s continue real quick.
Rough and smooth breathing, people.
Look, I want to blow this up because if it has this mark right here, you see this?
Can I highlight?
No, unfortunately, I can’t.
You see this mark right here?
Boom.
It’s called a rough breathing.
It means there’s an H sound on the front of that word.
Do you understand? Over its first vowel. Right? Oh, God. Right? Sometimes over a row. Right?
Love it. Love it. Rough breathing. What’s the opposite? A smooth breathing. Where’d the smooth
breathing go? When you have the smooth breathing, like here, see this smooth breathing? It just
turns the other way, right? It looks like an apostrophe. When you have an apostrophe on the
front of a greek word like this what are you gonna do nothing that’s just they’re telling you
i don’t have an h sound now do you think the ancient greeks themselves made this up absolutely
not right absolutely not it took an army of grammarians people trying to muddy the waters
because they didn’t need it right originally do you think they needed that originally no
they don’t right by the time you get into the byzantine greek it’s when those grammarians
start getting sticky and they’re like look people i think we’ve lost the h’s here and i think you
know they didn’t say h but the aspiration here i think we’ve lost that and they they had it in
the original that’s when they when people started questioning things like that then
oh god well let’s put what the let’s put what the original was right and we’ll make a mark for that
well now you have to memorize that pain in the ass right it’s a pain in the ass but you do it’s part
of the deal go right i’m telling you just take a look at mother greek look at these names right
here is electra right electra look where the accent is it’s over the epsilon a lectra a lectra
right and notice it’s not hey lectra with an h sound on the front it’s a lectra right same same
as the one above it people look at here’s a nice word you can practice oligarchy oligarchy it
sounds just like oligarchy done it you know you wouldn’t have that term without the greeks you
wouldn’t have that term you’d have to make up some english plotting right oh god and we
don’t even understand what the arch is anyway right how good um okay here’s here is i told
you over the row the rough breathing reitori k reitori k you just hear the little bit of puff
there reitori k fantastic right oh god this is a sexy word look at these rows here with that little
that little seductive little curly q thing there on the bottom i love that i love that don’t you
look at the kappa this is a way better than the english k right look at the english k man the
The English K looks like it’s been, you know, taken out and taken advantage of.
You know what I mean?
Lined up against a wall or something.
This is the Greek, the ancient Greek Kappa.
Looks more like an X, doesn’t it?
Look at that.
I wish I could blow it up because it’s really cool to, orthographically, people, we’re not
going to be writing any of this out, but if you were going to be writing this out, you’d
be really impressed by the Kappa.
Okay.
Long and short vowels, people.
long and short vowels. Oh, God, here they are. Look at your vowels. Why the hell do they only
put that? Yeah, right, because they’re long and short, right? Okay, good. Diphthongs, people.
What is a diphthong? It’s when you take two vowels, look at these two vowels here, and you
connect them together. They make one sound. So, whereas before, this is an alpha ah plus an e-o
to E, right, what happens to I, I, I, as you join them together, it goes from I to I, I, look at how
they want you to pronounce it here, as in defy in English, fi, right, what about epsilon iota,
Epsilon iota.
That’s an epsilon, e, plus an e.
And what happens?
A, a, a, a, a, a, a, a.
You get an a sound out of it.
So, i, a, how about omicron, iota, oi.
Now, watch this, people.
This is going to show you something absolutely gorgeous.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Look at the, look at the upsilon.
when it combines with the iota what happens look what they put here they put we with
right wait a minute there’s a w that’s a consonant yes the upsilon has an invisible
di gamma that likes to tag along with it and that di gamma is the is the making the w sound
you’re going to see that excuse me you’re not going to see that in greek right but it’s there
you mean there’s an in the mother greek is so sexy she has an invisible letter yeah she’s got
a couple but this is the one that i want you to concentrate on because the others really don’t
matter it’s the diagram or nothing right okay what’s under that alpha and epsilon ow ow it’s
Ah plus oo becomes ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, okay?
Eh plus oo, ew.
Eta plus oo, ew.
Omicron, upsilon.
You go ow to ow, ow to oo.
So I’m going to pronounce these,
and people always have a hard time with these diphthongs,
so I’m going to pronounce them again just so you can see them.
I, A, OI, WE, OW, EW, EW, U.
Okay?
Nice.
Look.
A Greek word has as many syllables as it has vowels or diphthongs.
Watch this.
How many syllables?
One, two, three, four.
AUTONOMOS.
AUTONOMOS.
AUTONOMOS.
AUTONOMOS.
AUTONOMOS.
Do you hear autonomous in that? Yeah, you do. You didn’t realize you spoke so much Greek in your
garbage English, did you? Oh, God. It’s gorgeous. Gorgeous. What is the next one? How many syllables?
One, two, three. O, O is your first. DUS is your second. SEUS, SEUS. O, DUS, SEUS. O, DUS, SEUS.
odysseus nice how about the one everybody knows who that is there’s odysseus right
odysseus right how about the one under that oh my god what is this one this one’s all about
this one’s all about dionysus two syllables oinos oinos oinos wine oinos right wine oinos
Oh, God, look at how many syllables, four, just pronounce them together, now notice they put a capital here, because this is a, this is a person, right, a-lay-thwe-a, a-lay-thwe-a, a-lay-thwe-a, now does everybody hear the digamma, the W sound that comes before this epsilon, it’s not a-lay-thwe-a, right, or a, right, or a-lay-thwe-a,
It’s ELETHUAH. It’s ELETHUIA. THUIA. Hear that digamma? Nice. How about the bottom one?
FI-LO-SO-FI-AH. Look at that. One vowel. One vowel. Right? Per syllable. FI-LO-SO-FI-AH.
And we put the accent over the IOTA. So, FI-LO-SO-FI-AH. FI-LO-SO-FI-AH. Does everybody hear that?
Good. Fantastic. Okay, look at the, you can look at the iota subscript and how to use the iota
subscript. Now, a lot of people don’t like to pronounce the iota subscript, right? Look,
it’s not pronounced, except with the people that I learned from and all of the people that learned
from me all right we pronounce the iota subscript why because it will make a difference it must be
heard okay as you’re learning the greek as you’re learning how did they originally pronounce it they
don’t know right and it changed over time but as we’re learning it you have to be in the mode that
everything is scientific and stable. And in order to do that, I want you to be hearing all of the
vowel sounds. So the subscript you will pronounce. Alpha with the Neota subscript will be pronounced
I. Just like a diphthong. Yes. Eta with the Neota, A. The regular Eta, A. The Eta with the
Yoda subscript? A. You hear how it turns up in the end? You can hear the Yoda? That Yoda is a sign
of a specific use for a word, right? You’re going to be looking at the dative case. You can’t have
it without those Yodas. That’s what signifies it. Remember, all of those vowels are notes.
All of those vowels are notes. Alpha, Epsilon, Eta, Iota, Omicron, Upsilon, Omega. Those are the
seven notes of your heptachord. Fantastic. Fantastic. Okay, you know us and the music though,
right? Right? Love it. Fine. Okay, let’s go down. People, look at gamma combined with certain
consonants, when you get two gammas together, it sounds like an NG in English, so the word is not
aggelos, it’s angelos, right, right, same thing with the kappa, the xi, and the he, right, why,
because all of these letters are coming from the same place, right, they’re related, and when they
get dragged by a gamma. They get dragged into what sounds to us in English like an NG or an NCH or an
NX. Look at the word here on the example. The last word here, the word on the end here, starts with a
capital sigma, a phi, and a iota, a gamma, and then a xi. That is pronounced sphinx, right? Not sphynx,
sphinx sphinx sphinx all right sphinx fantastic oh good fantastic here we go and then here look
people this is the classification of constants you don’t have to remember which ones are labials
which are dentals which are palatals that’s just i’m not gonna i’m never gonna ask you that i want
you to know what a p is what a beta is what a phi is what a tau is etc fantastic that’s all
okay let’s keep going down punctuation and capitalization greeks greek employs the same
common periods okay punctuation wise which is fake to start with you see this little dot here
it’s like the top part of a colon right that’s a colon or a semicolon as we use them in english
all right it’s the same thing that’s a colon or semicolon as they use them in english
Okay, now the question mark looks like an English semicolon, right?
Sophoclase, question, right?
Demosthenes, question.
God, Petticlase, that’s you, right?
Question, anyway.
That’s a semicolon, right?
That’s basically all you need to memorize.
It’s basically all you need to memorize.
Otherwise, your periods and your commas, they’re going to be used the same as they are in English, right?
Okay, fantastic.
Fantastic. Now, here are the three accent marks I want you to remember. Here’s an acute, a grof,
and a circumflex. What are these originally? These are originally pitch, markers of pitch,
right? Which direction does the pitch go? Does it go up? Does it go down? Or as a circumflex,
does it start low, go high, and then come back low? Which one is that? Fantastic, fantastic.
and now people hear all the rules for accenting do not even attempt to memorize this chart don’t
it’s not going to help you it’s only it’s only going to make you crazy okay okay but there they
are right now you’ll learn a little nomenclature here like what is an you know what is a penult
and an antipenult, right, the APU stuff, the ultima, the penultima, and the antipenultima,
here are the possibilities, the accent, okay, don’t try to memorize this, people, just, just look at
it, look, a smiley face is a short vowel, a slashed mark is long vowel, okay, now, remember that, right,
remember that, okay, fantastic, recessive accent, oh, god, you’re gonna go crazy, because, look, I’m
serious. Let me just read a line of this. In a two-syllable word which has recessive accent,
the accent must be on the penult and is acute or circumflex, depending on the length of the vowels
in both the penult and the ultima. To accent such a word, check the penult first. If it contains a
short vowel, the accent must be in acute, since the circumflex cannot appear over a short vowel.
Many. Now, what do I want you to care about, people? None of this that came before. It’s
interesting to know, right? But what I want you to see is that this is the word in Greek that is
accented on that epsilon, and it’s an acute accent. And what is that going to tell you?
All it’s going to tell you right now is that we’re going to spend a little extra time
pronouncing it. We’re going to pronounce it men, not men, but men, right? We’re just going to put
a little bit of stress, a little stress accent. We don’t want to blow our English brains out,
You know what I mean?
We don’t want to cause a problem trying to use accents.
You know what I mean?
It’s amazing.
Okay, go ahead to the next one.
Do persistent accent.
Same thing, same thing.
Read it.
Don’t try to understand it.
People, now, I’m going to actually do these drills with you
so that you can have this to check yourself.
I’m going to read a few of these words here.
The first one is Anthropos.
That’s alpha, nu, theta, rho, omega, p, omicron, sigma. Anthropos. Good. Look at the second one. Agamemnon. Alpha, gamma, alpha, epsilon, mu, nu, omega, nu.
by the way somebody may have heard the other day there’s a phenomenon in ancient greek where you
add a new in order to make consonants flow or vowels flow together better the newification
so i did that the other day in the exact environment where it’s supposed to go
so i’m i’m glad that’s a bonus for anybody finds it go listen to where i insert a new in order to
facilitate flow of vowels it’s funny anyway um this it it’s just what i’m trying the only reason
i’m mentioning people is to show you that it impresses a pattern on your brain yep open the
door it’s hot okay a couple of more here people look let’s do some more number three dramata
dramata by the way notice on number two that apostrophe right that’s the smooth breathing
mark and it’s just telling you there’s no h sound on the front of that fantastic same thing with
Anthropos. Look at that at the top. It’s got the same thing, right? It’s not Anthropos, right?
It’s Anthropos. Good. Dramata. Underneath that, Dramata. Does that sound familiar? Drama? That’s
nice. Biblion. Look at underneath that. Biblion. Does that sound like a bibliography? It should.
number five is what you and i are barbaros what is barbaros it’s somebody who speaks barbar
right who doesn’t speak greek right barbarians barbarians do you know what made the world’s
first barbarians it was everybody who did not speak this language think about that for a minute
people think about it graphike oh god graphike graphic right demosthenes demosthenes right
demosthenes epistole epistole i’m just trying to get you used to the you do this kind of exercise
to get yourself used to the words epistole number eight epistole that’s a letter right something
you write, an epistle, right? You didn’t know your English was this much Greek, did you? Hector.
There’s a good one. Now look at this one, people. Look at Hector. Hector. You see the rough breathing
that’s on the front of it now, followed by an accent? It’s a rough breathing. So we got to put
an H sound on it. Hector. Not Hector, but Hector. Nice. And he’s a dude. And what does Hector drink?
hector drinks number 27 nectar nectar does everybody see number 27 nectar do you have nectar
of course you drink nectar unless you’re a necrophiliac number 28 necros what is a necros
it’s somebody who’s dead somebody who’s dead man you got a corpse on your hand how about nestor
everybody knows nestor right how about number 11 number 11 helene helene right oh yeah gorgeous
gorgeous gorgeous you know what people said about helen they said she was medea’s projection
medea’s projection isn’t that nice number 12 zoe right zoe zoe this life it should be capitalized
too because she’s a she she’s a she she’s in the bible but nobody ever sees her because nobody
reads the Greek form anymore. Huh, it’s too bad. Who else, people? Try to say this one at home.
Try to say this one. Look at number 30. Look at number 30. Xerxes. Xerxes. That’s a capital
X on the front, and that is a lowercase C in the middle. Xerxes. It’s two syllables. Xerxes.
Phase. Nice. Nice. I like that. Xerxes, right? Xerxes. Who’s this guy underneath him? Number 31. Xenophon. Xenophon. Right? Everybody knows that. Who that dude is. Xenophon, right? How about number 13? There’s Electra. There’s Electra. We just talked about her.
Number 14, people, do you like the sun? Helios. Helios. Look at the first letter in it. It’s got
a rough breathing in it. It’s got a rough breathing. Rough breathing. Helios. So it’s not
alios. It’s helios. Helios, right? Helios, I guess you say in English. Helios in English, right?
Fantastic. What about number 15? Hierakles. Hierakles. I just hear that accent. I missed that
accent. Hierakles. All right. Put that accent on the Ada. What about 16? Theatron. Theatron. What
about 17? You figure out what a Theatron is. What is number 17? Theos. That’s God. And when I say
God, I mean Zeus, right? Oh, God. Did they have a difference? Yeah, they did, right? When I say God,
you think Yahoo. When I say Theos here, I don’t want you to think Yahoo or Zeus, right? Do you
understand? Yahoo is a replacement of Zeus. No, I’m serious. Read the genealogy. Yahoo is a
replacement of Zeus. And that’s not what a theos is, right? A theos is that divinity as a concept,
divine. She, the divine theos, theos of sexy, sexy love, right? She’s going to save us in every
difficult situation. Do you understand? She’s a sotera. Why is she going to do that? Because
she’s a sotela. How can she do that? Because she is theos. And you say, wait a minute. Nope. You’re
using a masculine for a feminine. It should be theos. No, it shouldn’t. No, it shouldn’t. Check
out the Homeric hymns and stuff. The earliest stuff has masculines for feminine divinities.
Yeah. Almost as if the masculine is not really masculine. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. Love it. Right?
People, again, how do they pronounce it?
Not like we are, right?
They’re singing it.
We’re not.
Give me a couple more of these.
These are gorgeous.
Look, number 10.
There’s our friend, number 10.
Euripides.
Euripides.
Euripides.
Euripides.
Euripides, right?
Under him, Oduceus, right?
Oh, God.
And then there’s something false, number 12.
Seldos.
Pseudos. There’s that Psi, right? We don’t have that English. Oops. Oops. We would never begin a
word with it. That’s why we can’t say psychology properly. We have to say psychology with a S,
not a P. It’s not the psyche. It’s Psyche. Psyche. Do you hear the percussion at the beginning?
Psyche, Psyche, oh god, and it’s not Psyche with a kappa, please, know the differences,
all right, let’s see if they give us, there it is, number 53, people, look at number 53, Psyche,
Psyche, isn’t that gorgeous, right, psychology and all those words like that, absolutely fantastic,
Okay, let’s finish this up.
Oh, look, there’s instrument formings.
Formings.
Somebody look that up.
That’s an instrument, right?
Oh, my God.
Okay, here we go, people.
Finally, you get to drills that they call accent drills.
You should take that page and mentally build a scaffolding
and put some wood underneath it and hang this accent drills on that scaffolding.
scaffolding, pronounce curses upon it, shout, jump up for joy, and let it burn, because I don’t want
you doing it, okay? Don’t worry about it, okay? These accent exercises, forget about it. I want
you to go straight on to chapter or unit. There are units here, not chapters. Unit one, people.
And everything that we have to work on in unit one is nouns. Do you understand me? Just nouns.
Nouns. One type of word. One type of word. A noun. They used to say it’s a person, place, or thing.
Okay? Dog. Noun. Okay? Car. Noun. Right? You. Pronoun, but okay. Noun. Right? All right, fine.
People, places, and things, right? We’re going to learn verbs for the next two units. Nouns for
this one and what is the difference mentally people verbs are the machine the machinery of
your language they’re the machinery okay you have to have verbs in order to have states of action
and or being in order to have action and being you’ve got to have verbs the things that will
fill in the action of that universe are nouns and that’s what you need to learn nouns nouns and i
want to take you just to give you a little advance this is how i want you to study these units from
now i want you to immediately go to the vocabulary page look it’s a natural it’s a natural movement
forward what there yeah i want to go forward to unit one just jump to the vocabulary people
go to the vocabulary look that’s a lot to read right oh god it’s so confusing what the hell
did i get into look people look at this and tell me you didn’t make a mistake okay look at all
these forms dear god man this has got to be a mistake no people look what is this oh it’s an
article holy mackerel what is that oh god people go before you get into any of the bog go to the
vocabulary, okay? Vocabulary is a nice, fresh place for you just to feel like you’re actually
using the ancient Greek. Can you put that door open? That you’re actually doing the ancient
Greek. People, look at the first word that’s up here, agora, right? All you’re trying to do is
say these things, agora. For now, forget about what comes after it. Just you do the first one,
Look, it means marketplace, right? A place where you exchange goods, right? Fantastic. Adelphos.
That’s your brother. That’s your brother. Now, this vocabulary, you’re going to have to start
memorizing it. And how do you memorize vocabulary in Greek, ancient Greek? Because you are not
speaking it, because you are only translating it, it is going to take you time to cement it
into your brain i tell my students it takes you at least seven times of saying a word before
you remember what it is and what do students say all the time oh i keep looking up this word i keep
looking up this word i keep looking at this word yes you do you keep looking up word the same word
until you cement it right now the goal is to get you to the point and your training is beginning
right? The goal is to get you to the point that you can break down those words into their component
parts. Do you understand? So that when you come across words that are new, you’ve never seen
before, you can break them down yourself to derive the meaning, right? Fantastic. So it’s kind of a,
it’s an, that’s an advanced skill that you’ll develop. For now, what do you need to be doing?
you need to be focusing on these words learning them look at the fourth word down biblion oh
that’s nice that’s a book that’s a book right biblion look at the word underneath that doron
and understand that if you’re just starting i understand that this is fast for you i know
you’re looking at that word you’re like okay this is the one two three four fifth word down look at
it you’re like oh crap what is that first letter oh it’s a delta right then an omega following it
then a row then what is that again that’s an omicron and oh that last one is a v now i was on
a v it’s a new right i know that’s where you are doron doron okay so whatever it takes for you to
drill your ass drill it and get it so you get up to speed with these letters doron is a gift right
is a gift. Then we get three prepositions, ace, eck, and in. Ace, eck, and in. I want you to look
at ace. It means into. Eck means out of, and in means in or on, okay? Into, out of, and in. Those
are directional. You know those all directionals? Those are prepositions. See how it says prep in
the parentheses after it? That’s a preposition. New class of word for you, preposition. They’re
words of direction. Let me give you some examples in English. Into, on, over, under, prepositions.
And you’ll notice that ek can also be x. It just depends on what follows it. Because when you say,
why is that? Why do they have to screw things up like this? Because this language is melodic.
It has to run together. You understand? Greeks hate things. They will take off the end of a word
just to squeeze it onto the word in front of it because it sounds better, people.
You understand?
Here’s the expression of a Greek person, of an ancient Greek, okay,
who’s sitting there writing her lyric music when she hears English spoken.
Do you see?
Do you see?
It’s annoying, right?
When your language is fused with song, dude, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar,
those persians the same thing there’s bar bar bar bar bar bar bar there’s only two types of
people in the world those who can sing and those who can’t it’s gorgeous people now we’re gonna
have to get there we’re gonna have to get there through um through a uh bog trotting conduit so
just hang in there go i know i’m going long i know i’m going long but i want to finish this
Oh, they like it? Oh, you love it. Do you like this? Really? You love it? Oh, you’ve got to tell
me. Should we put it up when they like it? Right? Ergon. That’s a work. Think of ergonomics. Look
under that. Theos. God. Right? Chi. Chi. There’s a new type of word, a conjunction. It can also be
an adverb. When it’s a conjunction, it means and. When it’s an adverb, it means even. Don’t worry
about that just when you see chi most of the time it’s going to be and but sometimes it’s going to
be even and it’ll be obvious when there’s a difference okay chi chi is both this and that
both this and that chi chi both this and that and what i’m trying to do is i’m trying to pull you
into this ancient greek way of flow this flow this that you have to flow along with the word
right logos means word or speech but nobody now oh you know what i can do now that i’m using this
tech go here chewy okay people i’m i’m gonna go i’m gonna go to lsj just so i can scroll down
the definition of this one word okay because i just want you to see it i know many i’ve done
this with you before can they watch me okay watch this people i’m gonna put in logos here
i’m using english letters of course because that’s how the program works wait it won’t work until i
get to the final page so let me just get the let me just get to the final page okay okay that’s
what i need and i need to move okay one word people and i tell you it means word logos it’s
from the noun right verbal noun lego all right so you’re going to notice as you’re beginning to
learn greek that the majority of the words that you’re going to encounter are derived from verbs
the verb is the progenitor the verb is the originator all right the action is the parent
so logos here what is it what is the first definition they give you it’s a computation
or a reckoning did you does that a word no it’s an account public account look at number two
count reckoning number three measure tally number four esteem consideration or value put on a person
or thing that is what your logos is it is your value okay it is also a relation a correspondence
or a proportion a proportion it’s an explanation a plea a pretext right they talk it’s a court
term people it’s a legal term it’s a philosophical term look law rule of conduct it is the reason or
ground for something it is a formula what’s your logos galen oh it’s the and he spews out a whole
bunch of you know god don’t read too much galen um number seven law reason or law exhibited in
the world process now people look at this did any of you have any idea about what this word
logos would mean? Reason or law in the world process? Do you hear how the English are trying
to, oh God, they’re trying to grasp what that Greek concept is. And then all of these things
in blue people are all Greek quotes, right? Right? Oh my God. Look, did you know that there’s a
spermaticos logos. A spermatic logos. A spermatic logos. Does anybody know what a spermatic logos
is? Apparently it’s the generative principle in organisms. Your generative principle. I think I
have one of those. I think I have one of those. Look at number four. The inward debate of the soul.
The inward debate. I’m going to stop there. I’m just going to scroll down, people. Can they see
this scrolling, la-di-da-di-da-di-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and there we are at the end, with the theologian’s
entry in the bottom, right? Look at the phrase. Look at how it’s used in language, right?
What are the parts of speech, right? There are the ta-me-re-tu-lo-gu parts of speech.
Look, you can talk about metrics of various modes of expression.
Look, you musicians, this is for you, artistic and literary, various modes of expression.
Look at what this word here is in Greek, iambion, the iambic.
What is iambic metered like?
How is it expressed?
right there is a logos for it a mode of expression do you see what the greek mind was doing okay
do you see what the greek mind was doing all of that work and all of that time no i think that’s
it people look at the rest of these there’s a lot of nice definitions on there but but i think it’s
about our the end limits of our time so i’m going to um call it for today thank you for coming it is
my honor to bring you real time greek to bring you that ancient language in real time so you can sit
there as you’re learning it and as you’re just learning these letters you can see it being used
it’s my honor i’ve got one more of these before my mission and then i’ll be back with you so
let’s do this again tomorrow same time and chewy thank you for all the help today i know it’s been
a lot so we may do it should we do it an hour earlier i think we’ll do it an hour early because
it’s getting hot awfully fast i think we’ll do that let’s do let’s try tomorrow at eight let’s
try tomorrow at eight and see what happens okay i think we’ll try another early morning one tomorrow
a little bit earlier and see how these go people i know it’s it’s a pain in the neck for your
schedule of what you’re doing so um please hang in there with me until we get these figured out
That’s why it’s nice that they’re, you know, you can replay them.
All right.
Hail Satan.
Roll around like a zombie dude.
Eyes roll in the back of their head.
Eating the dead.
Blood drinkers.
Snow blind again.
On the microphone, one, two.
Orphic harmony on the harp.
It’s Donnie Darko.
Milking these motherfucking bricks out.
Teddy face putting in more work.
We’re politicians pulling your skirts.
Just dance a little bit.
Rugged, wugged, two shoes at the party
Dressed to kill
These motherfuckin’ drugs got him ill, baby
I’m Madea’s dead switch with the prick
Who brought these drugs?
The Magic Tomb
Source: Lady Babylon