241 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Hordes of Gog and Magog

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This is part 2 of a series of discussions on the symbolism of the far east with Richard Rohlin, as part of our Universal History series. In this episode we talk about the meaning of Gog and Magog and instances in history that gave rise to this image of the hordes breaching the wall. - Original video: https://youtu.be/jeL6IM6ZJYc - Part 1: Universal History: Beyond the Horizon: The Symbolism of the Far East | with Richard Rohlin: https://youtu.be/OoKxq9QFx2c - Full Universal History playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVX4HUUPrIY_M2uZP3yW6EEiod3fGD6FD Richard Rohlin’s work: - Richard Rohlin’s article on The Symbolic World blog: https://thesymbolicworld.com/articles/folk-stories-traditions/the-symbolism-of-st-dionysius-the-areopagite/ - Amon Sûl podcast (Exploring the Tolkien Legendarium with the Christian Faith): https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/amonsul =============== Books mentioned: - The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin Classics): https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Alexander-Romance-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140445609 - Apocalypse. An Alexandrian World Chronicle (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library): https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Alexandrian-Chronicle-Dumbarton-Medieval/dp/0674053079 - City of God (Image Classics) by St. Augustine: https://www.amazon.com/City-God-Image-Classics-Augustine/dp/0385029101 - The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Battle-C-S-Lewis/dp/006447108X - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged) by Edward Gibbon: https://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-Roman-Empire-Collection-ebook/dp/B00AP2XWA8 Podcasts mentioned: - Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History 43-47 – Wrath of the Khans Series ($12.99): https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-the-khans-series/ - Universal History: the Mystery of Ethiopia | with Richard Rohlin (Ethiopia #1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czy7MnDXOO0 - Lord of Spirits podcast (Ancient Faith Ministries): https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/lordofspirits Of relevance: Pentecost for the Zombie Apocalypse: https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/pentecost-for-the-zombie-apocalypse/ ============== - The Symbolic World website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com - Merch: http://www.thesymbolicworld.store - Language of Creation, by Matthieu Pageau: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Creation-Cosmic-Symbolism-Genesis-ebook/dp/B07D738HD8 Support this podcast: - Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ - Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos - Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau - Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Join the conversation: - Unofficial Facebook discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1989208418065298/ - The Symbolic World Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSymbolicWorld/ Social media links: - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson. My website designers, Anomalist Design: https://www.anomalistdesign.com/

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0:00.0	the gates of the north will be opened up and out will come the powers of the nations which
0:03.7	were enclosed within and the whole earth will reel from their face and men will cry aloud
0:07.8	and leave and hide themselves in the mountains and in the gaves among the gravestones and they will be deadened
0:12.1	with fear and many will perish for none will be to bury bodies for the nations coming from the north
0:16.4	eat the flesh of men and drink the blood of beasts like water and eat unclean things snakes and scorpions
0:21.9	and all abominable and disgusting beasts and the reptiles that creep upon the earth and brutal things
0:26.7	and dead bodies and the aborted fetuses of women and they will slaughter infants even producing them from
0:31.9	their wombs and they will boil the meat and eat it and they will corrupt the earth and befow it and deface
0:36.5	it and there will be no one able to stand before them. And basically this is the thing that
0:41.5	precipitates the end.
0:54.0	This is Jonathan Peugeot.
0:56.0	Welcome to the symbolic world.
0:58.0	So hello everybody. We are here with Richard Rowland once again, and he's wearing some great symbolic world merch of Ethiopian cross, which will be related to what we're going to talk about today.
1:21.4	Because today we're going to talk about Gog and Magog. We're going to talk about the crazy hordes of nomad, which come down from the steps and devastate the world and how this was inscribed mythologically in our different text and also how it kind of played out historically. So Richard, thanks for coming. I'm excited about this. Yeah, this is going to be, I mean, this is one of those, this is one of those topics where
1:46.2	there's like a kind of meta symbolism at play, which is when you start trying to talk about
1:51.3	the symbolism of the step hordes, there is a literal flood of information that just kind of
1:58.3	comes overwhelming and makes it impossible to talk about
2:01.5	in any kind of a structured way. But we're going to do our best today. We are going to start with
2:05.2	going back into the apocalypse of pseudometheus, because this has kind of been in some ways
2:11.1	an example of a universal history, which was extremely influential, both in the east and the west,
2:17.1	and which has all these
2:19.5	kind of narrative mythological images which can help us understand you know kind of how we can link
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