Unhinged Deep Dive Into The Secret History's Bacchanal

Oh I forgot we were doing this wow this is a much much much appreciated and waited for video if you follow me on Tik Tok you know that I love the secret history by Donna heart and if you follow me on Tik Tok which you should you know know just how much everyone was like please can you give us a video on the back andol and I got to serve so why don't we start by the Iconic first line that I simply could not go without the snow in the mountains was melting and budny had

been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation I mean that's how you start a book am I right or am I not right as you can see I have this book annotated to a fault I mean I was Finding every single lie that Richard tells us I was just going in for the history and the Literature quotes then the character arcs every single time I mean the relationships and this book are just so convoluted that I had my good friend Lee draw up a little graphic which we'll get

to later but back canals the sticker history and Real History that's what we're going to talk about today this video I hope is good and meets everyone's expectations of it I'm very nervous to film it but this will be my Magnus Alum if it turns out the way I want it to be it's going to be unhinged it's going to be a deep dive and trust me I have lost a lot of hours looking at this book and at the back and all the fictional one and the real one and the ways in which Henry

our sweet little boy that does not know about the moonlanding because he's so in his own world of literature and the Greeks and the Romans my dog is barking up a storm right now and this mic picks up everything I'm Very sorry about that anyways Henry does not know everything as Richard makes it believe so shall We Shall We Begin I have my computer here which you'll forgive me for but I have a 20 Page script for this particular video and um my memory at 23 years old I am 23 yes is not the best

so you will forgive me but I will look sometimes into my computer as we dive into this unhinged Deep dive into the back and all of the secret history and real history so let's begin by dissecting the secret history all right I'll give you a brief synopsis of the whole book spoilers ahead of course so if you haven't read this magnificent book you should read it and then come back to it come back to this video and talk about it with me but a brief synopsis then we'll do some characters synopsis I guess it's the

word or Arcs um then we'll dive into the graphic my lovely friend Lee made which I have on my whiteboard and it's amazing and we'll go into Julian and bunny a little bit I'm just giving you like the summary as if this was my My article being published on an academic paper or something but we we am going to give you all of that and then we'll go into their attempts at a back and all what actually was there back and all then Real History the Sim similarities between the secret History and real history and

conclusion so it's going to be a long video bear with me I am good company and the secret history is good company and real history is the best company as always I'll be giving you a spark notes version of this book because my God it's a long book with very long chapters and my mind my memory is not where it was in 1983 Richard papen transfers from a college in his hometown Plano California to a college in Vermont Hampton College after A little bit of a strange ordeal in the college and acclimating to the space

since he's a Californian dude he's not used to such cold weather um he kind of gets obsessed with a group of mysterious students and there's five of them and after getting obsessed and having some experience in the Greek language not the ancient Greek he gets into a Class A very exclusive class with Professor Julian marrow and these five Other students Henry Camila Charles Francis and bunny I I'm not forgetting anyone no the other students are extremely wealthy at first glance and Richard attempts to hide his much much much lower background from them because of course

someone in the 0s which by the way I thought this was in the 70s this I don't know I was shocked to find out this was in the 80s Richard feels like an outsider I mean he's poor amongst the rich He's a student of Greek in a class of ancient Greek and the Latin people that are very proficient in both languages I mean the iconic FRC is going KU and him going what and he's like nothing because he doesn't know Latin and at times Henry and the Gang will dive into Latin so Richard doesn't understand

what they're talking about but he makes an impression on bunny and bunny is the First one to really take in Richard into the group once Richard starts getting invited to spend weekends with Francis country house he begins to feel more a part of the group as the months pass by over winter break Richard remains at Hampton continuing to work for a psychology Professor to earn money again wealth and status this book has a lot of messages concerning class struggle and hierarchies which we'll talk about later on he lives for free in a warehouse with A

hippie again this is why I thought it was in the 70s um and he has no heat he barely eats the dude is on the verge of death at this point Richard suffers from a cold and exhaustion until he's found by Henry who has returned from his trip from Rome quite early and that's strange that's very very strange because he went to Italy with bunny and he's returning earlier than what was agreed upon and Bunny talked up the storm about this trip he was so excited to to be going to Italy with Henry and now

we'll talk about the hierarchies of money once we go into the white board and the Character Are because my God it is so clear so clear after Richard moves back into his dorm he recuperates he returns to Henry's apartment to look for a textbook there he finds that Henry has booked four tickets from Boston to Argentina and that's very odd because it was sudden and it it was only one way so where are they going going he knows where they're going but why are they why are they going to Argentina why is it only four

tickets and why is he being left behind Richard is not very keen on being left out and he is left out on the majority of things in the secret History Richard is very anxious to see them go he I mean he's obsessed with Camila so He's really just not happy that she's going to leave him and never see her again so when class comes and they're all there he's like oh thank God they they did not go to Argentina but Henry being the smartest guy that he is confided in Richard that they plan to leave

the country for nefarious reasons but but he says well I didn't have enough money to go to Argentina and spend my life there you know so that's Why we didn't end up going um Henry tells Richard how they had a back and all that's the point of this video at Francis country's house um that's that they have a back Canal we'll see the four of them the four that were were supposed to go into Argentina say they achieved the back andol that they saw dionis that they completed the ritual but it ended on the death

of a farmer near Francis country house though bunny did not Participate in this be andol he participated in the trials of the banol he finds out about the death of the farmer and he starts connecting the dots because bunny prior to Henry's depiction of him and Richard's depiction of him because he idolizes Henry so much so their depictions are very similar bunny is quite a smart dude so he puts two into together and realizes that it was the gang that killed the Farmer so he starts just blabbering about it trying to make them feel as

uncomfortable as possible though in his nature he was doing more so not because it was a crime but because he did not participate in it he was left out just as Richard was and Bunny did not like that at all I mean in the end he does go into a state of this is wrong they kill killed someone I mean they're criminals they have no Morals um but like what did you expect from a bunch of 20y olds that glorify and are isolated from the world yeah bunny is the only one that is not isolated

from the world Richard wasn't isolated from the world he then becomes isolated and then when Henry starts to to distance himself a little bit from Richard Richard once again enters the world so Richard is like in and out of the sphere of isolation that the gang is but it's all very very Weird and then we get the major Catalyst which is the death of bunny Corin which one of the reasons being oh so he was just annoying us he was just annoying us and I mean he didn't participate in the back and all because he

had a grilled cheese and a milkshake which yummy uh but the reason for killing him was because he I'm sorry for like not getting it out but the reason for him not participating in the back and out was because he ate Something in the cafeteria the reason they killed him was because he ate a little bit of ice cream from Henry's fridge and just put it back instead of taking it out and putting it on a little bowl and eating it out of a bowl no he ate from the container and Henry was just pissed

at that because Henry just does not live in the same world that we do so he thought okay I murdered someone so what two Henry toys with the idea of poisoning and this is when I cannot Defend Henry anymore because he poisons um animals dogs which made me so mad so mad like don't he's irredeemable like 50% of the book I'm like Henry Winter the men that you are you're stupid but I love you and then he just becomes unhinged because he thinks he saw dionysis my God so he toys with the the idea of

poisoning but eventually decides that pushing bunny over a ravine would be much more poetic and much more brutal And efficient he just can't deal with bunny anymore so pushing him off would be top top tier Richard is not supposed to join them although on the day of the planned attack Richard finds a no from bunny in the library stating that he has gone to a party this note has caused a little bit of commotion on the people that discuss secret history I won't talk about it here but basically people wonder if this note was Am

I wondering or did I read my memory like I said not okay however bunny does arrive into the Ravine Richard goes to the Ravine to tell them that oh Bunny's not coming went to a party so they're like a we can kill a person today oh what would you do now and then bunny does come and they do kill him and it's so sad actually his death is really sad because he's like oh hey guys what are you doing here and then they just kill him With he's listen bunny is not a normal dude like

a good dude but he he didn't deserve to die much less at the hands of his friends I mean what the hell snow begins to fall after Bunny's dead like the iconic opening so his body is not found for several days and the group is very like oh we got to away with it we got to away with another one and during that time the FBI my God he like the Cor pulled all the stops the FBI got Involved because they thought there was some kind of drug thingy or satanic thingy happening at this time

because everything in the 70s and 80s apparently is satanic um so the FBI showed up and they start questioning the group about it and the group especially Francis Charles and Henry but especially Charles now that I think about it Charles is white white Like repressed with it he tries as much as he can to steer them into the direction of cloak rurn which was a friend and drug dealer of bunny which is like you killed someone and then you want to frame the murder on someone else like what not good people not good people we're

not dealing with good people okay from Richard's perspective by the way this could all be just a fabrication on his mind I don't know after the snow Melts however Bunny's body is found and his classmates go to his family's house to grieve him have a funeral you know all the things you do for a funeral and it was very odd everyone was just weird Richard was weird they were all doing drugs I just when they they return to campus they do not spend as much time together as they did before I mean killing two people

inevit inevitably inevitably oh my God this word inevitably will Separate a gang of friends I guess especially when one of the core people of the group is killed by the group itself so yeah I I understand how they got separated a little bit especially when the police was on their trails Charles begins drinking heavily and he ends up in the hospital Francis has panic attacks he tries to off himself quite a bit and it's quite sad um Richard begins to realize that his friends such as the fact that Charles and Camila have an incestuous relationship

which will get on and that camil and Henry have been manipulating Richard all along okay Richard begins to realize that his friends or supposed friends are not all that seemed to him in the first place I mean Francis has a lot of panic attacks and tries to you know step into another world which Richard is an a-hole about by the Way I I have to breathe in very deeply whenever I think about how Richard treats Fran's panic attacks like yeah Francis killed two people I understand like there's not a lot of Morality In that but

the way he treats his friend his closest friend in the group as having mental problems is like G so annoying like okay uh then Henry and Camila also have a relationship going on like throughout this whole time that Richard was preved to because Richard is obsessed with Camila so he only saw the image of Camila and not what was happening right in front of him and he thinks that they've been manipulating him this whole time especially Henry which I mean sort of and Charles and Camila of course have an incestuous relationship which we'll get on

once we get to the white board Richard and Francis take Charles to the country house as Charles is increasingly paranoid about what Henry will do to him because there's not two without a third and honestly Charles was quite right to think that Henry was going to kill him next because I mean you're both doing the same person um Charles is quite abusive to his sister and they hate each other with a passion so I would be SC scared for my Life as well if I was Charles I would be I would be so Charles disappears

when Henry calls to the country house and Richard and Francis go to the hotel where camil has been staying to look for Charles there they find Camila and Henry who had begun a romantic relationship or had been having one previous L we don't know because again this is from Richer's perspective and he of course wants to think of Camila as a pure innocent girl Charles arrives with a gun because he's A southern boy and he's just a cowboy and Henry gets a hold of him because he's a mammoth of a man he's huge and Henry

Whispers something that haunts every reader of the secret history because we don't know what it is and we want to know what it is but he whispers something to Camila and then when they all think he's going to kill Charles there's a knock on the door of the hotel and he offs himself and it's not pretty the four of Them of course grew apart one her Henry is dead their Augustus their God is dead so after years have passed Richard is a professor of some kind of Literature Like medieval I believe and Camila is stuck

at home which was something that she did not want and it's quite a sad ending for Camila I mean you did kill two people so I gu I guess you kind of deserve it but she's stuck at home taking care of her grandmother Charles is just off and drinking Across the US um Francis attempts to off himself several times uh not a good life not a good life I don't even know where to begin with a character relationship so let's go into the Whiteboard here's the graphic beautiful isn't it listen this pen ran out of

ink and I just bought it so we're going to excuse that little friend that is missed there but let's Dive in cuz this is fun as hell let me just put my blanket on I think my cat wants to be on the blanket as well you want to come out baby because it's cold and it's winter and it's it's the perfect Vibe for the secret history anyways so let's start with our our gustas our beautiful boy our King if you will come here I know you want to come up I know I know I know

there you are okay so Henry He's in love with Camila Camila is in love with him with Richard I mean Richard thinks of him as a friend Henry is like me towards Richard he's like okay he's there he's kind of Psychopathic like me so okay two Psychopaths then Richard his friends with Charles and Charles's friends with Richard she's praying I love you so much okay then Charles Charles is friends with benefits with Francis and Francis is with love with Charles very much in love with him push and pull Charles is very much push and pull

then we have a hate Mutual hate relationship between Henry and Charles we have an incestuous relationship very abusive as well between the Twins Camila and Charles Camila says sees Richard as a friend Richard sees camil with a ftiz that is so awful to behold I just want to squeeze his neck whenever I'm reading him and finally Francis has A crush and is then the friend of Richard and Richard is a friend of Francis but can can Richard really be a friend of anyone that's a main question then we have Julian Julian is their God Julian

is their Zeus anything that Julian says they eat it up he's a father figure very much so especially to Henry now this is going to be important because when they tell Julian what happened and Julian's like oh I got to get out of here they're Going to blame me for this somehow because you kind of did the do have the blame but whatever so Henry is just heartbroken and I think that contributed to Henry offing himself if you know what I mean and finally we have bunny which is the main foe if we're talking about

Shakespearean terms he's a foe because one he is outside of the group's main core he has a girlfriend outside of it relationship with Maran he is popular he has a lot of friends he doesn't really Like care about what's happening but he's very manipulative which tends to um which tends to portray itself in the way that he asks for money and Henry Charles Francis and Richard which is just hilarious because Richard is their poor but bunny is also a rich dude that is actually poor um my cat is biting my feet okay Tarantino he's Rich

supposedly but he's actually poor and that's one of the things that I think contributed to him being killed because both Bunny and the farmer are the two kills and what does that mean two people with low status in the hierarchy which is Julian Henry uh Francis the twins bunny Richard are killed Richard is saved because he lies through his teeth and says he comes from this Hollywood family He saved by status because they think the core group thinks that the hierarchy actually is Henry Francis the twins Richard and Bunny at the end in terms of

money so the two people that are killed end up being the two poor people and that's very interesting very very interesting so like I said the book has this secret message not so secret but when you really think about it there is this class struggle message going on about how the rich at Rich and they're Immune to consequences and the poor end up dead or in Richard's case if you lie through your teeth and pretend that you're actually rich well then maybe you can have a stable life but everyone around you just is corrupted from

the inside out and that's what happens with Frances and the twins once Henry is dead they have no life purpose anymore more without their leader Henry is our King he is our Augustus he is a Roman man pretending to Be a Greek he's the richest of them all the prodical son though he is so dumb when it comes to Real World Knowledge again the moon landing sir how do you not know that represents himself as extremely self assured intelligent he is a learner of everything though he did not take his SATs because he doesn't doesn't

believe in SATs again sir you're not above everyone else but apparently he is because he is in college um I wish that Was how things worked uh he's very good at what he loves to do which is languages so you see him a lot in Richard's POV going over greek latin um they mentioned that he translated uh religious books he's just a really good and intelligent and has a good head for languages but he's dumb as hell when it comes to being your own person and knowing when and how to stop and knowing what's Right

and wrong he doesn't know how to separate the two because he was spoiled from birth he was sick when he was young so again spoiled as hell and to make it all better everyone just coddles him no one ever says no to Henry so Henry doesn't really know what real life consequences are Henry doesn't seem to live in the modern era he is instead In This Very fictitious World created in his head and historical world as well I mean Again he is insanely obsessed with the Romans and the Greeks I see him so much as

a Roman man pretending to be a Greek man like you know the saying that the Romans took everything from the Greeks and just perfected it that's Henry to he's a Roman man that really loves what the Greeks did and just wants to be Greek himself but is a Latin man instead so he can't really do that he sees himself instead as a part of a Greek drama Roman in a Greek drama which is Why he's so intent on having a banol Henry admits to Richard that before the backal he felt he lived in a world

of books um so he was stuck inside in his own head a lot and Bunny tells us that as well that Henry because of his injury was never really quite popular he's very cold and LOF as is he doesn't appreciate the other people around him like a normal person would he doesn't really Converse Converse with people he doesn't party he just the the way he meet the Way Richard tells us that they met is precisely the way that Henry is he's very you know he's he doesn't he he doesn't really trust Outsiders he doesn't care

for Outsiders he doesn't even see Outsiders he knows his people and there is no one else so to be inside of Henry Winter's head and really know him you have to be someone meaningful someone interesting someone that is intelligent that cares for the same things that he does and Richard molds Himself to be that for Henry because he admires Henry a lot because of this Henry and the back andol is precisely what he tells us to be he's so obsessed with books and the ancient myths and what the Ancients did that he performed the back

andol and tried it multiple times until he dims that he actually had one and saw Diana says um Richard suspects that this motive was why Henry ended up killing the farmer And himself because he was trying to embody the Duty and sacrifice so revered by Greeks like when you do wrong you off yourself though to me he appears much more Roman than a Greek like I said his trip to Rome with bunny was the Catalyst of it all as I mean as a true Roman in your city in your place he is just compl completely

Bamboozled by bunny being an annoying American in a foreign country and just wasting and wasting and wasting Henry's money and he gets one of the headaches and Bunny finds out about everything because he's pretentious and writes in his diary in Latin which is hilarious by the way but he realized I think in Italy just how cold he has to be in the future I mean Italy for Henry was the click in okay I'm in Rome I'm where great people that I read about used to Be I need to be like them so in order to

be like them I need to let go of modern morals and act like a sto like a Roman man would this mother effer is annoying me so I will have to do something about it this is how he became so devilishly cold and murderous in regards to bunny now Francis Francis is our Prince so we have the king then we have the prince he is Just a little happy boy at the beginning of the book with a lot of problems in his family though but he's just described by Richard as being very flamboyant he's not

openly gay but we know that he's gay you know bunny was an a-hole again to Francis because of that he had a relationship sort of with Charles he tried to have a relationship with Richard maybe with Henry as well who knows but Henry gives me such hetero 100% hetero vibe that I don't think even Francis would go for that um they span most he's very as Henry is an ancient Roman and Greek man to me Francis reads very much like a Victorian boy like The Dramatics of it all the sleeves the shirts he's very much

Victorian in a way so they spend most of their time in Francis Country House a grandio house with acres and Acres attached to it where they perform their back canile and run a muck doing God knows what I wish I had such a place in my 20 something year old that I am now to just go about and rest and study Latin and read my sources Greek and Latin sources but unfortunately I do not have rich friends I don't have much friends at all sad I do have lovely Lee and we both go to the

library and talk about this we have the twins Camila and Charles they're Southern Charm and money Baby they have money but not as much money as the East ghost babies though they had a secret of their own they're in Sous relationship they like to Tumble around in bed together Charles is very abusive towards Camila from what Richard tells us we don't know Camila's part in that but yeah she was very much abused by her brother though the insexual was tumbling around the that I believe was consensual it's that's so we have the Roman pretending to

be a Greek we have a Victorian boy and now we have a Biblical sort of Tale in the twins there's a lot of mixture of themes in character arcs in this book because Charles like for example the story of ab and Cain he becomes rageful vindictive he wants to kill he he is just monster of a being and Camila is pure and sweet and Godlike in mat perspective and just a sweet little girl but nothing but pure in her heart nothing but sweetness she's just a candy To taste I'm very saddened with Camila's character because

see Richard sexualizes women so much in bug Judy um his girlfriends but Camila he is weird about Camila like really weird about Camila it's a fetish he has for her it's like oh her skin is so white I want to touch her but I'm afraid I'll hurt her and then when she hurts her foot she he's just like and then Henry obviously goes to take care of his girl and he's like Whoa whoa like I can't she really is a deer being hunted by the boys which we'll talk about in the back Canal she sexualized

the entire book and this also depicts what happens in Academia especially in the man especially in the humanities apartments in Academia the woman not not this one come Camila is always like seen as lesser than the man like when Richard says oh In a group of boys she was never like never felt herself be lesser than blah blah well she did because I mean she's the only girl first and foremost they all sexualizer to a point and they all see her as a Camila she studying what AES sweeth heart woman studying how how could they

bunny I want to live Richard to the end bunny if you look at him out of Richard's account he's a beloved guy on Campus but Richard tells us he is an awful human being like he doesn't pay for expensive dinners that he takes people I love that scene so much it's horrendous the audacity to go to dinner and then go oh forgot my wallet and that being his stick is just pure comedy pure comedy and he again was so taken by Richard's lies or maybe he was just trying to see Richard was lying um about

his new money kind of feel because they're all old money and Richard was Pretending to be new money so bunny was like let me catch him in the lie so I don't know if he was being smart about it but bunny is very sexist he's homophobic he's racist he's an a-hole to his friends he's manipulative he's all of that it's not a good dude no one is a good person in this book but he does have outside relationships again with Marion his Girlfriend which we just gloss by when he died just gloss by her grief

and what happened like what and cloak I don't I didn't write cloak here but cloak and they try to blame cloak on Bunny's death which is just not what weird the people closest to him Bunny's loud personality gluteny and offensive beliefs become extremely grading hailing from a family of old money in Connecticut which actually has no money at all but their name um bunny has the institutional knowledge of wealth and confidence to act as if he is as privilege as Henry because Henry is the richest of the mall he comes from like a tycoon family

of Swords um while he's not self-conscious about it he does realize that he has to play that game in order to be amongst the upper class while not an exceptionally bright student because he I believe has um dyslexia that doesn't make him an exceptionally not bright student I think that's just Richard's stupid way of looking at bunny because I think bunny is really intelligent he knows how to play the game very well much better than Richard does but Richard is adept at reading people and digging into their deepest insecurities now finally Richard is our narrator

and he's a he's a damn liar if I showed you every single page of my secret history annotated book the amount of red ink on that book of me just going he's lying here he's also lying here lying here lying here lying here having grown up in California in a lower middle class family Richard has a romantic view of the ancient and elegant of the and of the East Coast families as well I mean wealth comes from the East Coast it's old old money and having to study such A profoundly Humanities driven course I mean

a course that only has six students that is extremely old money of a thing to do he is extremely snobby and hypocritical he has a disdain for anyone with with a similar background to him I mean the way he treats Judy POI is insane to me like she was just trying to be nice and she was the coolest girl in canvas you were just a dork okay my God though he took ancient Greek only out of convenience at His college in California he becomes determined to join Julian's class because he's a snob and he wants

to be like the other snobs in the board so even after Richard is accepted into the group he can still never truly be himself around them he's still lying he's constantly lying in order to be accepted he acts as though he's just as wealthy as the rest of them especially as Henry which dude you wish uh for fear of not being accepted because he say he Sees very much what happens when one of them money that does not have the same money as the other in the group he's the way he is treated by the

others in the group because doesn't have the same kind of money he sees that he doesn't want that so he pretends to be rich in a way and have family problems in order to spend winter break back in Hampton college and not go to California which is should obviously Have flagged to the others that oh this dude is just lying to us but he is the epitome of a dude looking inside a window into this friend group he idolizes them to a degree of psychopathy and Insanity that makes him like so weird and like a

stalker in a way because he he didn't give up until he was a part of their group which dude okay weirdo he is's kind of a chameleon he Transformed himself self in order to be liked by the group so it's hilarious to me that like when it all fell apart he was just in back in California being like now what I killed a person now what it's boring not killing people H he's just there looking at the rich wanting to be rich but never being rich Let's go into the back and all the back andile

begins to take place over Richard's head after Julian gives The class an idea Henry becomes obsessed with it so through pages 42 to 45 this is when Julian gives the core group the idea of a back and all we have in page 42 Richard saying to us the reader I thought of the Bak a play whose violence and savagery made me uneasy as did the sadism of his bloodthirsty God compared to the other tragedies which were dominated by recognizable principles of Justice no matter how harsh it was a Triumph of barbarism over Reason dark chaotic

inexplicable this is just an indication of what the entire book is Julian then goes on to say and it's a Temptation for any intelligent person and especially for perfectionist such as the Ancients and ourselves to try to murder the Primitive emotive ative self but that is a mistake I don't think Richard listened to this last phrase but that is a mistake Because when Francis asks why and Julian goes on to explain everything that is wrong with it like for example of the Romans he goes on to say that the Emperors think for example of tiberious

the ugly stepsons trying to live up to the command of his stepfather Augustus think of the tremendous impossible strain he must have undergone following the footsteps of a savior a God the people hated him no matter how hard he tried he was never good enough Could never be rid of the hateful self and finally the floodgates broke he was Swept Away on his perversions and he died old and mad lost in the pleasure Gardens of Capri not even happy there as one might hope but miserable then he goes on to say that um tiberious before

he died wrote a letter to the Senate saying that may all the gods and goddesses visit me with more more utter destruction than I feel I am daily suffering that is so dramatic tiberious Jesus Christ dude you won the Battle of being the next Emperor just try and be more happy about it Jesus then he goes on to say Julian goes on to say think of those who came after him Cal and narrow the whole dynasty of jul of the Julian claudians they are all very dramatic men and they all love to be theatrical about

their whales and woes and everything in between um starting from Julius Caesar ending to narrow my God the blood that Ran in that family was dramatic as hell he then paused the Roman genius and perhaps the Roman flaw he said was an obsession with order one sees it in their architecture their literature their laws this Fierce denial of Darkness andreason chaos he laughed easy to see why the Romans usually so tolerant of foreign religions persecuted the Christians mercilessly how absurd to think a common criminal had risen from the dead how appalling that his Followers celebrated

him by drinking his blood the logic of it frightened them and they did everything they could to crush it in fact I think the reason they took such drastic steps was because they were not only frightened but also terrible attracted to it I mean drinking blood out of the body of a God come on prag pragmatists are often strangely superstitious for all the logic who lived in more abject Terror of the Supernatural than the Romans the Greeks were different they had a passion for order and symmetry much like the Romans but they knew how foolish

it was to deny the the Unseen World the old gods emotion Darkness barbarism he looked at the ceiling for a moment his face almost troubled do you remember what we were speaking of earlier of how Bloody terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful he said it's a very Greek Idea and a very profound one beauty is Terror whatever we call beautiful we quiver before it and what could be more terrifying and beautiful to souls like the Greeks or our own than to lose control completely throw off the chains of being for an instant to shatter

the accident of our mortal selves irpi speaks of the manads head thrown back throat through the Stars more like deer than human Being to be absolutely free one is quite capable of course of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways but how glorious to release them in a single burst to sing to scream to dance Barefoot in the woods in the dead of night with no more awareness of mortality than an animal these are powerful Mysteries the bellowing of bulls Springs of Honey bubbling from the ground if we are strong

enough in our souls we can rip Away the veil and look that naked Terrible Beauty right in the face let God consume us devour us and string our bones then spit us out reborn we were all leaning forward motionless my mouth had fallen open I was aware of every breath I took and that to me is a terrible seduction of the dionic that's a terrible word to read my God Dion Di of diis the back andile okay God damn it hard for us to imagine that fire of pure being if you can see this page

I annotated it a bunch but this is the start of the back and all Julian is as much at fault here for the back and all as the rest of them he gave them the idea and remember every single word that I read because we're going to see them being repeated Julian gave a bunch of 20year olds there are already Julian gave a Bunch of 20 Julian gave a bunch of 20year olds that are already spoiled and isolated from the outside world that live inside books in ancient mids and the glory of the past that

want something greater that want to be something else that want to achieve something that no one else on Earth is achieving right now he gave them the present he said go have a ritual for Diana says if you want this Is like the best thing ever he gave them the idea let's not go against that Julian their father figure gave them the idea for this ritual they were stupid enough to do it the idea came to the leader of the group of course on page 182 I passed it whoops on page 182 Henry as he's

confessing to Richard everything that has transpired he says well as far as I knew It it hadn't been done for 2,000 years he paused when he saw he hadn't convinced me after all the appeal to stop being yourself even for a little while is very great he said to escape the cognitive mode of experience to transcend the accident of one's moment of being there are other advantages more difficult to speak of things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact like what well it's not Call a mystery for

nothing Henry said Henry sor take my word for it but one mustn't underestimate the Primal appeal to lose oneself lose it utterly and in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life outside a prison of mortality in time that was attractive to me from the first even when I knew nothing about the topic and approach it less as a potential as a potential mess than anthropologist Let's dive in into what they tried to make of a back and all and how they supposedly succeeded here are the methods the gang Henry Francis the Twins

and bunny triy to have a back and all hyms sacred objects wearing chitons drinking wine vigils fasting eyeb bti chewed floral leaves that Richard found in the kitchen and cleansing their bodies with water what work what worked was water poured over Their heads three days of fasting Henry then has a prophetic dream and finally they had to really believe that they would be able to um they would be able to do such a ritual but the actual back now that the secret history gang things happened um was filled with torches dizziness singing wolves howling a

bull bellowing in the dark familiar the river ran white a film in fast motion the moon Waxing and waning the clouds rushing across the Sky this is a passage of Time Vines growing around them letting the trees like snakes again familiar the boys hunt a deer in the form of Camila again familiar and of course the sex ritual and of course the sex rituals as ritual so Gastly points out finally they saw dionisis but they call it a banal the Roman term instead of Bak the Greek so they go for the god bakos the goddess

of wine for the Romans but they said that they saw dionisis the Greek One a little weird we'll get into it and then they end up killing someone a farmer of a lower class individual who did them no harm the disposal of the body to sheer brutality of their crime it's horrendous now this was the secret history and their backal shall we look at real history now then story of Panos and bakos comes out of the Greek myth and is situated in a Greek meu of dionisis bakus symbolized the apolitical dimension of human existence as

it manifests in ir's tragedy the Bak like we talked about in the book Like Richard thought about in the book and then Julian mentioned it to get them excited about doing such a ritual so how did the Balia make its way to Rome Levy claims that an unknown Greek came first to Aura who was a priest of nocturnal rights of Secrets and that later the rights were Transformed by a priestess in Campania there is archaeological evidence of dionisis in aturia and Campania and he had been established in poly a cult in Magna Gia since the

SE since the 6th Century BC now Frank suggests that the cult was brought to Rome by Greek slaves from tanum and lri who had been captured during the second pic War but um toin B widens the suggestion by describing a massive demographic shift of slaves and refugees alike so basically the god and The rituals of the Bak of dionisis transformed itself into bakos and the Balia in Rome because of a large social Gathering of people that believed in such rituals and in such a god they both argue that the Balia came to Rome by Greek

migrations so not by Romans the Balia came to Rome the center of the empire because of all of these things it was inevitable with the city's growing importance here Liv's account stands up to reason Magna graia compania And nura having been in Rome's sphere of influence over A Century Of course the 6th Century um and then very much long before what happened in 186 BC Dianes had been called Liber in Rome since 496 BC and was honored in traditional Roman Cults but had long since been romanized by the Senate and the pontifical pontif yeah Pon

and then and then and dionisis had been called Liber dionisis had been called Liber in Rome since 496 BCE and the Romans and the Roman Cults they romanized the god dionisis into liba by the Senate and the pontifical college difference between Liber and the Balia was that the Balia were ecstatic mystery rights but even more ecstatic was Magna mat the big mother K and she was welcomed by the Senate with the highest honors in 204 BC so 200 years later almost 300 years later at the advice of the cilene oracles Rome And at the advice

of the civilan oracles Rome sent CPO at the advice at the advice of the cine Oracle Rome sent cpio nasika to bring Kile to Peru when she arrived she was greeted by a great celebration and taken to the Palatine where her Temple was completed in 191 BC the orgiastic rights of the castrated crossdressing G certainly did not appeal to the conservative Roman Tast Romans are much more conservative than their Greek counterparts but The Cult of kilia was restricted and supervised by Roman magistrates only one priest and one Priestess and one annual procession were allowed like

when other gods had many more rights throughout the year throughout the calendar while Roman citizens were forbidden from its research and practices and the wildest RS were banned entirely Liber was a Traditional cult and magnam mat was a mystery cult but here is the point both were state regulated so when Lear became bakus or dionisis dionisis had been the most famous God in the ancient times I mean he was inescapable he was so popular because he was the god of theater of wine which contrary to the ancient assertion that it had nothing to do with

dionysis he was permeated in B in the bakic Themes by 186 BC the theater had appeared in Rome and the earliest Latin literature includes playw writes from this period including anos navius and ploutus platus is important because his comedies are some of the first Roman literature sources that mention bakus the god bakus the Roman version of Liber and dionisis and the nearest source to the events that occurred in in 186 BC he catered to the bakic references that appear and are are clearly Pejorative in Rudin the slave tralo asks a group of fishermen if they

had seen the scoundrel who cheated his master and described him as a BOS type hateful to Gods and Men vicious and evil Laria a cook named eel after being put to work Runs Out to the kitchen crying deut of Dion's me and my boys have been taking some back beating plaus be two classic Roman puns in bakes a comedy about two sisters both named bakis bakis the first lover pisto Clos senses that the sisters Are manipulating him and declares I'm afraid of you B contes and bakal bakis later in the play pisto slave Leos comes

out of the bakes house shocked at their immoral behavior and tells the audience that the these sisters bakis aren't bisas they're Bak in Roman comedy bakic was a colloquial insult denoting violent frenzies and sexual deviant by low status immoral people to call someone back was to describ or her as the worst kind of human Being you can see why they chose to go with dionis in the secret book right but hidden in the message of them calling it a bakanal was that they were the worst kind of human beings so in mid Republican Rome there

was kind of an experience being had that was quite similar to oit's thieves ID is a part of the Augustine period however but the experience is much similar the Rival of a cult of bakus which merged with ital's Cult of Liber most likely sometime Towards the end of 3rd Century BC um not much is known about the actual Balia like Henry said but as with all mystery religions doings of the worshippers have remained mysterious but it is clear that after an initial period of Toleration this happens with everything you tolerate first you let it be

and then the government is like no you don't get that anymore so after that the Roman senate concluded that certain boundaries Of Law and Order were being breached by cult members and issue a decree against the Bak associations responsible for organizing the worship to begin with it is clear that the senatorial intervention was not directed against bakus as a foreign Divinity I mean the Romans were famous for having foreign divinities in their space Isis was a beloved goddess and she's not of the Greek realm or the Roman realm she's from Mesopotamia she's loved in Rome

rather the Senate seems to have been acting in particular against the behavior of cult members in relation to each other and not in relation to the god Rome wished therefore to preclude the possibility that cult could serve as vehicles for achieving local solidarity the prohibitions of the decree suggest that the target was less the religious practices as such than the possibility of political fraternization because so Many people fraternizing in a cult so many important people fraternizing in a cult is dangerous for the state because they share ideas they have something in common alliances are built

indeed the decree makes no effort to bend the worship of bakus entirely only to specify the conditions of worship what Roman officials seem to have feared was the possibility that unless brought under senatorial control the cult might serve as a vehicle for Anti-roman politics and the migrants the Greek migrants might take over Rome there's always that fear with the Romans that their enemies that the people they conquered will rise up against them arguably the shift from ER ered emphasis on illicit sex on ID's focus on power politics that is mirrored in the way their respective

figures of panthos react to the arrival of bakus reflect this concern The account of the historian Levy is offering the modern reader a vivid and cacious account of what happened in which sex Intrigue and xenophobia register insistently it is in fact a Chronicle of the affair shot through with a bunch of Augustine moral legislation and moral views so he's Liv Leia is writing in the time of Augustus so let's say 20 BC um 20 yeah let's say 20 BC 20 to 15 BC we Didn't don't actually know when he was writing augustas was actively pursuing

people that were against the Roman morals and moral mayorum and so Levy is looking back in history as he is writing history with that thought in his mind if if that makes sense it's a very big mistake for an historian to do but that's how historians of the time did things so I I had I can't criticize Livy in that amount idiom in which Ley describes what the bakos cult members Practice is parallel with pantho characterizations of bakans and their rights in ID's account the theme of sexual license registers with particular emphasis when wine had

inflamed their minds and night and the mingling of males with females and young with old had destroyed all sense of modesty every variety of theery began to be practiced since each one had to hand the form of pleasure to which his nature was most inclined the denigration continues with Accusations of trickery and fraud in terms of pantheos and the imputation of magic fraudes um magical frauds political conspiracy and in and even ritual murder followed by the sacrilegious disposal of the victim's bodies reminding you of anyone Lev's rhetoric against this evil finds an analogy in pantheus

outrage against the bakos and his followers in ID both conceive of the cult's propagation in terms of territorial encroachment though Pano's metaphor of choice is military conquest whereas Levy is spreading pestilence it's just annoying you know to the people of Rome it's the destructive Factor the destructive force of this wickedness spread from aturia to Rome like a contagion it's a virus to Li Roman society or societal groups or any society for that matter selects only a very limited number of Concepts as constit as constituent of its value system and embodying Society Reason those that do

not meet the criteria for the Roman way of being are completely outside of it they are pushed away again do we remember what I said about the class struggles yeah yeah who is pushed away who is constantly feeling out of place Richard bunny tries his best to not be pushed away and ends up being pushed away and out of a goddamn Ravine so very literal in that sense for Instance according to Conventional Roman selection it was unreasonable for women to vote to be invested with political power or to go to war Camila everyone this does

not mean that the Romans could not theoretically conceive of the position of women in this ways again cam anyone she's there she can do those things but they don't want her to they find it sweet and heart so heartwarming that she is making an effort to do those things the position of women in these Ways um societal pressure would prevent such a choice of alternative Concepts from being put into practice Roman religion was not inde dependent of society religion exists because of society John shade has aply remarked there was in fact no such thing as

Roman religion only a series of Roman religions as many Roman religions there as there were social groups a warning not to generalize is provided by the B movement of 18 6 BC Its leaders and followers may have been Aristocrats or at least belonged to the socially privilege hence why the Roman senate was so afraid of them communing with each other of them forming alliances in a cult that wasn't Roman per se that wasn't allowed that was so pure and liberating in a way so Greek so the actual participation of the higher strata of the Roman

society would well explain the extraordinary attention that the Bak rituals took um and were Paid for by the senate in the Balia Affair 186 BCE the Roman senate decided to take measures against the worshippers of the god bakus and thereby initiated one of the largest systematic persecution of religious groups heo seen in Europe and according to Levy 7,000 people fell victim to the campaign we can't compare it to the millions of of course the Nazis and what happened with the Armenians as well but 7,000 in in that Time is a lot of people especially wealthy

people at that they fell victim to the campaign and the majority of them were executed they died because they were part of the bakus cult Levy also reports that the measures caused Great Terror inside and outside of the city numerous suicides and a mass flight from Rome according to Cicero not a friend of the channel the measures even included military operations which make them appear almost Crusade like the measures Against the baket cult lasted 5 years altogether in the end the cult was was not completely eliminated but reduced to a manageable size and subjected to

strict regulations for for the first time the Roman senate had massively interfered with the religious Affairs of the FTI now this is quite significant in Liv's narrative puus eus was a young member of an equestrian family after the death of his father he was brought up Under the protection of his stepfather who embezzled the property of his ward in order not to be held accountable by the judicial authorities The Stepfather and the mother of puus sought to destroy the virtue and reputation of the young man by urging him to become an initi to the buck

canalia however a well-known prostitute the freed woman hisia fenia who had a love affair with the young puus warned him about about the cult as a girl she had been initiated to the Balia together with her mistress and had observed the horrible rights practice in the cult upon her urgent advice pulus refused initiation into the mysteries of the Balia and consequently was expelled from the house of his stepfather puus consulted the council puus posos albinos who then decided to investigate the case the outcome of the inquiry was the following the bakus cult deriving from the

Greek dionan festivals had first come to atua and from there to Rome Where the rides were performing The Grove of stimula in the beginning it seems to have caused no major misgivings his PO reports to the council postum that the Balia had started as a cult for women and it was a rule that no man should be admitted there have been three fixed days in the year on which initiations took place at daytime into the Bic Mysteries and it was the custom for the matrons to be chosen as priestesses in Rotations now the trouble began

when a woman named pakula Ana became Priestess and altered the rights according to Levy the Balia eventually turned into violent sex orgies including the rape of female and male adolescents the historian lets hispa go on with a report pakula Ana has performed the ceremonies by night instead of by day and in place of three days in a year she had appointed five days of initiation in each month from The time when the rights were held promiscuously with men and women mixed together and when the license offered by Darkness had been added no sort of crime

no kind of immorality was left unattempted there were more obscenities practiced between men than between men and women anyone refusing to submit to outrage or reluctant to commit crimes was slaughtered as a sacrificial victim to regard nothing as forbidden was among these people the summit of religious Achievement Levy also Levy also tells us that possumus when he presented the conclusions of his investigation to the Senators the two reasons that were seized with the extr Panic pav in Jens and collectively afraid of the account of the community of public Nom that these conspiracies and nocturnal meetings

could and might lead to some secret treer treachery or hidden Peril and privately rtin each one feared on his own behalf afraid that he might have Some connection with this horrid business the Senate reacted quickly bimus and his co-consul quintus Marcus philippus were officially empowered to conduct an extraordinary inquiry extra Orin the Senate decree that the priests of these rights male and female were sld out not only in Rome but in all Market towns and centers of population so that they should be available for the councils furthermore that it be Proclaimed in the city of

Rome and tics should be sent out throughout Italy to the same effect that no one that no one who had been initiated into deac rights should attempt to assemble or for the purpose of holding these ceremonies or to perform any such religious rights more especially it was decree that an inquiry should be held regarding those persons who had assembled or conspired for the furtherance of any immoral or criminal design leevy describes IM Immediately following the persecutions which were enacted as quo extraordinaria on the basis that a decree was necessary in this emergency measures that it

was so grave that they had to do something about it now and this reminds us of the Christian um persecution by the Romans as well and the FBI coming in so quickly to investigate what happened with Bunny's death the great number of victims in the rest With which the Roman authorities reacted seem to explain the great terror terror Magnus that came over Rome and Italy however after these immediate steps the Senate issued another most carefully another more carefully composed decree which was supposed to regulate the future worship of the god bakus in Rome Rome Italy

and the Empire Levy summarizes as Levy summarizes it as follows for the future it was provided By decree of the Senate that there should be no Balia in Rome or in Italy if any person regarded such ceremonies as hallowed by tradition and as essential for him and believed himself unable to forgo them without being guilty of sin he was to make a declaration before the city pror and the pror would consult the Senate if permission was granted to the applicant at a meeting attended by at least a hundred members of the Senate he would Be

allowed to perform the right provided that no more than five people took part and there was to be no common fund of money no president of Ceremonies and no priest these seems very Illuminati like like the president of Ceremonies you know I want wonder if this is where people got the idea for the Illuminati imagery anyways the text of this second decree is preserved on a bronze tablet that's found that was found in the 17th century In a museum that I cannot pronounce because it is in Vienna and I don't know Dutch and I think

it's dutch the language the original text of the decree does not differ much from the Contex of the decree of the historian Levi so Levy was actually not lying to us in addition archaeology um evidence shows that exactly at the same time temples dedicated to bakus were violently destroyed so that sucks because we don't Have anything to see in relation to what was this mystery C another somewhat neglected sour is cisero which again is not a friend of the channel and I will hate him forever he constructs the ideal religious laws in the second book

of the lius of laws blah blah blah the fact that Cicero incorporates the senatorial decree in his construct shows that it was real that Levy wasn't lying again there is archaeological proof and that It was a huge thing in Rome Levy's narrative concludes with the significant rewards given to the heroes of the story IUS and isalia the woman that came forward and spoke about it for their efforts to protect the city against Great harm the Balia have to be seen as domestic and secret conspiracies this argument implies that the Balia are first and foremost most

a political problem which requires Social constraint it's a political problem that needs a political solution so posia speech the guy that was supposed to be initiated into the Balia but the freed woman that was once prostitute said yo don't do that it's really weird don't please don't do that well he said the Bak Alia are no longer just a problem of private religion even though it is yet confined to private outrages private noia ultimately the impious conspiracy Of the bakans aimed at taking over the complete control of the Republic therefore the Republic must act yet

the council has to fight the popular fear that measures against the Cults will raise the anger of the Gods previous inter reters of this text have overlooked that in the course of his argumentation postumus or respectively Ley redefine the concept of superstition that it wasn't all that bad it is no longer Described by ciso just an unjustified fear of the Gods but a fear of gender of misjudgment of people of higher strata managing to go over the original channels official channels and overtaking Rome as nothing is more deceptive in its appearance than a depraved religion

when the agency of the Gods is made an excuse for criminal acts there comes into the mind the fear that in punishing human misconduct we may be Doing violence to something of divine sanction that is mixed up with offenses but you are freed from such religion by countless decisions of the pontiffs resolutions of the Senate and for good measure responses of the soothsayers I have thought it right to give you this warning so that no Superstition May agitate your minds When You observe a suppressing the Balia and breaking up these criminal Gatherings Now posist does

not think of A completely secular sphere of political action he adds that all measures against the Balia are favored and willed by the gods so all the gods are against bakus and dianosis in a way even though dianosis is the most popular and beloved God till today anyways he says that basically uh this claim pre presupposes that the gods Grant to the humans a sphere of independent action even including religious affairs but the bakas cult is basically An alien religion in Rome that's why it was spread like an epidemic and it's described as such that's

why Levy attacks it as such because it was spread so quickly it was obviously fun for the people in high strus to go out and have fun and have orgies whenever they wanted I mean that's what these 20-some year olds did that's what the 20-some year olds in Rome are going to do obviously that's what's going to happen especially when there's drugs and All of that involved pimus give speech concerning the mor mayorum of Rome like we have to keep that going we cannot let ourselves be like the Greeks and fall from our Grace of

being the great Romans I mean it's just again again again and again it's repy throughout Roman history history them thinking that their morals are bigger than I'm not even I don't need to say anything but he Says Levy again for men of deepest Insight in all matters of divine and human law came to the decision that nothing tended so much to the destruction of religion as a situation where sacrifices were offered not with the traditional ritual but with ceremonies imported from abroad so that's the main issue it it's not original to the territory it's not

Roman it's not theirs that's they're being very Xenophobic again like the main core of the secret history is them getting everyone away they're very isolated like Rome Rome wants to just they they have their gods they don't want there to be a lot of mixture like if they allow other gods to exist like sacr history allows other people to exist they can exist they can do whatever they want but as soon as those people get mixed up in their weird stuff they die or as soon as They try to um put a stop to the

weird stuff that they do or the bad moral corrupted things that they do they die and this is what happened with a Balia Affair in 186 the Romans were like this is not good for us politically there's a lot of important people here we don't like it it's foreign it's not ours and we have to protect our mors myarm we have to protect our politics we Have to protect ourselves first and foremost so they're not us they die okay that's basically what happened I mean the Romans were such sto that when Levi describes what the

bakanal turn turns into being like he says the pleasures of drinking and fasting were added to the religious rights to attract a larger number of followers so the Cults started very small and then to add more people and to I mean gain power in Rome over the other Cults they added things that They knew people wanted to have fun I mean a 20s something year old wants to have fun and fasting means you'll get to have all of these experiences and the three days fasting that also happens in the sacret history um that is mentioned

in the beginning of the tale that Levy tells us and again here he also says when why not inflame their feelings and night and the mingling of the sex of different AG ages at extinguish all power of moral judgment all sort of Corruption began to be practiced since each person had ready to hand the chance of gratifying the particular desire to which he was naturally inclined and this is I mean it's very well known that everyone in the secret history sort of you know had an affair with each other and that's what also happened with

Balia in the ancient times these words make very clear that Levy saw the sexual excesses as the core of the bakalian Scandal as isalia says the feeling of Absolute license lentia and the negation of sacr nefas were the guiding principles of the orches they wanted Freedom they wanted to be sacrilege they wanted to go against the norm so the Ence of the cult like Leo is referring to the St doctrine of of the Natural Instincts is okay the natural instinct is to be like animals and to just let our moral self be and just do

things like animals do the adult human however has morals That we think in a way that shouldn't be I mean it's not normal for us to do such brutal things like Henry just describes he says he felt like an animal something else I mean he references the bull bellowing like Julian me mentioned it I mean he's just repeating what Julian said that's why I don't believe they actually had a Balia they were just drunk and probably on acid off of their minds and just killed someone and he repeated everything that Julene Said but we'll we'll

get to that cisero then explained explains that this this policy this decree this second decree um lists the archetypes of what was morally good morally bad so he says human Manner and Community custom have established that they as regards Fame and disposition raised up to heaven persons of distinguished benefaction thus Hercules caster and Pollock esus Liber I dionis and and ramulus the same one whom they regard as kinus with Their souls enduring and enjoying eternal life are fittingly regarded as Gods since they are the very best and are Immortal Henry talking about mortality again it's

all here it's all in real history about what happened in the secret history so the back cult had always offered an alternative opportunity to find some fulfillment for people who had no chance to participate in the care and for the administration Of the Republic and that was the fear of them that people were feeling powerful when they were not powerful in their actual real life careers and according to Cicero the Republican epitome of a meaningful life that's all that matters to have a career so these people were feeling that same feeling that a Roman man

would feel by having a prosperous career in the M magistrate and they were having it by Just having these weird orgies you know both ran out of control the Senate came in seized everything killed 7,000 people highest stred people and made sure that no the Roman way is the only way and you were not about to do this to us ever again and I mean it did set an example because it was so so so bad that there's not an example in Roman history that is similar to it I mean some people may have used

the cult just to leave out their sexual Fantasies but never nevertheless there is a reason to doubt that the majority of the people that were in the cult that spent their time fasting and drinking wine in order to see dionisis or bakos or participate in the ories they were at their core wanting this unrestrained feeling they didn't want to be in a society that didn't want them they wanted to be something else they wanted to be immoral they wanted to feel like a god you know like an animal Like not themselves and that's the appeal

of the bakala to not be yourself to feel more than to feel higher than as even postumius admits they all felt the the people of the cult felt that they were driven by a Divine Force Henry says that as well that he was driven by a Divine force and they claimed that they were acting according to what that divine Force wanted again they said that as well so the killing of the farmer happened Because he interrupted their communing with the Divine Force at hand with dionisis with bakus so the bakans the people of the bakus

cult Act a politically from the perspective of the Republic cosmon because bakus was not an a was not a part of the pantheon of the Roman gods he was an alien god to them so if the Republic would not defend itself against this alien element then bakos and the bakans Would established their own cosmon their own religion and therefore be separate from the Romans and maybe rise up above the Romans so their virtuous and Pious citizens would be an alien element and subject to elimination Romans very much view people as you are with us or

you are against us so if you are against us we must eliminate you and they think that other people think that as well so if these alien people that um were part of the Bak cult saw themselves as okay We are the right ones and the Romans are the bad ones they are the alien ones we must eliminate them so it was a clash of morality the myths that say that dionysis has to fight constantly for his acknowledgement as a proper God in the Divine as well as as in the human realm it is it's

true in the sense of History um it's very interesting that the mythological enemies of dionysis are almost always rulers we have persas of Aros lurus of tra panthos of SE and we Have here we have here dionis main antagonist I would say is Julian because when Julian learns and Julian says it is a mistake to do so but in and so when Julian learns that they actually did do a Balia he is against it and the ruler of the bagalia Henry that acts for diis is broken that he's version of a father of a ruler

his King doesn't accept it So in the bake the the play that we mention in the secret history um Zeus announces his return the illegitimate son of Zeus announces his return to thieves the hometown of his mother Seline as follows to these of land cities first I come having established in Far lands my dances and rs to be God manifest to them now kmos gave his crown and Royal Estate to Panos of another daughter born who Wars with heaven in me and from my Libations thrusts nor makes Mention of me in his prayers therefore to

him my godhead will I prove unto all Heavens so Bak bakus dius keeps having to prove himself and we can say that for Richard he has to prove himself constantly to the group and he does not participate in the bakana he does participate in the killing of funny Henry wants to prove himself to Julian the twins want to prove themselves to their families and to Henry same for Francis to society and to Henry so in 186 BC when the Roman senate passed the sen a law that suppressed the Cult of dionisis of bakus in both

Rome and all of Italy well that's the suppression of the God dionysis again hence the departure of Henry from his fictional world the complete manifestation of everything that happened with the cult in Rome that was separated or just Very small happened with the secret history everything got very tiny everyone separated everyone went into their Corners there was no more Greek classes Julian disappeared everyone either finished college or just simply went away because there was no more purpose some people died some people got into alcohol just everything burst the bubble burst their eyes isolation was no

More because Society is a community and they did not want an alien thing forming inside of it V offers us a very suent description of bakos and thees and his cult and oid is a lover of all of depravity and freedom sexual love so let's read it you are blessed with endless youth you are eternally a boy high heaven star the handsomest of all your faces like a virgins when you don't display your horns you've won the Orient its farthest bounds are yours where Since Scorch India is bathed by G you the God man venerate

killed sacriligious pantheos and like cus the one who app the two wedge battle AXS it's you who sees the Tuscan you cast their bodies overboard your chariot rolls heavily across the mountaintops it's Strong by lynes and it has bright rains backens and saturs follow in your wake together with sanus that old man is drunk he staggers leaning on his staff or hardly keeps his seat upon the back of the bent As he rides and where you pass young men and women chant and clamor glad Palms beat the tambourines bronze cball but Clash long fluts of

perforated boxwood add their Str music theven woman cry be with us now or merciful and Mild observing as the priest that ask your rights our sweet murderous Henry says that a banal and that the God was not worshiped in over 2,000 years and I want to clarify that that is not true Because in the Renaissance and in the Middle Ages there were still many fanss of bakus and diones till today there are still many people I read an article that in I think 2016 there were people celebrating dianosis and bakus and the Balia in Turkey

so Henry you don't know your stuff so let's disprove what Henry said about the oh it hasn't been done in 2,000 years because he wanted to feel special right So in 15th century Italy there was this Reawakening of the ancient god of wine um in a Christian Society too we have for example well-known paintings from giovan Bellini Feast of the Gods and Titian bakos and Arad and bakanal of the Adrians created for Al castas inara in the first first quarter of the 16th century then we have Lorenzo de medes that wrote a song that exclaims

happily vivak Viv as Bakio prefaced in his massive consolidation of facts about the bean Gods the huge carpus of gods Noel princes had been torn limb from limb bitten and reduced nearly to ashes even with love and sensuality as some of their primary tra traits Bak and his mly band of followers began to reappear in the 15th century so again Henry you're not special uh Bernard the Sienna in the 1420s to sanola in the 1490s also we have rituals For bakus I mean I guess anytime you're drinking wine you're kind of like going hey bako

or hey dionis this one's for you it it's it's the way it goes you know alas this was a long video we are almost done we've talked about the secret history and real history and the similarities between the two where some AED some were right where the similarities between the balas happened And I hope that this video met your expectations and that you enjoyed it I had a lot of fun researching this and Diving back into the world of the Sacred history I adore donart I adore the book I adore Roman history I mean that's

my field so to see humans and humanity and the way we shift and move ourselves in this current of Life be represented so brilliantly in this book Remains the reason why it's one of my favorites because onar Understood what the Romans in their Essence were and Henry is a Roman wanting to be a Greek and that was his biggest mistake because he became alien to the world he was in he became alien to his Roman fellow to Julian and therefore he was no longer appreciated he was pushed back from the world that he knew that

he had known for the last years we also have the twins completely disintegrating themselves Francis is a mess bunny is dead Richard Is the only one that has a sance of a normal life but he must live forever knowing that he was not a part of something but he knows that he could have been a part of it had he been deemed high enough in this social strata and that's the story of the secret history wealth fast struggles and the want for more there's this salacious wanting for more and more and more and more and

more and that's what a bakanal is is the extravagant it's luxury it's Everything mixed in so you don't feel moral so you don't fear death so you you only feel like the god Dion say itself you are immoral Immortal you don't have morals you can do anything that you want and that's the mystery of the Balia and that's the mystery of the secret history thank you so much for watching please like And subscribe and comment if you wish to do so I will be back with another video if you have any suggestions I'll be more

Than happy to do them and research for you because research is a ton of work and I love to do it so hi class