Podcasts about nitocris

Ein Kapitel geht zu Ende und es hat Opfer gefordert. Am letzten Abend gelang es unserer heldenhaften Gruppe tatsächlich, Teil des Rituals um die Auferstehung von Nitocirs zu werden und diese zu vereiteln. Dies ging jedoch nicht ohne Opfer. Bei dem heldenhaften Einsatz starb sowohl Sophia Hapgood als auch Michael Muhammed Ibn Tulu Graham, der letzte Wächter. Unter dem Einsatz ihres Lebens verhinderten sie, dass Königin Nitocris zurück in Welt gelangt, ein schwerer Schlag für die Bruderschaft des Schwarzen Pharaos und den Kult der blutigen Zunge. Jakub Svoboda hat indessen einen rituellen Dolch erlangt, um Nitocris zu vernichten, vielleicht wird der an anderer Stelle nochmal nützlich. Da Kairo nun ein heißes Pflaster ist, sind sie so schnell als möglich auf ein Schiff nach Mombasa geflüchtet, wo sie Alexander van Salm empfängt, der ebenfalls versucht, mehr über die sogenannte Carlyle-Expedition herauszufinden. Es stehen an Bord der Perle von Kenia: Leo Anderson, gespielt von Gregor, Saleem Naziz, gespielt von Korn, Jakub Svoboda, gespielt von Manu  und Alexander van Salm, gespielt von Simon. Podcast | Rollenspielpodcast (neomancerrpg.wixsite.com) https://www.patreon.com/1W3Rollenspieler Music by: Tabletop Audio - Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games

Jackson Elias ist gestorben, vermutlich weil die Carlyle-Expedition vor 6 Jahren eine Expedition unternommen hatte. Seitdem wurden weitere Opfer gefordert und das nächste war Nathaniel Sanders, eigentlich zu reich zum sterben. Unsere tapferen Investigatoren haben die Mykerinos-Pyramide erforscht und dabei die mumifizierte Nitocris entdeckt. Leider wurde auch etwas Unbeschreibliches beschworen und Nathaniel opferte sich für Saleem, der nun für immer in seiner Schuld steht. Am nächsten Morgen schließt sich Sophia Hapgood an, doch mit schlechten Neuigkeiten. Die Ibn-Tulu-Moschee wurde bestohlen, der Kult hat nun vermutlich alle benötigten Artefakte, um die schreckliche Königin Nitocris auferstehen zu lassen. Einzig ein Medium wird anscheinend noch benötigt. Doch sie haben mit Ilsa, eh Frau Speer eine Verbündete. Und einen tatsächlichen Speer… Es schauen besorgt: Leo Anderson, gespielt von Gregor, Sophia Hapgood, gespielt von Korn, Jakub Svoboda, gespielt von Manu  und Michal Graham, jetzt Muhammad al Graham, gespielt von Simon. Podcast | Rollenspielpodcast (neomancerrpg.wixsite.com) https://www.patreon.com/1W3Rollenspieler Music by: Tabletop Audio - Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games  

Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories.  Today, we visit Herodotus.

CONTENT WARNUNG SIEHE UNTEN Der Kult in London war aktiver als befürchtet und unsere tapferen Investigatoren haben sich am MISR Haus eingefunden, Gavigans Anwesen in Essex. Sie mussten Jakub Svoboda am Ufer zurücklassen, da er sich um den Wagen kümmern würde, stattdessen unterstützte sie der kernige Michael Graham und sein tapferer Wellensittich.  Es frühstücken im Shepheards Hotel : Leo Anderson, gespielt von Gregor, Nathaniel Sanders , gespielt von Korn, Michal Graham, gespielt von Simon und Jakub Svoboda, gespielt von Manu.   CONTENT WARNUNG: Wir möchten euch darauf hinweisen, dass die in diesem Podcast dargestellten Ereignisse, Charaktere und Szenarien rein fiktiv sind und ausschließlich der Unterhaltung dienen. Unsere Spielrunde ist geprägt von Offenheit und Inklusivität. Wir sind bestrebt, eine einladende und respektvolle Atmosphäre für alle Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer zu schaffen. Sollten im Verlauf des Spiels Äußerungen oder Darstellungen vorkommen, die heutzutage als problematisch eingestuft werden könnten, so dienen diese ausschließlich der authentischen Darstellung der historischen Epoche und sind nicht Ausdruck unserer persönlichen Ansichten oder Werte. Wir nehmen unsere Verantwortung als Schöpfer von Inhalten ernst und sind uns der Sensibilität solcher Themen bewusst. Daher möchten wir betonen, dass jegliche potenziell problematischen Inhalte kritisch betrachtet und im Kontext der Spielwelt und ihrer Zeit behandelt werden. Unser Ziel ist es, ein spannendes und zugleich respektvolles Spielerlebnis zu bieten. Vielen Dank für euer Verständnis und viel Spaß beim Zuhören! Podcast | Rollenspielpodcast (neomancerrpg.wixsite.com) https://www.patreon.com/1W3Rollenspieler Music by: Tabletop Audio - Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games  

Don't swim for at least 30 minutes after a banquet… Around 2150 BCE, so the story goes, the Queen-King Nitocris sought vengeance on those who had wronged her. This tale comes from Herodotos, and in 1928 a young Tennessee Williams published his own version of the gothic stroy. In this bonus episode, I read Williams' work for a bit of spooky storytelling… Herodotos, Histories, Book II, via Perseus. Tennessee Williams ‘The Vengeance of Nitocris' at Wikipedia and Wikisource. The Vengeance of Nitocris by Rejected Princesses. Music by Kevin Manthei, from Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption (2000). I played this a lot as a child, and it seemed to fit the tone. Outro music, “Killer Queen – Medieval Rock Cover” by Medieval Rock. Less tonally consistent, but when the Queen gives an order... The History of Egypt Podcast: Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music and interludes by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net. Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author : Tennessee Williams Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Lisa Yaszek Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Vengeance Of Nitocris” was first published in Weird Tales, August 1928 The Vengeance Of Nitocris by Tennessee Williams Hushed were the streets of many-peopled Thebes. Those few who passed through them moved with the shadowy fleetness of […]

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin Daniel 5:1-31 by William Klock Let's begin this morning by hearing Daniel 5:1-12.   King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.   Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.   Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together. The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation. Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed.   The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change. There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers, because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”   It was the evening of October 12, 539 BC.  The palace in Babylon was glowing with lights and full of people—all the lords and ladies of Babylon.  There was a huge, golden harvest moon hanging low in the night sky the way harvest moons do.  Belshazzar revelled with is people. Belshazzar was the son of King Nabonidus.  After Nebuchadnezzar, there was a series of kings who usurped the throne through murder and palace coups.  In 556 BC—seventeen years before Belshazzar's party—a palace coup had removed Labashi-Marduk, grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, and replaced him with Nabonidus.  Nabonidus was an outsider to the royal family.  He was from the city of Haran, not Babylon.  The chief god of the Babylonian pantheon was Marduk, but the chief god of Haran was Sin, the moon god.  Nabonidus upset many in Babylon by downgrading Marduk in favour of Sin.  Nabonidus left Babylon for most of the last ten years of his reign and this may have been why.  There are various accounts of Nabonidus' absence.  We know he spent that time in Arabia.  The Persian empire was quickly gobbling up Babylonian territory and he may have gone to Arabia to firm up his relationship with that part of the empire.  It may have been some kind of madness.  It's very possible that the account of Nebuchadnezzar's departure into the wilderness that were read about in Chapter 4 may actually have happened to Nabonidus.  Whatever the case, he left his son, Belshazzar to rule the empire in his absence and, as Chapter 5 opens, Nabonidus had only recently returned, taking command of the Babylonian army as they went to war with the Persians.  In fact, in the days just prior to Belshazzar's feast, Nabonidus had been defeated by the forces of Cyrus, the Persian emperor.  Belshazzar now stood alone in Babylon. And that's what lies behind Belshazzar's feast.  It wasn't just any old feast.  It wasn't just a drunken orgy.  It was an important religious festival.  The Babylonians called it Akitu.  It was an annual festival associated with the new year.  If October seems late in the year for that kind of thing, this is because Nabonidus had declared Sin, the moon god, to be chief deity of the people.  The Akitu associated with Marduk took place at the spring equinox, but in Haran, the Akitu associated with Sin took place at the fall harvest moon.  It lasted for eleven days and this was the start of it.  And the reason Belshazzar would bother with this just as his empire was falling to the Persians, was because the Akitu festival was the annual re-enthronement of the king in the presence of his gods.  At the end of the festivities the king would take his throne to rule for another year, his priests would announce the will of the gods for the next year, and the empire would have assurance that their gods stood behind their king. That's why this was important.  The Persians were at the gates.  Belshazzar may have believed that his father was dead.  He needed the support of his people, but most of all he needed the support of his gods.  So there, with the harvest moon hanging in the sky, he began this ritual to assure his victory.  I don't think he did this in desperation.  Babylon was a strong city with good defences.  Belshazzar was ready for a siege.  But this ceremony would guarantee that the gods were on his side. But he goes a step too far.  He calls for the temple vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem.  These were the vessels used to pour out libations, to pour out drink offerings to the Lord.  The Babylonians had similar vessels they used when worshipping their gods.  After the drink offerings were poured out, it was customary for the Babylonian king to drink what was left to show his connection with the gods, sort of saying that he was their favourite.  If anyone needed the help of the gods right then, it was Belshazzar.  But, again, he takes things a step too far when treats the vessels from the Lord's temple this way.  He's not intentionally profaning these sacred vessels by partying with them.  What he's doing is enlisting the help of the God of Israel.  To his way of thinking, when his people conquered Judah, they didn't just conquer the people; they also conquered their god.  So the God of Israel—so far as the Babylonians saw things—the God of Israel is now a vassal to their gods and to their king and by drinking from these vessels, again, Belshazzar is enlisting the God of Israel to fight for him. But the Lord—the one, true God—doesn't work that way, does he?  No, the Lord is not like the gods of the pagans.  Immediately, the text says, a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall.  Archaeologists have dug up this very throne room.  Its walls were plastered, just as the story says.  But these weren't just plain, white, plaster walls.  This was the palace of the greatest king in the world.  The walls were covered with frescoes.  And we would expect there to be at least one fresco depicting the king standing before his gods.  There's an interesting word in verse 5.  The ESV writes that this hand appeared in front of the “lampstand”.  But this isn't the word for lampstand.  That would be menorah.  The problem is that this word is a hapax legomenon—a word that only appears once—so there are no other instances to help us understand what it means.  We do know, though, that it's based on a root meaning to shine or to luminesce, and what it's probably referring to is the fresco on the wall.  The Babylonians gods represented the sun, moon, planets, and stars—the luminaries in the night sky.  So this is probably a painting on the wall of the king surrounded by his gods.  Everything going on here is about the king having the support of his gods: the Akitu festival itself, the king drinking from the temple vessels, and the painting of the king surrounded by his gods. So a human hand appears.  Maybe it was a hand already depicted in the fresco or maybe it appeared in the air—it's hard to say—but it begins to write.  This is exactly what the king wanted.  All of this was meant to show that his gods were behind him.  If the festival had continued, his priests would have issued declarations of the gods' support at the end.  And now—maybe at first this seems better than anything Belshazzar could have hoped for—this divine hand appears and begins to write.  But—first—it defaces that sacred image of the king with his gods—and over the top of it—the hand writes these mysterious words.  The king went pale and the Aramaic says literally that the cords of his loins went slack and his knees knocked.  In other words, he wet himself and stood there quaking in his soggy boots. The hand disappeared, but the writing remained, so the king summoned all his wise men to tell him what the words meant.  Aramaic, like Hebrew, is written without any vowels.  Nouns are formed from verbal stems and so the same set of consonants could, when vocalised one way, mean one thing as a verb and with different vocalisation mean something different as a noun.  The king, first, wasn't sure how to read it, but second, even if he knew what the words were—well—what did they mean in this context?  But the kings wisemen had no more idea than he did.  That's been the theme all the way through Daniel.  The wise men may be fine in their own pagan domain, but when the Lord acts or when the Lord speaks, the pagans are confused and all their learning and wisdom is exposed as useless.  It's worth noting that the original Babylon fell when the Lord confused the languages of the men who built a tower to heaven and now, again, the fall of the last of the Babylonian empires is announced in a language none could understand. And that's when the queen finally makes her way into the banquet hall.  This is probably the queen mother, the widow of Nebuchadnezzar.  Her name was Nitocris.  By all accounts she was a force to be reckoned with.  The Greek historian Herodotus tells us of her great wisdom.  And the storyteller here gives us a sense of that.  In her wisdom she avoided Belshazzar's feast.  Maybe she knew that defeat was inevitable.  And now she arrives, calm in the midst of chaos, and tells the king to calm down.  There is a man full of wisdom who had solved riddles just like this back in the days of Nebuchadnezzar.  His name is Daniel.  Call for him and he'll know what it all means.  But you might not like what he has to say.  Nitocris was old enough to remember that when the Most High God spoke to Babylonians kings, things did not go well for them. And so the king summons Daniel, now in his eighties.  Look at verse 13: Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah. I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter. But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” (Daniel 5:13-16)   Belshazzar speaks fairly contemptuously of Daniel, but he makes the same offer he made to the other wise men: Tell me what it means and I'll give you the robe of a king and make you the third ruler of the kingdom.  But Daniel isn't interested in rewards.  The God of Israel has spoken and Daniel, who serves this God, will tell the king what it means, but he has no interest in a reward.  He knows that this is the end of Belshazzar's kingdom.  Now, picking up at verse 17, notice how Daniel explains what's really important before he even gets to the words written on the wall. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. (Daniel 5:17-23) Daniel reminds Belshazzar what he should have known already.  It is the Most High God who raises up kings and brings them down.  The Most High had raised up Nebuchadnezzar.  The Most High had even given Jerusalem and the temple vessels into his hand.  But when the king became proud, when he claimed the credit for himself, when we saw in the last chapter that he ruled without justice and mercy, the Lord took him down.  The man who thought he was the great Gilgamesh was humbled by the Lord and made like Enkidu, the beast man running wild in the wilderness.  But the Lord had spared his kingdom and restored the king so that he could acknowledged the Most High as the true king of kings. But there is no such humility in the heart of Belshazzar.  The Lord knows the hearts of men.  He knew that Nebuchadnezzar could be corrected and he knows that Belshazzar cannot.  The fact that he brought in to Lord's sacred vessels in an attempt to enlist the Lord to his cause highlights a hubris, a pride beyond that of Nebuchadnezzar.  He thinks he can snap his fingers and that the God of Israel will come running to serve him.  And so Daniel explains the words: “Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” (Daniel 5:24-28) Daniel reads the words as three coins: mina, mina, shekel, and a half—something like a dollar, a dollar, a dime, and a nickel or a pound, a pound, a penny, and a half-penny.  But remember that in the old days, coins were associated with weights.  So Daniel looks to the verbal roots behind these coins to explain the meaning.  The king has been “numbered”, “weighed”, and “divided”.  What it means is that the king was appointed—given his throne—by the Most High, he has been weighed by the Most High and found wanting, and now he is to be punished by the Most High.  And Daniel plays with that last word peres, which sounds like “Persia”, to foretell the fall of the kingdom to the Persians.  It may be that the Lord is exposing the failures of the kings of Babylon.  Nebuchadnezzar the great was the mina and Nabonidus the shekel—worth only a sixtieth of a mina—and wretched Belshazzar, for all his pride, is worth only half of that.  Whatever the case, these kings were only great because the Lord had made them so, they have served his purposes—not he theirs—and now their entire empire is to be judged and handed over to another. At least at the end, Belshazzar was good to his word, for what little it was worth.  Verse 29 says: Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.   I can imagine Daniel standing there shaking his head as Belshazzar gave him these honours.  Maybe Belshazzar still thought his other gods would bail him out, but Daniel knew it was all pointless.  The Lord had spoken and the storyteller drives this home in the last verses: That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.  (Daniel 5:30-31) That very night.  This character called Darius the Mede is something of a mystery, but I'll save that until next week.  Here's what happened.  The Euphrates River flowed through the middle of Babylon and while the Babylonians were feasting, the forces of Cyrus, the Persian emperor, diverted the river upstream.  Babylon's great walls were so wide you could turn around a chariot driven by four horses on them.  But the might of Babylon's walls didn't matter when the Persian army simply marched under them in the dry riverbed.  The army of Cyrus took the city without a fight.  We don't know who killed Belshazzar.  His death is only recorded in Daniel.  Cyrus was a gracious king and spared the life of Nabonidus, so it seems odd that he would have Belshazzar killed.  Belshazzar might have been killed by his own people.  We just don't know.  But that night he died.  The evening began with Belshazzar enlisting the God of Israel to fight for him and in the end he's exposed as a fool.  The God of Israel fights for no one and, in fact, we find that Cyrus fights for him. Now, what does this mean for us?  I think, first, that we once again have an exhortation to remain faithful in difficult times.  Again, these stories about Daniel during the exile were collected to exhort the people of Judah to remain faithful as they lived through the terror of Antiochus Epiphanes' rule and as they watched many of their fellow Jews take the easy way and give in to paganism.  Maybe more than anything, the story of Belshazzar is a warning to kings and rulers to remember that the Most High is the real king and that they serve at his pleasure.  But that truth should be an encouragement to us.  Even when our earthly rulers are full of pride and even when they fail to act justly, we know that God is still sovereign, that he holds earthly rulers to account, and that no matter how bad things get, he always holds us in his hand.  Especially in light of Jesus and his cross and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we've experienced the dawning of God's new creation and we know that that is where the world is heading.  It may not always look that way.  We may face opposition, persecution, and even martyrdom for our faith, but we have hope because we know that the Lord will finish what he has begun.  He's already done the part that was hard and costly—that cost the death of his own son—so we can be sure that he will surely do the easy part that remains. But what kept coming to mind as I wrestled with this chapter over the past week was the question of how we relate to God.  Rob brought my attention to a prosperity gospel preacher who was in town this week.  I listened to some of what she was preaching and was thinking just how much this false prosperity gospel is like Belshazzar using the holy vessels of the temple to enlist God to his own cause.  The prosperity folks enlist the holy gospel and the Holy Spirit for their cause.  We may not be so crass in pursuing health and wealth and ecstatic experiences, but we, too, are often guilty of treating the Most High like he exists to serve us.  Nations do it, just as Belshazzar did, declaring that God is on our side.  We do it in politics, claiming that we are in the right and that God is on our side.  We do it in the church.  We devise our plans—often good ones, often to promote the gospel and the kingdom.  And we just assume that our plan is God's plan.  We do it personally.  We're convinced we know what's best and insist that God make it happen for us.  We know that God wants the best for us, but then we twist that into the belief that God wants what we think is best for us.  And that, Brothers and Sisters, is dangerous.  That was Adam and Eve's mistake.  We are finite beings with finite knowledge.  God created us with the ability to recognise what is true, and beautiful, and good—to some extent—but he also created us ultimately to rely on him for that knowledge.  He has shown us repeatedly that he is good and faithful so that we can trust him.  He humbled himself to become incarnate—one of us—and to die for our sake—so that we can know just how profoundly good and faithful he is.  He gives us every reason to trust him.  Sometimes he walks with us through the valley of the shadow of death and sometimes he leads us beside to still waters and into green pastures.  Either way, he is with us. Think of Jesus praying in Gethsemane the night before he was handed over to suffering and death.  He prayed to his Father for strength.  He prayed that if there was any other way, his Father might take that cup from him.  But in the end he entrusted himself to the goodness of his Father.  Not my will, but thine.  And because of that, new creation was born, because of that we know the forgiveness of our sins, because of that God's own Spirit has been poured into us, giving us a foretaste of that dawning new age.  Because Jesus humbled himself and trusted in the goodness of his Father. Jesus didn't spend his ministry scrambling for prosperity, dreaming up get-rich-quick schemes or setting up multi-level marketing scams.  Jesus was repeatedly presented with other seemingly good plans, with other avenues to the world's throne—with ways that didn't involve his crucifixion.  But he knew the scriptures and he knew that real way to the throne, the one that would bring salvation and renewal, was the path of humility and suffering and humiliation and death.  It didn't look good.  But it was the Father's plan and, because Jesus knew that, he knew that it was the good one.  So he followed in confident faith.  Brothers and Sisters, as we keep our eyes on Jesus and his cross, may we too remember the unfailing goodness and faithfulness of the Father.  May we, too, always walk humbly before him, trusting him, and submitting to him in faith.  It's an amazing thing to ponder.  God does not exist to serve us.  He created us to serve him.  But, still, even when we rejected that vocation, even when we turned our backs on him, he gave his life to forgive and to restore us.  He became a servant, giving his life, so that we might be restored to, so that we might understand the goodness of our own servant vocation.  St. Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”  We might also say, “Walk in humility, as the Messiah humbled himself for us and gave himself up for us”.  This is what we were created to do.  When we say “not my will, but thing” we become a fragrant offering to God—revealing the glory for which we were created as we humbly offer ourselves to glorify him. Let's pray: Lord Jesus Christ, for our sake you fasted forty days and forty nights: give us grace so to discipline ourselves that our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may always obey your will in righteousness and true holiness, to the honour and glory of your name; for you live and reign with the Father and Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories.  Today, we visit Herodotus.

Herzlich willkommen bei "Am Tavernentresen"! Wir machen mal wieder einen kleinen Oneshot mit Gästen und führen unser kleines Berlin Abenteuer vom letzten Tavernentag weiter. Mit dabei sind: Cindy und Fabius von Against the Odds: https://www.twitch.tv/ato_againsttheodds https://www.youtube.com/c/AgainsttheOddsGER https://www.instagram.com/againsttheodds.de/?hl=de GrumpyEmmi: twitch.tv/grumpyemmi twitter.com/grumpyemmi instagram.com/grumpyemmi instagram.com/grumpydraws  Ben von Ben & Paper https://www.twitch.tv/benandpaper https://www.youtube.com/user/nagah25 Bei "Am Tavernentresen" präsentieren euch Steffen Grziwa, Dominik Bauer, André Lerch, Marcus Hiller und Julien Meckel jede Woche eine frische Episode eines Pen and Paper Abenteuers. Dabei schlüpfen die Spieler in die Rolle fiktiver Charaktere und spielen durch ein vom Spielleiter geleitetes Abenteuer. Ein bisschen wie ein interaktives Hörbuch. Jede Session gibt es zunächst LIVE immer Dienstags ab 19:30 auf live.amtavernentresen.de und dann am folgenden Samstag auf allen Podcastplattformen. Discord: https://discord.amtavernentresen.de Livestream: http://live.amtavernentresen.de Donations: https://ko-fi.com/amtavernentresen Twitter: https://twitter.com/Grziwatzki Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grziwatzki/ Musikhinweise: Titelmusik: Nostalgic_Jig by PeriTune https://soundcloud.com/sei_peridot/nostalgic_jig Weitere Musik und Soundeffekte: EpidemicSound

Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, a fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories.  Today, we visit Herodotus.

Wendy and Amy discuss two short stories by one of the great American playwrights, Tennessee Williams - "The Vengeance of Nitocris" and "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin," and try a Peach Bellini Jello Shot. With one story loose historical fiction and the other possibly based on personal history/experience, they look at elements of Southern Gothic lit and themes of death and mad women. Pop a cork to historical retellings, mythical and personal! Today's Prosecco Jello Shot: www.sweetrecipes.com or from @bakerpeabody on Instagram.This Season's Books1) First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Authors2) The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John UpdikeToday's Short Stories by Tennesee WilliamsSummer course that inspired this Season's Episodes - The Great Courses Course: Great American Short Stories | A Guide for Readers and Writers featuring Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black Ph.D. Support the show

Wendy and Amy are back with another season of books, banter and bubbles! This go around it's all about short stories and jello shots, made with prosecco, of course! Find out what's in store for the season and who really doesn't like jello shots. Pop a cork to Season 5!Today's Prosecco Jello Shot: Raspberry Prosecco Tulip using Chambord This Season's Books1) First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Authors2) The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John UpdikeThis Season's Line-UpEpisode 41 - F. Scott Fitzgerald:  “Babes in the Woods” & “Crazy Sunday” |  An Aperol Spritzer Jello ShotEpisode 42 - Tennessee Williams:“The Vengeance of Nitocris” & “The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and aCoffin” | A Peach Bellini Jello ShotEpisode 43 - Flannery O'Conner: “The Geranium” &“Greenleaf” | A Naturally Green Prosecco JelloShotEpisode 44 - William Faulkner: “Landing in Luck” & “That Evening Sun Go Down” | The French 75 with ginEpisode 45 - Raymond Carver: “Furious Seasons” & “Where I'm Calling From” | The 78 Jelly ShotEpisode 46 - Dorothy Parker: “Such a Pretty Little Picture” &“Here We Are” | A Pretty Pink Prosecco Jello ShotEpisode 47 - John Updike: “Friends from Philadelphia” &“Gesturing” | A Prosecco Jelly ShotEpisode 48 - Joyce Carol Oates: “Inthe Old World” & “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” | Prosecco Jelly Shot with Pomegranate Bursting BobaEpisode 49 - Alice Monro: “A Basketof Strawberries” & “Meneseteung" | Strawberry Prosecco DessertEpisode 50 - Ernest Hemingway: “in our time” &“The Killers” | Mimosa Jello Shot. Summer course that inspired this Season's Episodes - The Great Courses Course: Great American Short Stories | A Guide for Readers and Writers  featuring Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black Ph.D. Huge shoutout to our Instagram friends who helped us with our OPENING LINE WRITING EXERCISE. Please consider following these fun book accounts: @runswflags@lifeandlitpod @karenbladerunner @darlene.morant @iceatbooks @books.over.coffee @thebeautyofborrowedbooks @katereadsbooks @a_writers_perspective @debs_shelves @mtgbooks777 @riposoreads @drunkenpenwriting @boymombookshelf @realassaffirmations @bookreaderr_muzing @perfectlyprosed @authorkarakendrick @lunaandfortuna @thebittenwordpodcast @joyofmusic_lindafotis @authorthayden @kennacharlesauthor @jennsbookmarks A great short story reader and writer information website.Support the show

The musical lovechild of former Nitocris guitarist Jessica Finlayson, Raising Ravens is more than just another project.It is a labour of love for Finlayson; a project of passion that has seen her explore more musical personalities than is normally limited to the rock scope.With Raising Ravens Finlayson utilizes her gifts for more than just music. She provides a beacon of hope in a world full of problems, exposing the corrupt underbelly of a society that has for too long marched to its own beat.Her lyrics are powerful and confronting, taking on her perceived injustices front on with a song in her heart and iron in her lungs.Today, she returns with the powerful new single At The Mercy Of The Sky, showcasing yet another side to her musical psyche and offering a small taste of what to expect from her next album which is already underway.HEAVY caught up with Finlayson to talk more about what she has been up to."This one's a bit heavier than the last few releases,” she began. “It's off an album, so I just wanted to introduce a bit more of the epic side of the music because the last few releases have been kind of... not pop, but a bit more poppy. It's a bit longer than normal and is probably one of my favourite songs on the album. I play bass on it as well, because we had to do the bass in lockdown, so we couldn't get anyone in there, obviously. I had to take over bass duties which was quite funny. It's a massive production so I hope people like it. It's a bit different to what I've done with the last few releases, but you don't wanna keep putting out the same things."In the full interview, Jessica talks more about At The Mercy Of The Sky, the meaning behind it, exploring with different sounds, the awesome lyric video and where it comes from, releasing music through her own label, the upcoming launch show and more.

With the body of Nitocris in tow the team makes their way into the desert where they meet up with an old friend and prepare for what may come next.   

One positive thing that I've taken away from the past two years is how big a role music plays in creating strong human connections. And there's not just the music, but the touring is especially important for just that physical connection. Artists meeting fans, fans meeting artists. Like-minded people brought together by the music, by what they have to say through that music. Common, strong bonds. I first met Jess Finlayson in 2017 when she came touring from Australia with her band at the time, The Mis-Made, en route to Rebellion Festival. We've become friends and stayed in touch through a period that no-one ever wants to go through again. Check out Jess's latest project Raising Ravens and fabulous EP In My Room which is full of her trademark harmonies and powerfully observational lyrics.So it's a real honour to have Jess on here where we get into stuff like how essential these human connections are, her childhood influences, what she learned about herself as a teen with her first band Nitocris, coming together again with her long-time musician friend Jill Jackson and her biggest ever challenge - teaching Blackie of the Hard-Ons to "go live"……Dig in!

Under the cover of darkness, Sam heads to the house of Doctor Kafour in hopes of understanding the Girdle of Nitocris and the next steps needed to unravel the Brotherhood in Cairo, while the investigators meet back at the safehouse.     

What do Tennessee Williams and Herodotus have in common? The story of a woman named Nitocris, a pharaoh, a queen - perhaps entombed or created by folklore itself...but a legend passed on through generations. While disputed (and some would say disproved) it wouldn't be the first time a patriarchal system tried to erase a woman from history completely. What is it they say about revenge being best served cold...well, it must have been on the menu - this is a story about a royal banquet where the guests got tanked...literally. @fascinationpod

This week the ladies are bringing you an old school revenge plot, plenty of life lessons, and some strong opinions about the word 'rump!' First, Emily goes way back (about 4,200 years back) to share the story of Nitocris who didn't appreciate her brother being murdered and built a creepy revenge basement. Then, Kelley tells the story of Marion Mahony Griffin who was an architectural genius but unfortunately overshadowed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Grab your water colors and stay out of basements because it's time to wine about hertory!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/winingaboutherstory/overview)

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ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/support

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/support

Many would remember Jessamine Finlayson from fronting all-female hard rock outfit Nitocris, but since then she has busied herself with other projects including The Mis-Made and now her latest venture, Raising Ravens.Finlayson has been a massive presence on the Australian hard rock circuit for a number of years and now, with Raising Ravens, has found her niche once more.HEAVY sat down with her for a chat this week, starting with the question of whether Raising Ravens is more of a solo project."Yeah. It is,” she measured. “It’s different because it is essentially a solo thing but there are other people involved with it too. I have Suzanne Rex on bass and Lara Chrystal on drums but it’s more focussed on the recording and that sort of thing rather than focussing on being a touring band like the last ones I've been in. There will be gigs but probably not as many."Raising Ravens unleash their debut single “Careful What You Wish For” on November 13, with Finlayson promising more of what fans love about her music with the single.“It’s very rock but also a bit more bluesy,” she said. “It was kind of written in lockdown about how the government are completely greedy and quite happy to leave everybody to die. It's well-timed with Trump being gone because now he's gone and now my single is out!”When referring to the lack of government assistance for the general population, Finlayson voices the fact strongly that “Careful What You Wish For” was written with a global viewpoint, not just that of our own country."The world over," she stressed, "not specifically Australia. I think we probably did better than a lot of places have. It's a strange time".In the full interview, Jess talks more about the single, upcoming new music from Raising Ravens, playing music from the heart the film clip, regenerating the local live music industry and more.

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting or donating: Support me: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome Support me on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tome-by-tome-asmr Best way to keep in touch - Twitter: http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR Athena's Archive ASMR: https://anchor.fm/athenas-archive-asmr Asylum ASMR: https://anchor.fm/asylumasmr/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR To join the Hunt for the Elder God Cthulhu, watch: https://youtu.be/x20EaYa1OPw #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #lovecraftstories Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovecraft-asmr/support

How will they sneak Nitocris into Nairobi? It is clear the cult knew they were coming and has prepared for them. Who is the mysterious M'Weru, and where is this Beast they have been warned about? Support this podcast

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Ken's Kickstarter Dave's Corner of the Universe Ashley's Book People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos 1101/Series 11 Episode 1 Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm):   PGttCM 1004: Tcho-Tcho, Loigor, Loigor, and Zhar PGttCM 1101: Nephrem-Ka/Egypt and the Mythos/Egyptology PGttCM 1102: Shaggai/The Insects from Shaggai PGttCM 1103: Averoigne/CAS PGttCM 1104: Ghouls/Ghouls in literature PGttCM 1105: Glaaki/Ramsey Campbell's Mythos PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT Jan: Edgar Allan Poe BCAT feb: Jules Verne BCAT mar: Washington Inving BCAT apr: L. Frank Baum BCAT may: Ambrose Bierce BCAT jun: George Orwell   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer and Sara Fee wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher. Also on GooglePlay   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt.   Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at PGttCM and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer   Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm.   Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Ice Demon, The Chamber by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ken’s KickstarterDave’s Corner of the UniverseAshley’s Book People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos 1101/Series 11 Episode 1 Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm):   PGttCM 1004: Tcho-Tcho, Loigor, Loigor, and Zhar PGttCM 1101: Nephrem-Ka/Egypt and the Mythos/Egyptology PGttCM 1102: Shaggai/The Insects from Shaggai PGttCM 1103: Averoigne/CAS PGttCM 1104: Ghouls/Ghouls in literature PGttCM 1105: Glaaki/Ramsey Campbell's Mythos PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT Jan: Edgar Allan Poe BCAT feb: Jules Verne BCAT mar: Washington Inving BCAT apr: L. Frank Baum BCAT may: Ambrose Bierce BCAT jun: George Orwell   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer and Sara Fee wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher. Also on GooglePlay   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt.   Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at PGttCM and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer   Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm.   Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Ice Demon, The Chamber by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

With the recent release of third single 'Tic/Toc', Sydney outfit The Mis-Made are slowly building anticipation for a full-length release next year.Drawing inspiration from a recent controversial court case involving a high ranking religious identity, lead guitarist/vocalist Jess Finlayson doesn't hold back with both her lyrics and thoughts."Musically it's quite heavy", she said of the single. "We had two new band members join at the beginning of the year so it's getting a bit heavier but it still has that punk, pop sort of a vibe. It's a pretty heavy content song. I kind of wrote it around the Pell case so I was really angry about the power dynamic of people getting away with doing disgusting things to people and pretty much walking away from it. We recorded it only a couple of weeks ago and did the film clip in the studio at the same time which is a bit different for us because we usually go a little bit over the top with our clips (laughs)".In the full interview Jess runs us through the song and film clip in greater detail, reveals the release plans for an upcoming album and how it differs from earlier material, the value of releasing singles in the modern music age, former band Nitocris, her early vision for The Mis-Made and how she wanted the band to differ musically from Nitocris, touring, her thoughts on how to improve the Australian music industry, future shows and more.UPCOMING SHOWSNovember 23 - The Post Office Hotel, Coburg with CASHDecember 13 - The Lansdowne Hotel supporting Hard-Ons for Sydney album launch

Jess Finlayson has been churning out the loud rock n roll from an early age – starting out with the trailblazing, teenage outfit known as Nitocris. She did time with the Fyreflyes, cut a wonderful solo album, and in recent years has fronted Sydney outfit The Mis-Made. On episode 95 of The Australian Rock Show we go with Jess on a rock n roll ride – looking back at her time in Nitocris, her solo career, The Mis-Made’s latest album Changeling, their forthcoming European jaunt and much more. Plug in and play loud. Music by: The Mis-Made, Nitocris, Front End Loader

DPPOD - Morgana Ancone, formerly of Nitocris, Morgana & The Monstars, The Lady Bites, Fukushima Bang Bang and currently of Boxing With Ghosts and Foo Foo Fa Noo, talks to DPPOD. Morgana talks about her first band Nitocris and playing gigs nearly every weekend for near a decade. The issues of starting your own band and the enthusiasm of still creating music today. http://www.facebook.com/nitocrismusic http://www.facebook.com/Boxing-With-Ghosts-222815744407283 http://twitter.com/bwghosts

In this episode, our investigators decend below the sand to look for the mummy of Nitocris. Well, most of them do... Mr. Cooper stays behind to heal. Who do we lose this time? Starring George Chimples as Ma Chinsho - Chinese assistant to Mr. Weld John Quiett as Ian Byrne - Hard Nosed Private Investigator Shirley Niedzwiecki as Dr. Whittington - Psychiatrist and Occultist Jestin Kimmet as Frank Cooper - Treasure Hunter Jason Hall as Professor Alexander Wentworth - Harvard Archeology Professor Scott Troiano as Captain Reginald Winthrop Wilkerson III - British High Society and Big Game Hunter   And Matt Quiett as the Keeper

I. From Pride to Presumption Turn to Daniel 5. We continue in our study in Daniel and we come to Belshazzar's last feast. Now around this room, there are many timepieces, aren't there? Some of you may even be checking them right now. There are many different ways to mark time, and we're getting better and better at it. I saw an advertisement in a magazine which has a wristwatch, which automatically changes its time as you change time zones. I don't know how that works, but it's got some kind of a receiver within it, that takes data from an atomic clock somewhere, and wherever you are, you know exactly what time it is, you don't have to fiddle anymore with adjusting, isn't that incredible? We're very conscious of time and interested in telling time. And so it has been really from the beginning of the world, since God created the sun, and the moon, and the stars to mark time and as we see the sun come up and set, we're interested in the passing of time, so we see the moon's wax and wane. We're interested in the passing of time. Some of the earliest timepieces were water clocks. I was reading about one in Egypt, which had a certain rate that the water flowed out of a vessel and they were able to mark the time within a day that way, there was a remarkable water clock in China that lasted for over 100 years and kept very accurate time. But we're going to see that God's ways of marking time are different than ours, although He has them and there is a timetable that God is keeping though we don't know what it is. And God has given us insight into time, but His times are His own. Jesus was born in the fullness of time it says in Galatians 4:4, at just the right time in history. We know that today is given to us for a purpose, isn't it? For repentance. Today is the day of salvation, that we might call on Jesus Christ, and be forgiven of our sins. That's what today is for, for repentance and day passes upon day and time is marked. But in God's time, the judgments come and at just the right time, they come. God gave a promise to Abraham that he would own the promised land in the future but not yet. And why? The sin of the Amorites had not yet reached its full measure. God had a certain measure and when the sin of the Amorites had reached that measure, judgment would come by the sword of Joshua and the invading armies, in the Book of Joshua but not yet. God has His timetable and so He had for the ancient empire of Babylon. There was a right time for judgment and until that time came judgment would not come, but when that time came, the judgment fell and nothing could stop it. Now, about 60 or so years before the chapter we're reading today, there was a strange ceremony carried on by a Jewish refugee, his name was Seraiah and Seraiah stood by the flowing river Euphrates, as it flowed through the center of Babylon, and he read a scroll in Hebrew, the scroll was written by a prophet, a Jewish prophet and it had some words in it. Now, I don't know what went on when the scroll was read. I don't know if the Babylonians were hurrying to their jobs, maybe some of them were late going to and fro but here was this group of refugees, standing by the river Babylon or the River Euphrates in the center of Babylon, and the scroll being read. And when the reading was finished, Seraiah wrapped it up and tied a stone to it and threw it into the center of the Euphrates River and there it sank. Ceremony was over. What did it mean? Well, the meaning was contained in the words of the scroll. We'll get to that. But some time later, the waters of the Euphrates River started to dwindle on one given night, got a little bit dryer. Dwindled down from a river, a mighty river to a stream, to a trickle and then it was dry, river bed just mud and there perhaps, 60 years later, the stone that had been thrown in by Seraiah was there. I'm sure the scroll and its string was disintegrated. That's what time does. But maybe the rock was still there, testimony that the time had come for judgment. Babylon would fall that night. And it just so happened while that river was dwindling down and running dry, there was a big party going on. We can relate to that, can't we? We're a partying people? We enjoy a good party. And Belshazzar was throwing the party, the feast. It would be his last, his last feast, but he was throwing a party. Fascinating. With judgment impending, they're throwing a party and a feast. And so we're going to look tonight or today at Belshazzar's last feast, Daniel 5 and we're going to see a specific and accurate fulfillment of prophecy that God had given through His prophet Jeremiah. We have up to this point in Daniel seen many prophecies laid out, which have not yet been fulfilled, haven't we? Future prophecies that are going to be fulfilled at the second coming of Christ. But Daniel 5 is not of a future prophecy, but of a past prophecy and it's fulfillment, the fall of Babylon. And we're going to see how accurate it is. II. Historical Context: Babylon After Nebuchadnezzar Now, instead of reading through these verses all the way through and then going back and explaining them, I think we're going to look at it section at a time, but before we do it, we're going to get the historical context. What had gone on now is that Nebuchadnezzar has died. The head of gold, you remember the statue in chapter two. It was a statue, which represented the flow of human history and the top was a head of gold and according to Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar himself was that head of gold, he represented the Babylonian Empire. Well, Nebuchadnezzar has now died, we don't know how he died. We don't have any record of him being assassinated, perhaps he died through an illness, but he died 562 BC. In the words of David, he went the way of all the earth, the way of all potentates, all his power is gone and now he's going to stand before the Judge. We pray that in Daniel 4, he came to repentance and came to faith in Christ, and we hope we see him in heaven but his time on earth has ended. Nebuchadnezzar's successors however were not like Nebuchadnezzar. He was the head of gold, his successors were nothing like him. There was incompetence, there was intrigue, there was idolatry, there was not strong leadership. His son Evil-Merodach or Amel-Marduk ruled for only nine years and then he was assassinated by one of the generals in the army, Neriglissar. Neriglissar assassinated Nebuchadnezzar's son, and then took the throne. Eventually he died and his son was placed on the throne for nine months. There was a conspiracy and his son was assassinated. Just one toppling after another, it became very weak, very unstable. Finally, the leader of the second conspiracy Nabonidus took the throne and ruled until the end of Babylon. Along with him he took a wife Nitocris who was a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, she was a direct daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the two of them had a son and the son's name was Belshazzar. And when Belshazzar was old enough Belshazzar became co-regent ruling together with his father Nabonidus. Now, going back in time, Jeremiah 27, you don't have to turn there, but there's a clear prophecy given about not only the fall of Babylon but when it would come. Jeremiah the prophet gathered a bunch of small kings including the king of Israel or Judah to him. This is before Nebuchadnezzar had conquered anything. He gathered all these kings together and said all of you kings are given into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. This is what he says, "Now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, I will make even the wild animals subject to him, all nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes then many nations and great kings will subjugate him." Do you see the time table? Three generations. And in the third generation, his grandson, the end would come. Belshazzar was his grandson. The accuracy of prophecy, very clear how long it would last. And so, Belshazzar was ruling. Now around that time, the Medes and the Persians started getting powerful. Cyrus the Great became the leader of that budding empire. And he began to conquer. He began to ride out over Babylon and began to win victories and he defeated Nabonidus in a critical battle and Nabonidus fled to Borsippa where he was captured. Cyrus the Great then turned his attention on Babylon itself, the city of Babylon. The armies of Babylon had pulled back inside the walls of that fortress. Belshazzar was pretty much all that was left, but that city had never been conquered. In all the history of the military annals there's never been a city like Babylon, a fortress it seemed unconquerable and so they pulled in and they thought it was time for a party. And so they threw a feast. III. Belshazzar’s Defiant Feast (vs. 1-4) Now, let's look at verses one through four. "King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. While Belshazzar was drinking his wine he gave orders to bring in the gold and the silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone." Here, we see Belshazzar's defiant feast. The historical context couldn't be clearer, right at the walls of the city is the combined army of the Medes and the Persians, they're right around the walls, they're ready to conquer the city, but the Babylonians defy them with a feast, a celebration, a party, Belshazzar leading the way. But not only do they defy the armies of the Medes and the Persians, they defied God Himself, God Almighty, the Creator of the ends of the earth by calling for the golden goblets and cups from His temple that Nebuchadnezzar had taken out. Nebuchadnezzar never did this but Belshazzar did and they took them out and they drank, they drank celebrations to gods of gold and silver, of bronze, of iron, wood and stone. Now, massive banquets are part of the ancient Near East tradition. It shouldn't surprise us that everyone in Babylon was at a party. The ancient historian Ktesias said that Persian monarchs who came later frequently were known to dine daily with 15,000 people, that's a big feast. Earlier the Assyrian emperor Ashunasirpal II gave a feast to 70,000 people. In 485 Persian king Darius had a feast in which a thousand animals were slaughtered including, get this, oxen, zebras, gazelles, stags, Arabian ostriches, geese, game cocks and camel. Turns out that smoked camel hump is a favorite Persian dish. So those are the kind of things that they ate. They also served rice pilaf with meats, nuts, spices and fruit. Shish kebabs of mutton, fish, poultry, vegetables seasoned with special yogurt sauce. The guests at that banquet even enjoyed sugar brought by caravan from distant lands as at that time sugar was eaten only by kings. But it was lavished on all the guests. Now, that was a later feast, but this is the kind of thing that was going on as the armies were surrounding the walls of Babylon. Now what brings this on? Well, it's a base innate hedonism, a desire we have to enjoy things. We like pleasure, don't we? We like to eat good foods, we like to have fun with our friends. Is there anything wrong with that? Well, no, as long as it's in its proper order with God at the center. But hedonism for its own sake is destructive. And so it says in Philippians 3:19, think of the Babylonians now, "Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame, their mind is on earthly things." That was Babylon that night, wasn't it? One of the most amazing things I found about the history of World War II is that as Berlin was about to fall and Hitler and all his leaders were down in a concrete bunker and the whole city was surrounded by the Red Army and the forces were crumbling at that moment, even after Hitler had committed suicide, the Nazi officials had a party, a big celebration. There's something innate inside us that wants to be happy, we want to celebrate, we want to have fun even if death is imminent. And so from the Scripture comes this slogan, "Let us eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." And nothing could have ever been said more truthfully about Babylon. Actually, it wasn't tomorrow, it was tonight. What should they have been doing? They should have been taking the time repenting. They should have been on their faces before God, seeking His forgiveness, not drinking from His vessels and praising idols of gold and wood and stone, getting drunk. But you know, it's not very different in God's own people either. Isaiah 22, writing about the fall of Jerusalem they did the same thing. This is what Isaiah says about the fall of Jerusalem, "The Lord, the Lord almighty called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth but see there's joy and revelry, there slaughtering of cattle and eating of meat, killing of sheep and drinking of wine. Let us eat and drink you say for tomorrow we die. The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing to your dying day this sin will not be atoned for." When it's time to repent, you need to repent. It's not time for a party, it's not time for celebration, it's time for repentance. The Greatness of Babylon But you know something. I don't think the Babylonians felt they were going to die tomorrow. Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we... I don't think they thought so. I think they felt confidence. They were able to perhaps before the party began at least stand up around the walls of Babylon and defy the Medo-Persian army and say, "You'll never get in here. Never. These walls have never fallen and they're not going to fall tonight." Now in siege warfare there are three ways to win. If you're the army besieging a city what are three ways to win? You can go over the wall, you can go through the wall or you can starve the city within the wall so they come out. Those are the three ways you win siege warfare. But according to Herodotus, the ancient historian none of the three were possible because the city was monstrously huge. 14 miles square on a side, that's big. Think of how far it is from here to Raleigh. 14 miles on a side was the city. It had huge outer walls, 350 feet high. That's a 35-story building. Somebody tell me, is there a 35-story building in downtown Durham? I don't think there is, 35 stories is big. So imagine the highest building in Durham and even higher and you're looking up, and that's the wall, you're not going over that wall. I don't care how much structure you bring you're not going over. How about going through it? Well, according to Herodotus at the top of the wall, you can drive a chariot with four horses. That's at the top. Do you think the top is thinner or thicker than the bottom? It's got to be thinner, that's the way a wall is. It's got to be built almost like a pyramid. Some of the walls were 87 feet thick, 87 feet thick. You're not getting through that way. Well, what about the starvation route? Well, the problem is that the city was so big that it encompassed fields, areas that could continue growing for years and they had huge store houses. And what about drinking water? Plenty of it, you've got the River Euphrates flowing right through the center of the city, plenty of drinking water, you're never getting in here. Ancient Babylon was unconquerable. It had a 100 great bronze walls, gates in the walls, the inner and outer wall system had a series of moats, the river water was diverted around the wall so that you couldn't get through that way. Within the walls, there are a beautiful avenues and parks and palaces. A great bridge spanning the Euphrates connected the eastern and western parts of the city. There was the famed, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, beautiful to look at, and it gave them confidence. It's the same thing that Nebuchadnezzar said when he said, "Is not this the great Babylon I have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?" This is an incredible place and nobody's ever getting in here. And so they held a party. They had a banquet. It's really shocking when you stop and think about it. When you're in siege you want to conserve food, you don't want to have a banquet but that's exactly what they did. So, they defied the armies of Persia, they also defied the living God. Now this is particularly shocking because God had given Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian empire a lesson into His greatness. Daniel representing God had interpreted a dream that no one else knew. Miraculously he had read the king's mind. In Daniel 3 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had been rescued from the fiery furnace, God had showed His power. In Daniel 4 the most powerful man perhaps in the history of the world in terms of a monarch, a single ruler was turned into an animal for seven years by the God of Israel, and Nebuchadnezzar gave credit to Him, gave credit to the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Was the one who did that. "He rules over kings" he said. But none of that meant anything to his grandson, Belshazzar. Didn't think a thing of it. And so he said, "Who was that God we beat? Bring his cups in here, let's drink from those too." Defying God right in His presence. Jonathan Edwards in his famous sermon, Sinners in the hands of an angry God, said this and I think the words really strike to their situation. He's talking about God's power and he says, "There is no fortress that is any defense from the power of God. Though hand joining hand and vast multitudes of God's enemies combine and associate themselves they are easily broken in pieces. What are we that should think to stand before Him at whose rebuke the earth trembles and before whom rocks are thrown down." IV. God’s Terrifying Warning: “The Writing on the Wall” (vs. 5-9) Oh, the folly of human beings to defy God. Now in verses 5-9, there is the terrifying warning, the writing on the wall, the apparition appears. Now look up at the wall next to me, see that plaster up there, how would you feel right now if while I'm talking suddenly a hand appeared and started writing on it? What would you do? Would some of you scream? Would you run out? Would you stay and wonder what the writing said? Well, that's what happened in middle of the party. Right in the middle of the party the hand appears look at verse 5, "Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall near the lampstand in the Royal Palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote, his face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way. And the king called for the enchanters, the astrologers and diviners to be brought and said to these wise men of Babylon, 'Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.' Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale and his nobles were baffled." Right in the middle of the party, the music stops. Now when the Titanic went down, the music kept playing until that it was the last possible moment, but music stopped a little early this night because people were terrified. What did the writing mean? What was it? What was the significance of these fingers and what were the letters? And terror and confusion reigned and no one knew what to do. And so the wise men were called in but nobody could read it. Maybe it's on the cover of your bulletin. Have you seen that little odd thing? Can you read it? There it was, something like that. And no one knew what it said. V. Daniel’s Clear Interpretation: The End Has Come (vs. 10-28) The Queen Mother’s Advice (vs. 10-12) And so the Queen Mother comes in verse 10-12, and gives some advice, "The queen hearing the voices of the king and his nobles came into the banquet hall. 'O king, live forever' she said. 'Don't be alarmed, don't look so pale. There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king I say, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners. This man Daniel whom the king called Belteshazzar was found to have a keen mind in knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams and explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel and he will tell you what the writing means.'" It's very interesting this woman is not at the banquet, she's the Queen Mother, I believe Nitocris, Nebuchadnezzar's daughter, and she hears probably screaming from the banquet, she hears the voices of the nobles and others, and so she comes in and, "What is going on?" and she finds out and she says, "Listen, don't worry about it, just get Daniel and he'll come in and he'll interpret it for you." Interesting that Daniel didn't come with the other lot, did he? That group of enchanters and... He didn't have anything to do with them. He came in on his own to interpret. And it's interesting what the Queen Mother said to him, do you notice what she said when she first came in. What did she say, "O king live forever." Isn't that ironic? Would the king live forever? No, actually he's hours away from his death. Hours away, he wouldn't survive the night. Daniel’s Appearance (vs. 13) And so Daniel appears in verse 13, as usual he refuses to be associated with them. Verse 13, "So Daniel was brought before the king and the king said to him. 'Are you Daniel? One of the exiles my father, the king, brought in from Judah? I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom. The wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it. Now, I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck and you'll be made third highest ruler in the kingdom.'" So, Belshazzar gives him a quick account of what's going on and of the failure of his counselors and he makes him that offer. Now, what are the three things that the world has to offer? We've said before, power, prestige and pleasure, those three I'll give them to you, they're mine to give. I can give them to anyone I want and I give them to you. And what does he say? Verse 17, "Then Daniel answered the king, keep your gifts for yourself and give your honors to somebody else." I have no interest. Now, I wonder if Daniel knew that that would be the night. I wonder. According to archaeology they have found a large banqueting room on the ruins of Babylon. They found a recessed area elevated where there may have been a throne. Interestingly enough, they found plaster on the walls. Some of the plaster was gone, decayed by age, I'm sure or maybe something else raked it off. You can't really tell, but there was a window in that room and it overlooked the Euphrates River. And if they had just taken the time and go look, they would have noticed something about the river, the river was dwindling, the river was drying, the river was gone. Where is the river? Maybe Daniel knew where the river was. Maybe he knew what was going on, maybe he knew that that was the night. Daniel Teaches History (vs. 18-21) And so, Daniel teaches the king some history, verses 18-21, "O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. Because of the high position He gave him all the peoples and nations and men of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death, those he wanted to spare he spared, those he wanted to promote he promoted and those he wanted to humble he humbled. But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged... " until he acknowledged what? What is the lesson? What is the lesson of the book of Daniel? "that the most high God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and He gives them to anyone He pleases." How many times have we heard the lesson? Over and over. And Belshazzar, you've not learned your history. Well, I never did well in history. Well, you need to do well in history. God isn't going to do an Exodus every generation. He's not going to have Jesus die every generation, He's not going to have Him rise from the dead every generation. He's going to give you a book and the history is written in the book, He's not going to do these same things year after year. He's going to give you a book and you read it in the book and you believe it or you don't. But here's the history and we need to learn from history. Belshazzar, you should have learned from what your father learned. What happened to your father? God was gracious and gentle to your father because he survived. But instead you defied Him. You set your heart against Him. And so Daniel preaches judgment verses 22-24, "But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from His temple brought to you and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in His hand your life and all your ways. Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription." Is it still true that this God holds in His hand your life and all your ways? Are there many gods or is there only one God? And is that one God eternal or does He die? Does He change? Is He changeful or is He always the same? You have not humbled yourself, Belshazzar, you should have learned, but you did not honor the God who holds in His hand your life and all your ways and therefore, the inscription has been sent. Now why, why does God send the inscription? Why doesn't He just bring the judgment? Well, sometimes He does just bring the judgment but God delights to tell you ahead of time what He's going to do. He writes it down in Scripture and tells you ahead of time what's coming so that you will know that He tells the truth. And so we have prophecies in the Old Testament fulfilled in the Old Testament, in the New Testament or yet to be fulfilled still. That's the way God is. He tells us ahead of time what He's going to do, and then He does it and so the writing comes on the wall and so we can read it and understand what God will do. This is the way he is, He writes and then He fulfills. Daniel Interprets the Writing And so then, Daniel interprets it. "This is the inscription that was written: Mene Mene Tekel Parsin. Now this is what the words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians." Look at that middle one. You've been weighed on the scales and found light. God's tested you and you've come short. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." What is the Hebrew word for glory? 'Kavod', which means weight, heaviness you don't have the glory of God. You come short of the glory of God, and you're found wanting. Now back in the ancient Near East, they had scales, and merchants would have a scale and they'd have weights. Woe to you if you had a deceptive weight or a tricky weight, but they put the weight and then they'd weigh out whatever they were selling. Belshazzar, you've been weighed and you're found wanting, you're a lightweight. You have not the glory of God in your heart and so your kingdom is brought to an end and your days are numbered, they're counted out. They will serve the father, the son and the grandson and in the days of the grandson the judgment will come. Your days are numbered out and they've come to an end and your kingdom is divided out and given to the Medes and the Persians. VI. Daniel Exalted, Belshazzar Destroyed (vs. 29-31) Well, verse 29, "At Belshazzar's command Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom." Oh, I'm sure that made Daniel feel so happy and proud. Go home and tell his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, "Look what the king gave me, isn't this wonderful?" Do you think so? How worthless are the baubles the world gives? They mean nothing. The honor and praise of the world means nothing. You get to be the third highest ruler of a kingdom that's going to fall tonight. Now, by the way what usually happens to the third highest ruler of the previous regime when the new regime comes in? Usually, but not Daniel, he's going to survive into chapter 6. We'll see him, Daniel, in the lion’s den and he gets made the third highest ruler in that kingdom. Only the hand of God can do that. Daniel survived this night because he trusted in God. But there he is with his gold chain and his purple robe and he survives the night. How can it be? And then in verse 30 and 31 "That very night, Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at age 62." Judgment comes suddenly, just like that. Even while going about his business, suddenly it ends. Reminds me of Jesus' parable about the rich fool, remember? The guy has lots of stuff and his house is too small and so he decides to build bigger barns, you remember? I've got lots of years to come, plenty of time to enjoy all the good things of this world, I'll build bigger barns. And remember what God said, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you." And so it was for Belshazzar. How It Happened Now, how did it happen? Well, it's not recorded in the Bible, you won't find it anywhere in the Bible except in prophecy. It's set ahead of time in prophecy, but you have to go to the ancient historians, Herodotus and Xenophon. The date was October 11th and 12th, 539 BC. Cyrus the Great of Persia was surrounding the walls, and one of his generals Ugbaru was his name, noticed something. He saw an old canal that it turns out that queen Nitocris had dug and he got an idea and he said, "Why don't we divert the Euphrates River through this canal system so it doesn't flow under the wall and we'll crawl under the wall and into Babylon." That's an amazing idea, isn't it? The only problem with it is that obviously the Babylonians thought of that, so they placed traps around where the river flowed in so that the soldiers could kill easily, anyone crawling under the wall. So we have to be sure that there's no soldiers on the wall. So you need two things: You need a dried up river bed and you need no soldiers on the walls. And then the city will fall. VII. Isaiah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah: A Clear Prophetic Light Fulfilled Well, that is exactly the thing that God had predicted would happen. Now, I'm not going to go through the prophecies carefully. I'd like you to read them yourself. Isaiah 21:5. In Isaiah 21:5 two hundred years beforehand this is what the prophet Isaiah said, Babylon is going to fall, and this is Isaiah 21:5 Isaiah said this, "They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Get up you officers, oil the shields." What is Isaiah saying? Why are you feasting? You should be fighting. Isaiah 21:5, two hundred years beforehand. That's not bad, is it? How about Habakkuk 2:16, Habakkuk's wondering, "God, when are You going to bring judgment on Babylon?" He said, "I'll bring it. I'll bring it." And he says in Habakkuk 2:16 speaking to the Babylonians, "You will be filled with shame instead of glory, now it is your turn, drink and be exposed." They're going to drink, they're going to get drunk and they'll be exposed to destruction. But the best of all is in Isaiah 51 and I want to ask that you turn there and read it along with me. Jeremiah 51:36. Chapter 50 and 51 of Jeremiah are all about the destruction of Babylon. So if you want the full story, read those two chapters, prophesied sixty to sixty-five years before it happened. Jeremiah 51:36, "Therefore, this is what the Lord says…" Speaking of Jerusalem, "See, I will defend your cause and avenge you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry." Do you see what that says? I'm going to dry up her river. He actually says it twice in this whole section. "I'm going to dry up her river." And down in verse 39, "But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them, and make them drunk so that they will shout with laughter, then sleep forever and not awake." Do you see that? A dried up river, drunken soldiers, prophesied 60 years before it happened. Look at verse 57. He says it again, "'I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well. They will sleep forever and not wake up.' Declares the king whose name is the Lord Almighty." They'll get drunk, they'll go to bed, they'll fall asleep and they will never wake up. And so, the two things necessary for the fall of Babylon were provided in prophecy, a dried up river and drunken soldiers, both of them provided clearly. And then finally, as a final touch, Jeremiah, the prophet, wrote it all out, this particular prophecy on a scroll, rolled it up and handed it to Seraiah, and he said, "Go to Babylon." He was on his way to Babylon. "And when you get there, stand in downtown Babylon, near the Euphrates River and read the words of the scroll ahead of time, so that when it comes, I will say or they will say, He warned us. He said it ahead of time." This is our God. He declares it in advance, and then He does it. And so, look down at 51, verse 59, chapter 51:59, this is the message Jeremiah gave to the staff officer, Seraiah, son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. When he went to Babylon, with Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign, Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon, all that had been recorded concerning Babylon. He said to Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud. And then say, 'O Lord, you have said you will destroy this place so that neither man nor animal will live in it, it will be desolate forever.' When you finish reading the scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. Then say, 'so will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster that I will bring upon her and her people will fall.' The words of Jeremiah end here." This is Jeremiah's final word, Babylon will fall though drunken soldiers and dried up river. VIII. Lessons and Applications So what? So what? Well, so this. God hasn't changed, He's the same God. And I want to ask you, as you look at this, what walls are you trusting in? As you look around your life, are there some walls that you're trusting in, protecting you from the day to come, the day of judgment? Are there some walls you're looking at? What constitutes your walls? What are you trusting in that will enable you to survive that day? Good health, success, your intellect, your ability, your resume, your friends, your family, your good works, your basically good character. What are you trusting in? And what are you waiting for? Today is the day of repenting. Today is not the day of feasting and celebration. Today is the day of repentance. It's a day of humbling yourself before God and asking for His forgiveness. Don't put it off till tomorrow. I'm speaking to those who claim to be Christians. I'm not saying that you're not Christians. All of us are, but we need to walk day-by-day in repentance and humiliation before God. James 4, he said very simply, he said, "Weep and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom." It's not a time for celebration. It's a time for humbling before God. What walls are you trusting in? What are you waiting for? And also, realize we live in a nation full of mockers. Do you understand that? People who mock God. Maybe they don't have the vessels to drink from, but they would do if they could. The talk show hosts mock God. The late night comedians mock God. The political pundits mock God. And so do some of the politicians. The major media outlets mock God. Time, Newsweek, all of them, they mock God. We live in a nation of mockers. And God will not, cannot be mocked. Because whatever we sow, we reap. God is just waiting and He's patient. The sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure. There's a ticking clock. And what of the future fall of Babylon? In the book of Revelation, and this is picked up again, Babylon has fallen, has fallen. "Woe, woe O great city of Babylon, city of power." And so, I say to you, Babylon still lives though the city has fallen. There's still a world system in opposition to God. "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him... The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." There is one place of safety. There is one wall, a set of walls that will protect you on judgment day, and it's Jesus Christ. Flee to Him. In a few moments, we're going to sing 398, Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, Zion, city of our God, listen, With salvation's walls surrounded, thou mayest smile at all thy foes. Your sins will be paid for. No wrath, no judgment, nothing but eternal life, just through faith in Jesus Christ. Close with me in prayer, please.

ASMR reading of the short story Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, written by Harry Houdini and ghost-written by HP Lovecraft, 1924. Also known as Entombed with the Pharaohs, this story is set in 1910 and features the fictionalized account of magician Harry Houdini during an incredible escape. Listen with headphones for the best experience. This track contains the complete story and continues for one hour with rain after the story ends to help you fall asleep. For more content every day: Donate: https://paypal.me/TomeByTome https://www.podpage.com/tome-by-tome-asmr/ #hplovecraftasmr #imprisonedwiththepharaohs #audiobookfull Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of Cairo and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a Bedouin leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a 'custom of great antiquity in Cairo' a boxing match atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down an extremely deep pit. After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following a foul-smelling draft. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern with giant pillars carved with hieroglyphs. Here he witnesses an parade of half-man, half-animal mummies, led by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Khephren and Nitocris, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity, the Unknown God of the Dead, in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tome-by-tome-asmr/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy