Life. Death. Sacrifice. Dune.
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This is why you were born: to make a sacrificial choice a thousand years in the making. You will carry this unthinkable weight, so that the rest of us can live unburdened. And aren’t you so glad that you’re The Chosen One?
0:00 To Kill the Sacred Worm
0:48 Drown a God in a Bathtub
3:00 The Chosen Sacrifice
5:29 Your Pain Shall Save Us
6:40 “I’m Not the Messiah!”
8:33 The Killing of a Sacred Deer
10:36 Avatar of Suffering
12:33 The Holy Meat Grinder
14:09 All This Goat’s Fault
16:24 You Ruined Everything
18:17 INTERACTIVE PORTION!!1!
18:55 The God Emperor of Dune
20:41 Might There Be Another Button?
Media Shown: Dune, Dune: Part II, Dune (1984), Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Matrix, The Northman, Hellblade, Hellblade II, The Wicker Man, God of War, God of War: Ragnarök, Excalibur, The Sword in the Stone, Star Wars, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Andor, Berserk, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Batman v Superman, Superman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Captain America Civil War, Avengers Endgame, Monty Python: Life of Brian, Iphigenia, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Temple of Doom, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Star Trek TOS, The Twilight Zone
♫ Music Used – O Fortuna (Carl Orff), Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 (Mozart), Jarls, Karls, and Thralls (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), A Plague Tale (A Plague Tale), Skullcrusher (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), Gaunter o’ Dimm Theme (The Witcher 3), Saint of the Bud (Elden Ring), Together Forever (A Plague Tale), Knight Gael (Dark Souls III), The Ninth Realm (God of War), Strangers (A Plague Tale), Main Theme (Sons of the Forest), Nameless Song (Dark Souls), Dance of the Knights (Prokofiev), Painful Memories (Heavy Rain), Menu (One Must Fall), Turned Around (Signalis)
♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (Beauty Flow)
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“The Golden Bough Vol. 1” (1894) by James George Frazer
“Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia” (2007) by C. M. C. Green
“Tolkien and the Great War” (2003) by John Garth
“Human Sacrifice and the Loss of Transformative Power” (2005) by Eleanor Rimoldi https://www.jstor.org/stable/23175296
“What is Dune About? Not Even Frank Herbert Could Say for Sure” (2024) by Daniel Roberts https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/05/dune-series-meaning-interpretation-duncan-idaho/
“Earthworm Invaders” by Smithsonian Environmental Research Center https://ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-invaders/
“Multiple invasion routes have led to the pervasive introduction of earthworms in North America” (2024) by Jérôme Mathieu, John W. Reynolds, Carlos Fragoso, and Elizabeth Hadly https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02310-7
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