1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: M Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minkey. You're 3 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: here because you believe in more than the I can see. 4 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: What you believe in may be different than what someone 5 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: else believes in. Some of you might believe in ghosts, 6 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: others may believe in angels, and yet others believe in 7 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: fairies and trolls and lepre cons. But I'm pretty sure 8 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: all of you believe in something supernatural, intangible, something that 9 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: exists in the shadows of our everyday human experience. And 10 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: just like you, millions of others throughout history and throughout 11 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: the world have believed with religious fervor in a supernatural 12 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: being you may never have heard of, but caricatures of 13 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: that creature have still managed to crack through our pop culture. 14 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: And chances are that at some point in your childhood 15 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: you rubbed a lamp and made a wish, hoping that 16 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: the blue Genie from the film Aladdin would pop out 17 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: and grant your wildest desires. You know, the funny, wise 18 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: cracking genie dressed in a confusing mix of Middle Eastern 19 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: and South Asian clothing, singing and tap dancing a pretty 20 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: endearing creature all around to children and adults alike. But 21 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: what you may not know is that there is nothing 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: childish about genies, and that the silly, grinning, innocuous apparition 23 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: from the Disney adaptations couldn't be further from the truth 24 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: when it comes to the centuries of tradition, folklore, and 25 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: fervent belief in an entire race of powerful and often 26 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: terrifying beings. The gin, that's right, our happy blue friend 27 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: from Aladdin, is a gin, a gin from the Arabian 28 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: tale One thousand and one. Night and the gin are 29 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: nothing to laugh about. I'm Robbia Chaudhry, and I'll be 30 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: your guide into the ancient world of the hidden Gin. 31 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: Welcome and the gen We created a four time from 32 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: the smokeless fire of a scorching wind. These words may 33 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: sound like they come from a modern paranormal young adult novel, 34 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: but they're actually almost fift years old, and they come 35 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: from the Muslim scripture, Chapter fifteen, verse of the Koran. 36 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: We create a four time from the smokeless fire of 37 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: a scorching wind. The WII. Here is God himself explaining 38 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: the differences of his creation. Two believers mere mortals, says 39 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: God he created out of a muddy clay, and angels 40 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: he fashioned out of pure light. And then there's this 41 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: third category of creation, the gin. God created them fearsome 42 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: from the smokeless flame of a scorching wind, the very 43 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: edge of the flame, indeed the most essential, purest part 44 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: of it, given the description, if you think about it, 45 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the gin are composed of kind of the opposite elements 46 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: of us humans. We're mostly water and carbon material like 47 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: the Earth itself, while ginn are created from the air 48 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: elements of fire and wind like the Earth. Human beings 49 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: are tangible material, fixed and limited in our physical manifestations, 50 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: but gin like living gusts of fiery wind. They are ineffable, powerful, 51 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: and uncontained. Now, scholars say that this description of gin 52 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: indicates a brilliant flame of the highest intensity mixed with 53 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: a smoldering wind. But it also signifies that maybe the 54 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: gin and are made from the howling flames of Hell itself. 55 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: They're very composition, smolders and burns, and yet it gives 56 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: off no smoke. Now, this may seem counterintuitive and contrary 57 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: to everything we think we know about fires, but believe 58 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: it or not, smokeless flames are completely ordinary. In fact, 59 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: you can find dozens of video tutorials online on how 60 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: to create your very own smokeless fire, but good luck 61 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: turning those into gin. Not everyone thinks the smokeless flame 62 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: description is literal, though. Like many things in all scriptures, 63 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,119 Speaker 1: there are urns of phrases, figurative passages meant to present 64 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: the contours of an idea and language understandable for the 65 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 1: time period. Think about it this way. Human beings aren't 66 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: actually made of clay, but we are made of organic compounds, 67 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 1: earthly elements, tangible materials, ashes to ashes, and dusted us 68 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: and science even tells us that we are made of stardust, 69 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: so you get the drift. Likewise, say some scholars, maybe 70 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: the term smoke was flame of a scorching wind actually 71 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: signifies energy. That maybe the gin or pure energy and 72 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: the exist across dimensions that we don't even know exist. 73 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: They're able to transform transport, untethered by the laws of 74 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: physics that bind humans, flitting back and forth through planes 75 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: of time and space, unseen to our eyes, which is 76 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: why they're called gin, a word that means hidden, unable 77 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: to be detected by human senses, concealed from all of us. 78 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: But even though we can't see them, just like energy, 79 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: they're everywhere around us. Maybe they're made of a combination 80 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: of the many different kinds of energies we know exist, 81 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: or maybe their elements involved energy sources we haven't even 82 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: yet discovered, and maybe we never will. Maybe they're like 83 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: the energy life force that many religions, faith traditions, and 84 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: even indigenous cultures believe is contained within our very own bodies. 85 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: You know, those things we called souls. Now, if you're 86 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: a believer, it doesn't really matter what the ginner made of. 87 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: You just know they're out there and here, right here, 88 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: right next to me and next to you. We can't 89 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: see them, but they can see you. And if you're 90 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: not a believer, then maybe by the time the series 91 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: is over, you will be. Look, if I'm going to 92 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: be honest, no three Muslims can get together without swapping 93 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: jin stories. It's our parallel tradition to time honored campfire 94 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: ghost stories. We just can't help ourselves because well, we 95 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: all have jin stories to tell. But make no mistake, 96 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: Jin stories didn't start in the seventh century in the 97 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 1: desert of Arabia with the advent of the Muslim religion. 98 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: Even though they're mentioned forty times in the scripture the Koran, 99 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: the Gin are much more ancient than that, predating the 100 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: Koronic Scripture by centuries, and their tales stretch across continents 101 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: and millennia. After all, God say that he created them aforetime, 102 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: So when did it all begin? There isn't exactly one 103 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: answer to that question that we can be sure is correct, 104 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: and that's likely because dozens of different traditions and folklore 105 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: merged over time and regions, intermingling and criss crossing like 106 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: a spider's web to create an entire universe of tales. 107 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: There are echoes of the Arabian Gin stories familiar strains 108 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: in the spirit myths from primitive Assyria and Babylonia. Gin 109 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: deities were all the Rage and Palmira in ancient Syria, 110 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: and historians believe these demigods were called Gene, which in 111 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: fact means invisible in Aramaic. But not all these ancient 112 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: creatures were worshiped as gods. The Babylonians themselves were steeped 113 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: in magical practices and demon lore, with a vast array 114 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: of demonic entities that parallel Jin descriptions like the Atuku, 115 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: a malevolent spirit that dwelled in deserts and graveyards, abandoned 116 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: desolate spaces, lying wait for unsuspecting humans passing by. There's 117 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: also the Rabis, who which hide in barren spots and 118 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: spring out to attack those that cross its paths. Both 119 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: of these creatures sound like and operate exactly like a 120 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: kind of gin called the ghoul. You'll also find in 121 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: the corpus of Jewish demonology, and yes, that's a thing, 122 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: mentions of evil spirits that sound an awful lot like 123 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: the gin's that we encounter in Arabian lore. An ancient 124 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: Arabic translation of the Book of Job from the Hebrew 125 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: Bible even suggests the Queen of Sheba was a Jin, 126 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: birth from the union of a human and a demon. 127 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: There are dozens and dozens of rabbit holes you can 128 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: fall into as you try to trace the origins of 129 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: Gin lore, but for now we'll stay out of them, 130 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: and we'll focus on the vast body of tales that 131 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: arose over centuries from late antiquity onwards from the sands 132 00:08:52,920 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: of the Middle East. If you're thinking jin are basically ghosts, 133 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: at least as ghosts are understood in the Western imagination. 134 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: Well you're not even close. In fact, that gin are 135 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: much more like human beings than haunting, shadowy spirits. The 136 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: gin are born, they eat and drink, they work and 137 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: conduct business, They fall in love, they marry and have children, 138 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: and yes, that means they are sexually active. They live 139 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: in communities, and they have hierarchies, nations and kingdoms. They 140 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: may profess a religion. They are good and they are evil, 141 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: And just as they live, they die, not for thousands 142 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: of years, but eventually they do die. And they have 143 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: what we would consider superpowers, including the power of shape shifting, 144 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: super strength, traveling through the cosmos and different dimensions, and 145 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: all the many kinds of things human beings often wished 146 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: we were capable of. While there isn't much in scriptural 147 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: sources that describes the original creation of the jin, there 148 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: are many origin stories found in medieval writings, ancient folklore, 149 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: and that differ from place to place. According to one legend, 150 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: the very first gin that God created out of the 151 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: blazing desert wind well before the creation of mankind, was 152 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: a gin named assume Bin John Tarnushi. His progeny inherited 153 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: the earth, ruling over it for thousands of years and 154 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: giving rise to seventy two jinn kings. The last of 155 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: these kings was named John Iven John, from where the 156 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: name for the entire species of gin comes from. It 157 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: would be tens of thousands of years later that human 158 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: beings came into existence and took over with the jinns 159 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: once ruled. Another origin stories ties the origin of the 160 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: gin very closely to that of man. According to this legend, Eve, 161 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: the wife of Adam, gave birth to forty children at 162 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: the same time. We can only care for half of them. 163 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: Without telling Adams, she discarded twenty of the children, and 164 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: then she lied to her husband that her brood was 165 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: only the remaining twenty. But Adam had a suspicion, so 166 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: he said a prayer to God, asking that his lost 167 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: children be allowed to live beneath the earth and only 168 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: venture out at night when the rest of mankind slept. 169 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: These twenty subterranean dwellers became the Gin. The male of 170 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: Southeast Asia believed that the gin arose from three leaves 171 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: of the mangrove tree. Green gin emerged from a leaf 172 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: that flew into the sky. The black gin emerged from 173 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: a leaf that fell at a dark forest gate, and 174 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: white gin from a leaf that ended up in the ocean. 175 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: And yet one more origin story can be found in 176 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: a sprawling tenth century book called The Meadows of Gold 177 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: and Minds of Gems, written by a scholar named al Masoudi. 178 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: The book itself is a tome on the very history 179 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: of time and the world and all of creation in it, 180 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: so naturally it couldn't leave out the gin. According to Almosudi, 181 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: God created the first gin, a male from burning wind, 182 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: and from that gin, God created a mate. Not unlike 183 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: the Adam and Eve story, these two came together and 184 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: their union resulted in thirty eggs. Each of these thirty eggs, 185 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: upon hatching, released a different kind of gin. One of 186 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: the eggs cracked open and out emerged the mother of 187 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: all the kotwebs, the gin that come in the form 188 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: of cat. From another egg emerged the Blazes, the demon gin, 189 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: which make their home within the walls. From another egg 190 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: where hatched the maradas, which inhabit islands. Another egg produced 191 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: the ghoul. And yes, if that sounds like the kind 192 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,599 Speaker 1: of ghoule you're familiar with, that's because it's one of 193 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: the same thing, And yet from another egg emerged the silas, 194 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,239 Speaker 1: which hide in the mountains, and yet others the Wahawe's, 195 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: which inhabit the air in the form of winged serpents, 196 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. Each of the third 197 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: the eggs cracked open, revealing a variant species of Gin. Now, 198 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: some of these descriptions may sound familiar to you, and 199 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: they should. Gin in the form of cats, well, that's 200 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: not so far removed from shape shifting, which companions the 201 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: feline familiar winged serpent gins that fly through the air, 202 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: Hello dragons, and the earliest known story about lepre cons 203 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: involves a captured group of them granting three wishes to 204 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: their captor to gain their release. Granting wishes and playing 205 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: tricks on humans seems to be a crossover favorite for 206 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 1: both the Gin and these Celtic creatures. Some even argue 207 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: that fairies, those tiny, adorable, sparkly flitting creatures we've come 208 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: to associate with glitter and enchantment, actually have a dark 209 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: history that ties neatly with Gin lore, or at least 210 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: there are some interesting parallels they're worth considering. For example, 211 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: according to the lore, both the gin and fairies predate 212 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: human creation. They're both creatures that took up their abode 213 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: in the earth, but eventually withdrew into a world where 214 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: they could be invisible. They both loved to play tricks 215 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: on human beings, they live extraordinarily long lives, and most interestingly, 216 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: they might have a very similar origin story. According to 217 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: the Celtic lore, fairies are none other than fallen angels, 218 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: having followed Lucifer out of heaven when he rebelled against God. 219 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: According to a nineteenth century account by folklorist Alexander Carmichael, 220 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: local Irish storytellers relayed this tale of the fallen fairies 221 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: quote doomed to live under the ground and only permitted 222 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: to emerge when and where the King permits, these cursed 223 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: fairies weren't allowed out of their hiding places on certain days, 224 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: but on some nights they would light their lamps and sing, 225 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: not of the seed of Adam are we, and Abraham 226 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: is not our father, but of the seed of the 227 00:14:54,600 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: proud Angel driven forth from heaven. Likewise, in a Muslim tradition, 228 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: the rebellious gin also were cast out of heaven following 229 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: their master Lucifer. Given some of the overlap in the lore, 230 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: maybe fairies and leprecrons are manifestations of gin. If you 231 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: were to ask some folks, actually, they'd say, all supernatural 232 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: beings and phenomena are some form of Gin or another, 233 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: whether those beings are playful and harmless or their destructive 234 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: and evil UFO sightings. Gin, human possessions, Jin, crop circles. 235 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: Gin magician David Blaine, Oh, definitely a gin, and believe 236 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: it or not. According to a two thousand six report 237 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: in The Economist, factions in Somalia and Ifhanistan have accused 238 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: their enemies of being backed not only by the CIA, 239 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: but by malevolent gin. One theory in if Ahanistan holds 240 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: that the Mujahideen scared the Gin out into the world, 241 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: causing disharmony. It is the Gin, they say, who whisper 242 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: into the ears of suicide bombers. So while it's seems 243 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: that there are some people who see gin everywhere and 244 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: in everything, scholars and enthusiasts have categorized the Gin into 245 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: four broad categories, and each of these four kinds will 246 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: once again sound pretty familiar to you. First, there are 247 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: the Gin who live among humans, the ones who inhabit 248 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: our homes right alongside with us, which are called the omar. 249 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: After all, we have all heard about house hauntings. Countless 250 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: books and films have been made about supernatural dwellers, often 251 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,239 Speaker 1: evil and violent, that really want their space to themselves. 252 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: These beings do everything in their power to get rid 253 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: of whatever hapless family unwittingly moved into their territory. But 254 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: unlike what Hollywood would have you believe, not all of 255 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: our co inhabitants are violent psychopaths. Most of the time, 256 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: they just want to live right alongside with you in 257 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: their own parallel plane without even letting you know that 258 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: they are. Other times, however, they may like to mess 259 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: with you or just let you know that they're in charge. 260 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: In two thousand nine, a Saudi family was so fed 261 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: up with being harassed by gin in their house they 262 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: finally took the gin to court. You heard me right, 263 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: They sued the unseen entity in an actual court of law. 264 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: The lawsuit filed by the family, which was joined by 265 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: every member of the family, alleged that the Jin had 266 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: for the previous two years, stolen their cell phones, left 267 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: them threatening voicemails maybe from those very same cell phones, 268 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: helded them with rocks every time they left the house 269 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 1: at night and frightened the children. They heard voices, first 270 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: a woman's voice, that a man's telling them to get 271 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: out of the house, and whispering threats. Now, the court 272 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: took the matter seriously because it wasn't like it was 273 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: just one person making the allegations. It was the entire family, 274 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: So they investigated, but of course they found it wasn't 275 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: easy to substantiate the charges. Many different media was reported 276 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: the case, which seems to suggest it was unusual enough 277 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: to make the news, although it would be great fun 278 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 1: to exclusively have a jin docket. Anyway, there isn't any 279 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: information out there about the court's ultimate verdict, and the 280 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: lawyer in me can't help but wonder what damages the 281 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: family was asking for. Do they want their cell phones back, 282 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: an apology for the voicemails and exorcism. Well, what we 283 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: do know is the family eventually just moved out, So 284 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: I guess you could say the defendant one. Then there 285 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: are the kind of gin that terrify every living parent 286 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 1: on earth. If you've ever raised some little ones, at 287 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: some point you may have seen your child communicating with 288 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: something or someone invisible to you, but not invisible to 289 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: your child. We've all seen that spooky black and white 290 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: child monitor video footage where some toddler in a crib 291 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: is deep in conversation, babbling, laughing, pointing, responding to what 292 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: looks like nothing there at all. It could be that 293 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: the child is in fact having a chat with an arwa, 294 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 1: the kind of gin that just love babies. You could 295 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: call them baby whisperers. These gin attacks themselves to small 296 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: children many times. It's not out of any malice, but 297 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: because they're kind of baby crazy. They love the coops 298 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: and gurgles and innocent wonder as much as we do. 299 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: Maybe they even love that fresh baby powder and mixed 300 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: with warm milk smell. Some of them can't stand it 301 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: if someone is mean to a child. They are there 302 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: to play with and protect their tiny friends. That doesn't 303 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: mean there aren't others that love to torment children, but 304 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: most just take advantage of the fact that the children 305 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: are more receptive to them. Unlike adults. The veil between 306 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: the scene and the unseen is thinner for little ones, 307 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: and it's believed that both animals and children are able 308 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: to see gin and communicate with them easily. A two 309 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: thousand six article titled of children. Engin in the Journal 310 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: of Cultural Anthropology chronicled just such a situation. The author, 311 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: a researcher staying at the home of her professor, was 312 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: shocked to learn that his family had for years lived 313 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: with multiple gin in their home. The gin had apparently 314 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: been gifted to them by an acquaintance, if we could 315 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: call that a gift, an acquaintance who inherited them from 316 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: his own father. But the acquaintance apparently had too many 317 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: jin to know what to do with, so he sent 318 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: a group of his gin companions to the home of 319 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: his friend, the professor, gifting him one jin for every 320 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: male member of the family. But the jin didn't communicate 321 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: with the family through the male members that they had 322 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: been assigned to. Instead, their main conduit was the eight 323 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: year old daughter of the family, Mariam. Mariam was the 324 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: only member of the family who could see the jin, 325 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: see them actually interspersed with her family, hanging out and 326 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: about with them. She could read with a jin desired 327 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: in the palms of her hands, and when family members 328 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: had questions or needed advice from the gin, little muddy 329 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: Um was the one to pass on the message. Once 330 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: a gin told muddy Um he really wanted to experience 331 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: what human food tasted like. She told her father, the Professor, 332 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: and with his permission, she told the jin to go 333 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,239 Speaker 1: ahead and enter her father's body to find out. And 334 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: so apparently that's exactly what the gin did. The Professor 335 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: was suddenly seized with an uncontrollable appetite, and he ate 336 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: and ate and ate until the household ran out of food. 337 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: The gin that muddy Um and her family felt closest 338 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: to was named Soleiman. He was thousands of years old, 339 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: older even than Christianity, and muddy Um described him as 340 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: tall with the long white beard, and he wore clean, 341 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: spotless white clothing. While he was usually serious, he was 342 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: very gentle, especially with muddy Um. The child was never 343 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 1: frightened by him. For years, the family itself never interacted 344 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: with the gin except through muddy Um, and in effect, 345 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: this female child commanded a great deal of power over 346 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: them in a time and place where female children might 347 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: not otherwise. Eventually, Muddyum lost her ability as childhood gave 348 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: away to puberty. The family tried to get her younger sister, Fatima, 349 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: to take her place, but Fatima was not as willing 350 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: a medium as muddy Um. She was scared of the gin, 351 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: and also upset that they did not seem to be 352 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: doing her bidding. Eventually, the family just kind of gave 353 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: the gin back to their acquaintance who had gifted it 354 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: to them in the first place. They're lucky that the 355 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: parting was amicable, because it isn't always like that, which 356 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: brings us to the third broad category of gin, which 357 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: all kind of fall within a spectrum of well evil. 358 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: The least powerful of all the evil gin are the Shyadine, 359 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: and if you think that word sounds familiar, it should 360 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: because it's Arabic for a bunch of Satan's. The Shayatine 361 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: keep busy inspiring mankind to do evil deeds through whisperers 362 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,479 Speaker 1: and black thoughts. Then there are the marid, which are 363 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: powerful gin that can be summoned by black magic, who 364 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: only do the opposite of what they're commanded, and who 365 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: are related to water elements living around lakes, waterfalls, rivers, 366 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: oceans I think mermaids, but really terrifying ones. Finally, there 367 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: are the Ifrit, known to be the largest, fastest, strongest, 368 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: coming in all shapes and sizes and abilities, and the 369 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: most evil of them all. You could even call them demons, 370 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: and some say that the angry, vengeful spirits of those 371 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: who died violent unnatural debts could also be a free. 372 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: You might be surprised to know that the happy dancing 373 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: genie in a bottle that comes from the Arabian tail 374 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: in One thousand and one Nights is in fact, and 375 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: a free and a freath have made their way into 376 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: other modern Western pop culture, and a freak character makes 377 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: an appearance in both the television series True Blood and 378 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: the blockbuster Neil game and novel American Gods. And if 379 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: you're a gamer, you might know that you can summon 380 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: an a freat in the Final Fantasy video game. These 381 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: blips of publicity notwithstanding, undeniably, the most infamous account of 382 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: the freet is thousands of years old, and it's the 383 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: story of the gin that were believed to be enslaved 384 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 1: by the great Biblical King Solomon. That's right. One of 385 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: the many divine abilities granted to the legendary King Solomon 386 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: was a power to control the jin. According to the 387 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: Muslim tradition, it was through this power that Solomon was 388 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: able to become one of the most powerful rulers the 389 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: world has ever seen. King Solomon commanded the legions of 390 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: Gin to do his bidding, sending Jin armies to fight 391 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: off his enemies and using Gin labor to build never 392 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: before seen architectural marvels like the First Temple of Jerusalem. 393 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: In fact, the city of Jerusalem itself, along with its 394 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: ancient walls, is said to be built by Solomon's Jin slaves. 395 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: There are rabbinical interpretations that say that the massive stones 396 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,239 Speaker 1: that built the temple cried out with actual voices and 397 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: moved themselves to the construction site. Other stories say that 398 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: the female Jin mined the great stones from quarries and 399 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: carried them to the sacred site, accounting for the appearance 400 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: of the stones moving by themselves. There are Hebrew rabbinical 401 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: commentaries about Ecclesiastes to eight, in which Solomon himself describes 402 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: how he collected quote a shidda vestidote, a phrase meaning demons. 403 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: Another ancient text further described Solomon's enslavement of supernatural beings 404 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: to carry out his will. That text is called the 405 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: Testament of Solomon and it dates from around two This 406 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 1: magical text, which is leave to have its origins in 407 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: the first century, is in fact ascribed to King Solomon himself. 408 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: While it's not considered a biblical canon, it is supposedly 409 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: a first hand account of the building of the First Temple, 410 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: though there is disagreement as to his authorship, which can 411 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 1: of course certainly be expected of a two thousand year 412 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: old document. Now, according to the story, the master workman 413 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: at the temple's construction site had a young son who 414 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: King Solomon was quite fond of. The son, like his father, 415 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: worked and earned wages, but over time, the child grew 416 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: thinner and thinner and weaker would every passing day. It 417 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 1: turned out a vampiric jin named Orneus had been creeping 418 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: into the worker's camp every night, stealing the boy's food 419 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: and wages, and sucking the child's life energy, his blood, 420 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: in other words, right out of the boys right thumb. 421 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: When Solomon learned of this, he prayed and prayed that 422 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: God would give him the power to deal with Orneus. 423 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: One day, that prayer was aswered when, according to Solomon's Testament, 424 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: the archangel Michael brought him a powerful ring forged out 425 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: of iron and copper, so bright and shiny that Solomon 426 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: could hardly look at it. The ring was engraved with 427 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: two interlocking triangles, creating a hexagram, and within the hexagram 428 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: was the tech a grammaton the four letters symbolizing the 429 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 1: most powerful name of God. The engraving on this ring 430 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: has come to be known as the famed Seal of Solomon. 431 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: The ring allowed Solomon to control all the gin in 432 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: this world and in every dimension, and the Testament of 433 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: Solomon actually lists many of the gin, at least the 434 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: notable ones that King Solomon summoned to appear before him 435 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: to account for their deeds and to be sentenced accordingly. 436 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: One of the gin that Solomon commanded before him was 437 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: a no nosculis, whose form was half woman and half mule. 438 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: She told Solomon she was born from the voice of 439 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: the go of a black heaven, emitted in matter. She 440 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: dwelled in caves and jungles, and she seduced and strangled 441 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: men for her sins. Solomon sentence a Noscelis to make 442 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: hemp ropes for the construction of the Temple day and night. 443 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: Another Jin that the ring dragged before Solomon with Ashmadai, 444 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: one of the most powerful Jin. The story of Ashmada's 445 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: humiliation in front of Solomon doesn't only appear in the 446 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: Testament of Solomon. It also appears in the Babylonian Talmud, 447 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: a Hebrew text of collected documents between the third and 448 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: six centuries, a couple of hundred years after the Testament, 449 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: and this Talmud tells a similar tale of King Solomon 450 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: enslaving Ashmadi to build the temple. But Ashmadi wasn't any 451 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: old demon. He was called the King of Demons, and 452 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: Renaissance Christians called Ashmadi the King of nine Hells, the 453 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: demon prince of the deadly sin of lust, so clearly 454 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: he had a long standing and terrifying reputation. Ashmadi told 455 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: King Solomon that he was the offspring of an angel 456 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: and a human woman. For those of you familiar with 457 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: the Old Testament, you might recall the story in the 458 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: Book of Enoch about the Watchers, or the Sons of 459 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: God as they were called angels, who disobeyed God's command, 460 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: descended to Earth to take earthly wives, and then bore 461 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: beastly offspring, called the Nephelim. Maybe that's what ashman I 462 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: was claiming to be one of the Nephelum. Nonetheless, ashman 463 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: I specialties included driving people to insanity, causing them to 464 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: commit murder, interfering in marriages, and causing enmity between people. 465 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: For these sins, Solomon sent us, the demon king, to 466 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: be weakened by iron, a metal that Jin are terrified 467 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: of because it causes them pain and harm, and to 468 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: make clay for the temple by trampling the ground. Now 469 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: you may be thinking, well, was it Gin or demons 470 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: that King Solomon controlled? But the answer is both, because, 471 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: as we said before, the universe of Gin includes the 472 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: most evil of them, better known as demons, and yes, 473 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: even Satan himself. But more on Satan later in the series, 474 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: because believe me, you can't talk about Jin without talking 475 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: about Satan. Back to Solomon, though the enslavement of scores 476 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: of Gin apparently rubbed many of them the wrong way, 477 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: Ashmad I raised an immortal battle cry against all mankind, declaring, 478 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: and your tyranny will be short over us, and then 479 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: we will again have free range over mankind, so as 480 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: that they will regard us as if we were gods, 481 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: not knowing men that they are the names of the 482 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: angels set over us. And so to this day there 483 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: remains a legion of Gin who are still peeved off 484 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: at the indignities that they suffered on the Solomon, because remember, 485 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: they lived for thousands of years. You see, Solomon didn't 486 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: just enslave of scores of them. Others he imprisoned in 487 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: brass and iron vessels sealed with a magical spell. Yet 488 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: others were locked up for eternity and rings made of 489 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: precious gems guarded by powerful talisman. For all we know, 490 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,719 Speaker 1: these many Gin, the hundreds of thousands or millions of them, 491 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: are still locked up to this day. And back then 492 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: it became pretty clear to the Gin that no good 493 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: could come from men having control of them. We don't 494 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: know about the Gin imprisoned in vessels and rings with 495 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: the Jin enslaved by King Solomon were finally released when he, 496 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: according to the Testament, failed a test of faith by God. 497 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: The ring that he used to control his Gin slaves 498 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: and Jin army was in fact stolen by a Jin 499 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: who morphed himself into a Solomon look like and ruled 500 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: for forty days pretending to be the king. In some traditions, 501 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: it said that King Solomon regained the ring and continued 502 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: to lord over his hordes of Gin, but one day, 503 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: as he stood leaning on his staff, watching the Jin 504 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: slaves work and build his many projects in the Holy Land. 505 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: He quietly died, but no one realized it because he 506 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: was standing holding onto the staff. He didn't topple over, 507 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 1: even though he was very much dead. His body continued 508 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: to stay upright leaning on the staff, and no one 509 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: realized he died. So the Jin continued to slave away, 510 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: thinking that their master was still watching them. Finally, though, 511 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: the staff was eaten through by worms, and the mighty 512 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: King Solomon finally fell to the earth, alerting his slaves 513 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: that the king was no more and that their years 514 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: of humiliation and forced labor had ended. A Jin traveled 515 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: far and wide to the outer reaches of Solomon's kingdom 516 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: to tell the others, shake the dust of your labor 517 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: and go your way, and so they did, gaining their 518 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: freedom at last. No one since King Solomon has ever 519 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: been able to have command over the higher creation of Gin, 520 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: likely because the ring that held that power disappeared. Legend 521 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: has it that Solomon's ring, sword, and crown are buried 522 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: on an island in a lake, and see what Egypt. 523 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: No one, however, has ever found these treasures, and another 524 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: legend says that they will not re emerge until the 525 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: end times when the great apocalyptic Beast appears, who will 526 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: be wielding both Solomon's staff and his seal. But until then, 527 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: there are still ways for human beings to get jin 528 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: to do their bidding, because there are always jin who 529 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: are willing to well negotiate their powers with us mere mortals. 530 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: So yes, there are ways if you want a gin 531 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: at your beck and call to get one, But more 532 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: on that in a later episode. For now, we move 533 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: on to the final category of gin, the ones that 534 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 1: we are born and die with. The Karen are constant companions. 535 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: According to the tradition, each one of us is born 536 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: with a Karen, which literally means constant companion, a jin 537 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: assigned to us at birth that lives with us throughout 538 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: our lives and dies with us when we die. At 539 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: least that's the most common understanding of what the Karen are. 540 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,240 Speaker 1: This Jin, like others, has commonalities with much more ancient beings. 541 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 1: The Babylonians believed in a demon called the Cid, which, 542 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: while having evil properties, was also a guardian spirit attached 543 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,240 Speaker 1: to human beings, much like the Assyrian deity Lamassu, also 544 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: a protective creature. Then there is the Christian Guardian Angel, 545 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: a more familiar being to our understanding. The point of 546 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 1: departure is this, though not all scholars believe the Karen 547 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: are necessarily protective. In fact, many believe the Karen are 548 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: evil jin, meant to confuse and lead man astray at 549 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: every turn from the moment of his birth until his death, 550 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,319 Speaker 1: kind of like a little devil on your shoulder, would 551 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,959 Speaker 1: bring you into things you know you shouldn't be doing. 552 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 1: And others believe that the karn is a person's double 553 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: or even a familiar. Now, you might be most familiar 554 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: with the familiar as an animal companion to say which, 555 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: but historically the understanding of a familiar was much more broad. 556 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: Philosopher Pierre Refard defined a familiar as possibly being a 557 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: double ganger or a totem spirit, or perhaps even a 558 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: personal demon. In some traditions, it's said that because the 559 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: Jin are created with free will, the kren to chose 560 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: what they want to do of their own free accord, 561 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: but they can be brought under the control of their 562 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: human through various spiritual rituals and black magic. One way 563 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: they say, to weaken the grip your kren has over 564 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 1: you is basically to just be a good person. It 565 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: said that the more evil a person engages in, the 566 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: more powerful his karine becomes, pushing him or her to 567 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: worse and worse acts. After all, the beast you feed 568 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,280 Speaker 1: is the one that will win. What makes a green 569 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: particularly insidious to human beings, maybe more so than any 570 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: other gin, is the fact that they've been with you 571 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: since the day you were born, so they know everything 572 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: about you. They've witnessed everything you've ever done or said. 573 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,479 Speaker 1: They know your deepest desires, your weaknesses, your secrets, which 574 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: means if they wanted, they could manipulate you like a 575 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: puppet master. So it seems like your best bet is 576 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: too well, just keep your careen on your good side, 577 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 1: because we're better or worse, this is one companion you'll 578 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: never be able to shake. Thanks for joining us this week. 579 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: Next week we'll be back to take you on another 580 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: step into the world of the Hidden Gin. Until then, 581 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:57,760 Speaker 1: remember we are not alone. 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