What do Jewish Missionarys say?

[The keeper]

When the Jewish missionarys spread Judism, what do the missionarys chant?

My coworker and I are pretty sure it is hebrew - but we were wondering what it translates into in English. Anyone know??

[Older than Dirt]

You would think it would be the Shemah, but it doesn't sound at all like that to me. Could it be "the LORD bless you and keep you?" Come on where are the Hebrew scholars out there? This has been dirivng me nuts also.

[Rook]

It is probably gibberish meant to sound Hebrew. That way, they just can't offend anyone.

Firaxis did it with the Pirates! remake. The pirates speak gibberish, but its funny, one word seems to pop up in several of the conversations the pirates say. The word is Chu-ban. My daughter and I have taken this word up as a loving way to taunt each other. Like when we play air hockey, I'll say, "I'm never gonna let a chu-ban like you beat me!" Then I let her win. I'm sure the parenting experts would find some kind of fault with that, but she gets a kick out of it.

[To_Serve_Man]

Not the hi-jack or anything. But I also have a question about the religious sounds. I was wondering if anyone out there had any info as to what the chanting the Taoist religion has (when discovered and when it spreads). It's really neat and I wanna download some, but have no idea what it is called or how to go about finding out what it is! In fact, i'm not sure it is even chanting... it sorta sounds like it could be a type of organ


BTW: This is kind of a long shot, but for anyone out there who played Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings, when you were in a skirmish or multiplayer game selecting your team to play as a unique sound clip would play for each team when the game started. If you ever played as the Mongols, they had the same kind of chanting/organ.

Anyway, I've been wondering this for the past 7 years or so (since 1999 when AoE2 came out) and have just recently remember my *interest* in whatever this music is from Civ4. I'd love it if anyone had any info on it.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by To_Serve_Man
Not the hi-jack or anything. But I also have a question about the religious sounds. I was wondering if anyone out there had any info as to what the chanting the Taoist religion has (when discovered and when it spreads). It's really neat and I wanna download some, but have no idea what it is called or how to go about finding out what it is! In fact, i'm not sure it is even chanting... it sorta sounds like it could be a type of organ

I always thought it to be very reminiscent of Mongolian throat singing, but I'm not quite sure if that's actually what it is (actual throat singing sounds much more 'raw', the Taoist sound is more like a cleaned-up version of it). The fact that it reminds you of the AoK Mongols sound (never played AoK myself) seems to confirm this...

[Rook]

I was under the impression that Taoism is a dead religion.

[MikeH]

Aren't they all?

[Senethro]

Originally posted by MikeH
Aren't they all?

Yes, but it would be a brave man to tell Off-Topic that

[GeoModder]

Since when is ones anonimity on the 'net not assured anymore?

[Martin the Dane]

Wether any of the 7 religions are dead or not is irellevant to Civ4 and to this thread, so please keep to the topic.

I would also like to know what those missionaries chant.

[Jim Cobb]

Originally posted by Rook
I was under the impression that Taoism is a dead religion.

No, Taoism is still alive in China - although every other religon and Communism is squeezing it.

[EvilBob22]

I always think is sounds like "Whoa-a-oh! We be singing!"

[Rook]

Originally posted by Martin the Dane
Wether any of the 7 religions are dead or not is irellevant to Civ4 and to this thread, so please keep to the topic.

I would also like to know what those missionaries chant.

Actually it IS relavant. The poster asked what the Taosists were chanting in Civ 4. I asked whether Taoism is dead, because if it is, that would make it harder to find an answer. Because someone else made a joke about it is not my fault.

[To_Serve_Man]

After some investigation, (I feel kinda bad hi-jacking like this and not really helping the OP.... but I really have no knowledge of the Jewish faith or anything. Although I find that sometimes if you take sound file and edit it with just the basic Windows Sound Recorder [assuming your using Windows] and either slow it down or speed it up, it sometimes makes it clearer) and searching around the net for Mongolian Throat chants (which lead me to Tuvan and Chinese throat chants also), it does seem like the Taoist missionary (and Mongols from Age of Kings) do seem to have a very... "orchestrated" version. The samples I found on the net obviously don't represent the whole body of work that encompasses Mongolian Throat chanting. The net samples were simple, usually one harmonious note with little change in notes: where as the computer games seem to have a little rhythm/melody they sing.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by To_Serve_Man
I was wondering if anyone out there had any info as to what the chanting the Taoist religion has (when discovered and when it spreads).

I went back and listen to it some more. It sounds like a kind of Chinese musical instrument to me.