Aristaeus the Apiarian || Dael Kingsmill

This time I tell the Greek myth of Aristaeus the son of Apollo, featuring an intense fondness for bees, unlikely carcass miracles and the inventor of toaster strudel.
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[@saetharion]

I like that twist with an insane Aristaeus just hugging a bunch of flies and crying with joy. Fabulous job as always, and fabulous hair today =P

[@flyonwall81]

Fantastic video. Almost seems like the gods' first April Fool's myth. Pretty elaborate set-up to get a guy to start keeping a swarm of flies. Also, black poppy of forgetfulness? Dude had to score opium for the guy? That's pretty extreme.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Well, I mean, Orpheus was just a singing head still in mourning by this point, he probably REALLY needed the break from reality.

[@jag519]

beauty is in the eye of the bee holder

[@MonarchsFactory]

Oooh! Another one! So many excellent bee puns! You're all outdoing yourselves this week!

[@michaelkramer7550]

Aristeaus the Apiarist! Wonderful story from bygone years.

[@andiekahl3143]

As soon as I see your new video in my subbox I know I am in for some serious smiles! :D great video, as always.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Aww, that makes me so happy, thankyou so much!

[@ninetiesface3169]

You are the best story teller ever, Dael. You should totally do an audio book of myths.

[@jaypar2757]

All the bees died? Noooo!!! Not the bees!!!

[@Atorin3]

Jason Parriman Ha ha I was thinking the same thing!

[@ShadUpJoe221]

I had to pause the video because I laughed like a damn maniac maniac at the hall of fame frame. Oh god yes.

[@MonarchsFactory]

I'm glad someone appreciated Gretchen Wieners and Draco Malfoy. :)

[@sandradermark8463]

+MonarchsFactory So do I 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@sheetedkid]

This video was excellent, Dael--you had me laughing out loud at several points (especially when you pointed out that Aristaeus' new bees were probably just flies)! On an unrelated note, that's a great-looking hoodie.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thanks and thanks! :D

[@davidfunk3641]

Oh, you have one of THOSE neighbors. I used to work for a vehicle maintenance garage, and some guys would drive by with their huge mufflers on their itty bitty Hondas, and there are few things in this world more obnoxious than that. It's a shame some folks mistake flash for substance. I really liked this one. I had no idea this was part of Greek Mythology.

[@LindysJukebox]

Yesterday I got home to find my roommate watching the Almighty Johnsons and I proceeded to tell him all of Dael's Norse myths, starting with Thor's wedding. I felt so good and it's all thanks to Dael!

[@TalysAlankil]

I feel like there's a Jupiter Ascending reference to be made here.

[@geeveelution]

I like to think he knew they were flies and just painted yellow stripes on them. "Who's a good little bee? Yes you are, oh yes you are"

[@MonarchsFactory]

Ahahaha, the moment his breakdown reached dangerous proportions.

[@EveryDayALittleDeath]

I loved your Apollo impression. it fit well with how I've always imagined him.

[@rebeccatrecek7096]

As a person who is absolutely petrified of bees and other stinging insects of nastiness I'm peeved that he sort of got a happy ending. Damn bees.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Aww, I'm sorry! At least it was a stingless ending?

[@StubbornProgrammer]

Nothing better than neighbours that are noise blind... a family that directly lives across from my window like to tune up their motor bikes in the summer. You know, that time of year when you'd like to have your windows open? Yes, they're the super loud kind of bikes, how did you know. And their garage acts like a reflector aimed right at my house! Wharrgharble, etc.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Yeah, my bedroom is about five feet from their garage, I feel that pain.

[@MatthiasPendragon]

I'm pretty well read in mythology, but this one was brand new to me. Love it when that happens!

[@MonarchsFactory]

Me too! It's always so exciting and fresh!

[@algaedrone1833]

Whoa! What an awesome channel, I'm really glad I found it! You should do a video on Trophonius. His story isn't super weird by itself, but what was REALLY weird is what happened after his death. They made an oracle dedicated to him, where people would crawl into a small cave, and hours later when they were forced out, they were so terrified that they would scream nonsense and not remember what they saw inside @-@

[@KaiserSpherical]

Oh honey, this video is the bee's knees.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Double whammy!

[@loureed5865]

You deserve so much more subscribers, this is hilarious 😂

[@gregball6069]

I can understand Aristaeus frustration and mourning at the loss of his beloved bees. All that time spent making those tiny name-tags....gone to waste. R.I.P. B-men! :D

[@MonarchsFactory]

He KNEW he should have splurged on that teeny bee-sized label maker!

[@josearroyo8008]

Flys was my first thought too lol...please do Druids

[@NickySayahSina]

This reminds me of my favorite Cards Against Humanity card which simply says "bees?"

[@ulyssescastillo1568]

I like your sweater!

[@jonnybbb45]

another great vlog as always

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thanks, Jon!

[@wildbronco038]

4:10 Aristaeus: Cyrene? Cyrene? Cyrene? Mom? Mom? Mommy? Mommy? Mommy? Momma? Momma? Momma? Ma? Ma? Ma? Ma? Mom? Mom? Mom? Mom? Mommy? Mommy? Momma? Momma? Momma?

[@cgimusic1285]

Brilliant video. I loved the art in this one; wonderfully funny.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thankyou very much! :)

[@michaelhutchisson8948]

Flies!!!! Dang! I thought for a moment that you'd found the solution to today's disappearing bee dilemma....

[@canebro1]

Very weird myth, but still enjoyable. A bit Dr Whoish - the bees are disappearing....

[@geekadjacent2346]

I bet you thought I'd have some bee puns didn't ya? No bee puns.

[@MonarchsFactory]

I... I feel like this is a trap...

[@geekadjacent2346]

No trap. I'm just very proud of myself for resisting the urge to pun. Punning is a seductive mistress.

[@michaelsommers2356]

Those new "bees" might not give honey, but they don't sting, either. I'd call that a fair trade.

[@MonarchsFactory]

And once again I find myself lamenting the fact that at some point in history there was an idiot who, upon arriving in Australia to find that no native bees stung, thought "well that's just wrong, I should have some good, solid, pain inducing European bees imported."

[@michaelsommers2356]

MonarchsFactory I had no idea there was such a thing as a stingless bee. The mind boggles. Wait. Are you sure they aren't really flies?

[@abigailhart8623]

I’m late, but there’s 20k species of bees. Lots of those dong sting

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

Heh heh...I'm going to ask (again) for the tale of Actaeon!

[@prettypleasewithsugarontop4858]

I just love this girly so much

[@MrKrapula83]

Moral of the story: even if you screw up really bad you can still exchange cows for bees.

[@MidasStorm]

MrKrapula83 You exchange cows for bees? I thought it was beans. Now what am I going to do with this giant beanstalk?

[@gkgamerfan]

David Harrison Nice.

[@drekfletch]

Ohh, "Every day." I thought you opened with "Hair Day," because my ambient sound overrode yours.

[@netwolfe]

Instead of flies perhaps they are magic bees. Or they are demigod bees. Or maybe the original bees were just resurrected from the dead creating a swarm of undead…. I’m actually going to back to the magic and/or demigod bees, because those are less creepy scenarios.

[@huitzilopochtli77]

Though living on opposite sides of the globe, we seem to share that same neighbour.

[@sofiam.4059]

Great video, as always! I had never heard of this particular myth before. It's definitely one of the more bizarre ones (which is saying a lot, considering Greek Mythology). Where did you find out about it?

[@MonarchsFactory]

I think I stumbled across this one while flipping through my Robert Graves to read up on Midas years and years ago -- Stuck with me probably because I thought it was hilarious!

[@retardo1000]

Dale, just remember...At least you don't live next to a Hardware store, near the road,near a car parts store...In Puerto Rico.....

[@vampyresmiles713]

This video is 4 years old but what I'm getting from this is: Sacrifice so SO many cows to get right with a bunch of ancient gods to save the bees?

[@Axiom_Link]

My favorite kind of milk producing ghost bees: boo bees.

[@Monzahr]

Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!! o_O /nick_cage That's such a cool story. I hadn't actually heard this one before. Makes me feel like a bad mythology geek. :( But seriously though, Dael, I have to agree with your theory that the "bees" Aristaeus found were more than likely flies. Buzz buzz buzzing around a cow's carcass that you sacrificed roughly a week ago? Probably flies. And another thing I have to comment on: Apollo really was kind of nasty to old Khaeron in the beginning there. "No, seriously old centaur dude, tell me all about what amazing stuff I'm about to do in, say, half an hour's time. I just want to bask in my own divine awesomeness." Your mythology vlogs are always excellent, Dael, so keep them up! :)

[@MonarchsFactory]

You certainly don't have to feel like a bad myth geek on this one, it's such a weird little fringe story that I can't help but think it's a miracle that anyone knows it. And yeah. Apollo. What a douche.

[@gaodargon]

Dael, you think you could do me a solid and talk about "Journey to the west"? I know it by heart, but I want to hear it from you haha. Sincerely: Your bigest mexican fan (I think)

[@Alefiend]

The Orpheus/Eurydice twist was unexpected.

[@MonarchsFactory]

I know, right? Came out of nowhere the first time I read it! I just totally hadn't picked up that Aristaeus was the name of the guy that chased Eurydice. Small world, that Ancient Greece.

[@icodaboms]

I was sure that was a chainsaw killing some big ass spiders or bees, thanks for bursting my bubble in the end ;) btw love your mythology videos^^

[@MonarchsFactory]

Fun fact: Out at my Grandad's block of land, out in the bush, there are heaps of Lyre Birds (which, if you don't know what they are, can mimic sounds that they hear a lot pretty damn well). Nearby Grandad's block is a motorbike track thingy place, and so when you go to stay out there over night, you'll just hear at 3am what sounds like a chainsaw wielding madman out in the bush nearby. It's terrifying.

[@michaelsommers2356]

MonarchsFactory Lyre birds are amazing. There was one in a David Attenborough documentary that would not only do chainsaws, but would also do cameras.

[@ivarkrabol]

Cool video. Cool, like, style, I guess, too? Like, the jacket and hair and all. Looks good :)

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thankyou :)

[@timgersh6787]

he had to be happy about the no stinging thing

[@ljmastertroll]

Not bad - I give this video a B(ee).

[@AdamYJ]

I'll be honest, dead bees seems like kind of a weak-sauce punishment for setting events in motion that would kill an Argonaut and his lady-love. But that's me.

[@MonarchsFactory]

No, I totally agree. Seems like once of those things where a small revenge was all that could be taken and by golly did those nymphs take it! Probably worked out better than they'd ever hoped, too.

[@michaelsommers2356]

MonarchsFactory Note that once again the gods took their vengeance not on he who had actually offended them, but on innocent people (or creatures) who had nothing to do with it.

[@sesshowmarumonoke]

Actually, there's a whole lot of bees gathering in corpses or something like that. Could be bees.

[@gregputnam7243]

But but... a bee keeper does not know the difference between flies and bees? *skeptic eyebrow raise*

[@MonarchsFactory]

To be a little bit fair, several scholars believe it was a specific type of Greek fly that is/was similarly yellow and black. And to be unfair, we ARE talking about a guy who just shouts at a river hoping his mum'll turn up, so...

[@austinsteele9884]

Fun fact, there is actually a species of bees who make honey from corpses, and nope they aren't flies.

[@dragoness777]

"Let's be honest, they were probably flies" ... vulture bees are a thing. They make meat honey. The Bible also attest to them, saying that the lion Samson slew later had bees and honey inside its corpse (Judges 14:8). I looked all that up after becoming curious about the title of an album.

[@bugaj187]

Got to love noisey neighbors.

[@Horrordelta]

Dollar Junior Sugar + gas tank = better sleep

[@DeusViator]

Did Odysseus also wrestle Proteus in the Odyssey? I swear I remember him wrestling a shape-changer at some point.

[@MonarchsFactory]

You are absolutely correct! Some people suggest that Proteus was actually added into this story super late after someone liked that part of the Odyssey and thought this story could use some livening up.

[@aqueousconch1103]

So a water nymph wrestling lions? Really need to update my fey in dnd XD

[@austinsebben1402]

I know a lot of background noise is removable if you have Adobe Audition

[@ZoharGil]

Hey, I'm wondering, can you include the origins of the stories if you have them in the future? Maybe in the description if it doesn't fit in the video itself? I'd be interested to know.

[@MonarchsFactory]

When you say origin do you mean geographical or the source or..? I may be able to provide some of that info, certainly! Although with mythology it's often difficult just because the stories I end up telling are cobbled together versions from multiple compendiums which are themselves cobbled together from several plays/poems/epics/paintings/etc. -- the usual trickiness that comes from oral traditions that, in their hay day and beyond, spread and vary to an incredible degree.

[@ZoharGil]

MonarchsFactory I mean specifically their sources, when you can. Of course a lot of them won't be just "The Iliad" or something, but it would be cool to get a bit of historical background on the story - what's the first documented version we have of it, is it from a song, a book, stuff like that.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Zohar Gilboa Ah, I see, cool! I'll keep it in mind and try to reference them when I can. :)

[@michaelsommers2356]

Zohar Gilboa This site: www.theoi.com/ is very good. I believe its list of, and quotations from, sources is exhaustive. Here is what it has to say about Aristaeus: www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Aristaios.html

[@snowdwarf2814]

awesome hoodie

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thanks! It's new and lovely and warm. :)

[@jensfhr]

You should retell the binding of Fenrir!!!

[@jensfhr]

Or the binding of Loki... You know, just more Norse would be awesome.

[@thebpphantom]

How awkward would it be to find out that Revvy McRevverson watches your channel?

[@rasnac]

That must be one of the weirdest mythology story I've ever heard. It must have something to do with some weird pagan beekeeper ritual involving river gods and sacrifices.

[@cumberbtcheswiththehats8209]

New bees flies lol

[@MichaelStaghorn]

Awe, he got some newbies? Hope he's a good mentor. 😉

[@Herlequine]

You of all people don't know why the bees from calf carcasses thing makes sense? Google Bugonia and learn some new weird myths. Other than that, somewhat more based in reality there is a species of bee called Vulture Bees that make honey from rotting flesh. Only problem is they are native to South America.

[@rastamandela981]

Probably in the leather cow skins bees did make a hive

[@imkluu]

You have some really brightly colored walls.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Mmmhmm! When this room was done (a couple of months into the start of the channel?) it was the first time I've ever actually gotten to choose the colour of my bedroom and I just went crazy with it. It's got red, blue, yellow and purple, usually changing colour when a new angle is introduced to the walls and all in kind of a festival/spookyish circus vibe? But friendly. :) I love it.

[@bobarmstrong1575]

To bee or not to bee...

[@g0nkdroid]

Aww you're so pretty today ^__^ *hug*

[@rachealramis260]

I think the mother purposely tolled him to do that so the flies could come.

[@pencilhb13]

Would you say it was a bees-arre myth? (holy honeycomb i'm tired i Appologize for this)

[@MonarchsFactory]

And here we have yet another contender for favourite pun of the week.

[@CraftnMomma]

That was a car?! I thought it was a sports bike... what a sad sounding car lol

[@MonarchsFactory]

I think it was a car (harder to remember now that it's been about a week), but the mic didn't pick up the deeper parts of the motor rumble. I was actually amazed the sound turned out to be audible at all, given that usually the footage ends up as just me making unimpressed faces at the camera during near silence, hahaha :)

[@nfounder4335]

So he is like the Ah-Muzen-Cab of Greece then? Except for not being super important tho... But still relevant... I think...

[@MonarchsFactory]

I guess a bit? But also not really at all... But I mean, yeah, given that he's the closest Greece has to an equivalent, he must be!

[@cryophile]

Hello, bees!

[@sandradermark8463]

Draco Malfoy and Gretchen Weiners: awesome 😂😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@AmellsGrace]

Huh, that's odd. I wonder what this one was supposed to explain. I mean myths existed to explain things right? But it can't be how bee's spread or w/e because they existed. Maybe it's a closure side plot of the Orpheus character arc?

[@AmellsGrace]

AnUnculturedLittlePotato Good ole Villain Redemption D:

[@MonarchsFactory]

Dunno! Not all myths were necessarily used to explain things, some were likely just reflections of real events, or particularly fantastic anecdotes that lived on through the generations, or stories spun for fun that earned a whole lot of favour, so who knows, really!

[@emmagrayshoes]

DAEL

[@bongocat4505]

My father will hear about this

[@rachealramis260]

ya... probably flies.

[@scottsmartky]

That's annoying. Come on rude people, leave Dael alone. That's still not as bad as the deer hunters that would drive right by our trailer when I was a kid. Oh, did I mention that they drove huge trucks with no mufflers on them at all? At 5 am. :(

[@MonarchsFactory]

Urf, that sounds awful!

[@NoplacelikeNarnia]

Think about smooth icecream

[@AlanTheLabcoat]

Is it just me or is it slightly ironic that you do the mythology of the Apiarian while you have the revving (or buzzing) of the car next door...? :P

[@TheVagabond7]

Zom-bees

[@MonarchsFactory]

And yet another best pun contester.

[@abdulakmal4427]

What's your real name

[@roberthultgren9389]

Ok triple comment time, bulleted list time even but no numbers. !. What accent did you think you were doing. I know we ain't supposed to discuss it, but I totally can't place it and want to what Fake Accents done with an Australian accent are like and how they differ from American fake accents. @. In the version I heard, dude was a sayter, weird how those things change. #. You should absolutely keep with the insect myth theme and do the Myrmidons next. Ant people to follow bees. It works great. You could even get that fancy new marvel movie to sponsor it.

[@drekfletch]

Robert Hultgren Ooh, yes. Mermidons, who became Spartans.

[@MonarchsFactory]

!. It was completely incidental so that was no accent in mind. Just me accidentally butchering my vowels and pronouncing terminal 'R's.@. I have seen him pop up in adaptations as a Satyr, now that you mention it, but nothing came up about him being one while researching for this video, so that's all a bit strange. Hmm. Wonder what's going on there. #. Actually, that would be a great story to do at some point.

[@windwalkermonschke5901]

Is it Bees?

[@MonarchsFactory]

Nice reference

[@windwalkermonschke5901]

MonarchsFactory thanks lol is there a god of bees or honey?

[@MonarchsFactory]

Yeah, there are a couple - of the ones I'm familiar with, Greek myth had Aristaeus and Melissa (whom some would describe as god of beekeeping and goddess of bees respectively; personally I'm not sure I'd categorise them as deities) and Maya culture has Ah-Muzen-Cab who's a more direct god of bees and honey. :)

[@windwalkermonschke5901]

MonarchsFactory im binging all your myths stuff... All seems good so far... I can imagine these animated lol

[@MidasStorm]

It's apiarist, not apiarian. Sorry, that was bugging me.

[@MonarchsFactory]

I just go by the term in the old 1840s-50sish British occupation registry I originally read it in. Liked the term and kept it. Interesting to know the technical title though!

[@thatoneguyyoumetonce576]

stop being so attractive

[@mystics108]

Hey your name is lead spelled backwards

[@MonarchsFactory]

It is indeed! Ended up being a weird nickname of mine for a short time whenever I worked on a play with the OTHER Dale from school. (Though, as you can see, his name was spelt the usual way, so the other nickname variants were Male-Dale/Female-Dael and Dah-Lee/Dah-El).

[@ApolloDelius]

I do not appresate your mocking of my son. Have you not paid attention to the stories?