the Norse creation myth is insane

[@aimeemckay3530]

By all the gods PLEASE do more of this! Can't wait to see that Irish folklore video!

[@pedrorenatorodriguesdesous7929]

Or do more of Norse mythology in more depth. I would love to see the Lokasenna in Logan's narration.

[@GalacticFirepup]

Came to say exactly this, it would be amazing to have some folklore and mythology get the old runesmith charm.

[@thejuiceking2219]

i'd love to see something on Aboriginal mythology

[@kristinasimmons3303]

I agree

[@danacarajb]

same, it fits so nicely with runesmiths style

[@ukotoa1639]

My favourite Norse myth story is one time Thor was fishing in Midgard- then Loki did a little trolling turned into a trout to mess with Thor, Thor got mad and grabbed fish Loki by the tail and crashed his tail and that’s why fish are oval shaped- yes Thor is so strong he broke reality and made all fish that had, did and will exists have oval shaped bodies yeah Kratos is strong but is he reality breaking strong?

[@alezvolta]

Almost every given norse myth is instigated by Loki doing a little trolling and I love that

[@theonewhowatches869]

​@AlezVolta0245 Greek mythology: unfortunately, Zeus was horny Norse mythology: unfortunately, Loki was bored

[@fiittr872]

Norse pagan here... I think you're mixing 2 stories. Thor goes on a fishing trip with the Giant Hymir and catches Jörmungandr via using an ox head for bait. Alternatively, after for a handful of potential reasons (thanks old Scandinavians for only speaking their stories) Loki hides in a creek as a salmon. Nets don't work on loki, so Thor grabs loki, some say with his hands, some say with his teeth, the way a bear would. I'm not sure where the oval fish idea came from, but I may be wrong and there may definitely be a story involving what you have described

[@sheakennedy-ordway1156]

My favorite is the one time Thor got roasted by a guy with a boat.

[@sheakennedy-ordway1156]

​@@fiittr872 Hode up, I thought Loki accidentally confessed to killing Baldur while trying to roast Bragi at a party because poetry is dumb, invented then burned the net, and then got caught as a salmon by Odin who coppied the ashes and reinvented the net because that's how Odin wages war. Observe and integrate.

[@oinkerdapig6293]

Norse mythology is very fascinating

[@Skyggespil]

Scandinavian here, quite well done retelling. I grew up with these stories and while I don't remember them by heart anymore, I love them to bits

[@Suavek69]

sice you'd know more about this probably - was Surt really 2nd guy to come into being? I remember being quite into norse myths as a child, but I thought the order was Yimir -> Auðumbla, idk where Surt came from but I assumed he was a child of Yimir in one way or another since he was a Jotun

[@NeroIML]

​@Suavek Also Scandinavian here: I don't remember hearing about how or when Surtr was created. At some point, he just is. I'm also not sure if Surtr is really thought of as a Jotun. He doesn't live in Jotunheim and as far as I recall the only thing he does is show up at the end of Ragnarok, kill Heimdal and then burn the world down.

[@hamstsorkxxor]

​@@NeroIML Surt is a jotun, but he is from muspellheim, as are all fire giants.

[@ippoin87]

@@Suavek69 It isnt actually said how he is created, he isn't a jötun, and it is implied that when Ymir and Auðhumla, the 'first' beings were being created in Ginnungagap, Surtur had already existed for eons and just did his thing in Múspellsheimur (sorry I cannot make myself do the english version of that name)

[@Skyggespil]

​@@Suavek69 Honestly I dont remember but Im pretty sure he was always just there (like so many othes) - but I also think it is much less imporant than Runesmith gave an impression of. The main point about Surtur is that he is the one who actually destroys the world durung Ragnarok, not when he came into being. That said, a lot of the Aesir and Jætter came rather randomly into being and sort of just stumbled in from the side without too much explanation (while others have a lot more). I do love this though, because it makes it more mysterious and I almost always use it as a concept when writing pantheons for games, because it is just so out there, compared to most DnD where everything must have causality. It also makes it super easy to just introduce new gods whenever it would fit in.

[@elisbergman7946]

Having the world made of a giants body is quite common in creation stories.

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

“I’m a Gods aunt!”

[@hannahdawg6829]

Kinda reminds me of a Mezoamerican creation myth, where the world is formed from the body of a giant monster crocodile with a thousand mouths named Cipactli, and that Cipactli isn't dead and in order to keep them from eating everything the gods promise them regular sacrifices. Much more horrifying than "the world is made from the corpse of a dude"

[@Nikoyokin]

@@Jaydee-wd7wr "Weh!"

[@ameliasteynberg5841]

And it's not too unusual considering how 'alive' the world feels

[@DeltaOdyssey]

I'd love to see more videos like this, maybe one for Maya mythology, especially the Popol Vuh. Since once of the main characters gets his body parts taken (including his HEAD) and replaced throughout the story, there's an evil macaw demon, and humanity was made from corn. Lots of interesting stuff and a very nice read.

[@axiomostanes]

mayan dude of theseus?

[@foisopracurtir6389]

@@axiomostanes Or a tinman precursor

[@nicka3697]

I love the Finnish creation myth from the Kalevala. It's rather less violent and a bit less complicated but equally insane. Basically The North wind has a daughter. She floats around in the sky getting bored. So she descends to the ocean and floats around there getting bored. Then she gets made pregnant by sea foam but she's not going to actually give birth for 900 plus years so we can forget about that for a while. So this bird arrives and there's nowhere to nest because the world hasn't been created so it nests on her knee. It's described as a goldeneye so I think it's a duck. Which is hilarious. I want it to be a duck. So it lays eggs and they get hot. They get really hot, burn the lass, Luonnotar and she jerks so they fall into the water and burst open. Out of the yolk of one comes the sun the white of another the moon, the speckles on one shell are the stars and a big chunk of eggshell becomes the first land. Sometime later Vainamoinen is born but he's really old already and has like no luck in love so where the rest of people come from is anybody's idea. He has lots of adventures plays music, spouts wisdom and eventually when Tolkein goes to uni and reads about him he becomes Gandalf. Not sure where the bird came from - maybe dinosaurs?

[@Xenomorthian]

so Gandalf is infact a combination of this Finnish god guy who doesn't even make humanity and just goes on adventures and his fanfiction Santa Claus adventures he sends to his son

[@Spacecore2]

Good stuff, incan or Aztec lore would be be pretty sick

[@DatBoiSchwally]

Genuinely cannot wait for the Irish Folklore video. You said a while back that those stories are all told in long tangents, and that sounds like great Runesmith content 😂

[@deadbylevel1]

YES, Please cover more mythology it's honestly fascinating and the absurdity isn't a negative its what makes it unique

[@prism8278]

Despite watching many channels that cover mythology and folk tails all but one of them (OSP) have neglected covering mythology from the African continent, so I'd like to hear about myths and folk stories from those cultures.

[@jaredtalksdungeons1402]

You mentioned how it would be cool to fight the ball sweat monster in dnd- it would be cool if you made a video adapting some of these myths into encounters or something like that!

[@thomasclyde8237]

One thing I love about ancient legends is the unexplained existence of the Great Serpent. Across almost every single ancient culture, regardless of geography, there are legends of the great serpents. This exists in the old testament bible, Norse mythology, Mayan mythology, eastern mythology, literally everywhere in the world has some form of it recorded by the ancient civilizations. I gave a presentation over it recently, very fun topic.

[@kn1ghtsm1t38]

Actually, it is said that Jormungandr is Loki’s son, after Loki got married to a giant so there is a little bit of a reason why there’s a big ol’ snake wrapped around the world according to the Norse Mythos

[@Namuser21]

@@kn1ghtsm1t38 didnt he turn into a female horse, fuck a male horse, then give birth odins horse, the snake, and a big ass wolf?

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

@@kn1ghtsm1t38 The unexplained part is that every culture has it

[@kn1ghtsm1t38]

@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 Ah, ok

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Because snakes scary

[@lukepettinger1755]

If you want to keep up with Norse myth stories, there’s plenty of fun ones. Like when Loki turned himself into a horse to seduce another horse to stop a wall being built or the story of when they had to disguise Thor as a goddess so they can get his hammer back. There’s a lot you can do

[@minhkhangtran6948]

Also, he gets fucked by that very same horse, and sire a child to himself called Sleipnir, and his child became Odin's ride, to really show who's the one that keep getting bended over.

[@foisopracurtir6389]

The problem wasn't the wall, they just didn't wanna pay the construction...

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

the fun part about Loki turning himself in to a horse is that he turned himself in to a mare and then CHOSE to have a foal with the seduced horse

[@SollowP]

@@theprinceofawesomeness The foal being Sleipnir, an 8 legged horse that Odin uses as a steed.

[@kingol4801]

@@foisopracurtir6389 Problem was not the payment. It was a bet and the other side tried to win on technicality. So, they sent Loki, which was useless(distracted). And then they sent Thor to bash in the cheater’s head. When you make a bet of “can a human jump that high” you don’t give prize to somebody who is on super-human drugs.

[@nantha7357]

The two wolves that signify hatred and mockery are also sometimes translated as dogs instead. And I just can't get the image out of my head that there are these primordial evil dogs that eternally just chase after sun and moon like playing balls un the dog park. And there names are Skalli and Hati. Isn't that just the cutest 🥺

[@bentstraw827]

Would love to hear you deep dive into more goofy norse myth lore

[@glacialgrizzly8487]

How bout the time Thor's hammer was stolen?

[@TaxYourLane]

Central American folklore is absolutely amazing and a deep dive would be fantastic. Also the Finnish mythology including Ilmarinen puts me down a wormhole each time I remember it exists.

[@Knurlurzhad]

Absolutely buckwild creation myths are my favorites. I would adore seeing more videos like this. Your spin on recounting these stories is very funny, with plenty of insightful comments sprinkled in (I didn't even think about the eyelashes thing). 10/10

[@Ushatkaa]

I feel like I am not the only one that wants more of them crispy, juicy and flavorful Norse Myths.

[@randomcdude4430]

Imma chime in and also say that you should definitely do more of this. This is the fun distract-edu-tainment content the world needs more of. Irreverent synopses of old stories for the win! I also want a Christmas special where you talk about the Yule Lads and the Yule cat.

[@levrapport2033]

OMG i would love to see you do silly retellings of old myths, Norse or otherwise. If you haven't already, you should read "Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes" by Cory O'Brien. I think you'll appreciate his humor :)

[@cambabamba4159]

You should do a video on the Journey to the West. It's more of an epic poem than it is a myth, but it still inspired many of the literary tropes we see in eastern literature today. It's also incredibly chaotic and funny.

[@hazama4478]

Seconding this, another channel I like is on like... episode 10 of the series because god damn is that a long series

[@necroarcanistxiii]

@@hazama4478 OSP?

[@hazama4478]

@@necroarcanistxiii Yup. I wasn't gonna mention them by name because I don't like talking about other content creators on someone else's channel, but you got them in one.

[@theworstspeedrunner]

WOOO MYTHOLOGY

[@hughjanes4883]

I like the idea for doing irsh folk tails, im irsh and can give a close ish pronunciation if you care about that type of thing, though because dialects exist it might not be worth the effort because someone from another dialect will still think your pronouncing it wrong

[@cadenz7719]

Bro, the symbolism between the giants of One Piece and Norse mythology is really cool. Very Viking thing to do to just keep fighting eachother for centuries but forget why and become bros anyways.

[@datpolakmike]

Fun fact, i once told an approximate version of this story to my DND group, except i said ymir was a lady giant, and i said it was tears instead of blood that did the flooding, and then i referenced the actual original telling of the story, all so i could say "but this isn't the story of blood, this is... the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world"

[@ChargeQM]

Did they absolutely love her?

[@datpolakmike]

@@ChargeQM only when she smiled

[@andrefelipe7865]

Another really nice creation story is the Japanese one, but honestly any Asian mythology is great

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

Plus, the creation story from Greek Mythology

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

I love hearing about different mythology from different cultures, they all sound themselves like a different setting for a game Can you do Aztec/Mayan and other mezo American myths

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

7:34 I mean, odin's a clever trickster, and Loki's name LITERALLY MEANS TRICKSTER, so I think they'd get along well.

[@Uragaans_Chin]

Fun fact, Snorris name in swedish is ”Snorre” which also is another word for your peen! Fun!!

[@johanjohansson1694]

Ymir just vibing With hos cow

[@Rutgerman95]

Oh hell yeah, more myth videos. OSP got some serious competition now!

[@deltainfinium869]

Holy heck yes more, Looking forward to the irish folklore.

[@Dart572]

I always liked the format of your "Basically..." videos, taking that and applying it to real-world mythology is a great fit. Definitely down for more of this!

[@Bluedragonny]

I remember polynesian creation myths being similarly interesting. Would love to see your take on telling the story.

[@ChargeQM]

Several of them are: Maui is a dick.

[@masterpiece1817]

Yeah Norse myth kinda slaps ngl. In Greek all that happens is chaos makes earth and sky, they fall in love and have kids called The Titans, earth suddenly hates the sky and creates the first weapon so that she… CAN MAKE ONE OF HER KIDS KILL THEIR FATHER. Guy kills the sky, then stuff about the cardinal directions, then the gods are born thanks to iscest, then Zeus murders his dad who killed the sky, and also some stuff about the land, sea, and Tartarus (Hades got totally screwed over, and so did the cyclopses and the many armed dudes), and yeah

[@dozzy9984]

I hate christianization of mythology. Especially what they did to all death/underworld gods, because they basically turned all of them into villains (and then modern popculture just doubled down on it). Like Hades is probably the best major greek god while Hel from what I understand is kinda like caring, but punishing mother for the "unfortunate" souls that literally might save (or doom - I assume it might have depended on how many good or bad non warrior people were sent to her) the world. And they both got "evil villain" mark (Hel even got the worst place imaginable in christianity named after her).

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

This is pretty realistic for Gods 💃🤖 if you assume it was simplified. Good job 👍 Norse religion. Has the relevant universe be within a bigger and longer lasting one. Characters have motivations. Morally grey characters. Good guys coming from bad parents. Not human centric. The entire truth doesn’t seem reachable. I assume the powerful beings by mentioned again are supposed to be too far away to be relevant.

[@DoomedPaladin]

Might as well do a series of creation myths, they form a lot of the basis for fiction, especially D&D world settings and creatures. You could do a series on other game system settings too. I'd love to hear your descriptive style used for World of Darkness, Rifts, Talislanta, Crberpunk, Shadowrun, etc.

[@afrothekobold]

I'd love to see more! if you wanna keep doing Norse stuff the myth of Utguard-Loki is super fun! I know Central America has a bunch of crazy ass mythos too, like the time the Gods ended one of the Worlds (I think we're on World 5?) by making it rain jaguars that ate everyone

[@bjornstahle4652]

Loki loved to change genders at will and give birth, Thor and company loved to cross dress and there was Ymir, a giant hermaphodite, was mother (and father!) of all Giantkind. Kind of a slap in the face for the "Only 2 genders" groups.

[@MCjossic]

I really liked this style of video (mythology is my jam), and I'd love to watch more like it!

[@liamfitzpatrick3812]

Talking about the nuckelavee or maybe some brownies could be fun if you want to keep up the "local mythology that got fucked over by Christ cucks" angle. Egypt has some really weird stories too, and ye olde russian takes are rad.

[@dylanwebb1027]

This was dope, do more!

[@gendor5199]

Overly sarcastic is a pretty crap channel that really doesn't even do great hot takes, so for me to even acknowledge them as somewhat useful there had better be a direct link, instead, look up some actual viking lore, like Arith Härger or "Norse magic and beliefs" I do however absolutely love that Mega Milk was a norse creation story.

[@samclaus996]

Oh please make more Irish folklore video's, They are very unknown and underrated in my opinion and can be hilarious. Other Norse of Celtic Stories would be cool too.

[@AllYourPals]

if you think this is crazy (i mean it is, but beside the point). you should try looking into the Aztek creation myth. infact i would happily watch through a whole series of mythological origin stories. though if you like Irish myths and want to get mad at one of the most egregious examples of Christianisation ever put to paper, i would recommend the book of invasions.

[@paulhermann2956]

Great Video! Would love to see you tackle "Culhwch and Olwen" next! Welsh King Arthur is wild yo!

[@AnarchicEowyn]

Norse Pagan here: Loved your vid. Also, we hate Snorri, but we also love him for writing shit down. And please for the love of the gods do the one where Thor does drag. It’s amazing

[@knightofendor8384]

The various Nahuatl creation/end of world myths are a ride. One world just ends bc of sky Jaguars

[@solalabell9674]

The Nose ___ myth is insane is nearly always a true statement. How bad poets came to exist? Insane. The time Thor lost his hammer? Insane. The time a group of aesir lifted the world snake and fought old age? Insane. And these are just the popular ones.

[@dracyan3552]

New Runesmith video dropped Best thing to happen this week.

[@eliswanson4195]

please do more of these, and potentially some on the lore for other games. Basically Doskovall from Blades in the Dark would be greatly appreciated lol

[@mavericktitan7874]

Dude, please please PLEASE give us more wacky mythology high jinks!

[@Alexapalm]

Some ancient Egyptian myths are whack. You should do some of those, I think your humour would mesh well with them.

[@Fishbiene]

The Aztec creation myth is about six and a half times more insane. The earth is made from the corpse of a giant sea monster that's still kinda alive and also the world has been destroyed 4 times already because one of the gods is a straight up asshole who keeps messing everything up for shits and giggles.

[@yariko3438]

Do the mayan or the mexica creation myth next. If you call them aztecs, I swear to the gods I'm gonna slap you.

[@ChaoticTrapper]

The story of how the wall of asgard was built is great. Loki turns female and gets bannged by a horse who is later use as a sleigh horse for odin to deliver presents on Yule/christmas

[@LaCrownedGamer]

Hello! Just wanted to give a bit more context on Snorri, he helped save a lot of the history of Norse mythology because the Christian crusades were burning any text, destroying any temples, and killing anyone who tried to preserve or tell their original history and forcing them to convert. Snorri wore in all the myths he could preserve and added in Christian beliefs and rewrote it to sound more like a fairytale rather than religious text to avoid the history from being destroyed all together and it became a primary text (the Prose Edda , the Poetic Edda came after and in academic and historical circles they are a pair, you cannot have one with out the other.) My timeline is a bit fuzzy but I believe Snorri became a political figure after the Prose Edda was written, before then he was primarily a poet and a historian.

[@LaCrownedGamer]

**Just to give a bit of a heads up this information came from my classes at university (I really wanted to be a historian on world mythology but caved in and switched because of career prospects) These notes came from my Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies classes. If I can find my primary sources again I will link them! But if other folks have additional information I would love to learn more :)

[@djsalad5752]

For a holiday special you could cover different Christmas traditions from different cultures

[@wee3ist]

Finnish mythology is incredibly whack while cnaanite mythology is the amoral court fest of the ancient near east

[@wh4543]

Rather than a regular flood we got a flood of blood

[@Choppleman]

Mesoamerican tales are a wild ride, for example the Aztec myth of the origin of the sun and moon

[@Ditidos]

Now do the one where the god of pestilence kinda accidentaly sacrifices himself to become the sun.

[@UlfhedinnNorsk]

This story is the proof that northmen loved their magic mushrooms 🤨

[@KrahzduulTheObliterator]

_Do Mayan or Incan Mythology next._ {That'd be swell.}

[@matthewmcmullan4832]

PLEASE DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN, OLYMPUS, ASGARD AND MORE, DO THIS WITH OTHER MYTHOLOGIES!

[@JosephSmith-lq6rb]

Please talk about that time a sentient sewing needle thats also a dwarf sewed Lokis mouth shut its very funny and great to tell at parties

[@icewolf9067]

It mite be a twitter bee hive but hearing about some african stories would be fun like anansi the spider.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

I think you should cover the adventures of Fionn Mac Cumhail, an Irish Hero.

[@skeepodoop5197]

From the little I know about norse mythology, all I can say is that some of it was basically a precursor to the looney tunes.

[@hazama4478]

Holy shit. This is amazing and I love this. 1) I love myths in general. 2) Norse myths are fun and ridiculous. In one of the myths, IIRC, Thor answers the door because a dwarf showed up asking to marry one of the other gods and Thor proceeded to ask him questions until the sun came up and turned him to stone. That's hilarious. 2) I'm running a D&D campaign right now based off Norse Mythology (3rd party, Journey to Ragnorak) so after I finish this, I'm sending this to them. 3) I need to see more of these kinds of videos, they're amazing, I love how you narrate stuff. The Irish folklore will be amazing, but honestly any folklore videos would be great.

[@G.A.N.]

give us more! i am playing assasin creed valhalla ( yes the game is too long to finish it in only 2 years ) and i am superb interested in all those Norse details lately

[@flashmog-joe903]

Please do more of these! I love creation myths and folklore

[@ShadeMeadows]

We need more Nord-based games/movies, and on the more "unknown" areas of it

[@MrDorkbot]

Was not expecting to see you cover actual mythos but I am here for it. One of my favourites is the one where Tor gets tricked into looking weak. Short version of the story is that some giants dared Tor do somethings but it was a trick set up by Loke. He attempted lift a small kitten and couldn't do it. He tried to drink but he couldn't even drink a cup. He tried to fight an old lady and got completely wrecked. Little did he know that Cat was actually Jörmungandr the world serpent and Tor almost lifted him out of the ocean. The cup was actually the ocean and he almost drank all of it and the old lady was old age itself. No one can win against old age. I forget why Loke did any of this.

[@hazama4478]

I think I remember this myth, but was it Loki (I noticed you used Tor and Loke instead of Thor and Loke, but I'm used to this spelling so gonna use it here) who set up the tasks? I feel like I remember reading that it was a giant who Loki brought Thor to, and the giant gave the impossible tasks to then realized that Thor ALMOST SUCCEEDED, and was like, "Hey.... listen, i know I said you had to do this in order to get something back, but uhhh... why don't you take it anyways??"

[@MrTapet]

Wasn't there a part of that story where Thor got tired of the tasks and went to punch the giant in the head while it was sleeping? Only to fail that as well because the giant had put a mountain in between them and used some illusion magic to trick Thor. And it ends with the giant saying something like "had i known you were this strong i would have never let you in here" and then they just walk away or something. Feel like it was Thor plus some other guys traveling together. Would be fun to hear if anyone else recognises this or if i just misremember.

[@demolisherman1763]

Talk about Dapplegrim! A Norwegian fairytale about a guy and his absolutely fabulous horse.

[@elitemook4234]

Norse booze must have been 200% pure alcohol.

[@charlottegoldman3580]

You should look into eastern Woodlands native American creation myths. I specifically remember one about how the sun came to be where it is due to all the animals trying to pull it. Only the tiny spider with it's webs was able to pull the sun into place.

[@dagoth_ur0]

Egyptian mythology is also quite wacky

[@Brythnoth_of_the_Void]

Irish stuff please, this was very fun to watch

[@joshmargolis1424]

Celtic and gaelic folk lore would be awesome!

[@Ctrap7]

Great! Keep the lore stuff coming! Thanks for all the content :)

[@LETMEHSLEEP601]

Give me Scotland Ireland egipt or Italy

[@micmule3395]

i am shocked you never heard of this before

[@gaidencastro9706]

Basically Humans when?

[@alemirdikson]

YES LOVE IT MORE LIKE THIS Irish folktales are fun. I'm all for starting there. I'd love to see you dig into the likes of Hindu, Egyptian, and Chinese creation myths. Greek and Norse are always wonderful to revisit, but it feels like they're somewhat over-represented sometimes. Be nice to see a focus on others.

[@randomoffgrid]

The Origin story of Islam, told to by a Muslim. Long ago, there were beings living on Earth. One of them, named Iblis flew to the edge of Universe (likely on some kind of disk shaped vehicle) He was highly religious, and granted entrance into heaven. Iblis, so happy for this gift wondered around the garden until he saw a being made of clay. God breathed life into this being and called him Adam. Adam was given knowlege, and the God asked the angels about the names of the creatures. The angels said they didn't know, as God hadn't told them. Adam recited the names of the creatures of heaven. Then God asked Everyone to prostrate to Adam, and they did. All except Iblis, you see Iblis was proud and wanted to rule the earth. Iblis said to the effect "I am better than he is: You created me from fire and him from clay." (7:12), also it's interesting to note as Iblis is not an angel but a species called Jinn. Anyways, Iblis was told to leave but before he did he asked to be granted eternal life. God granted him eternal life, and Iblis vowed he'd lead mankind astray. Sometime later, Iblis returns and convinces Adam and his spouce to eat of the sacret tree, promising it'll give them eternal life. In islam it's not specified who ate from the tree first, and it doesn't matter. Adam and his wife ate, and they reallised they were naked. After, God banished them from heaven stating they are enemies to one another. Iblis, Adam and his Wife arrived on earth. Adam asked for forgiveness, and was made a prophet and then humanity began. From here, the war between humans and Iblis's followers, called Shaya'tiin began. Note, the Jinn are not inherantly evil. All Shaya'tiin are jinn, but not all Jinn are Shaya'tiin. Also, unlike christianity/jewaism, the Jinn are people. They eate, sleep and poop like us. Some are guided, and they even have their own religions. Anyways, this is the creation of Humanity. Now all this is from Quran, if you look it up and see anything stating "Hadith" ignore it, as Hadith is forbidden according to Quran 77:50 / 7:185 / 31:6 / 45:6

[@AlexReynard]

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BIG SQUIRREL

[@Master_E444]

Yes, the norse creation myth is crazy. In other news, the sky is blue, blood is milk, fire is hot, and night is dark. Truthfully though, it's one of my favorites since it's just so off the wall bonkers at times, it feels like ye olde florida man stories about times some old vikings did cool stuff while drunk or high as a kite. I'm working on a story that'll heavily feature them and I wanted to do my own take on them with their own history and a differing interpretation with the mythology we know coming through a biased lens.

[@NStripleseven]

I like how the start of every creation myth (and I guess the scientific theories as well) is just “so yeah, there used to not be stuff, and then after who-tf-knows-how-long there was some stuff”

[@mountainben88]

I always liked the lines about the fate of the evil dead, Seducers of other men's wives are torn apart by animals and his blood licked. Unlike other people entering her realm the evil dead is not inflicted with boredom and gloom, but torture. Marriage was considered to be something very holy, sworn oaths, Direct translations sound bad and hard on the English tongue is result of it being designed for a different tongue. bad ones are altered and changed to sound better on the tongue. Criminals and invaders where the main source of sacrifices. That combination of religion and execution. I know certain kinds of people want to combine romans, African, middle east cultures and concepts of evil with Celtic and Germanic religions but it's far from honest. Rome was a very destructive, pro-slavery and corrupted empire known for committing genocide on all kinds of peoples like the Welsh who was lucky not to be fully exterminated. A evil empire taken over by Christianity, that could not survive its past crimes and universalism at the same time.

[@DarkWarriorShadowClaw]

I ve heard much things about north mythology before including their creation myth and christian snorri stuff, tough this was still quite enjoyable, great work! Much less known (at least to me, probably also to the majority of people) are scottish and irish (or genereal celtic) myths like Banshee's, Kelpie's and other stuff. I would love to her more about that!

[@Dyundu]

More of this! I’d recommend either some classic Welsh stuff, or if you’re looking for something really trippy, just take a look at the _Kojiki_ and _Nihongi_

[@nooneinparticular402]

for how well known greek mythology is im always surprised how many people havnt heard the creation myth would love to hear you cover that some time in the future

[@deltainfinium869]

Heck, I never even thought about greek mythology having a creation myth, but duh ofc it has a creation myth! I'd love to see this made in runesmith format!

[@egoalter1276]

Its pretty vanilla, all things considered. Chaos turns into the ocean and the night, and then suddenly there are titans.

[@johnord684]

Being from Northumbria thats in England for you USA folk,i nod my head to the lads and lasses of the Norse panthion every now and then ,and thats all they want, thats as far as my religion goes .Here in the North East of England,i even go to Durham now ,.and then to say a prayer to Saint Cuthbert as he's mega famous in the Christian world,I heard he liked seals ,and puffins.I actually come from the lands of the real Uhtred of Bebbanburg,i live in Dunholm.

[@Fallenmonkd20]

I'd like to imagine Borr is just chilling on a beach of Magma rn living off his infinite puddle of milk still left from the cow

[@commodoreparry5609]

Mythology is one of my favorite topics to just watch and discuss I’d love more videos like this

[@gabrielrussell5531]

Do Set's lettuce!

[@chuckawood]

Absolutely enjoyed this. The Irish folk tales would be great!