What About Kratos? - Greek Mythology Explained

Today I tell you all about everyone's favorite Greek Mythology god Kratos! ... Who isn't actually very important in Greek Mythology.
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Thanks to Jonathan Doberski for help with my research.
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[@oceanman1687]

Everyone always asks “where is Kratos?” But no one ever asks “How is Kratos?”

[@fernosbonos5394]

myth kratos is a ok game kratos: *PTSD*

[@delanovanraalte3646]

Or when is kratos

[@SeaSurf74]

I’ll have you know that God of War 2018 is all about “how is Kratos?”

[@snailburger13]

What about why is Kratos?

[@alexcrazy1492]

Why is Kratos

[@ph-swaggg4552]

"not that God of War, not that God of War, not that God of War, not that Gardevoir" absolute comedy, new sub here

[@kingdragon3122]

I love Pokémon reference.

[@RandomStuff0714]

ikr

[@calebbrooks1037]

Same with Al Gore's Rhythm instead of algorithm.

[@FennecTheSandWing]

@@RandomStuff0714 same here

[@paulsokjaechoi]

ummmm, 😳

[@UndeadGhostGirl]

And here I assumed Kratos was *completely* made up. ... I'm just gonna head cannon that the Ghost of Sparta isn't the Daemon Kratos but rather was *named* after him.

[@arah.aramian8498]

Of course he is'nt. Even the developers confirmed it.

[@Kooldood0874]

What..what..what dose that mean? History is soooo wierd yet cool. Like who came up with this all? And I thought atheists beliefs were unreasonable!

[@150booyadragon]

@@Kooldood0874 What

[@vlad-ut1sz]

@@Kooldood0874 the ancient Greeks saw the gods and interacted with them,they couldn't be all lying so my guess is that they were aliens

[@thephoenix2038]

@@Kooldood0874 What

[@--Paws--]

So daemons are beings personifying abstract concepts and "words", like there would be one representing hunger or itchiness. Does that make Morpheus a daemon, he represents sleep.

[@capperbuns]

Probably. I am not mythology smart enough to say if it's true or not.

[@KaiSan3]

From what I gathered about their description (here and in other media) gods have power over what they represent, so (for example) Neptune can control the sea in some capacity, Hephaestus can invent and make stuff or give inspiration to people, etc. While daemons only represent what they embody, like a bodybuilder could represent someone who is the paragon of strength, but couldn't have the power to make other people stronger 🤔 But that's only what I understood over the years, I could be wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mogscugg2639]

That makes it a bad movie lel

[@CM-ss5pe]

Morpheus is a god associated with sleep and dreams, but it's Hypnos who is the personification of sleep. There's many daemons (a type of god) who are personified ideas, like Ponos (toil), Apate (deceit), Geras (old age), Thanatos (death) etc. Most of the ones that are children or grandchildren of Nyx (night) are associated with negative aspects.

[@--Paws--]

@@CM-ss5pe That's the one Hypnos, I switched them up.

[@MrItch1]

I actually never knew the difference between demons and daemons. It’s actually pretty interesting.

[@VictorbrineSC]

I think it's actually theorized that demons do indeed come from daemons, borrowing the greek word due to how similar in terms of the whole "representing certain aspects" thing demons in Judeo-Christian-Islamic beliefs are.

[@DnN5481]

in latin and Greek the word "Daemon" means something like "spirit". All magically beings were Daemons basically, up to and including the gods themselves. Its easy to see how the idea of "pagan divine magical being" could become "evil creature of darkness" in later christian belief

[@RammaNeedsBuffs]

There's a difference.

[@tiagoc.fdepaula2930]

​​@@DnN5481The word demon comes from the mixture of two words daemon (minor spirit) and deimos (deity of dread and panic). In modern Greek devil is written daimonas or daimonio, incantation that demon probably came from deimos.

[@arvinroidoatienza7082]

Christianity!

[@CamScam18]

To be fair I always kinda assumed Kratos was made up because I'd never heard any stories about him. It does make sense to turn a very minor figure into a main character for a fictional story about a pantheon.

[@PandaXclone2]

The connection between both is purely in name only, and was a coincidence at that. The devs of GoW have admitted they only found out about Kratos the daemon after the fact.

[@godzillazfriction]

@@PandaXclone2 ok the name isn't really the only connection since both of them are unmatched by strength with the mythological kratos being power/embodiment of strength while the game counterpart is very strikingly similar at that plus later in the games kratos obtains wings and goes against zeus which is ironic since in the myths kratos is one of the winged enforcers of zeus as well as cratus imprisoning prometheus while in gow 2 kratos frees prometheus..... the more you know..

[@whade62000]

Actually the game creators DID just make him up, and only learned that there actually wAS a minor god by that name after the release.

[@lubovic_4734]

It was made up to have a nice and long story. I knew that because I live in Greece but I didn’t know that people outside of Greece actually believed the games tbh 😅

[@StephenDurnan]

Because he is made up

[@ItsMeVenusaur]

"No, not that God of war, or that God of war, or that God of war, or that Gardevoir" Me: *chokes on air*

[@danielawesome36]

You beat me to it.😭😭😭

[@ItsMeVenusaur]

@@danielawesome36 Haha!

[@vergilsparda4032]

I love how zelus was shaking- no buzzing uncontrollably fast even while beating up Kronos. 😂

[@zach415]

He is the god of zeal after all. He was very excited

[@Zenithsh]

History is interesting and complicated but thanks to your animations always funny and easy to understand

[@Kooldood0874]

Ye

[@sans7591]

well i think you mean mythology not history, cuz... i don't think zeus was real, if he was, the entire population of greece would be super humans

[@thorny8013]

Lmfao this is not the history you learn in college. There's difference

[@thorny8013]

That's like watching a 10 min video on quantum computing and saying "studying this was hard but you made it easy"

[@upsetmiltosplays3446]

what about atreus

[@dylansearcy3966]

1:10 that pose and Jordan's tho

[@Slug_Boots]

we've answered the "where's kratos?" question but the real intellectuals ask "where did he go?" or "why is kratos"

[@leoallison6807]

this comment reminded me of the time in infinity war where the guardians of the galaxy argue with iron man, spiderman and doctor strange about gamora

[@Idk_________]

But really no one gives the sympathy to say "how's kratos"

[@SquigellyDickelly]

But when is kratos?

[@m3ntgrum]

I gonna do you one better what is kratos

[@ozby11]

“Who’s Kratos?” Random guy, probably

[@videogollumer]

It's pretty ironic that the mythological Kratos is straight up the kind of someone GoW Kratos would want to kill.

[@sidrezig4449]

More history lesson of Greek can you try explaining the difference between Greek and Roman mythology

[@10-muhammadrayyan87]

Oh yeah thats a good one

[@michaelmoore2969]

Basically Rome was like I like that God he's my God now

[@sidrezig4449]

@@michaelmoore2969 thanks for explaining it

[@zanderblankenship3849]

Roman mythology is basically Greek mythology with a couple of OCs added to it.

[@thekodex1186]

Oooh that's a nice one

[@scarab4195]

Could you do Aztec mythology because their gods would look ridiculous in your art style also an episode on Ragnarok would be cool

[@ezequielcarballo6186]

me want.

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

Huh Ngl I didn't know there actually was a Kratos in the mythology. Thought he was entirely an original creation for those games. The more you know.

[@gingermcgingin4106]

He actually was an OC, the devs didn't know about the mythic Kratos when they made their Kratos

[@ameirgrant6116]

He is an original character the name is just a coincidence. Kratos or Cratus was the god of strength so he was just named after him. It’s like being named after someone in the Bible

[@godzillazfriction]

@@ameirgrant6116 ok the name isn't really the only connection since both of them are unmatched by strength with the mythological kratos being power/embodiment of strength while the game counterpart is very strikingly similar at that plus later in the games kratos obtains wings and goes against zeus which is ironic since in the myths kratos is one of the winged enforcers of zeus as well as cratus imprisoning prometheus while in gow 2 kratos frees prometheus..... the more you know..

[@godzillazfriction]

and yes I copied and pasted from another comment thread so eat my....

[@shravan1005]

@@godzillazfriction my pleasure

[@annarss]

"Or that gardevoir" killed me dude. I found about you ten minutes ago and I already subscribed. Keep it up pal

[@newcantinacrispychickentac7754]

Congrats on the heart

[@thevenomspino]

Fun fact, when making God of War, the team didn't know Kratos the god/daemon was a thing, and the name connection was a complete coincidence that they just didn't change.

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

Also, even though in the game series Kratos hates the gods, in Greek mythology he was literally one of the first gods to side with Zeus during the Titan War. He even sides so much with the gods that he regularly commits atrocities in their name, excusing himself for his brutal actions by saying "it is the way of Zeus"

[@ZekeStaright]

"Or that Gardevoir" THIS is the kind of writing I am here for o(>t

[@superturtlesvideos2935]

YES!!!!!!! MORE GREEK MYTHOLOGY

[@Danahmhaidar]

Bro we need more greek mythology vids

[@Michael-zi3kk]

Kratos one of the most minor God in Greek mythology

[@Estellesullen]

Now, I'll use this video as a response to those people mixing a video game to actual mythology Thanks, Jake!

[@user-jq4en4oz6b]

1:52 I whould like to see a full video about the story of Prometheus

[@shelleystrickland9045]

He made one

[@lifeiscats1337]

For anyone interested in their biological relationship, read the following. So Kratos’s grandfather, was the giant named “Oceanus” as shown at 0:26. And Oceanus was the uncle of Zeus, (Cronos’s brother). Making Styx, Zeus’s cousin, and Styx had 4 children, (one of them being Kratos). Meaning Kratos is Zeus’s “first cousin once removed”. If you don’t know what that means… I don’t either, so go look it up.

[@kevinsiu4956]

It's easier to just say "second" cousin and so forth (3rd, 4th, etc). If you want to mess with your mind, try looking up what a "double" cousin is (and triple, quadruple, etc). The countries where this is most prevalent are in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.

[@lifeiscats1337]

@@kevinsiu4956ok thanks

[@1gient]

Dæmons are also just random spirits like (for example) naiads or dryads or oneiroi. Really it's anything that's not a god or physical monster or a human. They have more in common with youkai then the modern demons.

[@melonsauce1474]

Demons is a word that was used to "demonize" other religions' concept of daemons by Christian missionaries

[@ILoveCornStarch]

This channel is so underrated yet so high quality WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE MORE SUBZ I suggest episodes dedicated to one god like this one

[@alibayati8250]

the gardevoir was just there to show off his pokemon drawing skills

[@jairusemmanuel8096]

1:37 kratos is just doing the teabag

[@bonsai6676]

kratos left like everyone's dad saying he needed to go get milk

[@snailvito2968]

Cool editing, fun narrative. Keep it up!

[@GuilhermeSilva-qp3jl]

I had forgotten how much i love your videos!

[@The_Gibinator]

Cool a new video about mythology

[@rblxdogedude]

Yesss more Greek mythology let’s goooooooo

[@David-S.130]

that was surprisingly informative

[@anonymousg1210]

Thanks for the interesting video Jake.

[@commonplant5920]

I still don't understand how this guy is educational AND extremely entertaining (but i seem to remember he focuses more on being entertaining) yet somehow only has 90k subscribers??

[@Flick.x]

Ayup Lee Woodcock

[@commonplant5920]

@@Flick.x ayup Dominic David's Innocent Morris

[@FloweringFeilds]

Can you talk about the muses? they’re not really talked about A lot.

[@blobbo.]

Awesome job on 100k subs!

[@kevinsiu4956]

As someone who has read Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves Greek Mythology books cover to cover several times as a kid, I couldn't for the life of me remember ever seeing Kratos mentioned anywhere when most of the lore was still fairly well archived in my head 20+ years ago. I can still remember the names of the 100 handed ones off the top of my head even now -Briarus, Cottus, Gyes (sometimes spelled Gyges too), but drew a huge blank on Kratos. I'm guessing the creators of the game just randomly chose a Greek name and happened to get lucky. Appears that Kratos is barely the equivalent of a Hollywood extra.

[@arvinroidoatienza7082]

Edith calls them Force and Violence. Leave it to her to leave out so many things.

[@milesrobison1826]

"Pallas, the god of war. No, not that god of war. Or that god of war. Or that god of war. Or that Gardevoir!" Beautiful wordsmanship.

[@purplegecko1093]

what about kratos tho

[@Redfield253]

One of my favorite YT videos in general now 😂

[@SpoopyPhoenix]

Clever. Clever clever. Or that gardevoir.... you earned my subscription

[@mogscugg2639]

Now do Mesperyian, goddess of ball pits and reblogs

[@jonathanspolnicki1303]

You made that up didn't you

[@berserkerciaran]

@@jonathanspolnicki1303 Yes and no. Mesperyan was created for a Tumblr fake story. IIRC, she was supposed to be Hades and Persephone's daughter, and goddess of vengeance or something? She was also sort of an Arachne ripoff, since she was burned(?) by Aphrodite for being more beautiful than her (

[@fuge74]

this is actually more information than I was expecting, so the queen of the entrance of hell has three nearly perfectly raised children. shit Hades has his kingdom together.

[@dimi1344]

Was not expecting this video

[@zaidokko6854]

Keep up we love your videos

[@emogeekgirl]

Please do the 12 labours of Hercules or Heracles I don’t know

[@RizzlesnortVonTickletush]

To be sincerely honest in my humble opinion without being sentimental of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view and without hiding any thoughts in my mind and without lies,to the actual truth with my clear open mind and clean heart,expressing what ever is embedded inside me for a long time which I didn't say just because I was nervous.But Today, by gathering all the courage and motivation, I just want to say that I actually feel and think that I have absolutely nothing to say.

[@MilkLover-ql7vz]

Bruh

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Bruh

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Bruh

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Bruh

[@neko6700]

Bruh

[@sirjoep6305]

you are one of the best small youtubers i know

[@Lovro4389]

Super video!

[@UncleHamsBasedOpinions]

Bro! What about Kratos?

[@kiddbusiness]

Or that Gardevoir

[@meredithstern9894]

This dude just got 100k Great job man

[@petrusspinelli6661]

i really want to see you make a video about Baldur's death and all that jazz, your jokes are amazing

[@Shadow1Yaz]

But what about Kratos?? "Which one? The video game character or the daemon?"

[@KaedeLanyo]

"The "mercenary"?"

[@adellefletcher]

If you're doing greek mythology characters from video games, it'd be great if you could make a video on Zagreus from Hades.

[@espawesome]

zagreus was a real greek figure tho

[@adellefletcher]

@@espawesome No way🤯

[@espawesome]

@@adellefletcher was that sarcasm

[@adellefletcher]

@@espawesome oh. I didn't realise I was that gullible.

[@espawesome]

@@adellefletcher no, i was asking if you were being sarcastic, zagreus WAS real but he was very minor, and was only loosely related to hades

[@darthnyriss8800]

Perfect Video thank you

[@lollipop_stink7836]

Love the mythology videos

[@Inverteddeadpool]

Now do kratos game lore

[@flofluorescent4904]

Dude, that Guardevoir-pun. Genius.

[@Rahul-rw2uc]

Finnaly a new vid

[@LadyLunarSatine]

Isn't it more accurate to describe Ares as a god of general violence since Athena's got the wartime strategy angle down?

[@Alphapkmn]

Ares is the soldiers war, the people who do the actual combat. Athena is generally the officers, the strategists.

[@TeenyTinyGolem985]

I thought Ares symblozises violence, wrath and other bad things of war while Athena symbolizes strategy and tactics( and maybe glory?) Of war.

[@stavroskodjapashis4075]

From what I know Ares is the God of war and Athena is the God of wisdom. People often get confused because Athena got involved in wars and she has a spear and stuff like this. But let me say it this way. Athena will never choose war over anything unlike Ares. She's a warrior where there is no other choice!!! Correct me if I'm wrong

[@jessicalulila5709]

@@stavroskodjapashis4075 I mean she competed against Hera and Aphrodite just for a golden apple, so it's fair to assume she's prideful sometimes

[@stavroskodjapashis4075]

Of course! But that doesn't change the fact that Athena is the god of wisdom! She is a warrior so yes she is proud but still

[@thezchannel9731]

What about zagreus?

[@jonathanspolnicki1303]

It's complicated

[@googledesamount7781]

The boy is back

[@onellbrianmeliston8960]

"Deity of Armed Conflicts" That was good :D

[@kiwithepenguin2462]

at 0:16 on x2 speed he looks like he's dancing

[@kpalmeiri5431]

Please do egyptian mythology next

[@ShriekingHyperFixator]

I really hope they do that

[@Mr.ven9]

I was wating for this

[@ceanbalumos2356]

Hi jake im a new subscriber

[@minetieplays2092]

1:41 what does that mean

[@dominicmarchiolo3195]

I mean, what about kratos

[@Mimi-draws1]

I love this for you

[@Colonel_Jurten]

I'm here to comment for the KZbin algorithm

[@Nighthawk-xe2ji]

hey what about asain mythology like wukong feel like it would be funny with your channel

[@simpreaper19]

Hmm interesting, I’ve never heard of tales of Kratos being the god of power, only one I’ve known in actual mythology is him being brothers of death as the god of blood. Guess I’ll look into this more

[@Poland2077]

Finally!, A Greek Mythology Video

[@josephtung5280]

hey you're back dude it's been some times

[@orprimordial]

I heard a story of Baldur waking up after ragnarok, does that mean ragnarok isnt the end of norse mythology, if so what happened after ragnarok

[@MrRadoslav]

Basically in ragnarok two people hides in igdrasil and the world resets

[@enbyarchmage]

But with new gods in charge, one of them possibly being the Christian one. Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions mentions this in one of her videos iirc

[@chaserose5127]

Basically, after Ragnarok, the world is prophecied to essentially be "reborn". It's similar to how in Christianity there will eventually come a day when all the faithful will vibe in Heaven forever.

[@blufferfish0896]

but what about Kratos?

[@divinerodriguez3100]

I love you vids not gonna lie

[@eugenekrabs2403]

I appreciate the video on Kratos even if he doesn't have that big of a role in Greek Mythology, I also appreciate seeing my Kratos comment in the intro

[@kaitlynshort870]

B U T W H A T A B O U T K R A T O S

[@incorrectlife6962]

What about Atreus!

[@jonathanspolnicki1303]

Sorry, I think you meant BOY

[@incorrectlife6962]

@@jonathanspolnicki1303 I was gonna say BOY but it would harder for people to look up who didn’t know BOY

[@jar_world]

more more more i neeeeeed more!

[@anastrohorse4510]

Petition for Jake to do a video on the odyssey

[@orishe736]

What about kratos?

[@Nooby69]

ok but what about kratos

[@jariwoud5444]

i wrote a comment to support this channel

[@hadim_mc]

I laughed so hard when you mentioned Gardevoir. I'm I afraid it bothered my neighbor since It's midnight.

[@SuperVideowatcher01]

Kinda surprised there’s an actual “god” name Kratos, I always thought he was made up for the games and that was it

[@jessicalulila5709]

The devs only discovered about the mythological Kratos after the first game

[@OuterGodBoi]

here's a interesting question: how well do you think the god of war Kratos fits into Greek mythology?

[@mechacrimson8991]

He killed them all and he will kill them all again if it's young Kratos

[@KJGPROD]

@wargames Zeus didn't kill kronus as God's , Titans, or primordials can't die

[@KJGPROD]

@wargames actually Uranus didn’t die he is still very much the sky but Cronus did dethrone him

[@rmdcade1717]

Top tier Gardevoir joke

[@deathclimer]

You should do something like this again such as something about phobos eris, and desmiois or just random gods no really knows of

[@rayanpapayashayan38]

yeah but what about kratos

[@jeromeygreff8784]

Uhh, I think you forgot about Kratos

[@TungNguyen-gl2rb]

Let's think of how much ancient people don't appreciate history stories and consistency in them really makes you think of ourselves

[@scripca_]

Can you do a video about phobos and deimos?

[@neoniintention4536]

I know what to ask... Why is Kratos?

[@specks3375]

No what is kratos

[@jonathanspolnicki1303]

Every one asks who is kratos but not how is kratos

[@specks3375]

@@jonathanspolnicki1303 what is kratos