What did the GODS fear…

[@eddardstark6554]

“Even gods fear the absolute, for it stinks of something larger than themselves.” - Sotha Sil (Elder Scrolls)

[@john.premose]

You mean, man fears the absolute. There are no gods. They are projections of the human psyche.

[@sonnyalbertowinata3600]

Miss V

[@username172]

Gods are just humans with admin perms

[@MultiSpeedMetal]

Sotha Sil is the homie

[@thenewwaydevil]

Awesome post dawg. Sotha a real gigachad.

[@sankalpspaz]

I'd like to point out that Kali is not sticking her tongue out. She's actually biting her tongue. A common Indian expression when we make a mistake. In this context, she made the mistake of stepping on Shiva who is laying down in front of her because that was the only way to snap her out of her bloodlust. Great video as always!

[@thenewwaydevil]

Never know this. Thanks sankalspaz

[@bwackbeedows3629]

​@@infertilepiggy5667 Uhhhh, Aaaaaah to you too 😅

[@a_diamond]

Thank you for the clarification!! ❤

[@Himanshu_Khichar]

No I don't think so. We don't stick our tongues out this this long. So I don't think Kali's depiction of sticking her tongue out is an expression of mistake, it's actually what it has been described.

[@worm2976]

​@@Himanshu_Khicharit's a statue my guy......no one holds any pose for that long. OP is right. Very simplified version, but they're right. Source : raised surrounded by devotees and scholars of the goddess

[@marginbuu212]

In Tolkien's Middle Earth cosmology you had the Nameless Ones, those creatures that lived in the deep underground tunnels. They existed since the very beginning and even Sauron and Melkor gave them a wide berth. You see this same kind of theme in the Cthulhu mythos. We're in an endless cosmic ocean and there's always a bigger fish.

[@La-familia-de-Fazio]

Hell I would say the endless void of the greater cosmic expanse of space in it’s self; is a entity unto itself! Infinite space could swallow you up just as fast as any Giant beast/God/monster!

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

Eh, beings like that just make me feel disappointed in the author because they get mentioned and they seem so incredible but the author inevitably wimps out and just does NOTHING with them.

[@donutlovingwerewolf8837]

​@@2yoyoyo1UnpluggedUngoliant is (probably?) a Nameless One and she not only killed the Two Trees that lit up Valinor, She even almost consumed Melkor were it not for the Balrogs intervening

[@NamelessGYT]

I have been called

[@caccalot3637]

@@donutlovingwerewolf8837she’s not a nameless one

[@howardhavardramberg333]

I love the idea of gods requiring belief to be alive and that they can’t die but if they are forgotten they go into deathless slumber.

[@NotSoNormal1987]

Terry pratchet wrote a book about that called small gods.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

@@NotSoNormal1987 With funny enough one of the most "worshiped" god was on the brink of death due to the worship had become all ceremony and no actual faith.

[@IndigoWhiskey]

i liked the original black and white game's way of phrasing it when a god has no belief in them left. cast back into the void, unmade into nothingness but not dead, an endless nothingness with the constant perspective of consciousness. you'd almost sympathize with a fear of that.

[@Baptized_in_Fire.]

The 3 deaths. The final death of a man (or God) is when the last person speaks their name for the last time.

[@aanchaallllllll]

1:25: 😱 The video explores the terrifying creatures in different mythological cosmos and why the gods fear them. 7:56: 🌟 Kali and Tiamat are powerful and complex mythological figures associated with destruction and creation. 15:58: 🐺 The mythological creature Fenrir, also known as the wolf of Loki, was responsible for the destruction of the cosmos and the death of Odin. 23:55: 🔥 Zeus defeats Typhon in a battle between order and chaos. Recap by Tammy AI

[@shawnreed343]

I wonder how many of the ancient apocalypse myths, gods and monsters, may have come from the eruption of the supervolcano Toba in Indionesia ~67,000-75,000 BC. It's an event that would have been heard and felt around the world, and could easily have inspired myths from Kali to Typhon. The description of sounds regarding Typheus could easily be attributed to a great eruption, and I would suspect ancient peoples struggling through the aftermath of an ancient natural disaster would be terribly afraid of it happening again in the future. Tales passed from spoken word would likely have been greatly bastardized and embellished over time, but the core idea of the destruction would have been central to the stories.

[@BeforeThisNovember]

Exactly right, I think. All supernatural and biblical stories I feel originated from: natural disasters, natural wonders (aurora borealis etc), and just genuine hallucinations/pareidolia (think manatees in the distance looking like “mermaids”) It’s not coincidence that now we know better, nothing like these stories happen any more.

[@pendragon2012]

In a recent retelling of the Ragnarok myth, Matt Larkin envisions Odin and his family as a mortal tribe. Odin receives hints of a vision of the end of the world and begins his pursuit of immortality in order to head off the chaos coming. Of course, he is unable to hold it off forever and some of the steps he takes to do actually bring it closer. Fascinating stuff. Thanks, Jon!

[@pendragon2012]

@@ivornelsson2238 Key word to my comment was "In a recent retelling". So far as I can tell, neither I nor Larkin claimed we were giving the book on "the real" fictional being known as Odin.

[@pendragon2012]

@@ivornelsson2238 The part where it says "Matt Larkin envisioned". Turns out you can do what you want with fictional characters and since all Viking stories have Odin actually doing something they must have thought he was a person. You don't. Congrats. You too can do what you want with a fictional character.

[@pendragon2012]

@@ivornelsson2238 OK, that's what it means to you. Live long and prosper!

[@Baptized_in_Fire.]

I'm concerned that I can't see the comments being replied to. Even when someone is wrong, it's good to see both sides of an argument. Censorship is morally repugnant to a civilized people. Adolf the führer was ok with censorship and look how that turned out.

[@Fayuura]

@@Baptized_in_Fire. They could have deleted their account which in turn deleted their comments across the site. Or maybe they felt embarrassed and deleted the comments

[@blakewinter1657]

Another interpretation of Gleipnir, I think, is that, rather than impossible ingredients, it is made from things that we can no longer find because they've been put into the chain. The Norse, like many other cultures, used some of their myths for 'just so' stories. For example, why is the sea salty? Because there's a mill that produces unlimited salt that fell into it, of course. Why do salmon have weird body shapes? Because Loki, in the form of a salmon, got grabbed by the tail and his body stretched. So why don't cats make noise or women have beards? Well, they did, but then those things got taken to make Gleipnir!

[@Crecganford]

Yes, that too could be a possibility, we don't know which myths came first.

[@notionSlave]

in other words, ancestors were schizophrenic morons!

[@mugenokami2201]

Almost all. My cat still makes noise mostly when hauling ass around the house

[@john.premose]

Nobody ever actually believed such rubbish. And if they did, gol help them.

[@sifthead7720]

Like in god of war ragnork when garm straight up ATE a season and whole concept

[@christopherleubner6633]

Kali is got this scary aspect, but if you get to know her, she is very funny and goofy. She really knows how to get a head in this world.

[@Baptized_in_Fire.]

Lol excellent comment

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Typhon, father of all monsters, once defeated zeus and _ripped out his tendons._ I'd say if that thing ever came back, zeus would probably get PTSD. Python, on the other hand, is a serpent that apollo defeated only after firing 100 arrows, and while nothing more of import is stated of it in the original greek myths, Rick Riordan portraywd appolo as being deathly scared of the serpent python ever since.

[@nunuonroad9969]

This concept of gods being killable is why I think they’re done so well in the Malazan book series. When you put all powerful Gods into fiction you start to think, why don’t they just interfere? Why don’t they just do what they want? In Malazan the gods have great power but they can also be killed, and in some ecases quite easily. So they still have to be careful in how they maneuver so it adds much more depth to their character and the story.

[@ThefrenziedMercury]

Well, narratively speaking, the gods can be totally different from humans. We always thought and are used to think, that the gods are similiar to us, even tho they probably are cosmic beings with cosmic intelligences that don't even know we exist. The gods can be neutral, and can simply not understand mortals minds not because they are stupid, but because they can simply have different concepts of thought.

[@Tespri]

To answer to your question. How many times you bother to look at the ants and help them?

[@RockandStoneVForKarl]

@@Tespri problem is we didn't create and not are supposed to supposedly be all loving towards tjem

[@Tespri]

@@RockandStoneVForKarl not every mythology has god creating humans. Also you're making case of special pleading for humans while ignoring their other creations as well.

[@timeless9820]

if we check more videos, he explains how myth and legends mention that gods can die. it is a way to continue evolving/maintaining the world aka sacrifice. so the cultures we got, came from one that believed that gods were mortal so our very first ancestors believed gods could die as mortals and it was needed to sacrifice. it is later that different societies began to update the way to see things.

[@AxeMan808]

Wow I never knew that about Kali being the TIME goddess. No wonder all fear and revere her. She's unstoppable and omnipresent and we are all always in the sphere of her influence.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

She's literally the Goddess of Karma amid many attributes, as well as an incarnation of Durga-Parvati, another Goddess of Time.

[@jerm2011]

Yep. Would suck if she existed.

[@sam.nothanks]

​@@jerm2011I think existed / exists means different things for different people... more of a matter of perception.

[@jerm2011]

@@sam.nothanks ...no, its not a matter of perception. Something either "is" or it "isn't." The existence of a powerful spirit isn't all in how you look at it. Something like that doesn't need your consideration to exist. Think about it.

[@yourfinalhiringagency3890]

Kronos did it best

[@eaglescott17]

In my D&D world I'm making, the mythology has the three main celestials (earth, moon, and sun) as fighting against creatures of void and shadow as they move their way through space. The fight goes until mysterious circumstances force the creatures into different realms, but one gets a final parting shot at earth with a meteor, causing an extinction event.

[@DzinkyDzink]

At some point during their journey the Earth got bored and ate her little sister Theia. This caused her to become pregnant and give birth to all manner of creatures. Unfortunately(or fortunately for others) Theia's spirit lives on inside the Earth. Ever so vengeful for being eaten alive she cursed some of the offspring who now live underground and seek vengeance on all the living creatures above.

[@sabithasajan5564]

I always love to idea of there being entities above gods. It gives me a cosmic dread...like if gods fear these beings then what can we mortals do?

[@l-esprit_de_l-ouest]

Helping gods maintaining order , living an ordered life. I am quite on j. Peterson’s side: " clean your room" xd. Develloping skills to avoid the sky to fall on earth (meteorits. ..) , not destroying narture ect... That is why , in my opinion, after mythology comes religion and science making order in chaos ( also failling sometimes) , organising society, regulating, rationalising cosmos and raising humans to the status of kind of half gods or sons of god...witch seems specific to indo european cultures and , i guess, is a successfull ,epic and dangerous path but what a challenge ! Tell me if you think i am a fool, but this my point of view atm.

[@sabithasajan5564]

@@l-esprit_de_l-ouest your veiw ain't bad. believe whatever you want as long as your respectful of other beliefs.

[@l-esprit_de_l-ouest]

@@sabithasajan5564 "respect" ethymology means in french from latin :" tenir à distance" so I do, just the good stance to keep eye contact but not beeing hitted

[@sabithasajan5564]

@@l-esprit_de_l-ouest ............

[@Perroden]

There is nothing above God. He is.

[@miserylovesyou7540]

Just wanted to share my gratitude for your videos. By no means am I a scholar, nor am I pursuing a future involving ancient history/mythology. But anthropology has always been an interest of mine, and I enjoy your videos especially because of how accessible they are, while still being extremely in-depth. Thank you for bringing some much needed knowledge and professionalism to this platform, and I look forward to watching your videos for years to come! :) (PS- would love a deep dive on astrology and it's impact in the middle east.)

[@Crecganford]

Thank you, and funnily enough I have just started to write some notes about Astrology and the Zodiac, so this may come in the next few months.

[@gabrijelaziza9768]

There was 1 greek story on how god of dreams hypnos messed with zeus while he slept zeus was furious and wanted to either kill him or beat him to a pulp but hypnos went to his mother nyx primordial goddess of night the moment zeus saw her he gave up on hurting hypnos he even apologised for disturbing nyx. While zeus was the king of the gods there were beings outside his domain like the primordials and he dreaded from them

[@johnphamlore8073]

With each of your videos, I become more and more convinced these monsters are all describing various aspects of catastrophic volcanic eruptions, possibly dating back in human memory to as early as the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago. All of these details describe various aspects of the events leading up to, the eruptions themselves, and the aftermath, including possibly years of winter and other disruptions to the weather.

[@tarosvan2253]

True, it's great how we can take non human and animal concepts and create stories and creatures as representations of them.

[@malidadoedaughterofearth4174]

Or cataclysmic solar events.

[@saintjacques8137]

Thank you for touching on this topic. There's an interesting series of videos mostly about traditional Indo-European history talking about this, especially the one titled "the way where the fire of death blazes" that observes the role played by the emotions in the ultimate divine rule. I recommend it to anyone keen on these subjects

[@HIMMBelljuvo]

The Typhonomachy sounds so badass. I would pay to watch this animated

[@davidmedlin8562]

Jormungandur sounds like a river too, they can be "poisonous" and "releasing his tail" could be interpreted as flooding, the story almost makes sense as a spring or renewal story, has anyone tried to make an etymological connection between the name and a river?

[@jicajacobsonkimbreaux]

I can't help but visualize Jormungandur as something like Earth's magnetic field or radiation belt, given its specific size description. Once they go, we're all in trouble.

[@griffin3508]

Awesome work on this, great great videos overall, keep it going sir. Give us more and more mythology, even african not just ancient egypt or ethiopia, even the other vast empires and lands and peoples that came before and their gods and stories👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@Salt_Master_Queue]

It's cool to hear the origins of what Gygax, and later WotC, got inspired by for D&D (referencing mainly Tiamat).

[@dannythebear743]

Ohhh new video! Thank you!

[@thomassears7396]

Looking for the elements of the bindings of Fenrir, I find these common to the descriptions I've found, "the murmur of a cat's tread, a woman's beard, mountain roots, the breath of a fish, bird spittle." I the last oddly different or even absent. The two I have found seem oddly out of place, as they exist in the physical, not mystical/poetic realm, a woman's spindle or the sinews of the bear, neither of which would be difficult to find (unless by 'spindle' is meant 'penis'). Curious.

[@kaitnip]

Or maybe it's like many magic recipes in stories: some stuff is trivial to acquire and some is not. Many a would be witch or wizard doomed themselves by thinking that having some or even most of the ingredients would make the spell come true.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

or maybe its woky transgender stuffs.

[@seandonaghy4679]

The footfalls of a cat. For sure many laugh at a woman's beard. But when we come to the end of the world, who will be able to bind fenrir? The only thing large enough to feed it is destruction. And don't we know our arm rests on its jaw? We speak of God's, yet in truth a mere shadow is enough to conquer men. Whatever we think we can do has many times been surpassed, and those things that God's do fear, well humans are the only beings who can say the word to summon them. So such words are hidden and recorded as forbidden incase some poor fool wanders into the hydras lair without a flaming sword. Sought they ever more wisdom seeking to bring it up from below. But brutes these days do not even seek wisdom, but power. Who would I fear, there is no other god beside me, so it is I that I fear. The creator and the destroyer. Thus if I would happily destroy my own being, then what course would I have to spare angels. Oh I could lop off these heads all day but they only grow back. So what would it be like for a human to comprehend the fear of a god instead of the mercy, love joy and compassion. I think if we answered that we would have many fruit bearing trees instead of great dragons gnawing on the roots of the tree of knowledge. But man, it captivates you, the power of christ compells you, and isn't it marvellous, the battles our Lord takes on before us. I mean would any of us trade a comfortable life to sail away and fight sea giants. It's a never ending story. Ragnarok is every day for someone, or something, but it is not the end, only the beginning. Because alpha and omega, I am Alive forever more. And this I tell you, even god killers bend their knee in terror in the face of Jesus. But those who would come after him. Now is that now word enough?

[@DD-zh6hz]

​@@rizkyadiyanto7922do you mean wonky. Or the other thing I feel you probably mean?

[@tigerchild3676]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922bro what?

[@abstract5249]

When you think about it, WE are gods. We wield immense power with our science and technology. We are so powerful that we've terraformed the earth with our cities. We influence the weather through our impact on global climate. We are capable of totally annihilating other lifeforms, or saving them from extinction. And yet despite our power, there are things we fear. Lots of things. We fear the universe because we don't know what's out there. We fear our own power because we can't predict the consequences of our own actions. We fear one another, for the human imagination knows no bounds when it comes to thinking up ways to cause harm and suffering. We are gods, feared and fearful alike.

[@demoncore5342]

You confirm who I thought is the actual Fenrir. Anyway, would you say the Fenri's wolf is one and the same as Garm the hellhound?

[@Crecganford]

I do talk about this in my dogs and death videos, which is a fascinating subject, but in short most IE culture have two dogs in the Otherworld, and so I consider Garmr a different dog.

[@Abrxs365]

Great video! What is the chance that Typhus a prehistoric myth about witnessing a volcanic eruption with the snakes of lava and volcanic lightning?

[@WildMen4444]

Hail to the Gods of all nations! Hail to the ones who defend us from the forces that seek to destroy us!

[@AshGrg2007]

Gods are scared of the nothing, the void, endless and empty.

[@ilustreguilherme]

My timeline gifted me this video and It was an instant subscribe for me. As an Indie writer and comic book artist, Reading and studying about culture is a Common habit for either reference and inspiration, so this video not Just inspired me but also made me look forward to read even more about different myths aswell as to look into your content cause your comments as your insight Just gives a huge ammount of clarification as It helps onto observing The symbolic meaning of these things. Thanks for your dedication and Amazing work. Hugs from Brazil!

[@a_diamond]

Longevity runs in my family. It tends to mean that people in my family either die very suddenly (often violently) or by their own hand. Most people really don't get it. It is very difficult when everything and everyone you once knew is gone. When you've buried too many loved ones.. The older we get, the more that sense of "home" calls to us and the less we can find that sense of familiarity anywhere. It's human nature. It's life.. I'm old enough to know that you couldn't pay me enough to become immortal. Living healthily and actively to a ripe old age is good.. just living on however.. life is just not about quantity.. I wouldn't want to be a God.. and hypothetically, if they are like us.. I can understand why they might get overly attached to any creature that might remotely have some intelligence.. I think I'd go mad in their stead.. wanting to live forever is for the young who don't understand fully what it means yet IMHO... Everyone has a breaking point, and if given enough time, we will all reach it at some point..

[@theelder4797]

That's why the Philosophers Stone is so sought after: you have immortality WITH eternal youth. And you could keep anyone alive you choose to with it, so loneliness wouldn't be an issue. And if you ever got tired of your eternal companion, just stop feeding them the stone.

[@jicajacobsonkimbreaux]

Fabulous episode! ❤️ Thank you for including a little of the Vedic, Mesopotamian, and Greek traditions in this, it's quite helpful. I've struggled to conceptualize the Norse mythology alongside the eastern traditions, but your linking them to the Greek actually helps reconcile things quite a lot. Your readings from the associated texts (+notations) is also quite helpful. Very well done. Do any of the Greek/Norse traditions subscribe to the idea of an endless, cyclical universe, or might they have any representation for something like the underlying, eternal, nondualist reality (Brahman) as we find in the Vedas? Lastly, how do you feel about perennialism? 😂

[@Yotun-of-the-WWW]

Yes, the idea of Ragnarok and the rebirth of earth afterwards makes it circular. At Ragnarok the main gods (Odin,Thor, Loki, Tyr, Heimdal) die and their children (Baldr, Hodr, etc) take over in the new Asgard. The texts only mention one Ragnarok but one could infer that were many, that even the next batch of gods will have their end, and their offspring would rule afterwards. The nasty thing with European spirituality is the coming of Abrahamic religion from the middle east and the destruction of the old ways that that brought. We have so little knowledge left of Germanic, Norse, Celtic spirituality because of that. Hinduism has a straight line back into the past and is thus a far more complete way to view reality. Like all paganism though Norse paganism is circular and the figure of Ymir, the first being, who is not gendered might link back to the non-dualism you asked for.

[@romeosantos3261]

What about Apophis from Egyptian mythology and Falak from Arabic mythology even though they have the same theme as the world serpent but how they’re describe are unique especially Falak.

[@PartyofNone]

"The blood from the castration of Uranus, spewed forth" nasty 2:00

[@budfug8691]

"the blood from the castration of Uranus" ...I had to collect myself

[@theunknownfragment5473]

Hmm in Albanian mythology we have Oras. They are something like fairies though not really fairies. They can do good, be helpful but also fierce punishers if law and rules are broken. For example Tuesday evening we were told never to sit around the hearth and work ( sewing, knitting or anything that can be seen as work ) because*Ora e Ligë* would punish anyone caught breaking the rule. Another amazing story of Oras are the Hearth/Home Snakes. It's believed that each home has a Protective Hearth Snake known as *Ora e shpisë* amongst the northern highlanders and if that snake is killed the home will be faced by bad luck and disasters as punishment. Yet the spinal vertebrae of snakes are used as beads that decorate the protective amulets used especially for children. Together with these beads made of Snake Vertebrae Wolf Canine are commonly used too. Then you have *Shtrigas* ... Fascinating subjects. Keep up the good work 👍

[@WorldHistory_CE]

Usually, i do not like AI art in history, but, i feel that the AI art in your videos enhances the story, absolutely brilliant images, you are an amazing history communicator, please never stop with that you are doing.

[@algernoncalydon3430]

One can imagine the myths a thousand years from now, the people in the future sitting about their fires and sharpening their sticks and stones, listening to their wise man tell of the great order and disorder. How the primordial people persecuted the great heroes of science for hundreds of years, but then came the great hero Einstein, who gave the others the key to unlimited power. How they got together in times of war and created the great creature of liberty and freedom. But one among them warned of the old beast, that of Entropy, of chaos theory, and how they could not control all things. The others did not listen and used that power to destroy great cites. Then came the great heroes who learned the power of transforming mankind, and ignoring the warning of Feynman, forced people around the world to partake of this healing elixer. But entropy fooled the heroes and the elixer turned out to make mankind weak in body and even weaker in mind. Not long after they opened the mouth of the great creature of liberty and freedom and slew all of mankind, except a few hidden in the woods. Only after did they find out that no hero could control all things, that what he thought was a great being of light and freedom was a trick and was in fact a being of death.. Then came our hero who keeps the great beast Entropy at bay by keeping him ever in his and our minds. Entropy lurks outside the lights of the fire, able to see in the dark, knowing we cannot.

[@jicajacobsonkimbreaux]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ladyflimflam]

I’ve been enjoying modern reimaginings of our mythologies. One that treated the story of Loki and Angrboda and their children, a tale I was less familiar with than the Greek tales, is The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec.

[@mr.roboxihuman4344]

I'd love a video where you attempt to pinpoint where in history the closest relation of these myths were grouped. IT would also be cool to see the migration data paired with it.

[@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery]

Myths exactly

[@Crecganford]

That is also one of the reasons I created the mythology database which allows this, but you’re right, I should add more information about this in my videos. Thank you.

[@Maungateitei]

​@@CrecganfordThe world serpent that circles the entire world ocean, that the land of fire and ice is at the centre of, and eats its own tail, is 18000km long. It is the circumpolar Southern ocean current. Thors hammer that breaks it to unleash Ragnarok is the Thunder and lightning of the Antarctic subglacial volcanos, and the outburst floods they are generating, which with their left bending coriolis have broken the circumpolar current. As the Waitaha put it, in the time of Tumatauenga, which is every 12900 years. The Warm tropical current Mahana, and her twin the cold southern one Maiya swap their places. These are not empty myths. The same is occurring in your neck of the woods. Where the age of Ragnarok, involves a geothermal hotpool Arctic ocean, and winter snowfalls too thick to melt in summer.

[@mr.roboxihuman4344]

@@Crecganford I didn't know about it. Thank you for letting me know! I'll check it out asap.

[@kristjiannne]

I’d love to see a video if you can find myths about the ‘squatter man’ cave art that could be depictions of a plasma discharge event?

[@marin803]

I have never ever heard anyone say or write just "Fenrir" Must be something in the English translation. (I'm Swedish) It's: "Fenrisulven". "The Fenris-wolf", "the Wolf of Fenrir"

[@richhornie7000]

You should make gods' powerlevel tier list someday

[@backseatsamurai]

The primordial sea and Tiamat is life living in Saturns dark mode energy, the earth was enveloped in its plasma sheath, and so no stars in the sky were visible, just endless sea of black. The story oh Tiamat being killed, and the story of the first sun, all historical events. Some of the desciptive imagery used in the myths descibe this perfectly. The Thunderbolts Project has it right!! So do others.

[@DakiniDream]

Many thanks for the great work once more, still an immense pleasure to listen to you !

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

Erinyes: You know, it's interesting that these chicks never went after Zeus for violating his relationship with Hera SO MANY TIMES that, if the stories were true, a good 10% of Greeks would be related to him. Kali: Hi Mom. ❤❤❤ I'm not a Hindu, but I do love Her. Tiamat: Dragon bitch go boom. MIND YOU, the whole story is one big representation of the rule of the patriarchy in Mesopotamia, so...yeah. And of course we got stuck with the ramifications of that crap. Fenrir: Well yeah. People are afraid of wolves. Every dog breed we have was bred down from wolves, sure, but they could still kill hunters very easily, especially since they hunt in the same way we do: in packs. Jormungandr: You know, the interesting thing is, in Hindu mythology, Lord Vishnu sleeps in the coils of the World Serpent. They're friends. And in fact, whenever Lord Vishnu incarnates, Shesha does so with Him in order to protect Him on Earth. Whenever Shesha's incarnation dies, it's time for Vishnu to peace out again, which is why, in the Mahabharata, Balarama (Lord Krishna's brother, and that round's version of Shesha's incarnation) dies before Him. Snakes are ambiguous figures in Hindu mythology. On the one hand, you have GOOD snakes, like Shesha, and also Vasuki, who winds around Shiva's neck, and Kaliya, who has multiple heads, all of which contained poison in the fangs, which went up into the poor thing's brain/s until Lord Krishna danced on the heads to force the poison out, but on the other hand, you get BAD snakes, too, like Agasura, the snake demon whom Lord Krishna kills. Splits him right in two from the inside out, if I have that part accurate. Typhon: Eh, people, want to know where we get our stupid beauty standards? From this kind o thing. The Greek myths say that ordered beings are beautiful, while chaotic beings are either/both ugly, monstrous, disabled in some way, you get the idea. Typhon is more or less the epitome of this, and he ALMOST WINS. I wish he could have unstrung Zeus permanently. I don't like that guy. Too much of Yahweh in him, or, rather, the influence probably went back and forth.

[@SCP.343]

I'm embarrassed to admit that it took playing The Legend Of Dragoon for the meaning of the phrase "Superheroes are just monsters with the good moral alignment" to sink in for me. It kind of crystalized and became something concrete and then I understood it.

[@RichWoods23]

Or, to borrow a line from 'Station Eleven', "To the monsters, we're the monsters."

[@SCP.343]

@@donventura2116 your understanding makes sense too. But think about this, a guy gets bit by a mutated spider and gets mutated a creature part spider and part human, that's Spiderman. A baby is born from his recently deceased mother who was in the process of being turned into a vampire and he grows up be a hybrid of human and vampire, that's Eric "Blade" Brookes. A super powerful alien baby from a dying world who grew up among us and lived his whole life hiding among us only to reveal himself as an adult. In Legend Of Dragoon you use the souls of dragons to channel the power of dragons and transform into half dragon creatures.

[@Vrooto]

that's why they say if you don't die a hero you live long enough to become the villain, also GET BACK INTO CONTAINEMENT

[@SCP.343]

@@Vrooto it's called "voluntary containment" for a reason. We all know SRAs wouldn't work on me anyway.

[@DneilB007]

16:52 I would dispute this reasoning. It’s pretty clear to me that the monster is Frankenstein. The creature either has no name, or is named Adam; but the monster of the story absolutely is Frankenstein.

[@Crecganford]

I see what you did there... and one could support that view.

[@judewarner1536]

Sorry (not sorry) but although one can support the idea of Frankenstein's work being unnatural, against God, if you will, and therefore something monstrous in Frankenstein, Crecganford is referring specifically to the misunderstanding of identity due to the ignorance of people about the novel rather than a moral judgement on the doctor. To paraphrase the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother ''Ignorance is the mind killer''.

[@DneilB007]

@@judewarner1536 Frankenstein is the monster, not for “playing God”, but rather for the cruel way he abandons his creation when it fails to live up to his expectations of what he wants it to be. “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good - misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” To “Adam”, Frankenstein is a capricious, chaotic creator diety who rejects and exiles his creation from Joy for no reason other than he finds the creature, to use a Shakespearean term, noisesome. In the context of creation mythology, “Adam” is the New God, and Frankenstein is the chaos monster in a similar vein as Tiamat.

[@purpledevilr7463]

Loki’s kids seem to be particularly responsible for the end of the world.

[@vx8431]

Well Ragnarök isn't exactly the end of the cosmos. Fenrir kills Oden but is slain by Vidar and so on. Most of the gods, humans and ancestral spirits die but the cosmos doesn't end for in the ashes of destruction wrought by Surtr who burns the land and sky and boils the seas rise Baldr and Hödr who with the help of the younger gods like themselves create a new realm of the gods. The dying sun godess Sól gives birth to her daughter and successor thus the world is reborn yet the shadow of Nidhöggr still covers the world to remind all living things evil still exists. Side note two humans survive Líf and Lífþrasir. Also the sagas and Edda do specify Fenrir as Lokis son not another aspect of him as Loki is slain seperatly in battle with Heimdalr.

[@lukaszrower7612]

For me, a better model for defeating gods is the Chinese Xianxia, ​​Wuxian novels. There, an ordinary mortal with hard work and luck can reach the level of God even greater than God possesses.

[@knexxy70]

Personally what I noticed that the prohpecy of ragnarök usually aligns well with the dark night of soul spiritually speaking :)

[@destructionindustries1987]

Beard growing back well.

[@tomato1040]

With the gods😮fear🤖most is not ever being remembered by humanity😎, otherwise being dismembered & forgotten by the monster🤑elite of greed, the insanity of evil humanity😢!

[@TheAdeybob]

Coffee in hand...am settled back nicely. It's Crecganford-time. Hit it.

[@entropytango5348]

Crocganford just gets better and better, thank you for finding and sharing the stories

[@Crecganford]

Thank you.

[@NBAKER-jh2gl]

Would you take the webinar and turn it into a BBC tellyvision show on at 8.30pm on a weekday, i only see comedy and blooper shows based around the internets content on telly, your guidence on a show could be a game changer!!

[@derekhogan9685]

It always fascinates me how many mythologies actually depicts their gods as killable. Its a contrast to the monotheistic view of a god.

[@kingkino2116]

Highly recommend you grab a pop filter for your mic my friend. Your presentation and speech are otherwise fantastic.

[@bobbyz9052]

It just occured to me that one of the impossible materials that make up Gleipnir is the beard of a woman. Maybe Ragnarok is starting.

[@ultramovier]

Kali came from the brow of her mother much like Athena came from the brow of Zues. Very interesting.

[@Crecganford]

Indeed, and I hope to talk about this motif in the future.

[@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb]

​@@Crecganfordbrow of her mother? Where did you guys find it in Hindu sources?

[@uselesshero.official]

@@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb not her mother but an aspect of herself only.

[@redfoxninja3173]

Loss of power is what God's fear because the only defined trait of any God is its unlimited or infinite power over any and everything without that what's the difference between a mortal and a powerless God?

[@kariannecrysler640]

Not enough people recognize that gods fear ✌️💗

[@SpongeBob-xh8ir]

Hey bauld man don't call Kali monster she is our goddess millions have faith on herc what if we say your abramic religion are man-made which they are

[@god1of8violance7]

^the furies are actually depicted as gods in some tales and as known gods can change their apperence its a little bit contradictible to call them ugly in general, but after the myth you were going you are correct just would have liked you to mention that in the video

[@nightmarerex2035]

if tiamat was an ancient planet i wonder if apsu was also a planet we dont know about.

[@neonchronicles]

You are a pleasure to listen to, my friend! Thanks for sharing!

[@Crecganford]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@Darkwolf1942]

Started with the Furies and now we got the Furries..... My, how far we've fallen...

[@Wombola]

click bait simply for 1 reason: the title will never entice the noobs/casuals that can actually learn something from this. Aside from that, this is an 11/10 video and I'll sub.

[@Goodpatron]

This dude needs to turn down the bass in his microphone... Is really hard to understand him because of it. 🤦

[@davidmedlin8562]

Tyhpus sounds like a volcano, like the eruption of Thera I think the island is called

[@Crecganford]

Yes, he does seem to personify that.

[@betterthansilence3664]

You can’t tell me he doesn’t sound like the guy from National Geographic

[@godofdesire.luck.war.night5]

Love this. But You also forgot to mentioned other greatly feared gods. In Greek mythology Nyx, Fates, Eros. In Norse mythology Loki children (Hel, Giant Serpent Jorg, and Fenrir).

[@metalface_villain]

the polytheistic religions and their myths were so cool, christianity really ruined it with their goofy ass boring lore

[@dsodragus4616]

Bro, you cannot speak on behalf of the gods..... Only I can.

[@DeadEndFrog]

Most things seem to fear being forgotten, including memes, such as gods

[@isabelladrake7980]

So I saw this and low key first thought a picture of Chuck Norris would show up 😂

[@bartonabrams3433]

You left out apophus dueling it out with ra every night in Egyptian mythology

[@TheIGITnBLUE]

There will always be a bigger fish, and that fish will be found to eventually dwarf to an even bigger fish...

[@benkeller6027]

The Gods fear that history will forget them over time. They fear the end of humanity.

[@judewarner1536]

I have always considered the multi-headed, fire-breathing, flying dragon myths as exemplifying a natural event such as a comet, intercepting the Earth and breaking up, thus appearing to scorch the Earth from the sky with numerous heads and tongues of fire, since many comets include flammable organic material. By-passing in space multiple streamers are often seen from comets with greater or lesser return intervals. Even inorganic components or meteors (stone and metal) burn up and explode during their passage through the atmosphere. It is certain that in antiquity meteors and short-interval comets (also short-lived through frequent exposure to the Sun) would have been more numerous and thus featured more frequently in the origins of mythology. Vulcanism seems to be more associated with gods' weapon forges than with fire-breathing monsters. I believe that both Vulcan (obviously) and Hephaestus were associated with specific volcanoes? The victory of Marduk over Tiamat I see as the triumph of male-oriented religion over the earlier female-oriented theologies, represented as original Chaos, much as Christianity represented earlier Pagan beliefs as Satanic, often mediated through female witches (or female shamans / wise-women) who therefore had to be suppressed, along with women in general due to their more ''hysterical'' (chaotic) nature.

[@venusjinn4984]

The gods fear the one true god, God!

[@dyne313]

The Gods fear Klingons, because they killed their gods.

[@adempc]

It's lack of fear that makes you a God, fear that strips you of the light.

[@odin1185]

Dude typhon would get his but kicked by the world serpent

[@Crecganford]

Possibly, it depends which myth you take each serpent from...

[@cilindras2952]

Thanks for the cool stories. I've been watching your videos for a while and was wondering if you could maybe do a video on the Baltic pagan mythology? The information on the internet is scarce so it is hard to visualise or compare it to other traditional religions. I thought If anyone would be able to go more in-depth about this obscure belief, I'd be you. Thank you for the videos, keep up the quality content!

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

I love your opening with Hulk smashing Loki in Avengers! Things that "would make a god tremble", indeed.

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

Oh lovely! Cheers for the research and effort you pour into your work brother 😊 appreciate your words and insight.

[@loganchew1616]

Zeus feared his dad coming back and paying child support for his bastard children

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

I've always had a thing for Kālī. What a cutie.

[@sprinkleman8103]

This guy talks in lowercase and honestly it’s a breath of fresh air with how loud content creators are these days

[@jessecastellanos669]

So they’re effectively Devine weapons, imbued with the power to destroy that which the gods themselves cannot control. These weapons are unique by in nature and unrivaled in power. As such are designed for a single purpose. Such Devine weapons are not to be compared with mere inanimate tools of power, formed by fire and steel to be exploited at the discrediting of the gods. No, they are sentient beings, formed from the ether at great cost and sacrifice. They are masters at their craft. Brought forth only as a last resort. A heavily calculated approach harboring considerable consequences of its own, a consideration made necessary when facing inevitable destruction and mass loss of life. These weapons by nature, are created with unimaginable power as they must be superior to what the themselves cannot possess. The life of such a weapon never ending destruction paired with inevitable loss. A life full of pain and suffering, wrought with despair and seeded with revenge. The gods fear what they can not control and will attempt to dispose of the weapon after it has fulfilled its purpose. Deemed nothing more than a tool of the gods, an attempt on its life will be made. These attempts often fail and as a consequence, have a new meaning to “we have a problem”. Another equally dangerous option is to create a prison made specifically to contain the individual and once contained hide the being to the best of one’s ability. This option only seems to by one time if the being is immortal and an escape is to be expected albeit with containment time being significant. These beings are known collectively as the God Killers.

[@michaelgraalum381]

Your description of the serpent makes me envision a comet passing close to earth

[@scsarmiento9423]

Thank you for the interesting contents ! I really think that an RP course would make the sound and pronunciation a little bit more easy to understand, mainly the endings and connections with words. At the same time that it attaches certain academic air to the already interesting contents. Thank you

[@daenerystargaryen6609]

I'm always so fascinated by your topics and voice but can't follow after a few minutes.. so many gods, myths and cultures i have no foundational knowledge about and so i'm lost quickly 😭 i'll keep my subscription though, hope your channel grows and you do well! you put a lot of work in i can tell! i just can't keep up without more foundation

[@Crecganford]

I will try and make sure there is enough balance in future to allow for this. Thank you for the feedback.

[@JP-qv5yw]

Too close to the mic man And a lil background music

[@eardwulf785]

Epic

[@niallk9336]

So Kali is basically entropy ?

[@ovidelsusan9250]

Holy shit, dude! The Kali Effect 💀

[@xaikken]

Im trying so hard to listen but tbis dudes deep ass voice is putting me to sleep haha

[@CREDLACE]

Immortal. yes, but not unkillable. I think it's a pretty neat distinction from complete immortality to clarify when someone is immortal unless killed. For example, in Middle Earth the Elves are described as possessing immortality, but could find death in battle. I love these stories so much.

[@Egilhelmson]

Elves could not find death in battle, as Glorfindel demonstrated, just a separation from their original body and their spirit transferred to the Halls Of Mandos back in Valinor, where they would wait until they were willing to be recreated.

[@EmL-kg5gn]

So just like those immortal jellyfish!! Or hydra, a type of cnidarian. And possibly naked mole rats if I remember right?? It’s pretty cool that there are real animals with attributes often ascribed to gods!

[@radagast7200]

Sounds very Eldritch.