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

[@MultiSpeedMetal]

Sotha Sil is the homie

[@thenewwaydevil]

Awesome post dawg. Sotha a real gigachad.

[@Perroden]

But there are tons of absolutes. Never quote Bethesdas fake deep writing.

[@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.

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

​@@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]

@@hypermaeonyx4969she’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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@neonchronicles]

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

[@Crecganford]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@dannythebear743]

Ohhh new video! Thank you!

[@wizard4203]

Kali is my favorite deity. Your description was wonderful "Her power is inevitable because she is Time." youre goddamn right. She is the one who is unapologetically horrific, and she dances with glee at the Burning Ground, all the beings of reality dead at her feet, holding the severed head of God.

[@entropytango5348]

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

[@Crecganford]

Thank you.

[@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.

[@HIMMBelljuvo]

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

[@TheSandurz20]

Your voice is so calming, i would listen to you talk about literally anything. Luckily mythology has been a fixation of mine for over 20 years, so this is a perfect video for me.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@elizabethtowers3321]

I'm so glad I found your channel. I've been interested in all your subject matter for decades. You have the perfect voice. I sit here and listen to you and thoroughly enjoy each and every video for content and your voice. Thank you PS and I do sit here with my cup of tea.

[@Crecganford]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@DakiniDream]

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

[@DæmonV86]

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

[@timgearinjr9962]

Always great to relax on a Saturday with creccanford , thank you

[@TheAdeybob]

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

[@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👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@thewolfmanhulk2927]

Thank you for making videos like these and the mythology database and linking references. Learning and reading knowledge is the key for all humanity

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Some old favourites here, but that hundred headed beast is a new one to me! Great stuff 👍

[@Bjorn_Algiz]

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

[@aariley2]

WOOHOO! Well worth the weeklong build up!!!! I am so glad you are having so much fun doing these videos. It's hot here, had to switch it ice tea!!!

[@Crecganford]

Ice tea is perfect for hot weather.

[@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?

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

I hope you make a bookcase tour video - impressive and daunting collection!

[@bobSeigar]

I forgot to comment when watching, came back to comment. Great video as always sir. Highly appreciate your wisdom.

[@Crecganford]

I appreciate that, thank you.

[@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

[@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).

[@beachchickensmedia]

turning on subtitles is a game changer for these videos. i learn so much more!

[@Crecganford]

I do try hard to ensure my subtitles are accurate, and I'm pleased you found them useful.

[@blackheartgaming6121]

Wonderful work

[@Crecganford]

Thank you.

[@mikkel6938]

So this is the video subject you have been teasing for so long:D My expectations subverted in a good way

[@PartyofNone]

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

[@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.

[@martinbrito2668]

Your definitely good at telling stories keep up the good work mate

[@Crecganford]

Thank you, that is much appreciated.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I was so happy to finally get the answer, and we already get the video, too? _Sweet!_ Thank you! 💙💙

[@DavidNolan999]

Great video and historically accurate.

[@larsgottlieb]

'I love mythology' brought a smile to my face. You really do, it shines through every moment of these videos. I love mythology too, but I think you have a unique talent: I am pretty sure that you could make anything sound interesting. If you were reading the local weather reports from the most boring parts of Zealand, January 1928 with that level of passion, I'd be listening with rapt attention ..

[@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.

[@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!

[@pnutbteronbwlz9799]

Clarifying what you mean by God’s is important so I’m glad you did. Which is good because these mythologies make sense in their relation to themselves not each other. And some “Gods” are literally infinite absolute power that nothing could possibly be beyond.

[@KuchiKopi179]

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

[@realandrewhatfield]

Cant wait! Gotta run but putting this on my watch later list!

[@abigailbeth4461]

This man is my Bob Ross, thank you for existing

[@richhornie7000]

You should make gods' powerlevel tier list someday

[@GnosticInformant]

Crecganford is always on point.

[@Crecganford]

Cheers Neal!

[@sabithasajan5564]

This deserves a pin!

[@robbabcock_]

Truly fascinating, thanks!

[@Worn_Guide]

A calming voice, this is what grabs my attention.

[@StarlasAiko]

I am the farthest from a historian or anthropologist as one can be, but I love these videos for their instruction and inspiration for fantasy worldbuilding.

[@adempc]

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

[@nickytheanimal2413]

Cool stories bro thanks for posting

[@michaelgraalum381]

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

[@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?

[@cementos7922]

holy sh*t, that was a pleasant intro. Your voice and everything

[@derekhogan9685]

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

[@WildMen4444]

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

[@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.

[@a_diamond]

And yes, you absolutely get a sub! Great content!!❤

[@SuperSarutobisensei]

What comes to mind is Night from Greek mythology. In Samuel Butlers translation of the Iliad, Sleep refers to the past where it plotted with Hera to lull Zeus to sleep. Sleep mentioned that it was only able to survive Zeus' fury because it sought refuge from Night, whom even Zeus would not dare cross.

[@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.

[@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.

[@danahood4703]

I love your content so very much, it seems very well researched and wonderfully presented. Next time tho if you turn the mic gain down a bit, and run it through a basic limiter you should be able to turn the volume up without distortion or those mic pops. I don't think you need a separate pop filter as it might detract from your presentation. Thank you for the great content and plz continue making more!

[@Crecganford]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll see if I can make it better.

[@purpledevilr7463]

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

[@zoobee]

absolutely brilliant video as always. So fascinating and brilliantly explained

[@Crecganford]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@budfug8691]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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 👍

[@fae8edsaga]

Loved this vid

[@Crecganford]

Thank you.

[@TheNesapotamia]

A fantastic video! Thank you for sharing! Also i kept giggling at the way you saw Kali. Like she's Callie from the Valley. Unless that is the way her name is supposed to be pronounced. I'll still giggle, just a liitle more quietly so she won't hear me. 😁

[@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).

[@horasefu1438]

interesting thought: Typhon and other myths with this form were actually plasma discharges (e.g. mega lightning) from a time that had seen Earth going through a much less stable phase

[@judewarner1536]

To make sense in a mythological creation scenario, that ''much less stable phase'' would need to be coeval with Homo Sapiens. I suspect you are referring to something much more ancient.

[@juliusalimari]

Love your work!

[@Denny_Boi]

Quite interesting to think that when you boil it down, the god's greatest fears are actually just the collective fears of people. The inevitability of time, the concept of things coming to an end, loss, change and moral judgement. Funny that even when we come up with stories of immortal beings, we end up giving them mortal fears after all.

[@Thomas_H_Sears]

As early as twelve I was asking serious questions about the Bible - and getting answers pat and unconvincing - and was set on my continuing path of reading and exploration of myths, lore, religion, language, history, science -- I want to know everything. Early on, I came across Velikovsky and his attempt to refer all of mythology to actual historical events, making connections between physical events and naive descriptions of them. Typhon he describes as a giant, Earth-grazing comet - the heads and legs being the outgassings, the oceanic, volcanic and seismic disturbances involved in approach, battle and destruction as gravitational, magnetic and electrical effects of the near approach of this body. Since my introduction to his thought I have examined myths (in part) through the lens he lent me. I do not think his explanations conclusive, but I do find his questions compelling and he presents a solid bank of evidence to support his view. At core I do not believe human beings capable of inventing the cosmos from whole cloth, we experience things and being relentlessly curious, we create explanations to corral the chaos that rules the Universe. We are really good at this. Our creation myths begin in chaos and our fear of chaos stems - as do the fears of the gods - from our mutual recognition that the bindings of chaos are imaginary and as fragile as the bindings of Fenrir. My mind reels ever in this maelstrom - and I like it. Thanks for keeping it stirred up.

[@sharon_rose724]

Have you seen the current 'comet' that exploded and 'grew horns' last week? I looked up photos of 'Venus comet symbolism ' (remembering Venus was said to have a comet phase) and one of the particular Egyptian pharaoh head dresses looks exactly like that comet with the horns.

[@Thomas_H_Sears]

@@sharon_rose724 Yup - that's what I'm a-talkin' about. Who could make this shit up? All history is narrative fiction, as is religion.

[@FallenAngelZero00]

I like the attitude in this guy's voice. 👌

[@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.

[@pangelsaya]

The description of Kali makes her sound like a Dark Souls boss fucking so dope.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

buy the game

[@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]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@knexxy70]

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

[@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.

[@backseatsamurai]

Venus the goddess is also Kali the destroyer, as she changed from a beautiful sight to behold in the sky, into a destructive force of nature, causing all sorts of fire and brimstone in the sky and on earth. Electrical exchanges between mars, venus, saturn, earth, this is where mars gets its warrior god moniker, and the scar. I love these topics and know in my heart of hearts, this interpratation is the correct one, and explains all the stories of myth., when you realize the planets were the gods, literally.

[@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!

[@onlyonewhyphy]

2nd video of yours I've caught. Definitely subbing.

[@Crecganford]

Thank you, I hope you enjoy my other videos as well.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

@@Crecganford I'm sure I will

[@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.

[@fierypickles4450]

Ahh i missed your content good sir.

[@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery]

Mythology is always so Interesting. If there is a God, he couldn't make monsters, because anything God could make would be perfect, it's paradoxical

[@Crecganford]

In the Abrahamic religions maybe, but Zoroastrianism could because they believed the world was not made perfectly.