Mythology Explained

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the Lamassu, spirits who functioned as protectors and guardians in Ancient Mesopotamia. They aren't a direct antecedent of the angels found in the Abrahamic religions, but there are certainly several parallels to be drawn, namely: having wings, functioning as the protectors of humanity, being spiritual entities...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Nephele, a cloud nymph whom Zeus created in the likeness of Hera to seduce Ixion, a man infatuated with Hera. This was contrived as a test Ixion failed spectacularly, and his lust and lack of scruples earned him a permanent vacation in Tartarus, bound to a spinning flaming wheel for all of eternity. Let's get in...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the seven heavenly virtues. What virtues constituted the seven heavenly virtues changed over time, so we're going to begin with the first iteration and continue on through to the version that's still predominant today in Christianity. Let's get into it. The seven heavenly virtues can be broken down into two grou...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss all 12 of the elder Titans, the 12 first-generation Titans born to Gaia and Uranus Let's get into it. Starting us off is CronusIn Hesiod's theogony, the 12 first-generation Titans are the eldest children of Gaia, the personification of the earth, and of Uranus, the personification of the sky. After them were bor...

00:00 - start01:16 - Mesopotamia05:39 - Egypt07:50 - Noah's Ark09:50 - Greek & Norse10:41 - Ancient Mesopotamian Flood MythsHey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video we're going to discuss the Great Flood, tracking down its origin and looking at several versions of it manifest in various mythologies and religions. We're going to begin with ancient Mesopotamia, at why the great...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Tithonus, a man cursed with immortality, but not with agelessness, so that there was no limit to how frail and feeble he could become, deteriorating endlessly. Let's get into it. Barring people condemned to unending torture in Tartarus, perhaps no one, with the exception of Prometheus, suffered more greatly than...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the three sons of Zeus who, had they reached adulthood, would have become more powerful than their father, who would have succeeded Zeus, either claiming the crown by force or ascending to the throne with their father's blessing. Let's get into it. In Greek mythology, from the beginning creation when Chaos, the...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Geb, the god of who personified the earth in Egyptian mythology, the Egyptian counterpart of Gaia, the goddess of the earth in Greek mythology. Let's get into it. Geb was one of the most important and one of the most powerful gods in Egyptian mythology. Geb's iconography almost always has him depicted in human f...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Asclepius, the greatest healer in all of Greek mythology. He was the son of Apollo, the god of healing, trained in the healing arts by the immortal centaur Chiron, and though he brought much good into the world with his restorative power, he would eventually be killed by Zeus, who believed that the powers Asclep...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In Today's video, we're going to discuss the 12 Olympians gods, the 12 greatest gods who lived in Olympus, the abode of the gods, which was located in Thessaly atop Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in all of Greece. (There's also some information that suggests Olympus was suspended in the sky high above the earth and its mountains.) The entrance of...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the Hecatonchires, a monstrous trio of giants boasting superlative size and strength, each of them with 50 heads and 100 arms. Their names were Briareus ("The Mighty One"), Cottus ("Wrathful One"), and Gyges ("Son of the Earth"). They were imprisoned deep within Gaia for an age, were instrumental in bringing abo...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Asmodeus: one of the most nefarious and notorious demons in Hell's hierarchy, a malevolent entity that blights marriages, killing husbands or compelling husbands into the arms of other women, and robs virgins of their beauty and chastity, one of the seven princes of hell who personify the seven deadly sins, him...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the Antichrist. We're going to dive into a treatise written in the 10th century that details that Antichrist's entire life; it was a seminal work, and though short, it's packed with information, taking from scripture, of course, but also many other works written by philosophers and theologians in previous centur...

0:00 2:30 Nyx's House5:00 Nyx's Children6:02 Nyx in the Iliad9:59 Nyx Vs ZeusHey everyone, welcome to Mythology explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Nyx, a primordial deity and the personification of night, one of the most powerful goddesses, if not the most powerful goddess, in all of Greek mythology. First, we're going to look at what Greek mythology has to say about Nyx, which ca...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video we're going to discuss the five races (gold, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron) of humanity as they are laid out in one of the myths of Greek mythology. Let's get into it. In Greek mythology, there are 3 myths about the creation of humanity: one where the Titan Prometheus is the creator, one involving a man and a woman who throw stones...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss who Cratos really is in Greek mythology. We're going to start off with a quick overview of the video game character who shares the same name for those unfamiliar with him, and then we're going to cover virtually everything there is to say about Cratos, the Greek god of strength, which is far more feasible than i...

Welcome to Mythology Explained. Today, we're going to be discussing the Goddess that served as the inspiration behind the name for the popular sporting brand- NIKE.When we hear the name 'Nike' the first image that pops in to the minds of most is the symbolic 'swoosh' that so effectively represents Nike's brand. But what if I told you that some people picture something completely different- they pi...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the nine Kings of Hell. We're going to examine each king one at a time, but before we dive into these nine malignant, maleficent, and malevolent masters, we're going to start off with a quick preface that speaks to the source on which this video is based, and to the many conceptualizations that define the demoni...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Yggdrasil, the World Tree: all the animals and monsters who live in it, how it's kept alive, how it fits into the grand structure of the universe, what it is, and what it represents. Let's get into it. Yggdrasil, the name of the World Tree, is a compound word. 'Ygg', means something like 'terrible one', one of O...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the Eye of Ra: the most powerful force in Egyptian Mythology in terms of destructive power and the goddess from whose tears humanity was created. Let's get into it. In the time of the Ancient Egyptians, the word for eye was 'irt', and it was a homophone for the word meaning 'doing' or 'acting', quite appropriate...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss the Norns, the Norse Fates, a group of entities quite similar to the Moirai, the three Greek goddesses of fate. The Norns determined the fate of each person at the moment of their birth, and they dutifully nourished one of the three roots of the world tree with well water, keeping its trunk, branches, and leaves...

Thumbnail photo by KELLEPICS https://pixabay.com/users/kellepics-4893063/Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Ymir: the first person to draw breath in all of Norse mythology, no other god, giant, monster, or creature of any sort existing before him; a giant so colossal in size that the blood that gushed from his wounds nearly drowned the entire fro...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss an interesting story that features in the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a work produced in the 14th century that compiles a multitude of apocryphal works, culminating in an extensive biblical history that spans from the creation of the universe by God to the death of Judas Maccabee. One of the stories tells of heaven...

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video we're going to discuss the 10 most Powerful goddesses in Greek mythology. Let us know in the comments if you agree with the selection, and if you don't, tell us who you would have included instead. Let's get into it. Starting us off is Nyx. Nyx was the Personification of night and one of the first-generation primordial deities. Like Ga...

Welcome to Mythology Explained. Today, we're going to discuss Rasputin: certainly a historical personage, not a figment of mythology, but his life was so strange and sordid that he has become something of a modern mythological figure, especially as a perennial feature of popular culture through a tide of books written and movies made after his death. He rose from humble beginnings, a lowly illiter...