Greek Gods & Monsters Explained (COMPILATION #2)

0:00 there are surprisingly few unambiguous villains in Greek mythology we mostly see messy conflicts between parties of gods and or Noble blooded Mortals operating on a very different moral Paradigm than that of most modern-day people and then there's tyen the giant screaming monster made of snakes whose exclusive goal in life is to violently overthrow the gods and plunge the universe into chaos we can safely call this guy problematic most classical sources tell us that tyen was The Offspring of Gaia the primordial Earth goddess and Tartarus the pit that makes up the lowest reaches of the Greek Cosmos and Gaia sent their son to usurp the Olympians as revenge for their subjugation of her Titan children which they did because the Titans were subjugating her Cyclops and hecog children Gaia isn't very good at making

0:45 her kids get along and I haven't even made a video on the gigant Tamaki yet but according to homeric hymn number three to Apollo and also the poet stessa corus apparently tyen was actually immaculately conceived by Zeus's wife Hera The Story Goes she was ticked off at her husband for giving birth to Athena from his head so to get back at him she decided to give birth to a kid of her own who would be even stronger than Zeus interestingly this mirrors the birth of aestus told in Hees od's theoy except in that one instead of an apocalyptic monster she just had a kind of ugly baby in Greek mythology monsters are usually conceived of as perversions of nature you might take a person or an animal and give it immense size additional heads or Limbs and maybe slap on some traits from other creatures tyen is all those ideas cranked up to 11 he's the large of all gaia's Giant children

1:31 he's got hundreds of Limbs all made out of screaming serpents and Dragons he's got Wings he spits fire he's the ultimate most monstrous monster of all Monster kind so as you can imagine tyen didn't have a very wide dating pool so he paired up with a kidna no not that Akida and definitely not that one I mean AK kidna the half-woman half serpent daughter of the Sea Gods forcus and cedo and from her and typhan loin spring some of the most notable monsters in Greek mythology many of them you'll remember from The Adventures of our boy Heracles who I made three videos about like comment subscribe there's Cerberus the three-headed dog of the Underworld the leran Hydra a serpent that grows two heads for each one cut off and if you've heard of a different version of the Hydra I made a video about that the nimian lion with its impenetrable though unfortunately not strangle prooof Pelt orthus the two-headed dog who guarded

2:18 the red cattle of garion and the hyperian dragon which guarded the golden apples they also beg got the chimra a fire breathing monster with the combined body of a lion a goat and a dragon which was trained by a guy named amod to terrorize the countryside and its livestock and that was a real move by amodis I have no idea what his deal was it would eventually be slain by the hero bifan son of Poseidon riding on the winged horse Pegasus classical art and literature just have him spearing The cimera or capping it with arrows but the later 12 Century medieval poet John setes describes a much more interesting battle by the way shout out to Publius kovos naso from the op Discord for translating this passage to English that was extremely helpful he describes bapan being unable to pierce the skin of the camar so he attaches a piece of lead to the tip of his Spear and melts it over

3:03 the monster's flaming breath then the molten lead drips into the cima's mouth and solidifies inside killing it you've probably heard this version of the story before and may have thought it came straight from ancient Greece it is possible that CET John was working with a now lost Greek or Roman Source in the same passage he mentions another detail to the story which he attributes to lus but given that as far as I can tell there's not even any classical art depicting this version of the story I'm leaning towards it being a evil invention if anyone has more information though please let me know I find it super neat when myths evolve beyond their classical sources and then become so ingrained that we don't even notice hey it's Jake from the future uh I got bored by the way and I'm almost done editing this video but I was just informed that there's actually an earlier Source mentioning the story with the molten lead it's from a 6th Century commentary

3:50 on the works of Gregory of nanis who was the Archbishop of Constantinople in the 4th Century so it's possible that that version of The cimara Myth originated in very very late Pagan tradition but it's still pretty inconclusive So yeah thank you people of the OSP Discord for being extremely helpful for my videos another child of Typhon and aido was the Sphinx a winged half woman half lion creature who prayed on the people of Thieves who failed to guess the answer to her Riddle That is until edus managed to solve it and she decided to die and then there was the Caucasian Eagle which Zeus would send to torment Prometheus for stealing fire Caucasian as in it was from the Caucasus region not Caucasian like you know me and that's just to name a few someone get a kidna mom of the Year award and a nap and so after tyen was done with all that procreating he

4:36 barreled up to Olympus to make battle with Zeus and when this happened some of the later sources tell us that the other gods were scared so they ran away to Egypt and disguised themselves as animals Hermes disguised as an Ibis Apollo a hawk Artemis was a cat Etc and I just find that to be a very cute attempt at explaining helenistic syncretism anyway Zeus came at tyen wielding the adamant sickle once used by his father cronis but then surprised tyen kicked Zeus's ass took the sickle and cut out all his muscle senu rendering him unable to move remember most Greek gods can't die so you need to get creative if you want to depose them this would have marked a permanent end to Zeus's Reign except Hermes and pan came to the rescue and stole back his Senus allowing for the two adversaries to have a rematch and while researching sources for this story I found a fun but

5:22 obscure exerpt from second century poet opion where pan then lures tython with a banquet of fish allowing Zeus to jump in for a surprise attack and I thought that was hilarious so I'm including it here now the final fate of tyen differs depending on the source heot has Zeus strike him with his Thunderbolt sending him down into Tartarus for all of eternity except he can still annoy people with wind apparently but others like escalus say that Zeus took Mount Etna and threw it on top of tyen pinning him underneath and to this day he's trapped there spewing fire from the Mountain's Peak this obviously serving as an ideological myth explaining Mount Etna's High volcanic activity the fate of typhon's Lady Love AK kidna also varies if you ask heot her Divine Heritage made her Immortal and she just chills in her cave most of the time not too shabby but according to the hym to Apollo the same that puts Hera as

6:08 typhon's mother Akida wasn't so lucky that Source tells of how Apollo shot her with an arrow sending her into a rolling fit of Agony until she died and rotted away in the hot sun that I got to admit is pretty shabby that's too bad for her I see a whole lot of confusion on the internet surrounding the Gorgon Medusa from classical mythology regarding her personal background and what her story is meant to represent now most people understand that myths were originally transmitted through oral tradition and therefore there's no definitive version of Any Given story or character mythology evolves and branches off with each generation and that process continues to this day I'll be honest though it kind of bugs me how uncritical most people are when they encounter a variant of a myth that they're unfamiliar with or that contradicts the one they know more often than not they

6:53 simply shrug off their Confusion by saying huh I guess that's just a different version of the story but that could mean a whole lot of different things depending on what cultural context a myth variant originated in with classical mythology that could be anywhere from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire and Beyond those periods people have continued to iterate revise and spin-off classical mythology into the modern day distinguishing the time and place a variant came from matters because that knowledge affects how we view the real people who lived there so in explaining Medusa I want to carefully track her Evolution over the years step by step the oldest traces of the Gorgon appear in prehistoric aan art and when I say old I mean old the earliest gorgonian that is a depiction of a gorgon's face without a body is a ceramic mask found in thessy which dates back to sometime between 5,800 to 5,300

7:42 BC several Millennia before any of our classical mythological sources this Visage as adorable as it is might not remind you too strongly of Medusa but its defining traits bulging eyes flaring nostrils and a wide open mouth belong to a pattern seen throughout prehistoric aene artwork leading up to the archaic Gorgon this is the type of Gorgon we see in the Greek Archaic Period a woman with a wide face sporting almost comically grotesque features including a beard tusks aing tongue as well as snakes in her hair and wings the gorgonian is probably the most striking image seen all throughout archaic Greek artwork unlike most characters whose faces are shown in side profile the Gorgon is looking straight forward seemingly staring through the fourth wall at the viewer it was believed that its intense gaze warded off evil so gorgonia appear all over the place on architecture

8:28 Pottery Cor Co Shields amulets and other common items my personal favorite are the Bulls with faces at the bottom so when you finish your meal you get a spooky surprise side note surprisingly the words gorgon and gargoyle do not have a shared atmology even though they sound similar and basically serve the same function I just thought that was neat and worth mentioning anyway regarding the mythology of the gorgens and archaic Greece in he od's theoy the Sea Gods forus and cedo are the parents of the three sisters stino U and Medusa the latter of whom was Mortal unlike her deathless sister heot also says that Medusa had sex with the god Poseidon quote in a soft Meadow among spring flowers this imagery May strike you as surprisingly romantic as far as we can tell this was a mutually consensual Affair it's important to keep in mind

9:13 however that this is heod AKA the women are the source of all human suffering guy telling the story as is unfortunately often the case with the many sexual Affairs of Greek mythology we can't be entirely certain whether or not the woman was a willing participant because the male writer probably didn't consider that an important enough detail to clarify regardless from Poseidon Medusa conceives the winged horse Pegasus and the less well-known winged Bor chor who are birthed from her neck after she's decapitated by the hero Perseus Homer meanwhile describes his version of the Gorgon as a bodyless monster from Hades whose face is brandished on the AIS a shield or goatskin garment used by Zeus and Athena to incite fear in their enemies Homer also mentions pereus but never anything about his quest to retrieve Medusa's head so it's possible that this story

10:00 never reached him it's generally thought that Homer lived slightly before Hees OD but there's no hard evidence for when exactly either of them were born they both probably lived sometime in the 8th Century BC and may very well have been contemporaries as for where they lived Homer is believed to be from the island of Ionia close to modern-day turkey while hiad was from biosa in Mainland Greece So based on their distance from each other you can see how they could have been working with considerably different mythological Traditions another side note I surprisingly had trouble finding references from this era to the idea that looking at a gorgon's face turns you to Stone there's a recurring notion that the gorgon's Gaze could incite Terror or even strike you dead and some of the earliest art of pereus shows him turning his head away while decapitating Medusa so he clearly

10:45 had reason to avoid making eye contact with her but specifically regarding petrification the earliest quotation I could find was from pindar in the fth century BC describing how Perseus brought Medusa's head wreathed in its serpent locks to strike Stony death on the Islanders I'm not super clear whether that was an intentional pun or just a fancy choice of words that were later Taken literally but by at least the 3r century BC we start to see explicit references to the gorgon's petrification powers anyway so the archaic Gorgon is unambiguously a monster but that perception started to change as the years went on as we move into the Classical period we see a greater and greater emphasis on idealized representations of the human body in art and not even some monsters could escape this broad stylistic shift

11:32 think about every fantasy setting you've seen where male Orcs look like Dave Batista if he ate another Dave Batista meanwhile the female Orcs are Victoria Secret models with underbites turns out that's nothing new The Classical period Gorgon which became the dominant representation through the rest of antiquity takes on a more ideally feminine form with all her typical grotesque features Stripped Away leaving a conventionally pretty woman with just snake hair and maybe Wings this style of Gorgon also comes off as notably more passive depictions of Perseus and Medusa have him attacking her in her sleep and many gorgonia are now looking bashfully off to the side as opposed to giving a more assertive front-facing Stare this shift gave rise to a much more sympathetic take on Medusa's story first seen in avid's Metamorphosis in avid's version Medusa was originally a human

12:18 woman with beautiful hair but after being assaulted by the god Neptune in manura Temple the goddess punished her by turning her hair into snakes though this new backstory seems to be entirely an invention of AIDS as a work of fiction it's since been incorporated into the broader Medusa Mythos so while Medusa originated as a monster meant to instill fear as her story evolved it became impossible for us now to view her as anything but a tragic victim she was an innocent woman who was assaulted by a man unjustly punished for it by another woman and then killed in her sleep by some random guy it's no surprise then that Medusa's story resonated strongly with members of the second wave feminist movement and the gorgonian once again became used as a protective symbol now specifically for women her grotesque Visage representing Rage Against the

13:04 Injustice she suffered and at some point after Medusa's adoption as a feminist symbol a new interpretation emerged of Aid's backstory where manura transformed her not as a twisted form of victim blaming punishment but rather as a gift with the ability to turn men to Stone Medusa would be safe from unwanted lust but tragically this new found strength only turned her into a target for pereus who killed her to take the power for himself I I don't actually know where this particular modern revision came from as far as I can tell it's been circulating on the internet for the past several years if anyone knows who first introduced it let me know in the comments Medusa is a perfect example of how mythology continuously evolves even to this day and each addition to her story makes her a more and more interesting character however I think we should be careful not to be so fixated

13:50 on her most recent iteration that we lose sight of her rich history each iteration of Medusa is a reflection of the people who helped form her from Pro red pill inhad to 20th century feminist writer Alana uh I don't know if I can say her name on YouTube so there's this neat thing called syncretism that happens in polytheistic religions where similar Gods from different cultures can over years of exchange merge into one figure and when two Gods combine with each other so do their family trees and so when you have centuries of exchange between patriarchal societies each of whom have their own Chief god with his own far-reaching Royal lineage well you you get Zeus or at least this is one popular explanation for why he has such a hard time keeping

14:37 it in his tunic Zeus of course had a number of children with his Queen wife Hara most notably Aries the God of War blood lust and courage Aries wasn't exactly Zeus's favorite Offspring in fact Homer put Zeus on record saying his ass would have been kicked out of Olympus if he wasn't his son but while he was certainly a fearsome God and from what we can tell relatively unpopular in cult worship he still has his role as a deity as we see in homeric hymn number8 to Aries where he's called on to Grant courage and victory to those in turmoil Zeus and Hera also had a daughter named althia goddess of childbirth when the hero Heracles was about to be born Zeus announced that the next male born of his line would rule as king over his homeland but Hera never a big fan of her husband's loved children commanded althia to prolong alchin's labor long enough so that Urus another descendant

15:23 of Zeus could be born first thus stealing Heracles his Birthright Zeus and Hera's other daughter was he her name literally means Youth and as cup bearer of the Olympians she represented the God's Eternal youthfulness after Heracles ascended to godhood Hera offered him hee's hand in marriage as a peace offering to end their long-running Feud also according to pseudo apollodorus Zeus and Hera were the parents of the Craftsman God hephestus however other sources say he was immaculately conceived by Hera after Zeus birth Athena I made other videos going into detail on each of those Gods births now if we look outside of wedlock Zeus of course has many many many more kiddos one notable love affair of Zeus's was that with the thean princess semile with whom he conceived the god dionisis despite his best efforts to hide his

16:09 leery Hera of course found out about semile and went to her in Disguise under Hera's advice she made Zeus swear an oath to Grant her one wish and then demanded that he Court her in the way he would with his Godly wife needless to say Zeus's full-on God form was a bit much for her to handle and she died a fright and was vaporized by his lightning luckily those Zeus snatched up their fetus son dionis and stuck him inside his leg to finish baking now dionis is a complicated god with a lot of disconnected myths from various localized Cults but pseudo apollodorus attempted to arrange some of these myths to form a coherent Narrative of the God's early career after dionis was born from Zeus's leg he was sent to be raised by a king and queen named IO and aamus until Hera drove them into a child murdering frenzy so Zeus turned dionis

16:56 into a kid the goat kind not the human kind and brought him to live with some nymphs on a far away mountain called Nisa other sources state that this was actually his original birthplace likely as an attempt to atomize his name as meaning God of Nisa as a young God his first accomplishment was of course inventing wine but soon afterward Hara struck him mad she really likes doing that and he spent the next several years traveling around the world partying starting mystery Cults and sending people into murderous frenzies teenagers always have their phases at one point he was kidnapped by some Pirates so to escape he Unleashed otherworldly Horrors upon them and then turned them into Dolphins after this episode he was finally recognized as a God and took his place among the Olympians another hookup of Zeus's was with the Titan goddess Leo but when Leo was in labor with the twin Gods Artemis and Apollo Hera of course

17:43 made it her mission to make her life as difficult as possible and forbid any land from letting her give birth there after wandering for a while she ended up on the island of Doos where she was finally accepted but her trouble wasn't over yet because Hera also distracted althia from leaving Olympus to Grant Leo's children children birth so Leo's labor persisted for nine nights until the messenger goddess Iris showed up to tell althia her Services were needed and finally the gods emis and Apollo were born Apollo was quite a well-rounded God his talents included music archery medicine oracular prophecy and being a huge Apollo's first notable accomplishment was slaying python a giant serpent guarding the Oracle of Deli after which he became the patron deity of the Sacred region of deli and the highest God of Prophecy another notable Escapade of his was his music contest with the Sader Marcus the

18:29 goddess Athena invented the flute but when she realized she looked silly while playing it she tossed it away when Marcus found it he went to Apollo and challenged him to a contest where the winner could do whatever he wanted to the loser Apollo then flipped the flute and played it upside down a feat which Marcus couldn't hope to match and Apollo was the clear winner but don't worry I'm sure Marcia got off easy we also can't forget Apollo's Many Many Loves like Daphne who didn't exactly reciprocate his affection and while running from his advances asked Zeus to turn her into a laurel tree or Apollo's boyfriend hin who unfortunately died in a tragic frisbee accident Apollo isn't great at maintaining long-term relationships this of course didn't stop him from being by far one of the most popular gods in the entire Greek pantheon popular enough even to apparently steal other gods jobs remember what I mentioned about

19:15 syncretism well early tradition identifies Helios as a distinct God who drives his Sun Chariot across the sky each day as time goes on however we start to see his role taken up by Apollo with Helios either considered an elder Titan God who was replaced or an alternate form of Apollo himself then of course there was Apollo's twin sister Artemis who was a bit more of a black sheep as a child she asked for her father Zeus's permission to never marry and went to live in the forest with her Entourage of galp Pals interpret that how you will her passion in life was hunting but her main duty as a deity was to be a patron and protector of young women until their marriage and to give Aid to women and childbirth emus usually didn't have a great relationship with men once a hunter named atrian spied on her while she was bathing when she noticed him she transformed him into a

20:00 stag and then his hunting dogs tore him apart she did however make friends with Orion the giant son of Poseidon who could walk on water unfortunately their friendship didn't last long according to heod Orion was such a good hunter that the Earth goddess Gaia got angry and sent a giant scorpion to kill him however in a much later version from the astronomica it said that Artemis loved Orion so much she considered breaking her vow never to marry to prevent this Apollo took her out to shore while Orion was strolling far out into the sea and was like hey I bet you can't hit that ambiguous large object far off in the Horizon oh just you wait bucko ow I'm artemis' best friend Orion and now I'm dead I feel so betrayed blah what have I done so yeah I guess both those siblings have crappy love lives and that's just to name a very small

20:46 portion of Zeus's Offspring I actually wanted to cover a lot more in this video but I'm a bit pressed for time right now because there are some other projects I'm eager to get started on over the next couple months I'm glad though I was able to introduce you to a couple new Gods as well as revisit some older ones in more thorough detail and thankfully there's still plenty more material I can work with for a future video on this subject because Zeus um well he's Zeus so I got some things wrong in my last couple videos and I figure I should acknowledge them cuz like Integrity or whatever in my Medusa video I said Homer was from the island of Ionia which is a dubious claim considering there is no island called Ionia this is the Greek island of kios which was home to a municipality called Ionia until 2011

21:32 when it was dissolved in an administrative reform but that's beside the point because this isn't even the Ionia where Homer is believed to be from that would have been this whole coastal region of Western turkey where several Greek city states existed in the Archaic Period this region did actually include kios for what that's worth so it's not implausible that Homer lived there specifically I'm going to give myself half credit for that one another mistake I made in that video was spelling Pegasus pagus obviously that was just a typo that slipped under my nose a pretty reasonable mistake however in my video on Zeus's kids I made a complete and utter blunder with my description of Apollo's music contest with marcius I said that Apollo won by flipping Marcus's flute and playing it upside down but in the original myth he actually played his liar backwards you

22:18 know the instrument I drew him to be constantly playing and then he challenged Marcus to do the same with his flute which obviously he couldn't do it clearly says liar in the quote that I copy paste pasted from pseudo apollodorus Library so I I don't have an excuse every time I've read this story I've just mentally processed it as Apollo playing the flute because I guess it just made more sense to me that if they were doing a music contest they'd be playing the same instrument and I realize it's physically impossible to play the double flute upside down like where would your mouth even go but I thought that was the point cuz Apollo is a God so he can just do whatever he wants even if it doesn't make sense and that's why Marcia shouldn't have done a hubris but no it turns out he was doing something actually clever and I was doing something stupid cuz I can't read I'm 5 years old I pee my pants every day I'm a baby The Olympian God Hermes was

23:05 conceived by Zeus and Maya the daughter of the Titan god Atlas according to homeric hymn number four to Hermes Maya was shy and gave birth to her son alone in a cave in a mountain called Selen Hermes was a little rascal right from the start and soon after being born busted out of his swaddling and wandered outside there he saw a tortoise which he killed and used to invent the liar after a quick jam session Hermes then set out to the region of Pia where the cattle of his half brother Apollo grazed he made soft sandals to hide his Footprints and then drove 50 of Apollo's cattle away from their pasture having them walk backwards to make them harder to track on his way Hermes passed by an old man tending to his Vineyard and made a polite bribe SL threat to buy his silence then Hermes hid the cows away near the river alfos but not before

23:51 sacrificing two and spreading their hides on rocks he then returned home and slipped back into his swaddling clothes son were you just up to some cunning Mischief no I'm going to get smited aren't I the next day Apollo realized some of his cattle were missing and set to searching for them he came upon the same old man and asked him if he'd seen anything and stuck between the wrath of a vindictive God and the wrath of a vindictive God he decided to snitch on Hermes Apollo then showed up in Maya's cave and demanded a confession from Hermes or else he'd be tossed into Tartarus but Hermes was just like what I didn't steal any cows I'm just a Whittle baby I don't even know what a cow is T Apollo wasn't buying this so the two brothers went up to Olympus for Zeus to judge their case Hermes managed to Better Call Saul his way out of self-incrimination much to Zeus's

24:36 Amusement nonetheless he commanded Hermes to show Apollo where he hid the cattle without any more trickery as the brothers arrived at the river alfos Apollo saw the two hides left from Hermes sacrifice and became a little freaked out imagining how strong Hermes would become if he could already skin two whole Cows as a newborn baby so Apollo attempted to tie Hermes up with two Branch wives only for him to pull his Uno reverse card and command the branches to grow and encircle the cattle then in order to pacify the situation Hermes busted out his liar and started playing some sick Tunes whoa those are some sick Tunes you can have all these cows if you give me that instrument and so Hermes gave Apollo the liar in exchange for the cattle and the two quickly became besties for life and Hermes became the messenger of the Olympian gods as well as of Hades and a

25:22 patron to Travelers herders Messengers thieves and all others who eduse the roads even the dead on their way to the afterlife life now you're probably familiar with the story of the birth of Aphrodite as first told by heod where cronis leader of the Titans castrated his father Uranus and flung his sever genitals into the ocean this produced foam which over time formed into the goddess who then washed up on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus this is by far the most well-known myth of Aphrodite's origin however other sources including none other than Homer believed her to actually be yet another daughter of Zeus and the Titan goddess Di in a way Aphrodite could be considered one of the most powerful Olympians as she had the ability to inspire ravenous lust in all of the Gods the only ones outside of her influence

26:08 were the maiden goddesses Athena Artemis and Hestia each of whom vowed never to marry clearly she got a real kick out of making Zeus in particular fall in love with Mortals I mean I had to start this multi-part video series just to cover some of his most famous kids after all but one time Zeus decided to turn the tables on her in homeric hymn number five to afex he made her fall madly in love with a handsome Trojan man named anisis now you may find yourself asking wait how does Zeus have the power to do that if he's not a love God and well this story is a good example of why terms like God of love god of the sky God of whatever aren't always useful in general I wouldn't think of gods as having a set of super specific Powers exclusive to their domains in practice Gods can bend the laws of nature however

26:53 they want and their God of EX tile is more of an indicator of the ways they use usually choose to exercise their abilities what I'm saying is Greek gods aren't like Pokémon anyway Aphrodite was super down bad for anisis but didn't want to be seen lusting after her mortal so she disguised herself as a human and went to him claiming to be a Frisian princess Petro to him by order of Hermes however after they finished doing the thing that gets YouTube videos demonetized she revealed her true Godly form to anisis and told him she would bear his son the Trojan hero anas and place him in the care of the mountain nymphs for the first 5 years of his life before being returned to his father but should anisis ever tell someone that he a mere mortal begot a son by the goddess Aphrodite he'd get the living smited out of him so anisis probably

27:40 didn't appreciate that someone wrote a him about this story Aphrodite had a number of other lovers both mortal and Immortal but she still can't hold a candle to Zeus's body count probably partially because Zeus was even willing to hook up with his own siblings not just his Queen wife Hera but also demer goddess of the Harvest the two of had panie who was then betrothed to her uncle Hades I covered that classic story in another video panie is often called goddess of spring but that's another misleading title it's really her mother who ushers in springtime when she returns from the underworld each year Pan's primary role based on Surviving evidence was as Queen of the underworld in mythology we often see her passing judgment on Mortals sometimes showing favor to Heroes like Heracles and orus who ventured into the underworld on

28:26 daring quests or imposing Eternal punishment on those who disrespected her in life like pus who had his ass permanently stuck to a stone for attempting to seduce the goddess now it was also with panie his own daughter that Zeus decided to take his sexual depravity a step further and conceived the orphic God zagas yes that zagas he was an extremely obscure God most closely associated with the oric Cults and very little was written about him which is easy to understand the chief God committing double incest probably would have been a little too much for mainstream helenic culture to swallow and that's saying something though for what it's worth there's one early fragmentary Source claiming his father was actually Hades which super giant gladly took and ran with most surviving

29:11 accounts of zagas come at the very tail end of classical Antiquity as polytheism was fading away in the Greek and Roman world and in these sources there's clear influence from the Egyptian Osirus myth which probably came into play during the helenistic period the most detailed Source covering zagas is the dianos a fifth century epic poem by nonis which seems to stitch together various earlier accounts in an attempt to form a coherent Narrative of the God's life how well this reconstructed narrative actually reflects oric tradition I have no idea our tale begins with panie hidden away in a cave by her mother to protect her from suitors Zeus however took on the form of a serpent and snuck inside to assault her and then she gave birth to zagas as a baby zagas climbed onto Zeus's Olympian Throne brand ising

29:58 Thunderbolts a clear Omen he was destined to inherit his father's status as king of the Gods this was of course a major threat to Hera who would be replaced as Zeus's highest consort if another woman bore her husband's Heir so she goed the Titans into doing away with the kid they disguised their faces with chalk and then went to the godling distracting him with toys and then once zagas let his guard down the Titans chopped him up into pieces Zeus then took his son's torn up heart and mixed it into a drink and gave it to semile who then conceived dianis and now if you're curious about zagar's sister melano also a child of Zeus and pany you can check out this other video I've already made hey I'm pretty good at this YouTube algorithm thing so the heroic Bard Orpheus was the son of the Muse kopy and oagis king of thce though there

30:46 were also Traditions that claimed his father was the Olympian god Apollo Orpheus was the greatest music of his time able to spell by not just humans with his liar but also plants animals and even inanimate rocks his skills were invaluable to Jason and the Argonauts who he accompanied on their journey to retrieve the Golden Fleece I'll probably make a video about those Adventures at some point before the heat death of the universe he also was said to have visited Egypt and learned the secret rights of dionis which he then brought back to Greece and formed the orphic mystery Cults this story was probably created to explain perceived similarities between Greek and Egyptian cult worship of course by far the most famous story involving Orphus was of his love for his late wife uicy unfortunately Greek writers like diodorus culus and pseudo apollodorus

31:33 only give us short summaries of this myth the best and most detailed classical account comes from the Roman poet Avid on the day of Orpheus and ury's wedding Orpheus invited the marriage God Heyman don't laugh to attend but once arriving he couldn't manage to light his ceremonial torch signaling bad Omens for the bride and groom shortly after the wedding Ury was walking in the grass with her niad gal Pals when she got bit on the ankle by a Viper and immediately dropped dead orus was utterly crushed by the loss of his wife and after realizing that his mourning would never end so long as they were separated he resolved to get her back he traveled all the way into the underworld and came before Hades and pany or I guess it would have been dispat and purpa cuz Avid was Roman orus then performed a passionate song

32:19 pleading with Hades to return idy to the world of the living reasoning that since all humans must spend eternity in the Underworld allowing them a few more fleeting years together shouldn't make much of a difference to the god of the dead he also alluded to dis and procer Pena's own romance to hopefully tug on the heartstrings a little his song was so moving that all the tormented spirits of Tartarus stopped to listen and not even the furies could hold back tears D then decided to allow Ury to leave the underworld with her husband but not without a condition Orphus would have to lead the way back to the surface with his back to ticy at all times and should he at any point in their Journey turn around to look at her she would have to return to the Underworld the two of them traveled silently all the way to the threshold between the lands of the

33:06 living and dead but just as he was about to pass through orus was overtaken by a sudden fear that Ury had fallen behind and gotten lost and he turned around only to watch his beloved wife disappear again into the Shadows of the underworld this time for good wallowing in a brand new wave of depression orus decided to officially swear off relationships with women and instead focused his affections toward young boys God to love those ancient Greeks imagine getting so redpilled you become a pedophile anyway 3 years after the loss of uriy Orphus put on an angsty concert for the local Forest creatures singing of handsome young men loved by the gods and women who were punished by the gods for their lustfulness in doing so he attracted the

33:51 attention of a group of Mayon ads female worshippers of dionisis who in their bokic frenzy became enraged at orus for rejecting the love of women and tore him apart and in death his soul returned to the underworld to permanently reunite with Ury making for a beautifully bittersweet ending to this tale so can we talk about that whole pedophile phase you went through so the first king of the Gods was Uranus the sky yes I choose to pronounce his name like that his mom wife was guia the earth and they had a bunch of kids together namely the many limed hecatonchires the oneeyed cyclopes and the more or less normal looking Titan Gods Uranus tossed his Cyclops and heat tonery children into tardus because of their ugliness much to gaia's dismay so Gaia gave her Titan son cronis a

34:38 sickle so he could chop off his dad's junk and become the new king of the Gods and set his siblings free but once released cronis saw them and said oh wow you guys really are ugly as never mind and sent them right back to tardus so then Gaia helped the Olympian gods free their uncles and usurp their father but once Zeus was in charge he tossed the Titan into Tartarus and Gaia said okay apparently I haven't made it clear enough that I don't want to see any of my kids imprisoned in a primordial Abyss that's kind of been the whole idea behind these Divine rebellions but I guess no one got that now according to the Greek poet heod when Uranus was castrated some drops of schlong blood landed on the earth and from these Gaia eventually gave birth to the Giants then in sudo apollodorus narrative she sent

35:23 these Giants to usurp the Olympians the gods received a prophecy that the Giants could only be defeated with the help of a mortal hero so they Enlisted the aid of Heracles and set out to do battle the giant alionas was invincible due to a totally broken healing buff as long as he was within the land of his birth so under Athena's advice Heracles picked him up and brought him over the borders of Pina where he died the giant piron Was Defeated when Zeus made him fall in love with his wife Hera and while distracted he got his ass smited by a thunderbolt poison arrow combo attack Heracles also teamed up with Apollo to kill the giant eales dionisis bonked uros with his staff HEC burned cletos with her torches and hephestus yeed some hot iron at Mimis Athena skinned the god Palace to create armor for her battle

36:09 with the giant en colados though this act alone was apparently enough for him to nope out of the fight so she tossed the island of Sicily on top of him po bodis also was pinned under the island of neron thrown by Poseidon Hermes took Hades cap of invisibility and took out the giant hpus with a stealth attack Artemis shot gradon and even the Fate stepped into the ring to help kill agrias and thas the rest were killed by Zeus and Heracles this wasn't the last time the gods would have to deal with giants though one time a thelan princess named edia fell in love with Poseidon and the two of them hooked up and conceived Sons named Otis and epiales no relation to the epiales from earlier these two brothers quickly grew to massive size reaching over 50 ft in height by the time they were 9 years old they were also strong enough to defeat

36:55 Aries who they bound and stuffed ins a jar he'd spend 3 months in there until Hermes arrived to let him loose Otis and epiales decided they wanted to take the goddess's Hera and artemis's wives so they began stacking mountains on top of each other in order to reach Olympus however Artemis transformed herself into a deer and left between the Giants the two of them not wanting to pass up some good oldfashioned impromptu game hunting fired their bows at the animal only two shoot each other dead well that's the last time I have mutually consensual intercourse you're right that's that's certainly the lesson we should be taking from this [Music]