Coomers rejoice! For today we are doing a video expose on possibly the most vilified characters of Greek Mythology. And to add to your... er, enjoyment? I have also enlisted the assistance of an actual girl for today's video! (Provided you can understand whatever it is she is saying through the thick Spanish accent...)
Today, we explore the religion of Tengrism in the way which the Mongolians during the time of Genghis Khan would have practiced it, albeit, very poorly as their really weren't many written sources about Tengri other than the supposed prophecy he sent down to Genghis attesting that he shall conquer the entire known world, and impregnate half of it.
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May it be fire, volcano, earthquake, or meteor... Genesis 19 is never a good time...
Please refrain from asking questions until the end of the presentation, it'll just be easier for me to get around to answering everyone.
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The Shinto creation story based on the Kojiki, now compiled into one video!
(Yes, I did try to upload this once before, the resolution came out wrong so here it is again)
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From the Biblical Noah, to the Greek Deucalion, to some nonsense shoe-horned into Celtic Mythology, many cultures from around the world share a commonality in their mythos. It seems as through apocalyptic flood stories are a mainstay, popular inclusion in the writings of many an ancient mythology, but where do these narratives come from? Are they merely derivatives of an older, centralized flood story from the ancient Mediterranean? Or perhaps there really WAS a global flood! (No there wasn't)
Today, as a celebration for getting this channel up to 1000 subscribers, I am going to examine a handful of some of the more interconnected Flood myths, compare and contrast their similarities and differences, and attempt to understand why the ancient man was so fascinated with dihydrogen per oxide.
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Article I mentioned in the video about the word "Ark" for you turbo-virgins:
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Today, we take a look at possibly the oldest and most-obscure faiths we have yet studied on this channel- The Basque mythology! You'll learn about female empowerment, wolf-fighting giga-chads, lightning serpents, the composite form of all human souls, a fire-breathing bull, and much, much more!
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We’re back to covering Finnish mythology via the Kalevala! This time, adapting “rune 2” where all sorts of pyrotechnical shenanigans ensue, including talking animals, a fire-breathing walrus, and beer! It’s all just as nonsensical as you’d come to expect from a video on this channel!
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The ancient Canaanite God Ba'al Hadid goes by many names and has a reputation which precedes him as a wrathful, heretical God demanding human sacrifices. But how much of that reputation is earned?
Today, we take a look at Ba'al in his Canaan roots, as well as the bastardized variation of him evolved from Christian demonology and how both variations have a surprising connection to the Jewish God Yahweh.
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Some footnotes:
The Kojiki is the oldest text relating back some traditionally oral Japanese myths, therefore it can be concluded, just like with any other mythology, that the original oral variation of the story is drastically different, however, we obviously do not have these accounts for reference anymore.
The secondary source I used is a book known as the Nihongi, which was written around the same time a lot of traditionally Chinese culture concepts were being integrated into Japan, such as their writing system.
Another elephant in the room to mention is that Shinto is still a widely practiced religion in Japan today, and while I doubt I’ll find any Shinto-believers in my comments section, I’d like to preemptively apologize and reinstate that I am not trying to mock your religion or your cultural roots in any way, I am merely presenting information in a more sarcastic manner because I feel it resonates with an audience more than regurgitating information from a book.
Ebisu, the leech child and technically the first God of the eight generation, was sent out to sea by his parents as pointed out earlier in the video. However, he actually survived and lived on, actually growing limbs, (albeit stubby ones) and is generally worshipped as the God of fishermen in Japanese culture. As far as Gods in Shinto go, he is not at all as obscure as the eight hundred or so Kami produced by Izanagi and Izanami. Yes, I said eight hundred.
Fun fact; in some variations of the myth, Izanagi and Izanami got the idea to get married and get down to making babies shortly after creating the island of Onogoro-jima, by watching two birds do it from the heavenly bridge. Which is… a thing…
I may have misused the word Hitorigami when using it to describe Susanoo, Amateratsu and Tsukiyomi in the latter part of this video. I found one source which claims that one of the qualifiers for a Hitorigami is that they cannot have genitals, but another professed they just had to be asexually produced. Tear me to shreds in the comments section if you actually know the difference.
By the way, yes some of the images I used for this video are of crappy quality, but that’s mainly due to the fact that every time I would type in one of these character’s name into Google, all I would get back as results were some anime character, which tells me this is what more people are interested in looking up rather than the original mythology which inspired them. Which is kind of sad really, as there is a lot of potential for artistic content from these stories, yet not too many artists are taking advantage of it to create something to illustrate these myths. I guess only nerds like me, the folks at OSP, and Mythology and Fiction Explained care enough to dedicate YouTube channels to this stuff.
Sources:
http://www.bigmyth.com/download/JAPANESE_CREATION.pdf
http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=38
https://www.britannica.com/topic/musubi#ref284710
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kami-musubi-no-kami
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/IzanagiandIzunami
https://yokaigrove.com/2014/08/10/the-creator-kami-and-the-celestial-kami/
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kojiki.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raijin
White, T.-A. (2018). The Story of World Mythologies: From indigenous tales to classical legends. London: Arcturus.
https://www.amazon.com/Story-World-Mythologies-Indigenous-Classical-ebook/dp/B079X52TQL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Terri-ann+White&qid=1554862207&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Philip, P. W. (2007). Visual Reference Guides: Mythology. New York: Metro Books.
https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Visual-Reference-Dorling-Kindersley/dp/1435121287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35HILZL5ZYOI&keywords=visual+reference+guides+mythology&qid=1554862359&s=gateway&sprefix=visual+reference+guides%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1-spell
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/ebisu.shtml
https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-hades-and-persephone/
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/orpheus.html
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/Amaterasu-birth.htm
https://archive.org/details/nihongichronicl00astogoog/page/n66
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Boredom afflicts my mind like a plague. So to remedy that, I shall speak out into the void and hope someone is listening.
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