I've always suspected that Seth and Osiris aren't really good and evil, their story makes more sense if you think of Seth as the desert and Osiris as the Nile Valley
I do feel like I should point out that while Seth/Set/Sutekh is often an antagonist to Horus in the texts at Heliopolis, he is hardly a god of evil. Sutekh's spheres were Chaos/Change, the Desert and Power/Ruling Authority. He also was associated with foreigners and storms. While he wasn't as cuddly or overtly benevolent as Hathor or Bastet (in post-unification times), he played an important role in protecting the infant Horus and empowering the armies of Egypt. One of the reasons he gets such a bad rap from later texts, is that he was revered by many of the foreign powers who dominated Egypt during the Second and Third Intermediate periods, which caused many Egyptians to highlight the negative aspects of his domain. But despite being a rival for the throne and the authority granted to his brother, Osiris/Wesir, and nephew Horus, he was a revered part of the Egyptian pantheon and to call him evil is not only an oversimplification, it's disrespectful to those who still honour him.
Yeah, I couldn't help but cringe a little when they referred to him as the god of evil. I hope they don't do this with every single chaos and trickster deity, because that's forcing a modern Western good/evil binary on cultures that didn't necessarily have one.
the concept of "good" and "evil" didn't really exist as we know it until Zoroastrianism, so applying that dichotomy to Ancient deities is inappropriate. (this can be confusing since some religions that existed before Zoroastrianism later redefined their own stories to incorporate absolute Good and Evil.)
Yes, this. You don't name Pharaohs after Gods of Evil, certainly not Great Pharaohs. Set also protected Ra in many stories on his nightly journey to the Underworld. Set also helped Ra defeat the demons therein who wanted stop Ra and thus the worldly order.
It's called hijacked by Jesus. If a pantheon doesn't have a god of evil in it later adaptions of it will pick one( usually a god of fire, death, or winter) and transform them into something closer to what Satan is like in Christianity.
You missed the most important of the Egyptian gods: Slifer the Executive Producer, Obelisk the Tormentor, and Mega Ultra Chicken. I cant just let this oversight stand.
Hotep and Huy By the power of Ra... Mut...Nut...Khnum...Ptah... Nephthys...Nekhbet...Sobek...Sekhment... Sokar...Selket...Reshpu...Wadjet... Anubis...Anukis... Seshmu...Meshkent...Hemsut...Tefnut... Heket...Mafdet... Ra...Mut...Nut...Ptah... Hemsut...Tefnut...Sokar...Selket... Seshmu...Reshpu...Sobek...Wadjet... Heket...Mafdet...Nephthys...Nekhbet...Ra!
Do you have time to hear of our Lord and Savior, Gork and Mork? Crash Course really should have had included the 40k pantheon, or at least covered the 4 Chaos Gods.
Have you guys considered making a series on folklore? Like fairy tales, legends, things like that? It seems to me that there aren't many accessible video information series on the topic and it'd definitely be interesting :)
They'll almost certainly do Hindu and Shinto pantheons. Besides the standard Greek/Roman, Norse, etc. I mean. Whether they'll do others like Celtic pantheon or not, I'm not sure.
It's cyclic though, with Daksha giving birth to Aditi, who gave birth to Daksha. It also changes depending on the time period, so understanding stories is difficult, since many gods share the same name. It will make doing a video on it difficult.
I seriously hope you will be diving deeper into the Egyptian mythology in later installations, because outside the "big 9" there are a lot of incredibly interesting gods, stories and so forth.
(im probably going to be crucified for this but..) I've been studying Egyptian Mythology for years, i ve never heard anyone refer to Isis as a moon and earth deity, nor Shu and Tefnut as anything but the different aspects of Air. Even as a crash course i would imagine it as being pretty off. Also, i wouldnt consider ancient egyptian's obsessed with death, rather, in love with life and its continuation of it.
Thank you so much for creating this course. I had never realized how Europe-centered my European education was until now. So many more interesting myths!
1. Nothing about syncretism and myth adoption by conquered peoples? it's the main reason for the different stories. the Atum-Ra part of the story was purely a Greek invention. 2. Set (Sutekh) was only evil after the 20th Dynasty when the Romans and Greeks brought their fear of death to Egypt. before that time he performed roughly the same duties that Charon did across Styx. (at least 6 pharaohs have the name "Beloved of Set" Seti)
Which people believe are true. People know airy tales aren't true so not a myth. That's why there are a tonne of religious myths, because believed they were true.
Anil Palan I believe he said in episode one that they would cover a few hero myths at the end but I don't know if he mentioned names. That's a big potential pool of heroes.
That's a great way to comprehensively introduce gods. Cudos for knowing who to cut (you made some rough choices) and cudos to Thought Cafe for great graphics. I do have some thought on "the gods of nature" vs "the gods of human nature" but I'm gonna hold it 'till Greek pantheon.
Mike's videos are so much nicer for classroom use (especially in mixed language ability classes); he speaks a bit slower, which has gotten better with others. But this speed is so much nicer.
This series is so good, I finally have answers about why people sacrifice other people, why people wrap other people in bandages after they die (crazy, huh?!) and more. Thanks, Mike!
Really hoping to see a video on Slavic mythology and pantheons! There are soo many good stories there, but it's hard to find a collective pantheon. I would really like to see what information your research would provide!
I know there's probably a set script and everything for the show, but I'd love to see a wrap up episode showing the impact of mythology on popular culture. Looking through comics, games, and movies, I see more and more things I see here. It'd be cool to have a dissection of some of that and what our use of those mythologies means about us. Also, now I really want to play a game of Scion...
I love this! Please do an episode, like a scratch one, once the series ends, for more in depth pantheons. I love how you describe them, but it's such a shame you make limits on the pantheons. Though, I get why, it still leaves much to be desired for the future
This is such an inaccurate representation of Egyption mythology, it's insulting! They went through the entire story of Isis and Osiris and they didn't ONCE mention the practice of playing children's card games.
I thought you were going to bring up what they actually left out. When Isis couldn't find Osiris' penis (the one part she couldn't find, this was alluded to) Osiris couldn't be king of the gods anymore, so Set and Horus had to compete to become the new king, by trying to get the other to eat their semen.
Why call the video "pantheons of the mediterranean" if you're only going to talk about two of them? I hope there are more videos about this region, you didn't even mention some of the most interesting ones. A video about the proto-indo-european pantheon and how it evolved into the religions of the greeks, germanics, celts, hindus, etc would be good too
Isis and Osiris: There's another version of the myth where Isis finds the body and brings him back alive long enough to have intercourse so that she can conceive their son in her womb.
Slavic Mythology is too obscure, for starters. Secondly, there are no sources, and we're not so sure about gods other than Perun and Svyatovid. Baltic Pantheon, on the other hand, has literal sources, as Balts converted to Christianity later and the names of their gods were written.
Yeah... I suppose there's a lot of truth there, it would be pretty interesting though if they did a section about "divine battles" or something like that and included information about the battle between Perun and Veles.
It’s worth to mention many cities in Egypt (while still believing in the pantheon) had their own god they worshipped specifically. For example, Memphis worshiped sekhmet, Heraklion worshiped Sobek, etc. Which is why there are many versions of the pantheon throughout Egypt during the same period
Seth is not a god of evil. Set is a god of necessary chaos. The nemesis of the pantheon is Isfet which is often translated as uncreation, and its avatar is Apep who is slain by Seth every night. Y'all, do a little deeper research. (Granted it's my religion, so of course I'm going to take issues with inaccuracies.)
Depends whose Hinduism. In the largest version, 330 million (although they can effectively be thought of as 10 million 'versions' of 33 main deities). The figure '10 million' isn't specific, btw. It's just supposed to represent a very large number (the largest people back then would've had any sense to think about) and hence infinity (meaning the actual number would properly be an infinity of gods). And of course Hinduism is 'supposed' to be mono-theistic, since all the different deities are really just manifestations of one creator being (although in actual practice, most Hindus just worship them as separate deities anyway).
Changes depending on time period. After the end of a manvantra the (demi)gods in heaven become demons and some demonic race become gods. Also there are some beings just as powerful of gods, but not e.g. Chyavana, Parashara, Janamejaya etc.
Hinduism can also be agnostic or atheistic. It's kind of your choice on how to perceive it, and you can have multiple religions too. Same with Buddhism and some other religions from south Asia.
кιмσиє Lots of myths have multiple versions since they were originally passed down orally, only to be written down much later. It's almost impossible to say which version is right or wrong, just which ones are more or less popular at the time. For instance, on version of Medusa is just one of a set of three sisters, but is the only one that is mortal. In another, she was a mortal woman cursed by the gods. Both are 'right', but they have waxed and wanned in popularity over time. If I remember correctly, Roridan's version of the Demon Days is accurate to the original myth - that they were added to the year so Nut could give birth.
The five gods born on the demon days were directly mentioned, so… Even Riordan points out the inconsistency though - Horus is either born on the 5th demon day to Geb and Tefnut, or he's the son of Osiris and Isis. It gets harder trying to have both stories at once.
I was bothered too and this is the answer I got in a previous video: "There a few reasons why one would pronounce a word/name like thoth differently, but his pronunciation works along with your pronunciation because the language of ancient egypt pronounced the god's name differently, as did greek and latin, with phonemes that don't exist in modern english or would be unusual to use according to some phonological laws of modern english, to explain that in detail, ancient egyptian pronounced the name as /tʃʼiħautiː/ or /ɟiħautiː/, so to put that into a sort of english orthographic context, chihauti or jihauti, the ancient greeks transliterated the name of the god as theta-omicron (later omega)-theta, which, considering ancient greek didn't have a tʃʼ/ch sound or a ɟ/j sound, and I'm assuming /au/ had been monophthongized into /o/ or /ɔ/, they just dropped the last vowel and pronounced it /tʰɔːtʰ/, which closely resembles his pronunciation of the word as /tʰoʊt/, but from the theta-o-theta greek spelling we got our latin transliteration spelled 'Thoth,' and according to modern english orthography 'thoth' is pronounced /θäθ/"
Egyptian Pantheons IS AFRICAN pantheon. I don't know why shes separated from its continent when it's looked at. Ancient Kemet was a black African civilisations like the Kingdom of Benin, Aksum, Great Zimbabwe or Ajuraan Empire not a western-Euro civilisations.
I really feel like Egypt needed a whole episode.
There are a lot of stuff that needs a whole episode. Hopefully they can make them.
Yes please
@TheBlondie Excuse me, what?
@TheBlondie No, "The World Order is to be worshiped... so they literally worship the New World Order??" What are you talking about?
@TheBlondie What is a god?
I've always suspected that Seth and Osiris aren't really good and evil, their story makes more sense if you think of Seth as the desert and Osiris as the Nile Valley
I do feel like I should point out that while Seth/Set/Sutekh is often an antagonist to Horus in the texts at Heliopolis, he is hardly a god of evil. Sutekh's spheres were Chaos/Change, the Desert and Power/Ruling Authority. He also was associated with foreigners and storms.
While he wasn't as cuddly or overtly benevolent as Hathor or Bastet (in post-unification times), he played an important role in protecting the infant Horus and empowering the armies of Egypt.
One of the reasons he gets such a bad rap from later texts, is that he was revered by many of the foreign powers who dominated Egypt during the Second and Third Intermediate periods, which caused many Egyptians to highlight the negative aspects of his domain. But despite being a rival for the throne and the authority granted to his brother, Osiris/Wesir, and nephew Horus, he was a revered part of the Egyptian pantheon and to call him evil is not only an oversimplification, it's disrespectful to those who still honour him.
I find that nice to know
Thank you for sharing
Yeah, I couldn't help but cringe a little when they referred to him as the god of evil. I hope they don't do this with every single chaos and trickster deity, because that's forcing a modern Western good/evil binary on cultures that didn't necessarily have one.
the concept of "good" and "evil" didn't really exist as we know it until Zoroastrianism, so applying that dichotomy to Ancient deities is inappropriate. (this can be confusing since some religions that existed before Zoroastrianism later redefined their own stories to incorporate absolute Good and Evil.)
Yes, this. You don't name Pharaohs after Gods of Evil, certainly not Great Pharaohs. Set also protected Ra in many stories on his nightly journey to the Underworld. Set also helped Ra defeat the demons therein who wanted stop Ra and thus the worldly order.
It's called hijacked by Jesus. If a pantheon doesn't have a god of evil in it later adaptions of it will pick one( usually a god of fire, death, or winter) and transform them into something closer to what Satan is like in Christianity.
Egyptian mythology is so nuts that I wish we could have a whole Crash Course for it ♥
You missed the most important of the Egyptian gods: Slifer the Executive Producer, Obelisk the Tormentor, and Mega Ultra Chicken. I cant just let this oversight stand.
Screw the rules, they have money.
Some may know them as Lifer: The Sky Pylon, Olebisk: The Morgue Director, and The Wing-ed Dargon of Rawr
They've got money... but they're banned from tournaments... poor guys.
Is this a Smite reference?
Kek
Hotep and Huy
By the power of Ra...
Mut...Nut...Khnum...Ptah...
Nephthys...Nekhbet...Sobek...Sekhment...
Sokar...Selket...Reshpu...Wadjet...
Anubis...Anukis...
Seshmu...Meshkent...Hemsut...Tefnut...
Heket...Mafdet...
Ra...Mut...Nut...Ptah...
Hemsut...Tefnut...Sokar...Selket...
Seshmu...Reshpu...Sobek...Wadjet...
Heket...Mafdet...Nephthys...Nekhbet...Ra!
You're playing with the big boys now!
TheRickestDavid Love the Prince of Egypt!
The Bible is the truth. Catholicism is roman paganism it is not Christianity
I'm not knocking your belief, your belief is your belief, but what does that have to do with the Prince of Egypt?
TheRickestDavid
they forgot the true god. KEK
"...And if you're not sure what a mystery cult is, guess what? That's the point."
Hahahahaha.
This is not boring at all! So interesting. I watch it for fun as well as for a educational experience. thank you CrashCourse!
Warhammer has a little Horus too :)
Warhammer Horus was evil, tho. :/
@Hanno Ah yes Horus Axemand.
Stop Horusing around. *Canned laughter*
Do you have time to hear of our Lord and Savior, Gork and Mork?
Crash Course really should have had included the 40k pantheon, or at least covered the 4 Chaos Gods.
+Eric Vargas
Maybe they could do a few episodes on Pantheons in fiction?
Have you guys considered making a series on folklore? Like fairy tales, legends, things like that? It seems to me that there aren't many accessible video information series on the topic and it'd definitely be interesting :)
i felt a sudden need of fanfics of mike & toth best buddies
thecognacsipper I would read that
Fun fact he chilled with hermes in a story.
Will you do the Hindu Mythology Pantheon? Not incestuous, but complex and interesting!
They'll almost certainly do Hindu and Shinto pantheons. Besides the standard Greek/Roman, Norse, etc. I mean. Whether they'll do others like Celtic pantheon or not, I'm not sure.
Shankar Ravikumar I hope they'll do the celtic. It would love to know more about tir na nog and their gods/goddesses.
The Bible is the truth. Catholicism is roman paganism it is not Christianity.
Cool, my religion is Catholicism of 1.2 billion followers.
It's cyclic though, with Daksha giving birth to Aditi, who gave birth to Daksha. It also changes depending on the time period, so understanding stories is difficult, since many gods share the same name. It will make doing a video on it difficult.
damn, a 40k reference. now we need a warhammer 40k and famtasy crash course
Etienne Bidalle I agree fellow Battle Brother
I love the cameo appearance of Admiral Ackbar at 9:14! Thanks for putting a smile on my face, Thought Bubble!
I seriously hope you will be diving deeper into the Egyptian mythology in later installations, because outside the "big 9" there are a lot of incredibly interesting gods, stories and so forth.
(im probably going to be crucified for this but..) I've been studying Egyptian Mythology for years, i ve never heard anyone refer to Isis as a moon and earth deity, nor Shu and Tefnut as anything but the different aspects of Air. Even as a crash course i would imagine it as being pretty off. Also, i wouldnt consider ancient egyptian's obsessed with death, rather, in love with life and its continuation of it.
Thank you so much for creating this course. I had never realized how Europe-centered my European education was until now. So many more interesting myths!
1. Nothing about syncretism and myth adoption by conquered peoples? it's the main reason for the different stories. the Atum-Ra part of the story was purely a Greek invention.
2. Set (Sutekh) was only evil after the 20th Dynasty when the Romans and Greeks brought their fear of death to Egypt. before that time he performed roughly the same duties that Charon did across Styx. (at least 6 pharaohs have the name "Beloved of Set" Seti)
I absolutely love this series! Mike is perfect for it. More please!
I really love the animation. Its cute and cool. I like the way he narrates as well.
I would seriously buy the pantheons family trees if they were made into a poster.
loving this series, my favorite since the history series.
Question: Will you be covering non-religious myths like Robin Hood and King Arthur as well?
+Sayem Isn't a myth any well-known/popular yet untrue or unproven character or story? Just wondering.
Which people believe are true. People know airy tales aren't true so not a myth. That's why there are a tonne of religious myths, because believed they were true.
Anil Palan I believe he said in episode one that they would cover a few hero myths at the end but I don't know if he mentioned names. That's a big potential pool of heroes.
Sometimes I wonder if in 500 years they will teach Batman like he's a non-religious myth... or at least Santa!
I think myths are stories with gods, stories about people (mortals) are usually epics
I will tell you, this is the first CC series i have watched and eagerly anticipated every video and boy do I wish they uploaded more often haha.
6:11 Geb Bush and Nut Gingrich, sorry I couldn't resist.
loving the series, I've always been into mythology and there is finally a great starting point for it!
To a random person scrolling through the comments, have a nice day/night/weird pocket of space time where time doesn't flow properly
Galaxy Otter Thanks! I'm working on making time flow in a single direction again here.
Galaxy Otter I love you, bro.....take care of yourself, and I hope you stay in good vibes...
Manuel Sacha
You say that like it's a recent phenomenon but people were trying to be weird as early as the late 90's.
@Nikita nah... the 90's was just a response to the all-natural weirdness that was the 80's.
it's always 3am demon time, somewhere..
That's a great way to comprehensively introduce gods. Cudos for knowing who to cut (you made some rough choices) and cudos to Thought Cafe for great graphics. I do have some thought on "the gods of nature" vs "the gods of human nature" but I'm gonna hold it 'till Greek pantheon.
I'm very curious about a Celtic Pantheon. Can you do an episode on that one?
11:13 the pillars of creation. Nice touch.
Do one on canaanite pantheon.
Mike's videos are so much nicer for classroom use (especially in mixed language ability classes); he speaks a bit slower, which has gotten better with others. But this speed is so much nicer.
Me, who read Percy Jackson and the connected series when I was younger: freaking out bc it's still cool
This series is so good, I finally have answers about why people sacrifice other people, why people wrap other people in bandages after they die (crazy, huh?!) and more. Thanks, Mike!
10:54 Sooo Eminem was channeling Osris when he said "why be a king when you can be a god."?
You do a great job at this! I wish you could do an episode completely on Egyptian gods and goddess.
can anyone imagine the Greek gods in the Jerry Springer show? "Zeus! you are the father!
Can we all just appreciate the person who does those stunning graphics?
Can you do an episode on Mongol mythology? I'd really like to learn about it, and also I want to see a Mongoltage again.
Really hoping to see a video on Slavic mythology and pantheons! There are soo many good stories there, but it's hard to find a collective pantheon. I would really like to see what information your research would provide!
I really hope you guys will do Celtic mythology! :-)
*Sigh* I was mostly referring to Irish and Scottish mythology. But ya know, everything else you mentioned would be great too. ;-)
I never would have thought I would hear a 40K reference in a Crash Course video.
Bravo Crash Course, you've amused me.
6:57 Some militant as*holes ruined her name sadly
ISIS is just an acronym of the name of the terrorist organization, their real name (to the extent of my knowledge) is Daesh.
+Ozon Elektron Wide True. We call them Daesh in my country. We always have, since they first appeared in Syria.
+yo yo. In my country we just call them the Islamic State although some muslims in my country get a bit angry with the news because of that
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+DON'T READ MY NAME This is the 10th time I see this. Stop the spam.
So nice to see Mike in Crash Course!! 😃
Wait, Exodia is like Osiris! Cut into pieces that when put back together summun a god.
the fact that you mentioned Horus of Warhammer 40k landed you a fan for time to come.
It's nice of you to acknowledge warhammer 40,000
I love how they mention Horus from 30k lol, I love you guys
is there going to be an episode for Tolkien pantheon?
I know there's probably a set script and everything for the show, but I'd love to see a wrap up episode showing the impact of mythology on popular culture. Looking through comics, games, and movies, I see more and more things I see here. It'd be cool to have a dissection of some of that and what our use of those mythologies means about us.
Also, now I really want to play a game of Scion...
What about Berber myths? I'm North African and even I don't know what my ancestors pre-islam beloved in.
yeah its sad. most people are focused on studying islam now that nobody cares about what their ancestors believed in...
I thought u said Barbie myths lol
*believed
pre abrahamic religions are the real interesting times in history
Loving this series
I got laughed at when dropping the term "pantheon" when we spoke about norse gods, because they thought it was only the greek gods. enlighten me!
I love this!
Please do an episode, like a scratch one, once the series ends, for more in depth pantheons. I love how you describe them, but it's such a shame you make limits on the pantheons. Though, I get why, it still leaves much to be desired for the future
This is such an inaccurate representation of Egyption mythology, it's insulting! They went through the entire story of Isis and Osiris and they didn't ONCE mention the practice of playing children's card games.
yesss yu gi oh
At first I thought you were serious then I realized it was a yu gi oh reference lol
I thought you were going to bring up what they actually left out.
When Isis couldn't find Osiris' penis (the one part she couldn't find, this was alluded to) Osiris couldn't be king of the gods anymore, so Set and Horus had to compete to become the new king, by trying to get the other to eat their semen.
I distinctly remember the card games also being _on motorcycles._
IDIOT!!! Its only part 1 of Phantheons: Ancient Mediterranean
10:41 Wait, what wings? Where were her wings placed? I need an anatomy segment!
Where is the Phoenician pantheon?
I love learning about mythology 😊😊
Why call the video "pantheons of the mediterranean" if you're only going to talk about two of them? I hope there are more videos about this region, you didn't even mention some of the most interesting ones.
A video about the proto-indo-european pantheon and how it evolved into the religions of the greeks, germanics, celts, hindus, etc would be good too
The_Titans_Bastard Not trying I be rude, but I’m fairly certain that Hinduism started before some of the Indo-European religions
@@brycelahm1283 not to be rude but no
Ulfric Stormcloack It did tho. Hinduism is the oldest religion still around today
@@brycelahm1283 it is the oldest religion that lives on today
Ulfric Stormcloack Thats What I’m saying.
I love this series and his obvious enjoyment of the subject matter!
Isis and Osiris: There's another version of the myth where Isis finds the body and brings him back alive long enough to have intercourse so that she can conceive their son in her womb.
I love Admiral Ackbar’s little cameo. “It’s a trap!”
Do the Slavic Pantheon please :)
Slavic Mythology is too obscure, for starters. Secondly, there are no sources, and we're not so sure about gods other than Perun and Svyatovid. Baltic Pantheon, on the other hand, has literal sources, as Balts converted to Christianity later and the names of their gods were written.
Yeah... I suppose there's a lot of truth there, it would be pretty interesting though if they did a section about "divine battles" or something like that and included information about the battle between Perun and Veles.
Dude, a video on morenna/marzanna would be so brutal
The best channel ever! 😀
Mythology is awesome, unfortunately people get mad when talking about it.
This series is just amazing. I mean this is Mythology! For something that's not suppose to be 'real' why is it so alive?
You're a great teller of these stories!
I don't know how weird this makes the "pantheon," but I totally ship Mike and Thoth ❤️
today on youtube comments i really did not need to see
Crash Course is so freaking great !!!
Pls do a video about Indian pantheon
It’s worth to mention many cities in Egypt (while still believing in the pantheon) had their own god they worshipped specifically. For example, Memphis worshiped sekhmet, Heraklion worshiped Sobek, etc. Which is why there are many versions of the pantheon throughout Egypt during the same period
9:14 It's a trap!
I LOVE this series!!!! Thank you for doing Crash Course Mythology!!
Lupercal!
LUPERCAL!
This is some top-notch, grade-A heresy right here
9:14 the best frame in the internet
Seth is not a god of evil. Set is a god of necessary chaos. The nemesis of the pantheon is Isfet which is often translated as uncreation, and its avatar is Apep who is slain by Seth every night. Y'all, do a little deeper research. (Granted it's my religion, so of course I'm going to take issues with inaccuracies.)
You're a Kemetist?
I was learning about Mesopotamia last week and right now I am learning about ancient Egypt 😄
I really hope celtic myths are included.
I would have loved it if you would have the Aztec family. Probably the most complicated pantheon :P
How many Gods are there in Hinduism again?
Darrius Cooper 3 million or something like that. Not sure tho, all are meant to be the aspects of the true reality, or something.
Depends whose Hinduism. In the largest version, 330 million (although they can effectively be thought of as 10 million 'versions' of 33 main deities). The figure '10 million' isn't specific, btw. It's just supposed to represent a very large number (the largest people back then would've had any sense to think about) and hence infinity (meaning the actual number would properly be an infinity of gods).
And of course Hinduism is 'supposed' to be mono-theistic, since all the different deities are really just manifestations of one creator being (although in actual practice, most Hindus just worship them as separate deities anyway).
Yes. I believe the word is Monism right? The idea that all those Gods are a part of a bigger whole.
Changes depending on time period. After the end of a manvantra the (demi)gods in heaven become demons and some demonic race become gods.
Also there are some beings just as powerful of gods, but not e.g. Chyavana, Parashara, Janamejaya etc.
Hinduism can also be agnostic or atheistic. It's kind of your choice on how to perceive it, and you can have multiple religions too. Same with Buddhism and some other religions from south Asia.
You got one thing right,all pantheons are so complicated and convoluted to say the least.
Hey, hope you guys will mention kek soon in this series
andyy p Why would they, they are adults, not children playing around the Internet thinking they are funny
got em boyz
@Valakhan
Right, Thoth?
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This is really good, i have found a new respect (although still very little) for the movie "Gods of Egypt"
Rick Riordan spoke of the Demon Days, is that another version or not true at all...?
кιмσиє Lots of myths have multiple versions since they were originally passed down orally, only to be written down much later. It's almost impossible to say which version is right or wrong, just which ones are more or less popular at the time. For instance, on version of Medusa is just one of a set of three sisters, but is the only one that is mortal. In another, she was a mortal woman cursed by the gods. Both are 'right', but they have waxed and wanned in popularity over time.
If I remember correctly, Roridan's version of the Demon Days is accurate to the original myth - that they were added to the year so Nut could give birth.
Rick Riordan definitely didnt come up with the idea, so it's in Egyptian mythology. As for if they're mentioned in another version, I am not sure.
The five gods born on the demon days were directly mentioned, so… Even Riordan points out the inconsistency though - Horus is either born on the 5th demon day to Geb and Tefnut, or he's the son of Osiris and Isis. It gets harder trying to have both stories at once.
I didn't know you did the courses by areas, I'm so excited
Eyyy notification squaddddd
I sense some love for Thoth. gotta love that one (even in Smite)
Agghh... We finally finished the creation myths!
I died at the 40k reference thank you Crash Course
you're mispronouncing Thoth's name and it bothers me so much
He must have skipped his Middle Egyptian language class.
I was bothered too and this is the answer I got in a previous video:
"There a few reasons why one would pronounce a word/name like thoth differently, but his pronunciation works along with your pronunciation because the language of ancient egypt pronounced the god's name differently, as did greek and latin, with phonemes that don't exist in modern english or would be unusual to use according to some phonological laws of modern english, to explain that in detail, ancient egyptian pronounced the name as /tʃʼiħautiː/ or /ɟiħautiː/, so to put that into a sort of english orthographic context, chihauti or jihauti, the ancient greeks transliterated the name of the god as theta-omicron (later omega)-theta, which, considering ancient greek didn't have a tʃʼ/ch sound or a ɟ/j sound, and I'm assuming /au/ had been monophthongized into /o/ or /ɔ/, they just dropped the last vowel and pronounced it /tʰɔːtʰ/, which closely resembles his pronunciation of the word as /tʰoʊt/, but from the theta-o-theta greek spelling we got our latin transliteration spelled 'Thoth,' and according to modern english orthography 'thoth' is pronounced /θäθ/"
Agreed. I didn't say anything until we reach Egyptian mythology. There's a TH at the start. Thoth = Thought. Simple, right?
I always thought Thoth rhymed with sloth until I started watching this series.
we dont know how ancient Egyptians pronounced.
Sumarian, and Egyptian gods in one episode! I'm happy!
ENOUGH of the Thoth cameos! Feel like I'm watching Blue's Clues!
Graig English Thoth's Thoughts show was assimilated here due to not selling well with children. It's here to stay, *think think thiiink*
It was a bit overdone in this one!
Thoth is mythology's version of the Mongols. Don't disrespect him. :(
Well duh, of course it was "a bit overdone in this one", this one specifically talks about the Egyptian pantheon.
jeremy miller very true, they are the exception
Just bought your Thoth tote bag! Can't wait to use it :)
have you done the christain myth yet
They've done the creation myth. They've even gone a bit into the book of Genesis.
CodeKillerz yes I haven't seen every episode I guess I need to
I'm sure when they get to Jesus, they'll nail it ;)
YES to the 40k reference at @7:32
Egyptian Pantheons IS AFRICAN pantheon. I don't know why shes separated from its continent when it's looked at. Ancient Kemet was a black African civilisations like the Kingdom of Benin, Aksum, Great Zimbabwe or Ajuraan Empire not a western-Euro civilisations.
a coffee mug with the mangales and toth and i'm sold lol
Firsty
I fucked it up 😭
Thanks for this! Amazing course and narration
Oh hey not notification squad but hey
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