The Giants of Greek Mythology - (Greek Mythology Explained)
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Today we take a look at the giants of Greek mythology, their origins, the stories they appear in and the symbolism behind them.
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@@hadtrio6629 I think he's pretty diverse already.
Glad you're alive and back! Would you consider doing some videos on jewish mythology? I can't seem to find much info, not to mention you make the best mythology video's out there.
the music in the background (instrumental music from skyrim) fits this video series so perfectly
@@hadtrio6629 how diverse do you want it to be? Maybe he doesn't owe you anything and creates what he wants to? Go make your own channel.
It's funny how nearly all religions in antiquity have giants in them and nearly all of them are represented as having this redemption story to them. It is like the same author writing a series of books with different characters and locations in them but the same premise.
You could even say it must be true, if everyone from Northlands to even eastern deserts such as the low kingdom are basically saying the same stories...
Or I am overthinking it and they just stole ideas from each other like the Romans did with the Greeks mythos.
Family structures in mythologies are always... Weird... To say the least
Their family tree is more of a 'connect the dots' drawing than an actual tree.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Jesus you’re the new Justin Y. Also I remember when your profile picture had the moustache.
Nice to see you here
Why are you everywhere?
@@TheSpoegefugl more like a ouroboros bush.
to be honest, mythology makes you rethink the whole "fathers are emotionally unavailable" thing. I bet many mythological beings would have liked that their fathers (and mothers, I am looking at you, Hera) were just "emotionally unavailable".
Hera a good mother to Ares
@@KingRichardDeLeonheart A good mother to War.
There always Lilith .
@@practicalphilosophy9031
well, a neglectful mother and the mother of all evil, how wonderful...
Uranus or Cronus for father of the year?
Uranus, because he didnt eat his children.
@@wcapewell3089 lol
@@grapes8979 Cronus
@@ivanhunter6492 what? okay, what about Cronus.
@@grapes8979 he should get father of the year
9:33 Now just Imagine hades looking for anubis and asking him if he could stay at his place cause a flying snake giant is at hades' home
"sure man, there's beer in the fridge"
Anubis: Well my land of the dead is pretty much a barren wasteland compared to your underworld but yeah why not
Hades: its better than a roaring gigantic snake that could anytime escape from its pen. He brutally murdered my bro one time and men that shit is nasty.
Anubis: how bout that serial god killer bald dude?
Hades: ahh he went to Asgard so we good
Anubis: for now
@@howardhavardramberg7160 "Thanks, Btw is ra here? I really dont like Ra all that much, he reminds me of my brother"
@@rockydee7499 Now I want a sitcom with just pantheons of different gods
Flarenite100 Man that would be interesting and hella confusing. Just like normal sitcoms so it’s perfect
After a year the gods realized Ares was gone no wonder he’s always mad nobody cared for him
How strong is typhon?
Put all natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunami, storm, vulcanic eruption etc in a single gigantic organism.
Rocky jet Daguyen He’s the father of all monsters as well.
There's a your mom joke in here, but I'm too mature to make, and just immature enough to point it out.
He don't even lift bro
@@jefe8332 atlas is in a constant state of lifting
@@sophisticatedluna6503 woosh
Anime ain't got nothing on Greeks when it comes to weird stories
Watch Reign. Best of both worlds. Weird as hell.
True
@@HyperionaSilverleaf where do I watch it
Read the epic of gilgamesh, it LITERALLY reads like the plot synopsis from a wikipedia page for a shounen anime. Granted that's sumerian.
Got it? Turned into animals and fled to egypt? The land with the gods in animal form!? 😏
That's how Egyptian gods were formed
@@benreed638 No, probably Evil.
Egyptian Gods were worshipped before Greek Gods.
It not what came first or did not. İt is how the Greeks saw the world. They where the same has the romen in that they assumed every one worshiped there gods so when they found people that worshiped other gods they had to figured out how.
All so we have no idea how old the Greek gods truly are. They predate classical Greece.
@@Andrewza1 Greeks liked to practice "personification", and to write about all sorts of things as if those things were persons. They were sophisticated and intelligent people, so knew that "Water", "Light", and Rivers were not people or in the actual shape of people, but would symbolically depict them like that at times and include certain symbols and references and identifications to such. Depicting things like people was meant to indicate that these things were believed to have some sort of spirit inside or life, animation, and ability to respond or be appeased in the way a human might be. They knew the river was a river and looked like a river, but in order to depict it they would create a symbolic form for it which they would use to try to make the river something more manageable for them to interact with or control through offerings and appeasement efforts. The Greeks in this fashion attempted to manage all of wild nature by giving every element some rational form they could try to deal with or control through offerings and appeasement since they could not easily control the elements in a direct fashion.
The geneology of these portions of nature varied and they had no strict system as to what came from what, but they tended to be logical, so for example "night" may be "born of" "darkness" and stuff like that. Again, anyone educated in the meanings of these common words would understand the simple symbolic logic being used and not likely take it so literally that these things one clearly sees or encounters which cover huge areas were actually small statue sized people. They were fully aware that this was not the case, that they had made these images and used human models, and that these images or symbolic writings referred to inhuman things that don't cease or fade or die like humans do and are not human beings but clearly visible things like rivers or constellations of stars, or invisible concepts like "justice", "victory", "love", "vengeance". Whatever thing you wanted to deal with, you would call upon it. Some even considered these to be aspects or fragments of One Power but were called upon by particular names when desiring some certain area of life to be influenced favorably.
Its also interesting your name, Coetzee, even your first name. I was just reading about the name Bargatze coming from Pan-Cratius meaning Ruler of Everything or Ruler of All.
The name Andrew may be related to the term Andro, meaning Man.
Names were much more relevant and looked into by the Greeks than people care to these days. A person's name or what they were called often referred to some quality they had or their special ability or aspect which was notable, otherwise for some deed they may have done and so their name was changed or added to.
Real father of the year is my dad. He went out to buy milk eleven years ago and despite evidently not being able to find any he's still out there searching to this day. Takes real fibre to spend eleven years looking for milk to provide for your family.
That's something dark😬😬
Damn you're one lucky guy! My father refused to go get the milk. Instead he just avoided me at home.
@@Sahiyena11 cigarettes are hard to find also
LMAO MINE TOO
Wow! Mine did the very same thing. He went on a hunting trip and never came back...We did hear he was living with his sister and her husband, but he never came back to us.
U should do a story on all of the Navajo twins and the monsters
I like to imagine the Moirai pulling out moves like the elderly masters in kung-fu movies.
The greeks were so high when they came up with all these monsters... 100's of hands, tens of heads, bodies of serpents, cats, goats... often at the same time.
I like your snarky speculation on the ultimate meaning of some of the more obscure symbolism, like "he was turned into a dung beetle, I guess because he pooped himself on the battlefield."
Hephaestus had golden women automate as servants. Are these related to the people of the golden age? When you said Talos the last bronze man, it made me think of the golden age, silver age, bronze age, and iron age. I had read Talos was built by Daedalus.
Andrew W Whittaker as somebody who constantly plays Skyrim I forgot Talos was a thing in Greek Myth
@@mahn3580 same and it doesn't help that skyrim music is playing in the backround
Yes Talos was built by Daedalus to protect Crete by command of King Minos if i remember correctly, & yes Hephaestus had golden female automatons as servants named Keledones.
Cant believe hephaestus had a harem of sexy golden gynoids and still tried to rape athena.
true Daedalus built Talos
I might be wrong but I was under the assumption that the cyclopes and the hecatoncheires weren’t officially giants. In the sense that typhon and his brethren are giants by title. Whereas the other two are giant in size, yes, but weren’t referred to as giants, “species” wise. This is why the gigantomachy is titled as such and highlights the war between the gods and the giants, children of gaea and Tartarus or made from the blood of Uranus.
That Skyrim music in the background tho.....so relaxing :D
Are we ever going to get another "magic explored" video?
Ive actually got ideas for the next one:
Healing magic
Combat magic (egyptian magic that creates avatars of gods around warriors, like green lantern in a mech construct)
Death magic (being able to turn things to dust with a touch or by firing a beam of grey light, and using shadows to teleport)
Cryomancy
Pyromancy
Geomancy
Not sure, the upload schedule has been poor and I have other topics I want to cover.
What is this Egyptian magic that creates avatars and mech contructs?
@@benjaminholden7132 its combat magic, i learned about it through The Kane Chronicles. It basically creates an avatar around you that looks like a green lantern construct. It also allows you to create a giant holographic fist to beat your enemies.
Anubian - Jackal Reviews Dont believe everything you read in Rick Riordan books, he twists the myths to be more «children» friendly or to fit the story betyer
Robin Kristiansen I’ve done research on Egyptian magic, and “combat magic” as described in Rick Riordan didn’t exist. The way magicians used the powers of the gods was more of a mutual understanding. They both are using powers through the magicians body. It’s really just a boost of power to a magician. But being able to summon a god was extremely rare
Seriously? He ran away cuz he pooped himself and so they turned him into a dung beetle? 🤣🤣🤣
Gaia: *Gives Birth*
Uranus: *pulls out uno reverse card*
Gaia: uh oh
Any man: I am going to marry Artemis
Artemis: hell no
Apollo: *shoots him down*
Rule: do not think of dating or marrying Artemis
I appreciate that you use the correct name Heracles in each video you make that has him mentioned.
I'm debating on wether sending this video to my mythology teacher to share with the class or not
Can you do an episode on the Greek's version of hyperboreans? I find a lot of conflicting stuff and don't know what they thought.
Hyperboreans?
OMG rightttt
Pong Guy as far as I remember from the Percy Jackson series they’re like frost giants who breathe ice or something
@@bradenvester4308 hyperborean = beyond north wind. Some people thought it was the people in the British isles, some people thought it was a group of siblings of the ancient gods, some people think it dated further back than that... Everyone has a different idea of who the hyperboreans were
@@bradenvester4308 "beyond the north," a name for the tall golden men of "Thule," a country the Scythians told the Greeks about where the sun never set far beyond the northern end of the world known to the greeks. Probably represented a scandinavian nation in the summertime. Tall blonde guys and 21 hour daylight.
I love this channel! Mythology is my favourite thing to read about and listen to.
No it's not
@@mver191 What is it then if I may ask 😂
@@art_of_beelz Knitting and cats.
@@mver191 Fair enough
@@art_of_beelz What are your favorite myths and cultures? How seriously do you take the stories or what do you think you enjoy about them? Do you feel an affinity towards certain symbols or divinities?
So your channel randomly popped up in my feed as recommended. I saw the name of the channel and the recommended video's and before I even watched one, I subbed. I am a huge fan a mythologies and find them super interesting. I love writing a fantasy I am working on, and in that fantasy I use several mythical creatures. A channel like yours helps me with finding mythical creatures and possibly use them in the story.
The first video I saw was the one of the Nidhogg, I was really interested in that because the game For Honor has a Nidhogg outfit for the Viking heroes, that gives a mask of the Nidhogg, so I really was interested in what it was.
Giants: ATTACK!!!
The Morai: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson young man?
Luv your channel your videos are great. Keep up the good work, and remain blessed.
so the father of all monsters was one of Gyas (sorry if I miss spelled that) kids then that means he was one of Hades' uncles but if the father of all monsters gave birth to Ceburus then that means the Ceburus was Hades' cousin. So in conclusion Hades kept one of his cousins as a PET 😆
More as guardian of the Underworld, not pet, but yes.
@@vaggos013
so nepotism
And basically named him Spot (Cerberus means spotted one)
Lol the gods family tree was basically a telephone pole,decorated like a Christmas tree with animal sex, rape, and incest or some combination of the three there of.
Lol compared to what his brothers where up to and the fact that creatures like the Minotaur existed, makes him keeping his cousin as a pet pretty tame.
Hell Athena bust out of Zeus’ head fully grown with armor on that she got somewhere including a spear. Somehow lmao, no one died or was even inconvenienced at all lmao.
Your voice is so nice and smooth it could put me to sleep!
Sorry if that's creepy lol
I just woke up from his voice putting me asleep!!!
I’m literallyyyy listening too this whilst I’m trying too sleep 🤣😭
Da fuk
I loved this story. Thank you for the hard work you put in to this channel . I listen to every episode . 🖤🖤
You missed the giant that was half man, half biscuit.. a musical being said to know the most wonderful songs
Always so great content ! Glad you can publish so often
Which?
Thats Elder Scrolls Oblivon music in the beginning. i love you man, you gave me goosebumps with that.
Great Video! There were 2 stories I didn´t knew very well. Thanks!
I was often curious here on what you were referring to as giants, since i assume it would be cyclops, colossal's (like colossus), and other demi-human/demi-gods. But i would think of the giants in greek as the giants which are Titans. (Titanous)
He refers to the Gigantes.
Read the book of Enoch
Gigantes were clearly defined in the myths, distinct by other divine generations. Word "gigantic" is our borrowing to describe "big, powerful".
@@mishkosimonovski23 Yes and No their is 2 kinds of Giants one from people and one of a different race, this can be found in most languages. Hebrew, Nephiliem & Rephiaem and in greek/roman, Titan & the word you used. They are distinct and different One was believed to be part human and part god, the other was a person who became corrupt by some other means(Nimrod), or Became a Renowned hero without any special ability's the king of Edom Alexander the great was one such man.
This is why you have say the catholic church who worships "Saints" but in reality it dates back thousands of years to the Council of Titans in which they would worship Old fallen heroes called titans which where demi gods their spirits would return and help them. heroes like heracles, archilles, so forth so on. SO your right but like most things its far more lengthy and complicated than the history channel would like to make it, by that i mean that most of the so called historians would like to make it.
Which makes sense on some level since it is pretty difficult to explain the whole thing to a normal person who say just went to schools or didn't study such area's to the extreme plus it can get confusing I'd imagine for some people. There's multiple terms for multiple things in every language this is why specific words have been chosen throughout history and even today to represent specific things so that their is no confusion in the meaning. However we know today that corporations & colleges have created confusion in order to profit. So without studying ancient materials oneself and studying the work of so called scholars alot of information gets lost in the transfer for the average person.
I love how the Olympians were just like "Hey, where is Ares?" "Idk, probably out fighting or some shit. He'll be back."
Zues: Athena fetch your brother would you.
Athena: why is always me m
Zues: you too seem so close
Athena think back to Everytime she has humiliated Ares : alright I'll be nice for once
Always appreciate the chance to hear about any of the lesser-known figures in myth and legend.
BTW, I can't be the first person to think that:
Gaia = Tiamet ?
and
Typhon = Kingu ?
This was really entertaining nice job
i've played Skyrim too many times to not realize the background music!!! i love it!!!
I love listening to u. Your voice is so soothing
I love ALL YOUR VIDEOS. So please make a video on 12 giants born to oppose the 12 Olympian gods. Please make it as soon as possible.
Love this channel!
I loved that movie!
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a classic!
More more more!! Liked and subscribed!!
Wow. I loved this. It Really Went into detail. I loved the Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief series too.
Thank you
*He shoved them back at the womb*
Cronus: Put em back, they clearly ain't done yet.
Spends 30 seconds coming out, and the rest of our lives trying to get back in it. He was just saving them the hassle
Nah. He imprisoned them in Tartaros.
AND continue to impregnate Gaia.
He did not stop.
I love this channel so much
Keep up the Great Videos!
Really enjoyed Stephen Fry's retelling of the Gigantomachy in his book 'Heroes'. I liked that Heracles is needed for the gods to win.
I would love to know more about the 3 original Cyclopes, the ones who made the stuff for the gods.
I knew a version where Alcyoneus, being son of Gaia, drew his power from Earth itself, so Herakles lifted him in the air and broke his spine while holding him.
I think that you're thinking of Antaeus because that is what Herakles did to him on his way to steal the golden apples from the garden of the hesperides.
@@Maison05 Most likely I do, he also was one of the giants. I suppose I mixed them up:D
For being so big, they get the short end of many things.
Imagine being Ares and getting caught by two idiots and trapped in a jar.
Edit: if I die unexpectedly... This is why
You still alive?
Awesome video man
Can do a video on orcs next? Please.
I recently found out about something called a "Serpopard". Could you do a video on those?
I know there may be copy right issues or something you’re facing but I loved your videos because when you spoke you matched pictures to describe what you said so well. Now it just feels like another lecture 😭🤷🏼♂️
Preston Cormick they do match but it’s the same one constantly, the old videos had like 7 pictures for each monster he described going through lots of different interpretations of each beast (or whatever creature) he was talking about. It made the videos more interesting. It was supposed to be constructive feedback so back off.
Zeus: As reward for following me into battle you can have one of the daughters' of Olympus. Poseidon give them one you're daughters. Oh and place underwater.
Poseidon: What?
Isnt there a story where zeus finally defeats typhon because by that time the giants he had freed crafted him his lightning bolt which he later throws at typhon?
Hermes stole back the lightning healed his father and the muses gave typhon a weakning drug in his sleep then zeus beat him , typhon was too freaking good at wooping gods ass that the only way to win was to cheat
I like how you have elderscrolls ambient music playing in the background
You had some great lines in this one. Really made me laugh.
Can you please do about different creation stories in mythologies
I'm curious, why do you think you might be interested in that?
omg im so glad i found this channel
Hey I am getting in to writing comics and I love mythology. Where do you get your information from? Also could you do more videos about African mythologies outside of Egypt? Love the content!
Is that Secunda from Skyrim I hear playing in the background at around 20 seconds? Pretty good choice of music
11:00 I thought he was gonna say “... he found time to take a monster dump.”
My video suggestion is for Brutal Punishments in Greek Mythology. Maybe some of the lesser known ones.
@mythology and Fiction Explained Can you make a video explaining how Thor, Loki, & their human servant Pfalifi (I hope I spelled that right) go to Urgard and face the trials of Utgard-Loki please?
You may have not known that there were some other Giants/Gigantes depicted with having snake coils for legs, much like Typhon. You could say Typhon may have inherited it from them.
There was also a Giant or a race of them in Jason's and the Argonauts called Gegenees, were he/they have at least six arms, three on each side to be exact.
I'd classify Typhon, the Cyclopes, and Hecatoncheires as all giants, just different subtypes.
Like a poodle and pitbull are both dogs. Just different breeds.
They phase in & out of time, leaving residual trails from their appendages, hence 100 eyes 60 arms & 30 heads...
Makes you really think what happened to the all the structures that they built an the give that were left behind... So many questions but no body will give up the real story an answer to what the Tru history of the world really is but good story to tell keep them coming thanks
That was a big story LOL Thanks for posting
Hades is a God and the ruler of Hades (by circumstances), so would Typhoon be the personification of the Devil? Father of demons, father of monsters.
Like in the video, he does father a lot of children, but I think the title is more so like “the mother load.” basically calling him a monster among monsters. Hades would be closer to Lucifer/Devil and God/whoever rules heaven, as regardless of what you do in life, your soul goes to Hades for, punishment, paradise, or to wander.
MrRainbowZombieMan Hades is more of a warden in Mythology while Lucifer was an adversary to God.
Kronus wpuld be closer to the Devil, in Greek mythology. Specially when he castrates his father Oranos, which is closer to what the Devil does when he steals Mankind by tricking them to choose disobedience.
Tyler Todd yes in Greek mythology he is
But in real life that job goes to me
Colin Preston that’s what I’m saying. He was made to be a warden of Hades. Tricked by his brothers to govern Hades. He wasn’t much of an adversary to Zeus as Typhoon seems to be, along with others like Kronos (being the leader of the Titans and Zeus’ adversary)
Giants are just misunderstood children who need a hug 😁
I love your videos
Could you do more egyptian mythology videos?
The Hecatoncheires is my favorite.
Best giant: are gegenees the six arms giants
Waiting patiently for the video about Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Hey idk if you are doing Egyptian mythology right now, but can you do a video on thoth?
You need to do the Lost Book of King Od. Otherwise known as the War of the 100,000 Giants, or the War of the Circumcised & Uncircumcised Giants. It is a truly incredible tale that speaks of a war between the two rallied factions of Giants. It has Giants riding rhinos & elephants, & what sounds like dinosaurs & pterodactyls. It speaks of their contempt for the “little people” (which would be us humans) & how we were their slaves, sex objects & sacrificial (dark magic) dinner. They are so busy killing each other, they neglected to notice they killed off all of their women (except one, King Od’s daughter, the Moon Goddess, who was pregnant & in terrible labor). How they were so busy killing each other, they neglected to notice the Flood waters rising. Mind blowing stuff. Gruesome in places. Humorous in other places. More talk of foreskins than you could ever want. Lol 😂 Also easy to see how it wasn’t included into the Bible (You can find several narrated versions of it here on RUclips)
Do you think you could do a video on Achilles?
Where do I know that background music?
Oh wait, its from Skyrim! That's awesome dude
I'm in love with this guys voice. No homo.
Typhon was also (in some stories) the personification of a hurricane.
In early depictions he was a storm giant. In later depictions he became a volcano giant. So, yeah. He could be classified as a giant of the hurricane
The first thing I noticed opening this video was the backgroubd music from Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
There's one factor you didn't mention that would explain all these different types of Giants: incest.
Uranus was Gaia's son. The Titans came out first, looking ok, then the Cyclopes, which came out half ok, and last were the Hecatonchires.
Don't you see the pattern of degeneration?
Also, it makes more sense that Gaia screwed Tartarus and had the Giants and Typhon. First, she had the Giants, looking ok, then Typhon.
I like to believe that the Giants, Cyclopes, etc., Was a subliminal message saying DON'T FUCK YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS
Lord Henry 17 I’ve had the same thought and actually wrote a report on it in Mythology class.
@@arkinyte13 yup. I'm positive ancient civilizations knew the consequences of incest
Why didn't they use humans as example? Why mythological beings?
All gods (with the exception of Hephaistos) were the product of incest. All of them (with the exception of Hephaistos) looked perfectly fine.
Yeah butt fuckers
PLEASE cover Sun Wukong next 😊
I love this vid
Will there be a future video about the castration of Uranus?
Could you cover the Jak of Thailand, the giants with fangs? Thai mythology is full of interesting creatures.
Can you make a video on rattska, from the north mythlogy?
Love your videos but can you make a video about how humans came to life in Greeks mythology please
@Joe Swanson thanks
Do a video on Jason and the Argonauts
Do a series on the Trojan war
I don't know who you are but you're awesome
Can you do a video on Apollo?
could you please do a video about Jason or Odysseus.
who is jason?
Jason and the golden fleece
17:45 I love to think that the Moirae at first had no interest in the fight before one Giant fell on their table while they were playing Bingo and eating cake and then they were like: "You naughty boys earned yourself some clubing from granny..." x,DDD