Miscellaneous Myths: Thoth Gambles With The Moon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2022
- Egyptian mythology is rife with shenanigans, drama and bodily fluids, but today let's talk about a surprisingly SFW myth with a vital role in establishing the calendar year!
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Typhon saying "I have a girlfriend" supports my headcannon that he's so powerful because he's the one thing Zeus could never be; faithful to his wife.
I like that
How faithful Echidna was to him depends on the myth. Some say she had an incestuous relationship with Orthrus, and others say that she possibly had a one-night stand with Heracles.
@@Blokewood3 a lot of people had one night stands with Herakles. Sometimes you produce a hero, sometimes you produce The Scythians.
@@tonlito22 😄 that should be a tagline for a romantic movie.
@@tonlito22 Y'know what I'd take either.
The ancient Greeks spelled Thoth, the Egyptian deity, as Θώθ. Thoth was the god of knowledge, so it would be appropriate to ask, "Θώθ, what's this?"
It's way too early in the morning for that. I giggled for far too long. ^_^
how dare you make my insides hurt so late into the night
* leans into microphone * I have located the Tumblr user. I repeat. I have located the Tumblr user. Over.
Keep the like and leave
I knew this comment was going to be here. And if it already wasn't, I was gonna post it myself
OSP is the only place that I accept characterizations of gods that aren’t explicitly stated in the mythos
“You altered our cosmology for THIS?”
“You left a very exploitable loophole.”
“The YEAR?”
Given the ephemeral nature of the way myths were passed on back in the day, I'd say them spinning it all to be topical is _more_ appropriate than the stodgy, scholarly regurgitation you get elsewhere.
"Your days are numbered, old man."
That's kinda weird ngl. Everyone else has their creativity shackled to what 2000 year long dead people believed?
@@Seetor Abrahamic religions out here like 'I'm in danger'
@@giaxo1739 Osiris being a little tyke.
I love how the little serpent on Ra's headdress is wearing reading glasses when Ra's looking over the new calendar.
Oh my goodness. 💕
wadjet
Said serpent is a Good Snek XD
4:30 I also love how the puppy Set is licking Nephthys' cheek.
OMG I didn't even notice that!!! That's so cute! 🥺
It is times like these that I remember Red did math in college. I don’t think she would be so frustrated by the chaos of calendars otherwise
If God is a divine watchmaker like Newton thought he was then he's not a very good one.
@@merrittanimation7721 that, or he IS One of the people that make the videos that should be perfect but go wrong by a few millimeters, wich Is a fairly horrific possibility to think about because Those things are painfull
@@merrittanimation7721 I think he was more focused on making it beneficial for life rather than trying to make it fit into a specific mold
@@merrittanimation7721 If God were a physicist, we'd have more whole number universal constants. If He were an engineer, calendars would be less of a mess.
I am forced to come to the conclusion that God was a computer programmer.
@@merrittanimation7721 Ngl, likely would be more suspicious of a god that made a perfectly-modular day-month-year cycles. The imperfection makes it okay that we're made to be imperfect ourselves and thus could actually be understood by such a being.
Ra: "I FORBID you from having children any day of the year!"
Thoth: "Life, uh... finds a way."
I’d like to think about it like when you get a new little brother born when you are 20 and deny it because that means you KNOW your folks boned and don’t want to think about it
Just in this case ra is being ra and going “MY PARENTS ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE BABIES IN MY HOUSE! IN MY HOUSE I DECREE NO BABIES!!!”
I can’t read this without Jeff Goldblum’s voice saying it in my head. 🙃
@@Alusnovalotus As it should be 🥰
Thoth and Leto just fist pump.
@@danieloceansmith3156 If someone is 20 and can't admit that their parents bone each other, maybe they should grow up already...
"You left a *very* exploitable loophole."
"The *year* ?!"
"Well, yeah. We hadn't flushed our cosmology out fully."
"Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had control over 1/70th of the moon! Now look what the mortal's are going to do! The calendar is going to be wrong."
"Probably shouldn't tell you about leap years then"
"I'm sorry, the *WHAT* "
ROFLMAO
“Your days are numbered old man.”
Y’know, I just realized, Red went to school for Math, but now she does like nearly *all* of the humanities/arts.
Cultural studies, language (when she has to understand translations and research all the different pronunciations), reading comprehension, writing, speaking/performance, drawing, music (both playing an instrument and singing), and even occasionally full-on animation!
Like wow, that’s so many skills, holy!
Everyone say “thank you, Red!” For sharing all her work with us, and for showing us her journey of growth instead of deleting older videos. It’s incredibly inspiring and encouraging, and I’m personally very thankful for getting to see it!
Ok, I love and agree with all of this 110%, but I would like to call special attention to "and for showing us her journey of growth instead of deleting older videos". I *_HATE_* it when TH-camrs delete videos just 'cause they personally don't like them! There's no reason for that! So, yeah, I'm glad OSP doesn't do that.
@@catbatrat1760 agree 100% i HATE mainly when animation channels delete old videos that aren't good, because It makes It seem like they are some kind of prodigy, when stuff like that takes time and practice
@@nicholassgobero
My guess for why most animators delete their old stuff is because most animators/artists use their channels and socials as extensions of their portfolios (and portfolios are often filled with exclusively polished/presentable pieces for professionalism and for artists to put their best feet forward with businesses/clients/etc.)
Source: I took a Portfolio class where I was among many students that spent the semester creating slightly more finished/polished pieces, because my usual sketchy artwork wasn't gonna cut it.
@@Scarshadow666 makes Sense, never thought of that
Also she just loves space
Sometimes you're just having an off day.
But thanks to this Egyptian myth, five times a year, you're having a *Thoth* day.
That was amazing. Thank you for Heliominating my day.
This is funnier than it has any right to be.
Take my upvote and leave.
Oh gods damn it, take my like and l e a v e
I’m angry but I approve
Red always loves to fill our brains with confusion trying to comprehend the knowledge she just threw at us at the the start of the videos, just so we can be prepared for the incoherence of mythology
Hey, mythology is not stupid. Just like playing make-believe to be more comfortable with the universe isn't either, though.
@@VashdaCrash I know it isn't but in most cases the problems and struggles in the myths could've been solved easily if everyone just had an ounce of morality and common sense
@@alcyone5776 Not everyone has morality and common sense irl so why would they need to in myths? Myths are tellings of the least boring things that happen/can happen.
@@alcyone5776 Yeah well, morality and common sense doesn't grow spontaneously in people's brains. I hope there's a solution to that, and that we're working on it.
@@VashdaCrash Hey, uh... Wanna know why people have different heights? It involves a flying snake tripping in the air.
The fact you draw Khonsu with the infant side braid shows how much you care for historical/cultural accuracy. And that you do your research.
It’s a great drawing but secretly I was hoping for a moon knight rendition lol 😆
And the fact that Khonsu ribs Thoth about not writing down the rules to their game :P
As a cultural dumby, I would like to be educated if you have the time. Please
Yu-Gi-Oh reference?
@@Soulreaper-1129ugh why? that's not accurate AT ALL.
Kind of funny how in Greek mythology, Chronos is upset that one of his sons is going to overthrow him, so he eats them and Zeus eats the mother of his alleged usurper to try to head off a similar prophecy. Ra's just upset that Nut and Geb are constantly bumping fuzzies, so Ra just makes it illegal for Nut to ever give birth on any given day. Why didn't Chronos or Zeus think of that? Oh, yeah. Someone found a loophole.
He eats the mother of his usurper? Not heard that one. I have heard a few where he learns that the object of his lust is fated to give birth to someone who will kill the father and Zeus, having basic pattern recognition, fucks right off to the next woman.
Not related to the children overthrowing part, but Hera DID try to stop leto from giving birth to Artemis and Apollo.
Cause Egypt is older and had time to think.
@@waterdragon3367 True. The difference is that she forbade giving birth on land. Don't remember the loophole.
@@jackielinde7568 There was one island that was just floating for some reason. Also didnt she also kidnap the goddess of childbirth?
Red. Red it's okay. You can just start a series where you talk about space for the sake of talking about space instead of having to come up with an excuse.
I promise we'll like it.
I second this
I third this.
fourth this
Topic for next solo stream maybe?
Or a math series. That would be good too.
The fact humans figured out leap years and it was a concept that was understood enough to become AN ACTUAL DECREE in 200 BCE is absolutely insane to me.
ancient peoples were very good at maths, especially with the Indians, Egyptians and mesopotamians, the issue was that knowledge was lost, not readily available to Europeans, or was considered heretical in some ways since ya homeboy Aristotle and a few others were right about everything (they weren't); you look at the points where Europeans started learning from the Indians, Persians, China and others in the East and Middle East you'll see their maths get a lot better
@@Brian-tn4cd I guess there is a reason we use "arabic" numbers now.
@@gwanael34 yep
It's just geometry.
@@Brian-tn4cd Actually Aristotle himself Acknowledged that the Egyptians were so smart in math. the problem that both Egypt and Mesopotamia are rediscovered civilizations so much of their knowledge was lost to time.
The sheer goddamn _mess_ of a lunisolar calender is also why Julius Caesar had to reform the calendar. Contrary to some popular accounts (especially on Tumbler) the Roman Calendar by then had 12 months (personally I'm skeptical it _ever_ had ten months, our direct evidence for this is pretty scant) and the year started in January (it did _use_ to start in March, which is why the names of the months are so strange e.g. _Sept_ -ember is the 9th month). But the way the Romans kept the calendar in line with the seasons was by inserting an extra month every once in a while. The problem was that the length of a consulship was a _calendar year_ which meant that the people deciding whether or not there was an extra month did so more on the basis of whether or not their allies were in power than on the basis of keeping the calendar in line with the solar year. By 46 BCE this was an absolute mess, so Caesar just removed the lunar element entirely.
This is, btw, not when Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed to July and August. That happened later, after Julius' death and during the reign of Augustus respectively. Various other Roman Emperors also tried to get months named after them (e.g. 'Neronius' instead of April) but it never stuck.
The real mystery of the Roman Calender to me though, is why they named half their months after gods and then just... gave up?? and named them "Month 5" "Month 6" etc. That's just lazy.
The Roman Calendar adjustments being used Solely when it was Politically convenient is one of the pettiest, Potentially Volatile Strategic Mindfucks in classical history. Caesar crossed the Adriatic sea to challenge Pompey during the Roman Civil War by realizing that the calendar hadn't been adjusted in 5 years; therefore, when Pompey thought it was December, it was still Mid-Fall, which made the surprise crossing easy.
@@datdabdoe1417 In fairness, as the Pontifex Maximus, Caesar was literally the one in charge of keeping the calenders aligned in the first place.
He decided to rewrite everything to a more Egyptian based system so nobody *else* could screw around with the extra days after him.
Do you have a source that the Romans had 12 month calendar? Not accusing, just curious b/c I couldn’t find anything on that with a cursory google search.
Giving up on the conceit for a project halfway through is quintessentially human.
"Mars month. Juno month. Er, Julius month? Augustus month? Whatever. 7th month. 8th. 9th..."
@@ericsmith1792 I assume you mean proof that the Roman's had a 12 month calendar by the time of Julius Caesar, and not just that they had one at some point. Because the source for the latter is just... the calendar. We use the Roman calendar today (with some minor adjustments). It has the same 12 months.
As for that the Romans had a 12 month calendar at the time of the Julian reforms, that is well attested. I can't link to sources but there's always Wikipedia. It's not a great source but points you in the direction of better ones.
The 'standard' story goes that the Romans used to have a 10 month lunar calendar (with 30-ish day months) established by the founder Romulus which started in March. This was adjusted to a 12 month calendar by Rome's second king Numa (around 700-ish BCE) by adding January and February. At some point January became the first month. According to Livy this happened in 153 BCE [Livy, Periochae 47, 13-14]* But according to Ovid [Book II, right in the introduction]* it was done by the Decemvirs (long story, but around 450-ish BCE) and according to Plutarch [ch 18-19 of the "Life of Numa" in _Parallel Lives_ ]* Numa made January the first month from the start.
I hope you see why I'm skeptical. All our evidence that the Romans _ever_ had a 10 month calender comes from people writing literally centuries after the fact. They disagree with each other about how the calendar was organized and when the changes were made. They attribute the calendar to legendary figures that never historically existed (I don't know how to tell you this, but there never was a Romulus). And the way they claim the calendar was organized makes little sense (according to some accounts, for instance, the extra 60 or so days in the year were just not on the calendar as an unorganized 'winter'. I'm sorry but I just flatly do not believe that).
In general, our information about the Early Republic, never mind Rome's quasi mythical Kindom period, is _all_ like this. We should take everything about it with big heaping grains of salt. I can't _prove_ the Romans never had a 10 month calendar, but I think it was very unlikely. For an example of a scholar who shares my view, see "the Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine" by Jörg Rüpke.
*Hey look, a citation and everything!
It's weird how gods can just prevent other gods from having babies but there's always a bizarre solution to this problem that makes even less sense than the ability of a god to prevent another's childbirth without being a god intrinsically linked to bearing children.
I always just assumed that the god forbidden from giving birth would just use their godly power to, uh, hold it in, rather than it being the forbidding god's power keeping them from giving birth.
@@tinyetoile5503 yeah but the labour pains must be insane.
Like Hera cursing Leto so that the twins can only be born on solid ground, but any land with roots in the earth was forbidden to accept her, so she went to an island that just floats around
I can't believe Red didn't make that joke!
Ra is the lord of the day. You can't defy him in his domain and since his domain is everyday the only way to defy him is to make voids in time, like Thoth did.
3:34 was the best part for me, just the concept of greek Godzilla being a more loyal spouse than 90% of the greek pantheon
They made a club with Hades, and ZEUS WHINE EVERY YEAR THAT HE'S NOT PERMITTED IN.
And that split second at 3:17 where you hear Legendary Godzilla's roar over Tython just ties so nicely into that.
@@eliasmolck5566 I always liked the idea that in the monster verse Godzilla WAS Typhon.
i mean it's just him and echidna as a permanent item, no?
@@kaimerry1587 Exactly!
I always like that Thoth was like "Okay, yeah, I'm gonna help you two out". I hope he got to be the cool nerd uncle for this.
Ya no by this act is also the fun cool uncle.
betcha he taught all of the kids how to gamble.
They should have created a myth that Khonshu had accused Thoth of cheating him, and to placate his anger, Thoth, Ra, and the other gods had agreed to create one day every four years that was to be dedicated to the veneration of Khonshu, on which no work was to be performed during the day, and the night was to be dedicated to gathering outside and celebrating with food and drink and praise to the Moon.
That sells it to the populace as a vacation/party day, and the priesthood as a religious holiday to increase veneration of the gods. Win/win.
You sir, are a genius!
thats what the mid autumn festival is like in chinese, east, n southeast asian populations around the world
I wish you could go back in time just to suggest this idea - GENIUS.
I don't think you fully understand what it is to be religious
Those 5 days are seen in a negative way and are when Sekhmet is at her most powerful with all the people dying of disease and sunstroke around this time of year; the Lioness is on her yearly rampage with those 5 days being the worst of it. They are not days of veneration, they are days of fear and bad luck. Good luck convincing people to be happy and celebrate on such a time of year. All those mosquitoes definitely won't spread disease more rapidly if they held festivals at this time.
People born on those days were even seen in a negative light, being born on the same day as a god and all; you don't challenge the gods.
For anyone confused by Horus being the son of Geb and Nut in this myth when you probably know him as the son of Isis and Osiris, remember Egypt is a 2000 year old civilization (3000 if we include the Ptolemys). Gods were switched around all the time. Anubis was originally the son of Ra before he was added to the Osiris myth. Ra has a ton of different names (Amun, Amun-Ra, Kephri, etc.), and there are two Horuses. They're referred to as Horus the elder and Horus the younger, and they are sort of two separate deities but also the same person. Egyptian mythology is a mess. A beautiful, furry filled mess.
Ah, cheers. I was honestly puzzled and just checked the few books I had around at home, because I know versions of him being the son of Osiris and Isis, and even seen Hathor and Nephtys being referred to as alternative mothers (& consorts). This one was actually new to me. But yeah, Egyptian mythology is one beautiful mess.
There was also a time when Anubis was the god of the underworld. Then Set did his stabby-butchery murder of Osiris. Anubis was booted off the throne of the underworld to become the judge and god of mummification while Osiris took his job.
@@25Erix I think the transition of power was more peaceful and it probably happened in canon because the religion was shifting to focus more on Osiris and Horus, but Anubis is still the most popular god throughout Egypt. I mean he's an adorable dog headed man who brings you to a happy afterlife and protects your stuff from assholes.
@@chewiecheshire7973 and has no qualms about feeding the unworthy to the Boogeyman known as Ammit.
@@25Erix Most religions have a morality system to encourage good behavior. At least it's better than the greek option where unless you were an amazing super king, you wander around an endless field and forget who you are.
I love how Ra is characterized as a senile grumpy old man with way too much power.
Pretty sure that’s how the Egyptians characterized him as well. Dying and coming back to life over and over again will do that to you.
he was one of the oldest and most powerful of the gods and it showed, scary when he had his wits in order, less so the rest of the time
Apparently that political trend goes back to the dawn of civilization.
@@h0m3st4r And initially having to literally fly between a couple in perpetual missionary position. Yeah, I'd be grumpy AF after a while
To many Egyptians, Ra is kind of like the old grandfather of the family. He's powerful and holds a lot of sway but mostly wants to be left alone. He's seen and done everything and is excruciatingly bored because of it.
I'll never get tired of Red geeking out over space. I hope she does it more.
I loved the space horror video. It felt really good to hear Red actually enjoy her talks for once
@@c4explosivesinyourcartrunk817 does she not usually enjoy them??
Yes
Ra: "you messed with the cosmology for personal reasons?"
Thoth: "for boning"
Ra:"oh. I guess that is a pretty important reason..."
So, does this mean that the 5 party days were kind of like we treat Christmas and New Years today, like ancient Egyptians were talking around the water cooler like "hey man, I can't help it, I was born on the 5 day month"?
They might also not be assigned a month there with it.
Having festival days outside of the normal calendar days would be interesting there...It's something I've considered as part of a D&D game...the festival/holy days being ones that don't count for certain things save for as actually passing time. But you aren't going to find many people working on those days beyond priests and some guard.
Okay saying the nether time between Christmas and New Years is intercalary is big vibes
@@AzraelThanatos Just mentioning, the warhammer fantasy universe has a calendar of 400 days, were 4 of them are just days of celebration for the changes of season outside of any month, and there is two days dedicated to be scared of the moon that are also not part of any month, because they have a moon made of evil. One of those days starts the year and the other is in calendars put in the middle of the year but is literally random and can happen at any time. So there are some practical examples if you want to look them up.
Somewhere online there is a calendar for an entire century of this kind of planet, both solar and lunar, if I am not wrong.
it was actually believed that doing anything important on those days was super unlucky.
There's also the Roman system, pre-Julian calendar, where a job of the priesthood was to add the necessary extra days to a year. This lead, rather hilariously, to a moment where Julius Caesar made a crossing that his opponent believed he could never make because it was winter, when in fact Julius knew it was the middle of fall, he had just never had the opportunity to add those special holidays to the calendar since he was off doing... well, everything else.
Huh, Tolkien wrote that the Shire has a calendar where a year consists of twelve 30-day months, and the other five days are holidays that don't belong to any month. I always thought he just came up with this eminently reasonable solution on his own, but now I wonder...
On an unrelated note, justice for February! Make August and July give back their ill-gotten 31st days!
For....reasons... the Roman's considered February unlucky, which is why it got the short stick.
@@colinmerritt7645 huh, I looked this up and you're completely right, but I seem to remember being told as a kid that some Caesar (possibly Augustus?) wanted the months named after Julius and Augustus to be longer to reflect their more important status, and just filched two days from February in order to do it.
@@NinjaGidget they did choose February to be the month the days were pinched off for a reason
@@NinjaGidget That's a common misconception. The history of the Roman calendar is long and complicated, but February was always the shortest month of the year, probably because it was a later addition alongside January.
Maybe the reason why Khonshu was exiled in Moon Knight was because Ra was still salty over him losing to Thoth and just wanted an excuse to banish him
Lmao
I like that Khonsu got his mythological appearance and not the Moon knight one. Although it’s the same, he is usually depicted as human and only goes to animal head in the book of the dead where he is baboon/bird
Love the interpretation that Thoth does these things not out of the goodness of his heart, but to be some genie-esque trickster that will twist words and reorder the entire cosmology to prove a point.
I love this myth. It's maybe my favorite Egyptian myth. But I always heard it as Thoth gave Nut the idea because Konshu was known to be such a degenerate gambler. And then, out of money, Konshu started wagering moonlight and Nut eventually won enough for 5 days, giving birth to her 5 children on each one of those days. Also, I want someone to write story about a Godly Addict Anonymous. Like Konshu is a gambling addict, Zeus is a sex addict, and IDK, maybe Dionysus is a alcoholic
Just imagine a small child walks up to you and the first thing they say is "Your days are numberd, old man"
I have and it not half bad
"This betrayal of modular arithmetic hurts my soul"
As a fellow math degree holder, I feel that.
I read that as “math dealer” for a second and was perfectly willing to accept that
@@theoctopuscats6510 mmm yes.
You wanna do some math? *sniffs agressively* i got the good stuff today. Partial derivatives, double integrals... I got some good old fashioned mod 12 in the back. What do you say?
@@taproot0619 As more of a language lover Warren Buffet got me interested in math but I don't know how to start loving it. Care to show me the way?
@@M00nsh0t It depends on what it is you are already interested in honestly. If you like automation, then look into coding because that is a beautiful marriage of language syntax and mathematical thinking.
If you like history then you can look into the lives of mathematicians.
If you like art (or acid) then you should look into fractals.
There's something for everyone in math and its all beautiful.
I wish I was smart at math I find Old civilization use of mathematic to be fascinating especially the Mesopotamians
“Your days are numbered old man”
That, my friends, is called a very VERY angry baby.
Somewhat related fun fact: the moon actually does slow down our days. It is drifting away from us, due to complicated tidal effects, but that means that our own angular momentum goes into that drift, rather than us spinning, so in the distant past, the day was much shorter, iirc like 21 hours, and is constantly lengthening as it drifts further away.
I don’t understand what you wrote but you’re FORCING me to believe it!
@@Alusnovalotus The moon is very slowly leaving earth's orbit and making the days longer as it goes.
@@williamgeorge3111 very interesting.
Sometimes, I really want to see/hear Red do full on covers of the songs she sings at the end. This is most definitely one of those times.
Yeah too bad TH-cam and copyright in general is right fucked and the channel would be deleted in a day
Absolutely. I can't stand the official recording of this song but when Red was singing it I found myself bopping along.
I think the main reason she doesn't is because that's wading through copyright territory where you have to sign and agree to a bunch of people's whims in order to pass.
I was a little disappointed it ended so early. There was clearly a little more recorded after the fade out.
@@BonaparteBardithion she probably records a few extra seconds of how long she thinks she needs and then snips it to fit the length of the credits/ snips parts she isn’t proud of
Yay more egyptian mythology
I'd like to thank Rick Riordan for the myth introduction and Red for full explanation
Yup
Kane Chronicles are underrated. Fight me.
@@samrevlej9331 they are
@@samrevlej9331 and sadly the rights are owned by Netflix
Yes
"You left a very exploitable loophole!"
"The YEAR????"
That destroyed me
this is a great entry because it's one of the few mythos videos where Red gets to emphasize the fact that despite doing all the art and mythology research and whatnot, she went to college FOR MATH
I love that Ra's snake headdress has reading glasses 👌🏻 this is peak comedy
and basically reacts the same way his boss does at everything
Calendar geeks: I enjoy figuring out how to make a stable complicated system of dates and numbering them accurately to within a couple million years. The complexity brings me joy.
Also calendar geeks: "this hurts my soul and makes me believe that if there is a God he's a massive asshole."
WHY WASNT IT 360 DAYS IN A YEAR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO PERFECT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASILY DIVISIBLE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 360 LIKE 360° IN A CIRCLE, BUT NOOOOOOO OF COURSE NOT THE UNIVERSE LOOOOVES TO BE SO CONSISTENTLY INCONSISTENT
if god exists i’m gonna bitch slap them so hard for ruining the calendar
Imagine the bullsjit if we existed on the quantum scale
Most Egyptian myths can been ended with: "and then Thoth said: you're welcome"
“So our story begins with the sun god Ra pissed off.”
*Celestial Falcon screech of rage.*
Anubis: “Sounds like Ra’s pissed again.”
Aten: “What do you think he’s mad about this time? Not the right amount of mice for breakfast?”
Osiris: “You know that joke is going to come back and bite you real hard one of these days.”
Edit: So I made this comment a little too early, as I didn’t know that Osiris came after this event.
Actually I don’t think Anubis was even born yet…
@@jaykay8426 *shrug*
@@jaykay8426 correct, Anubis is regularly said to be the son of Set.
Bro just hit us with a fireass supermove name.
@@user-tw3rh9po4t what? The Celestial Falcon title?
4:36
"Your days are numbered old man"
Should've taken that threat seriously, Ra
🤣🤣😐
I went to go visit the Newark Ohio Earthworks the other day and it's a indigenous prehistoric earthwork system that was used to track the cycles of the Moon. Very interesting.
Red should do a whole foul swoop of Egyptian myths. Hearing her talk about them is super cool and especially when she covers their connections to the Greeks myths
Foul Swoop sounds like a rare creature from the Barrens
She could do that, except for one important limitation.
Swooping is bad.
And then take the opportunity to throw in as many Yu-Gi-Oh referencing background jokes as possible.
Highlight from the Journey of Ra video:
*guardian gods fishing in the sky river*: "Who's sacrificing trading cards?"
I love how it's about halfway through the video that red actually gets to the myth because she's just so mad about the lunar calendar not working properly
4:30
❤cute babies!!
Look at Nephthys being sweet to Set and Horus's tiny beak 😆
Yeah but can we talk about how his feathers are DOWNY, who thinks about the physiology of baby gods besides Red?
Yes and small baby Isis telling ra a death threat
@@nobodysanything2330 I always imagined baby Horus as a fluffy little cloud with a beak..... 🥺 * cries in unknown, talentless artist *
Jokes aside, ya right. It's an awesome (cute) detail.
Baby Isis was coming for Ras name from day 1
You may find it interesting that The Forgotten Realms (D&D) uses a 360 day calendar with 5 holidays that add an extra day with a 6th holiday only celebrated every four years that, again, adds an extra day.
In order to _really_ confuse people there are 12 months with 3 'weeks' that consist of 10 days each, which are predictably called tendays.
It's just the right blend of silly and sensible that I could reasonably imagine an actual civilization would actually use it.
You know, I think they based that off of the French Republican Calendar because that's exactly how it was arranged.
@@merrittanimation7721 it's partially based off the French Republic calendar, partially based on easy math. Both the tenday and the week exist. Spells and stories will make reference to a week/7 days, but while players can easily get a vibe when an NPC says something happened "three weeks ago", for traveling and keeping a calendar of an entire campaign, it can be difficult for a DM to have to learn or constantly reference another calendar. This book says it takes 3 months to cross the contintent, well how many days exactly is that? Well if you make every month the same length, weird things don't happen. What day of the week is it? Good news, you don't need to look at a calendar and it doesn't matter what year it is. Years are kept the same length as the real world so that when players are told something happened "20 years ago" they're imagining the same 20 years as the DM means. And since it's a fantasy world, a year can be exactly 365 days. Or if it isn't (a 6th monthless holiday wasnt in the sourcebook i first learned it from, so it must have been from an earlier edition) the leap day can account for it perfectly. And the moon cycle is exactly 30 days.
And then scrap it all because a prince was born with 12 fingers...
“It’s not clear why this bugs him so much.”
…I just. There’s so many reasons why I can’t stop laughing.
everyone's a third wheel when the sky and the earth start getting it on
One thing I love about Egyptian mythology is that there isn't really a consistent timeline. In this myth, Thoth is older than Horus and Set, but in a manuscript from the 1100s BCE (if I remember correctly), he's their child. In that telling, Set accidentally swallows some of Horus's semen (how? I have no idea), and Thoth later emerges from Set's forehead, after which he mediates their fight. This is kind of a cool parallel with Athena, since they're both gods of wisdom born from another god's forehead. In other myths, he's sometimes described as being self created and then laying the egg that contains the universe, or "born of the lips of Ra".
Could it be that the god of wisdom ran a disinformation campaign to hide his true lineage?!
i think it was lettuce
Freaking lettuce man
Of all the ancient deities I have ever read about, Thoth is by far my favorite. Currently working on and off on a historical fantasy in which Thoth is a main character.
Are you making a book or comic about it?
@@davidkoudelka10 Book.
I hope you'll be able to get it published, I'd love to read it.
@@dezaki96 Aww thanks. I hope so too!
that sounds cool i'd love to read it
Its always a good day when osp uploads
Every Friday
Agreed
@@aubreytracey5396 Fridays are great
When I saw the title my Norse obsessed mind read it as Thor Gambles with the moon. Funny how that work and after watching the video I now wants to know the Norse myth version of the yearly calendar.
"You left a *very* exploitable loophole."
Spoken like a true lawyer...wait
THOTH, GOD OF LAWYERS!!! Someone kill me before I make a whole fucking pantheon from this idea xD
Please live and create the pantheon-
Better call Thoth!
Dewit!
Listening to Red rant about how major astronomical cycles almost but don't quite line up
I think I'm in love.
The video in a nutshell:
Local Lunar Deity loses to Ibis-headed God of Wisdom.
Hearing Red talk about math: * slowly escalating internal screaming *
Hearing Red talk about the myth behind the eldritch numerology: Aaah, happy place.
Context: I suck at math
Mythology is better than math anyway. 😆
Math-ology
3:08 Weeeelll, the Greeks weren't the only ones doing it. The Phoenecians and the Etruscans did too, though who did it first is hard to say. The Pyrgi tablet is a bilingual inscription by an Etruscan king at an Etruscan temple to an Etruscan goddess (Uni) that calls her Astarte in the Phonecian section. Later, there are many inscriptions that call gods by both Etruscan and Roman names.
Its things like this that make me thing, "how the hell is this so interesting?". I never knew that so many anicient civilizations had so many different ways to explain the yearly cycle. And the extra chaos factor that the lunar cycle and leap years add.
So thrilled I was at my computer for this drop. Yay more Egyptian mythology! 🥰
That syncretism gag, though, with "...other cultures were really worshiping the Greek gods, but just... wrong," and sudden pan up to Anubis's head, was just comic genius! Also, that particular Anubis is the bestest of good bois and I will never again be able to find Anubis terrifying in any way.
So far, in OSP’s vids on Egyptian mythology, we’ve seen Ra being senile, petty as hell, and dying every day only to be reborn as a scarab beetle guy. I don’t know how the last relates to the first two, but I feel like it somehow fits with this characterization
You know my absolute favorite thing about Horus and Set; these two once seemed to have been the respective chief gods of Lower (North) and Upper (South) Egypt, and when the legendary king Narmer unified Egypt, his patron was Horus. So in a way, the mythical duel of Horus and Set with Set as the loser is a mythologization of this ancient war between Upper and Lower Egypt.
On top of that, Set became a kind of patron and symbol of outsiders, which didn't help his New Kingdom and Hellenised portrayal as a purely evil being, rather than someone who has an important cosmic role as lord of the desert.
One or two Second Dynasty pharaohs had Set as their patron deity instead of Horus. You can see this in their naming conventions, where the usual "Horus name" is instead replaced by a "Set name". There's even one pharaoh (Khasekhemwy) that put both Horus and Set on top of the serekh symbol enclosing their name. This didn't last long though, and after that all pharaohs strictly had Horus names. So this definitely adds more evidence that there was a struggle between two different religious groups even after the official unification of Egypt, and that the Horus party eventually won out in the end.
@@ascendingfire8404 Possibility; An OSP for Set, with Red losing her mind over the complex history. After Loki, Hermes and Aphrodite, she should be better prepared.
@@ascendingfire8404 Set had a popularity really variable through the 3000 years of egyptian history, like he was an important figure in the protection of several dynasties, even though only a handful of pharaohs officially took Set's names. All the Ramessides liked Set for example, and Ramessou II' father was caled Sethi, which means "born from Set".
And even in myths, Seth is often portrayed as a defendor of Ra on his journey through the underworld, so he's not a super evil bad guy ^^
I’m so glad Red speaks at the speed my brain thinks because I haven’t been able to pay attention to a single video today except for this one.
The children of Nut look so adorable!!! I love how fluffy Horus is! 💕 And look at baby Isis ominously threatening the omnipotent mother and father of all gods 🥹💞
I'm honestly suprised there aren't more responses on this! They are SOOO adorable!😭❤
Funnily enough, the days / months / years rabbithole turns into a proper rabbit warren when you consider that the length of a day (solar or sidereal) changes over the course of the year. Because Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, the Earth travels faster in some parts of its orbit than in others (it's faster around perigee, and slower around apogee). Hence, if you observe the position of the sun at the same time each day (time as measured by a clock, that is), the positions don't form a simple vertical line as we cycle through the seasons : it instead forms a figure-eight. This is the analemma.
I read the title as Thor gambles with the moon and got really confused when she started talking about Egyptian mythology and not Norse
I read this comment as Thoth gambles with the moon and got confused as to why you mentioned norse mythology
Fun fact: when Julius Caesar used the Egyptian calender as the basis for reforming the Roman calendar, those extra days were added to the end of some months (mostly every other month, and enough to offset February having only 28 days as well since February was considered an unlucky month). This is why some months have 31 days.
The French Republican calendar also tried to do the whole 5 extra days that don't belong to any month thing as well. We should give it another try.
Have you ever come across Shire Reckoning?
You might want to check that little chunk of Tolkien's world-building out sometime if you haven't.
Yeah, put those extra days between Christmas and new year, no one gets anything done that week anyways
Edit: and we could have just four weeks in a month with two extra days for biweekly long weekends, that way each week is either coming out of or going into a long weekend.
The French Republican calendar is cringe, just like everything else the Revolution government came up with.
And then Julius got a month named after himself!
@@DISTurbedwaffle918 wrong
3:14 Greeks: "Egypt, why are all your gods furries!?"
Egyptians: why are most of your gods horny ?
I had a good healthy laugh at "Your days are numbered, Old man" Thank you Red
Hell yes more Egyptian mythology ^.^
2:37 "so today let's talk about how those 5 days got tacked on", Red says halfway through the video
It actually makes sense as to why Ra would he worried about her giving birth, because she would produce heirs that would eventually overthrow him, kind of how Zeus and his siblings overthrew Chronos 😳
Seems to be pretty common in those sort of myths.
I spent way too long trying to figure out the hieroglyphs at 3:50 😅
From what I could find, the first line is the letters I and M followed by the symbol meaning "not" or "do not"
The second line is just the hieroglyph for "birth" or "born"
And the third line means "360 days" (literally, the sun disc as a determinative referring to time, followed by the numbers 300 and 60)
So while I'm not sure about the I and M, I can safely say that Red definitely did her research - more research than I did, since I'm just using Wikipedia. 😆
Wikipedia is usually accurate, but multiple sources are good.
This is very interesting, but I admit I cannot help but picture this coming up in a future season of Moon Knight. Mark and Stephen talking about Konshu, Stephen mentions that he gambled with Thoth once and lost some of his moonlight, and Mark just mocking Konshu for getting his ass beat in a game of chess or whatever the Egyptians played as an equivalent.
Great video Red, gave me some interesting talking points with my Lunar Pagan parent
Egyptians were very fond of a board game called Senet, which Red mentions.
That would be hilarious.
Your Lunar Pagan parent? Are you one of Khonsu's modern worshippers?
@@johnburnside7828 isn't so similar to the one discovered in UR?
@@davidkoudelka10 I am not, nor is he. My parent is Celtic pagan, and I am Nordic pagan
The math degree really came out in this one, huh? Love it. Calendars are cruel when you look at them for more than 2 seconds and its satisfying to know everyone ever has delt with that
Meanwhile, the Roman lunar calendar was so bad that Julius Caesar basically weaponized it in the civil wars. As Pontifex Maximumus he was in charge of correcting the calendar so that it lined up with the seasons, and just didn't one year so that his enemies would stop blockading the strait between Italy and Greece during what they thought was winter (a bad time for sailing) when it was actually still autumn, allowing him to sneak a good chunk of his army into Greece before the Pompeians realized they'd been had. After the civil war, Caesar made a new calendar based off the Egyptian one.
Clickspring (who is doing a deep dive into the Antikythera Mechanism) did a really good video talking about dating systems from the ancient Greek/Egyptian time period based on how it was tracked via that bit of machinery. He also makes Very very pretty videos.
Can we just appreciate how far Red's guitar playing has come? Shit's been fire, and it's more fire now!
Egyptian Mythology had always been my favorite (with Greek being a very close second), so it's really nice to see this channel making another video on it.
Great video again, Red! I especially love your little mathematics and calendar rant. Very insightful.
Also glad to see Khonsu here! I'm a big fan of him since playing SMTV. I know he isn't exactly characterized exactly to his mythical canon, but still a cool dude.
Your little baby Egyptian Gods are adorable, especially little fuzzy Horus.
I wonder if any Egyptian priest or pharaoh was like, "An important deity has just spoken to me, and demanded that a 366th day be celebrated every four years."
For anyone who hasn't seen it, consider a 28 day, 13 month calendar. Each month begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday and is always the same length. You can say "plan for the 12th" and it will always be a Friday, any month, any year. However, there's a single day left out of it, New Years Day. It's not a weekend or weekday, it's special and leap years give you two days off work.
This solves a lot of my issues with calendar (besides maybe names), and makes planning for holidays really easy unless you still follow the moon and your name is Easter.
13*28 = 364 days, either you add a day which does not belong to any month (plus another day each four years), or your calendar will be off by one day and a quarter every year.
Which means that in 121 years, Christmas would be in July :p
I haven't seen this before and I love it - the transition would actually be pretty smooth, I think, since it's so consistent. But you just know the whole world would transition over in a show of global unity and the United States of America would stubbornly refuse, stick to the nonsensical system (that they always complain about anyway) and make it a nightmare to trade/ coordinate with them XD
@@krankarvolund7771 already accounted for in the 4th and 5th sentence of the OG comment, so the proposal is solid :)
@@Keltaryn My bad ^^
Ra’s face with all the kids around him is priceless.
The reason Ra made the rule was because, from the version I remember, a voice (unidentified so maybe a primordial god) proclaimed to all the gods including Ra that a child of Newt would be the new king. This was Osiris. It’s kind of like the Greeks father son power myths except Ra gives up when, a video y’all did before which was hilarious, Isis learns Atoms real name is Ra he is like “okay, I’m useless…. You’re king Osiris.” And just chills on the side. Great video, love y’all’s stuff (except the creator comment at the beginning😅)
Oh it's that story where Khonshu helps Nut by giving her more hours !
I've heard about it when people talked about Khonshu's powers on time/changing the night sky.
Ahah OSP did a story kinda related to Khonshu I'm happy xD
4:00 Khonshu : D That would've been a perfect story for March!
So basically from 0:10 to 1:30 my mind just blanked out from all the knowledge 🙃
Ahhhhh! Finally! Yes!! I wrote a paper in college about the history of the Egyptian calendar and this myth! One of my favorite myths as a science teacher. Thanks Red!!!
Your song pairings are one of my favorite parts of this series. They're always so on point and it makes me smile a big, dumb, wide grin. Thank you!!
Red, thank you, you covering this myth inspired me to include it in one of my fanfics: Marik Ishtar tells an abridged version of it to his four-year-old daughter as a bedtime story. It was a cute scene I had a lot of fun writing.
1:35 It’s just like my old math teacher- making numbers more complicated for no justifiable reason!
Who hopes Red talks about the myth where a Spartan Queen beats up Hera which explains why Hera resorts to curses instead of just killing them directly?
What's this Queen's name? This sounds amazing haha
The Spartan Queen did what now? I need that story now.
I need this story in my life NOW
@@simeonwashington9995 I don’t remember, the most I remember is that Zeus transformed into a Swan
@@uria3679 Oh Leda!
I am so here for seeing Red's depictions of the egyptian gods they are my absolute favorite and they always look brilliant in her artstyle
For half the video, Red just talks about the Egyptian Calendar’s flaws, she is the perfect Human Being
“If there is a creator god responsible for the turning of the celestial wheels, they’re a real ASSHOLE”
-Red, 2022
"OK, so I'll make it about...eh... this size and poke it to get it moving"
Red: how dare you?
It's been a while since Egypt was the subject of these videos, so I'm glad to see them come back 😊
Love these videos, so informative and the song selections are chef’s kiss.
4:26 Can we appreciate the fact that Ra’s snake headdress is wearing little glasses as it(?) and Ra are looking at the scroll?
Great fan of your channel as a whole and miscellaneous myths in particular.... you have covered a lot of Greek,Norse and Egyptian myth but a only 2 indian/Hindu myths.... would be over the moon if you would cover more of that... there are tons of deep and hilarious stories there.....
SEPTemper, OCTober, NOVember and DECember not being the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months in the calendar always really bothered me too until I heard the reason that they aren’t. Don’t know if it’s true but I heard that a couple of Romans, Julius Caesar and his heir Augustus, got the bright idea that they deserved to have a month named after themselves so now we have July (Julius) and August (Augustus) shoved in between June and what would have been the 7th month September.
That's actually not quite the case. The Romans originally started the year from March (the month named after Mars, a very important god to the Romans). If March if the first month, September, October, November, and December are indeed the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month (apparently the Romans just gave up on the whole "let's name the months after the gods" thing partway through and just numbered the rest). However, at some point the Romans switched to starting the year from January, causing the names to no longer match their number. The months now known as July and August were already between June and September, but had different names before Caesar and Augustus named them after themselves (I assume they'd be Quintember and Sextember now if the renaming didn't happen). Caesar and Augustus weren't actually even the only Romans to name months after themselves. Both Caligula and Nero did it as well, but in those cases the name didn't stick for long after their deaths.
Red when talking about the Mayan calendar: this is important, because it causes modern day chaos
The coolest thing about the calender we are using (gregorian calendar) is that is extremly close to the actual span of a year.
The actual lenth of a year is 365,2422 days, while
the year in the calendar is 365,2425 - meaning only in the 4th place after zero it is minimally off - 26 seconds in total.
That's absurdly impressive, considering we've had this since the 16th century.