I'm not one of those annoying people that think they know everything about Greek mythology but I actually knew about this God I was obsessed with ancient mythology growing up to the point that my teachers thought I was autistic because I was the only fourth grader that wouldn't play and would stay in a corner reading a book about ancient gods 😅 also as a hermaphrodite my self thanks for bringing hermaphoditus to light ❤
why does Momos ridicule Korn. Korn's i as an awesome band oh ok you apologized hehe JonSolo. God mockery and sarcasm eh? Sounds like the life the party next the guy who mocked a king with donkey ears. I'm going to Tarturus and Helhiem for my next Vacay!!!
My favorite Greek mythology family is Nyx and her children. Nyx is the primordial goddess of the night And her children consist of Thanatos, god of Death (not the dead, that's hades) Nemesis, goddess of divine retribution Hypnos, God of sleep Momus, God of mockery Oizys, goddess of pain Eris, goddess of discord and strife And Philotes, goddess of friendship
Maybe do a series on the Slavic Gods like Vesna, Dodola, and Perun. The Slavic Gods in general seem less well known than those in other pantheons Also, I was hoping Momos ridiculing corn was the origin story for how corn hole started.
Here are some lesser known deities -Asteria, Greek goddess of the stars -Anua, Coahuiltecan goddess of the Moon and Rain -Taweret, Egyptian goddess of women and children(probably more known now thanks to moon knight)
@@IsaacMyers1 It's in the same setting and has crossed over so pretty much. Something about her being the girlfriend or wife or something to the god of homes? Remember him showing up to babysit the Kanes in... either it was the second or third book? I think? Been years.
Donkeys are actually very mean and protective of their area. Farmers will use them to protect herds from wolves and bears. They don't play any games when it comes to k9's.
The key to pronouncing "Salmacis" is to remember that, when it was first written in Latin, the Roman alphabet had no letter K, and the letter C was generally used where a Greek word was spelled with the letter kappa.
Initially, the Latin letter C represented both hard K and G sounds (the early Romans didn’t distinguish between voiced and voiceless velar plosives). Eventually, through the influence of Greek and neighbouring Celtic languages, the letter G was invented for the voiced sound. By the end of the first century CE, (probably also due to Greek and Celtic influences), both Latin C and G began to differentiate between hard (velarised) and soft (palatised) sounds, producing the variant pronunciation that we find in Romance languages (and English) today. In the early days of the Roman Empire, SALMAKIS would have been the standard pronunciation. By the end of the second century CE, SALMASIS would have been more usual throughout most of the Western Roman Empire. In the original Greek, however, it is spelt with a K, so there is a good argument to retain the original SALMAKIS pronunciation, regardless of later changes in the Latin language.
What happened to Hermaphroditus was tragic. He was straight up assaulted, forced to merge with a female he didn't want touching him. That description was so rapey. I mean, I get it. I just feel so bad for him going through that. I was so sickened listening to the story. He was even a minor.
The births of Dionysus and Athena led to interesting interpretations by Neoplatonists. They said that Zeus giving birth means that the godhead embraces both the male and female principles of the universe.
Here's a few lesser gods. Greek: Angelos daughter of Zeus and Hera and Angelia the daughter of Hermes. Egypt: Dua god of toiletry and Fetket Ra's butler. I probably could list more Egyptian gods, but I don't think there's enough room for me to list them. lol
@@kahliajade8871 Yep! I was just giving him a small sample of lesser known deities he could cover. He's done her. I know more Egyptian gods then Greek.
Btw, Momo is the king of Brazilian carnival. Each city makes a context for choosing their own king Momo and the mayor gives them the city's key so they are officially the city head during carnival
Silenus was in the first Narnia book. He was a fat man following Bacchus, and the Bacchantes were responsible for catching him when he drunkenly fell off his donkey.
@@coppernelson7841 It is "Narnia". :) Bacchus, Silenus, and the Bacchantes joined in Aslan's celebration march/dance with Susan and Lucy. Bacchus gave wine from the well that cured the dying old woman. I loved that part of the books best of all.
@@seloheist Yep. I'm using Bacchus in paraphrase of CS Lewis, since he said Bacchus in the book. He's often rather cavalier that way, with his mixtures of mythos. But I love the books for their glorious jumble of Greek, Roman, Irish, Hebrew, and Norse characters.
she was on my list actually! I only passed on her because of how many times we've discussed her role in Heracles's birth, but she's a great candidate for our next Greek installment :)
@@lightborn9071The word we use now is "intersex". Hermaphrodite is outdated and sensationalist, kinda like calling someone a Siamese twin rather than a conjoined twin.
@@dorothypierre754 Exactly. It makes people like that out to be spectacles, things to be stared at behind glass and bars, instead of, you know, actual humans.
Hey Jon Solo! Might I suggest you look into the gods and immortals of Taoist mythology? The Eight Immortals are a good place to start, such a fun and interesting lot. Thanks!
Hello Jon solo, I have a question. Is there any version in the Adonis myth where it is mentioned that the relationship between Persephone and Adonis was only between mother and son, if so who wrote it or where it is mentioned?I love your videos greetings
It's weird how little people know how Loki is ACTUALLY related to the rest of the aesir. That being how he's pure frost giant cast from his clan and became oath-brother to Odin. Making him Thor's uncle, and his children (including an 8-legged horse, a giant snake, a giant wolf, & and a Tim Burton creation) all Thor's cousins.
I actually DID hear about Hermaphrodite. I remember hearing the word and recognizing the “Aphrodite” part, but I thought it was just a word structure until I looked it up.
Ooh I loved this episode about lesser-known gods! And yes, I am going to be one of those who says I have heard of all three, but that's only because I spend an ungodly amount of time on Theoi 😅 lol. Here are some more lesser-known gods you could talk about: Angelia - goddess of messages, daughter of Hermes Arce - sister of Iris, messenger of the Titans, represented the faded second rainbow that is sometimes seen accompanying a rainbow Eilleithyia - daughter of Zeus and Hera, goddess a childbirth, played a role in the birth of Heracles Empusa, Lamia, Mormolyceia - succubi/vampiric-like daemons Mnemosyne - goddess of memory (among other things), mother of the nine Muses (their conception was, uh, quite interesting lol) And speaking of the Muses, obviously not unknown goddesses, but maybe you could talk about all the different groups of goddesses? Like the Muses, the Seasons (Horae), things like that.
Callimachus and Leon Batista Alberti mentioned by Jon in the same video? Boy this is my lucky day! They're some of my favorite virtually unknown writers
Silenus is mentioned in the chronicles of Narnia, specifically prince Caspian and is on a donkey! Hermaphrodite creatures are common in biology (im a biologist) and knew there was a Greek so yes i have herd of two, but not there stories only that people had names for them
Here are a few lesser known gods: -Vertumnus, gods of the seasons -Agdistis, another androgynous deity -Bendis: goddess of the hunt and the moon -Neith: Creator goddess of war, the hunt and weaving -Enyo: Goddess of war -Epona: goddess of horses -Nerites: Aphrodite's 1st love -Apedemak: god of war -Amesemi: moon goddess -Atargatis: fertility goddess -Ala: goddess of the earth and morality
Hey Jon! Love your videos! A suggestion for lesser known gods I would love for you to make videos on would be Aztec and Mayan gods. Thanks for your videos!
In the classical languages, ",C" is almost exclusively pronounced as "K" so Ceasar is "kaesar" Tacitus is "takitus, cicero is "kikero" circus i "kirkus" and so on. Cerberos "Kerberos" and i can go on with plenty of more examples.
Dude I can’t stand how in Greek myths the rape victim is given to the rapist as a prize or is punished for being so attractive as to catch the attention of the rapist or for not doing “enough” to fight off the rapist. This happens way too often IRL too. The victim blaming/shaming while praising/rewarding the rapist.
As a suggestion, if you haven't done it, is Frau or Mother Holle or Hulda, Holle has many other names, from some sources she is or was a former deity, a fairy, or something else. Most of the information I could find talks about her, mostly from Brother Grimm's fairy tales, but from what I could tell, her tale is far older than that.
Heard of two out of three of these. Not the god of mockery. Didn’t know that was a thing either. Have you ever covered the primordial Greek diet? I mean the ones from before the Titans? Nyx, Erebus, Aether, Chaos, those ones?
When you announced this episode last episode I was so excited because I thought for sure it was finally going to be the elusive Momos episode. I was so happy to find that I was right! For context, I'm the one that first brought up the deity of Momos 2 years ago. I forgot which video it was but I do remember you saying you screenshotted it so you wouldn't forgot the "muse" who inspired. I also kept a screenshot of the comment on my phone too so I could be prepared to say how long it was since you responded to my comment (I just wish I remembered what video it was). lol Anyway, the episode was entertaining and worth the wait. Momos sure has some balls on him, well I guess not anymore. XD I don't really have any deities to suggest this time. I still think talking about Tiresias would be funny though because of the unfortunate situation they had to settled between Zeus and Hera due to their unique experience.
The only one I haven't heard of was Momos. I heard of Selinus from your video about Dionysus, and Hermaphrodites by accident when I was checking some source material for a story.
Knew about Silenus, but not the details. Also, wasn't wine-making technically invented when Zeus made the "potion" that he gave Semele? Also knew about Hermaphroditus. Looked 'em up just recently for some context, was surprised to find out that he was born male, but was merged with a woman, to become intersex. Interesting stuff. Sadly, that's pretty much all there is to his\ their myth. But apparently Hermaphroditus inspired some really nice neo-classicist art, so that's something, at least. Since you started talking about Hermaphroditus, might I suggest Inanna? A Sumerian virgin-goddess of war, whose priests were either gay, inter-, or transsexual? Apparently she's pretty popular with the LGBT crowd because of this. You should totally do more Middle-Eastern deities in general. Arabic and Jewish pre-Islam and pre-Judaism deities were pretty interesting. Also, cover some more Native American beliefs, because everybody knows about the Wendigo and Skinwalker (sometimes these get conflated), but fewer people know about other spirits, heck, even the Thunderbird or the White Buffalo (if we're talking about NA). In SA there's Pachamama, which is an Earth goddess in the Andean region of Peru, if I remember correctly. Methinks the current name is a mix of native and European languages, but I'm not sure.
Just letting people know that people with sexual characteristics of of more than one sex (born not through surgery) are referred as intersex and people who are not are referred to endosex. While hermaphrodite was used in the past and used when talking about non human animals it is considered rude.
While I'd known about all three, the only reason I knew of Momus is from having lived in New Orleans for 15 years -- one of the old-line Mardi Gras Krewes are the Knights of Momus
From what I've read, Hamafrditus also curse That's pool, so anyone bathed or accidentally fell in would become just like him😅😅😅 Just the Greeks trying to explain something didn't understand
@addison_v_ertisement1678 I totally forgot the proper word, not trying to be offensive or anything.Just can't remember the right word For the greeks, instead of understanding that somebody was born like that, they assumed that person was cursed
you should talk about Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory) sometime :) They are the names of Odin's ravens and also the names of my black cats. They watch over mankind and report what they see to Odin.
I don't know if you've made a video of this before, but I'd love to know all of Nyx the Goddess of Night's kids. She's got some weird ones that are gods of like, negative emotions; Nemesis I think is one of the more well-known but I may be wrong. I find Nyx fascinating because she's a primordial Goddess, one of, if not THE first depending on what you're reading. You'd think her kids would be more worldly or elemental and not so human-centric.
You might want to do a little research on Hermaphrodites because their story is more involved. Ovid made stuff up to prove points all the time. In older stories, they were born both male and female. And don't get me wrong, I think you did a good job showing what you know, and I love that you added how the trickster god shows up in tarot cards. I knew of him, but not his name. Also, even if I've heard of a god, I'm still delighted to see content on them.
So there’s this old Disney animation, I believe it’s called Pastoral Symphony. There’s nymphs and satyrs partying , and at one point this fat little man comes in riding on a donkey and drinking, everyone seems to be worshiping him too. I always assumed it was Dionysus but could he have been Silenus ?
Hermaphroditus is the only one out of all 3 of these I have ever heard, but never knew his story. It is nice to learn something new, and his story, as well as the first 2 is interesting.
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I'm not one of those annoying people that think they know everything about Greek mythology but I actually knew about this God I was obsessed with ancient mythology growing up to the point that my teachers thought I was autistic because I was the only fourth grader that wouldn't play and would stay in a corner reading a book about ancient gods 😅 also as a hermaphrodite my self thanks for bringing hermaphoditus to light ❤
Do elysian fields as a tourist poster
Love your videos fam.
why does Momos ridicule Korn. Korn's i as an awesome band oh ok you apologized hehe JonSolo. God mockery and sarcasm eh? Sounds like the life the party next the guy who mocked a king with donkey ears. I'm going to Tarturus and Helhiem for my next Vacay!!!
I love your video bruh!!!
awesome content as always.
My favorite Greek mythology family is Nyx and her children.
Nyx is the primordial goddess of the night
And her children consist of
Thanatos, god of Death (not the dead, that's hades)
Nemesis, goddess of divine retribution
Hypnos, God of sleep
Momus, God of mockery
Oizys, goddess of pain
Eris, goddess of discord and strife
And Philotes, goddess of friendship
Why not throw in Morpheus in there as well, while we're at it?
I love how even Zeus is afraid of her
Philotes is an anime protagonist 💪
Also i just love how some of the siblings is like Dark and Edgy, then theres Phil and Hypnos chillin.
My name sake! Nyx and Hecate are my girls!
Don’t forget Aether and Hemera, the primordial god of light and primordial goddess of the day respectively
Legit actually disappointed that Momos doesnt ridicule corn
He probably does, but he ridicules everything else, so corn wouldn't be unique.
He was probably the first to call the crop, and everyone who grows it, *corny*
Momos: I’ll take “Swords” for 500 drachmas, Athena!
Athena: That’s “S Words!”
when you are the god of mockery, i'm sure corn isn't a banned topic. he probably mocks everything.
Maybe do a series on the Slavic Gods like Vesna, Dodola, and Perun. The Slavic Gods in general seem less well known than those in other pantheons
Also, I was hoping Momos ridiculing corn was the origin story for how corn hole started.
Here are some lesser known deities
-Asteria, Greek goddess of the stars
-Anua, Coahuiltecan goddess of the Moon and Rain
-Taweret, Egyptian goddess of women and children(probably more known now thanks to moon knight)
I knew Taweret from the kane chronicles, literally just percy jackson but egyptian.
Taweret was also a goddess of the hippopotamus and rivers.
I don't really think that Taweret is lesser known goddess...
@@IsaacMyers1 It's in the same setting and has crossed over so pretty much. Something about her being the girlfriend or wife or something to the god of homes? Remember him showing up to babysit the Kanes in... either it was the second or third book? I think? Been years.
Jon made a video on Taweret already.
Donkeys are actually very mean and protective of their area. Farmers will use them to protect herds from wolves and bears. They don't play any games when it comes to k9's.
also foxes and snakes
No kidding. There is a picture online of a donkey yeeting a coyote by grabbing its head in its mouth.
The key to pronouncing "Salmacis" is to remember that, when it was first written in Latin, the Roman alphabet had no letter K, and the letter C was generally used where a Greek word was spelled with the letter kappa.
I thought this was a joke about the japannese folklore criature called kappa haha
@@gabi.a No matter what television LEOs would have us believe, there are coincidences.
Initially, the Latin letter C represented both hard K and G sounds (the early Romans didn’t distinguish between voiced and voiceless velar plosives). Eventually, through the influence of Greek and neighbouring Celtic languages, the letter G was invented for the voiced sound. By the end of the first century CE, (probably also due to Greek and Celtic influences), both Latin C and G began to differentiate between hard (velarised) and soft (palatised) sounds, producing the variant pronunciation that we find in Romance languages (and English) today. In the early days of the Roman Empire, SALMAKIS would have been the standard pronunciation. By the end of the second century CE, SALMASIS would have been more usual throughout most of the Western Roman Empire. In the original Greek, however, it is spelt with a K, so there is a good argument to retain the original SALMAKIS pronunciation, regardless of later changes in the Latin language.
Something about Silenus & Dionysus makes me think of Rick & Morty lol
What happened to Hermaphroditus was tragic. He was straight up assaulted, forced to merge with a female he didn't want touching him. That description was so rapey. I mean, I get it. I just feel so bad for him going through that. I was so sickened listening to the story. He was even a minor.
Yes, I agree. But don't take the story too literally. It's just a myth about the origin of hermaphrodites.
@@cristlejohnson4900 Stories like these is why I'm more of a Norse mythology guy
thirsty thots lol
Ah, the Greeks and their tragedies.
Just another Tuesday in Greek mythology.
Best one is Eris the goddess of chaos - she has a whole contemporary religion called Discordianism
…and a transNeptunian, Kuiper-Belt Planetoid, too!
@@RaggedGothic this is the most space-nerdiest comment I've ever read and I thank you, from one nerdy goth to another
@@supernovaskies5044 Thx. 👍🖖😉
The births of Dionysus and Athena led to interesting interpretations by Neoplatonists. They said that Zeus giving birth means that the godhead embraces both the male and female principles of the universe.
Interesting ⭐️
Greek gods (primodials) rarely mentioned:
- Kháos
- Hebe
Egyptian:
- Heka
- Ka
- Ba
- Heh
- Saa
- Hu
Norse:
-Sága
- Ɛir
5:46 just sent me on a 20 min long side quest to learn about The Grape Lady 🤣🤣
Here's a few lesser gods. Greek: Angelos daughter of Zeus and Hera and Angelia the daughter of Hermes. Egypt: Dua god of toiletry and Fetket Ra's butler. I probably could list more Egyptian gods, but I don't think there's enough room for me to list them. lol
And melinoe ❤
@@kahliajade8871 Yep! I was just giving him a small sample of lesser known deities he could cover. He's done her. I know more Egyptian gods then Greek.
@@shanakroulek9902 ahhh I haven’t seen all his videos so I had no idea, thanks for letting me know 🧡
@@kahliajade8871 Welcome. I didn't know, sorry.
I always thought ellithiaa and hebe was the only daughters of Zeus and hera
How about Limos, the Spirit of Famine? She and Demeter, Goddess of Grain, were so polarized they couldn't be in the same room together.
What about that time to meet her nearly starved the world
As a Derrick, I'd like to say I love your videos and I'd never heard of these gods before except the last one.
you're one of the good ones!
It probably won't surprise you that, here in Napa, we have a Silenus Winery, although I didn't know why it was named that until this video.
Btw, Momo is the king of Brazilian carnival. Each city makes a context for choosing their own king Momo and the mayor gives them the city's key so they are officially the city head during carnival
Silenus was in the first Narnia book. He was a fat man following Bacchus, and the Bacchantes were responsible for catching him when he drunkenly fell off his donkey.
He was also in Disney's Fantasia - although the movie mistakenly calls him Dionysus.
I read Namia as Narnia and I was confused going "Mister Tumnus is Silenus????" It made me giggle when I realized lol
@@coppernelson7841 It is "Narnia". :) Bacchus, Silenus, and the Bacchantes joined in Aslan's celebration march/dance with Susan and Lucy. Bacchus gave wine from the well that cured the dying old woman. I loved that part of the books best of all.
Bacchus is Dionysus one is the Greek name one is the Roman
@@seloheist Yep. I'm using Bacchus in paraphrase of CS Lewis, since he said Bacchus in the book. He's often rather cavalier that way, with his mixtures of mythos. But I love the books for their glorious jumble of Greek, Roman, Irish, Hebrew, and Norse characters.
Damn my eyes are never gonna recover
welcome to greek mythology, my friend
I was hoping you would cover Ilithyia the Greek Goddess of Labour and Child Birth.
she was on my list actually! I only passed on her because of how many times we've discussed her role in Heracles's birth, but she's a great candidate for our next Greek installment :)
@@JonSolo I'm gonna have to look back at that Heracles/Hercules vid then I didn't know she had a tie with him.
There's one thing about satyrs I learned the hard way. Never, EVER google images of them while in class unless youre meant to be for the class! X'D
Hahahaha! I knew Hermaphroditus!
lol then he lied in his title 😂
When I was in systems engineering, Momos was my patron and I didn't know it! I imagine him calling LART! LART!
You 100% won me with “ridicules corn.” Instant follow.
@JonSolo I looked and no one mentioned it. Genesis has a song called 'The Fountain of Salmacis' that is definitely worth your time to listen to.
Me too! "The Fountain of Salmacis" IS my favourite song in English
Damn how did you see me back here????
I guess it didn't help that I was hanging upside down in the plants in the back corner. 😢😂😂
What the hell man? singling us Derrick's out lmfao 😂
Wow. Hermaphroditus’ story was wild. I see where they get the term hermaphrodite now even if it’s not acceptable terminology anymore
@@mollymay1402 It's also really messed up.
What would no longer be acceptable about that?
@@lightborn9071The word we use now is "intersex". Hermaphrodite is outdated and sensationalist, kinda like calling someone a Siamese twin rather than a conjoined twin.
@@dorothypierre754 That's retarted. As if clownfish would mind.
@@dorothypierre754 Exactly. It makes people like that out to be spectacles, things to be stared at behind glass and bars, instead of, you know, actual humans.
Hey Jon Solo! Might I suggest you look into the gods and immortals of Taoist mythology? The Eight Immortals are a good place to start, such a fun and interesting lot. Thanks!
Hello Jon solo, I have a question. Is there any version in the Adonis myth where it is mentioned that the relationship between Persephone and Adonis was only between mother and son, if so who wrote it or where it is mentioned?I love your videos greetings
Why are you calling me out like that 🤣
Suggestion: Tempus (Opportunity)
I enjoyed seeing Hermaphroditus in the list. 👍
Idk how Jon slipped an Andrew W.K. Reference in a Greek Mythology video, but A+. So well done.
It's weird how little people know how Loki is ACTUALLY related to the rest of the aesir. That being how he's pure frost giant cast from his clan and became oath-brother to Odin. Making him Thor's uncle, and his children (including an 8-legged horse, a giant snake, a giant wolf, & and a Tim Burton creation) all Thor's cousins.
Sleipnir, the horse, had eight legs
I actually DID hear about Hermaphrodite. I remember hearing the word and recognizing the “Aphrodite” part, but I thought it was just a word structure until I looked it up.
Ooh I loved this episode about lesser-known gods! And yes, I am going to be one of those who says I have heard of all three, but that's only because I spend an ungodly amount of time on Theoi 😅 lol.
Here are some more lesser-known gods you could talk about:
Angelia - goddess of messages, daughter of Hermes
Arce - sister of Iris, messenger of the Titans, represented the faded second rainbow that is sometimes seen accompanying a rainbow
Eilleithyia - daughter of Zeus and Hera, goddess a childbirth, played a role in the birth of Heracles
Empusa, Lamia, Mormolyceia - succubi/vampiric-like daemons
Mnemosyne - goddess of memory (among other things), mother of the nine Muses (their conception was, uh, quite interesting lol)
And speaking of the Muses, obviously not unknown goddesses, but maybe you could talk about all the different groups of goddesses? Like the Muses, the Seasons (Horae), things like that.
12:29 In Ancient Greek it's Σαλμακίς, meaning pronunciation would be [salmakis']
Ooh you should do Hindu mythology please please please
I’ve never heard of Momus before, or Hermaphroditus. I love these videos - they’re so interesting ❤❤❤
Summanus is an interesting unknown Greek-Roman god.
I only heard about Hermaphroditus. So thanks for teaching me.
Ahaha, love the Hades design of Nyx. :D
Callimachus and Leon Batista Alberti mentioned by Jon in the same video? Boy this is my lucky day! They're some of my favorite virtually unknown writers
Y'all need to chill out, this is the best modern drawing of Hermaphroditus I've seen! Great video Jon ❤
Awesome video as always mate. Also, hope you do a video dissecting history of Dionysus video 🍷
Love your video Jon Solo and keep up the great work you are awesome
Silenus is mentioned in the chronicles of Narnia, specifically prince Caspian and is on a donkey! Hermaphrodite creatures are common in biology (im a biologist) and knew there was a Greek so yes i have herd of two, but not there stories only that people had names for them
I wonder how many of us modern folk heard about Momos here for the first time and thought, ‘finally! now that’s a god for me!’
Here are a few lesser known gods:
-Vertumnus, gods of the seasons
-Agdistis, another androgynous deity
-Bendis: goddess of the hunt and the moon
-Neith: Creator goddess of war, the hunt and weaving
-Enyo: Goddess of war
-Epona: goddess of horses
-Nerites: Aphrodite's 1st love
-Apedemak: god of war
-Amesemi: moon goddess
-Atargatis: fertility goddess
-Ala: goddess of the earth and morality
Hey, thanks for the suggestions :) I'll add these to our list of candidates and see if there's anything substantial in their mythos!
Whats funny is I read 'middlesex' recently which contains a reference to Hermaphroditus.
Hey Jon! Love your videos! A suggestion for lesser known gods I would love for you to make videos on would be Aztec and Mayan gods.
Thanks for your videos!
I have no use for square space but that transition was flawless dude. Twenty points!
In the classical languages, ",C" is almost exclusively pronounced as "K" so Ceasar is "kaesar" Tacitus is "takitus, cicero is "kikero" circus i "kirkus" and so on. Cerberos "Kerberos" and i can go on with plenty of more examples.
Dude I can’t stand how in Greek myths the rape victim is given to the rapist as a prize or is punished for being so attractive as to catch the attention of the rapist or for not doing “enough” to fight off the rapist. This happens way too often IRL too. The victim blaming/shaming while praising/rewarding the rapist.
As a suggestion, if you haven't done it, is Frau or Mother Holle or Hulda, Holle has many other names, from some sources she is or was a former deity, a fairy, or something else. Most of the information I could find talks about her, mostly from Brother Grimm's fairy tales, but from what I could tell, her tale is far older than that.
Hey Jon, I was hoping you’d go into MesoAmerican mythology like Aztec or Maya
Never heard of Momos. Hermaphrodite I saw in an Italian film and Silenus I read in O'connor's graphic novels for kids about the Greek gods.
Same, but from different sources
What was the Italian film called
@@KawaiiStars Fellini Satyricon
@@porcelina956 thanks :D
The gods who rule over suffering/despair from all celestial pantheons. And to balance it out do the ones who govern hope too.
15:25 Wow. Even the cursed spring Ranma fell in was a Chinese knock-off!
You should do a video about Tyche she's the goddess of luck chance, and fortune she also the daughter of Okeanos and Tethys
Heard of two out of three of these. Not the god of mockery. Didn’t know that was a thing either. Have you ever covered the primordial Greek diet? I mean the ones from before the Titans? Nyx, Erebus, Aether, Chaos, those ones?
When you announced this episode last episode I was so excited because I thought for sure it was finally going to be the elusive Momos episode. I was so happy to find that I was right! For context, I'm the one that first brought up the deity of Momos 2 years ago. I forgot which video it was but I do remember you saying you screenshotted it so you wouldn't forgot the "muse" who inspired.
I also kept a screenshot of the comment on my phone too so I could be prepared to say how long it was since you responded to my comment (I just wish I remembered what video it was). lol
Anyway, the episode was entertaining and worth the wait. Momos sure has some balls on him, well I guess not anymore. XD
I don't really have any deities to suggest this time. I still think talking about Tiresias would be funny though because of the unfortunate situation they had to settled between Zeus and Hera due to their unique experience.
I would like to second the motion for Tiresias, thanks!
I remember when you first started the channel youve grown so well over the years from your early days with a go pro i think it was you were filming on
The only one I haven't heard of was Momos. I heard of Selinus from your video about Dionysus, and Hermaphrodites by accident when I was checking some source material for a story.
Knew about Silenus, but not the details. Also, wasn't wine-making technically invented when Zeus made the "potion" that he gave Semele?
Also knew about Hermaphroditus. Looked 'em up just recently for some context, was surprised to find out that he was born male, but was merged with a woman, to become intersex. Interesting stuff. Sadly, that's pretty much all there is to his\ their myth. But apparently Hermaphroditus inspired some really nice neo-classicist art, so that's something, at least.
Since you started talking about Hermaphroditus, might I suggest Inanna? A Sumerian virgin-goddess of war, whose priests were either gay, inter-, or transsexual? Apparently she's pretty popular with the LGBT crowd because of this. You should totally do more Middle-Eastern deities in general. Arabic and Jewish pre-Islam and pre-Judaism deities were pretty interesting. Also, cover some more Native American beliefs, because everybody knows about the Wendigo and Skinwalker (sometimes these get conflated), but fewer people know about other spirits, heck, even the Thunderbird or the White Buffalo (if we're talking about NA). In SA there's Pachamama, which is an Earth goddess in the Andean region of Peru, if I remember correctly. Methinks the current name is a mix of native and European languages, but I'm not sure.
OK, great 😁 you got me on this one. Lots of gods I have not heard of before. Thank you and keep up the good work. 😃
Please cover the Roman god Janus. He always gets ignored and he’s awesome.
😂😂😂😂the visual when you said "They out their life on public display even if no one asked them to" 😂😂...that is pure comedy
This was great! Thank you for such an informative video.
Just letting people know that people with sexual characteristics of of more than one sex (born not through surgery) are referred as intersex and people who are not are referred to endosex. While hermaphrodite was used in the past and used when talking about non human animals it is considered rude.
Hey Jon,
Can you do a video on the Greek Primordial Gods? (Eg. Phanes, Ananke, and Chronos)
While I'd known about all three, the only reason I knew of Momus is from having lived in New Orleans for 15 years -- one of the old-line Mardi Gras Krewes are the Knights of Momus
Nordic God Bragi is one of my favorites and I would love to see a video about him
Amazing as always
From what I've read, Hamafrditus also curse That's pool, so anyone bathed or accidentally fell in would become just like him😅😅😅
Just the Greeks trying to explain something didn't understand
What genetic condition?
@addison_v_ertisement1678
I totally forgot the proper word, not trying to be offensive or anything.Just can't remember the right word
For the greeks, instead of understanding that somebody was born like that, they assumed that person was cursed
@@kevin4gwen I think it's called Hermaphrodite when a person is born with a female and male genitalia and I believe it's rare
Also known as intersex@@justinabakugou5813
Intersex is the term.
you should talk about Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory) sometime :) They are the names of Odin's ravens and also the names of my black cats. They watch over mankind and report what they see to Odin.
Now I have the picture of two black cats sitting there in the morning, ready to report. And demand food first.
Hermaphroditus was featured in Wonder Woman a few years back - under the name Atlantiades.
Maybe an episode about the Cthonic Crew (Nyx Children)? Since, you know, there's A LOT of them besides Death and Sleep (and Mockery)?
All new to me. I've seen Silenus in paintings but knew nothing about him.
Hmm who would have thought Momos, the son of the goddess of night, would be so good at throwing shade.
Wooooooow, that last one...... I wasn't expecting THAT ¡!!!
I thought Hermaphrodites was already born with two thingies. 'The more you know.'
I have flashbacks to the game Scorn now.
“He ridicules corn”
That would be difficult, corn was on a different continent.
I’m getting the impression Momos hated his neighbors.
Absolute love, Greek mythology, knew about the first one.The second two I did not. Love your content.
I don't know if you've made a video of this before, but I'd love to know all of Nyx the Goddess of Night's kids. She's got some weird ones that are gods of like, negative emotions; Nemesis I think is one of the more well-known but I may be wrong. I find Nyx fascinating because she's a primordial Goddess, one of, if not THE first depending on what you're reading. You'd think her kids would be more worldly or elemental and not so human-centric.
I did a report on the Greek gods in grade school, and learned about the many, MANY god they had. It was actually fascinating.
Love the video knew about the first one but not the second or third I like learning things I did not know thanks for the info
Yeah Derrick! Bugger off!!!
Yeah shut the hell up, Derrick!
What about the Oh God of hangovers? Seems like it would have gone well with the god of drinking....
Whenever I head "the god's responded to someone's pleas" I know something stupid or horrifying is gonna happen
You might want to do a little research on Hermaphrodites because their story is more involved. Ovid made stuff up to prove points all the time. In older stories, they were born both male and female. And don't get me wrong, I think you did a good job showing what you know, and I love that you added how the trickster god shows up in tarot cards. I knew of him, but not his name. Also, even if I've heard of a god, I'm still delighted to see content on them.
It's the casualness of the Terrence Howard zinger that makes me wish I was your best friend
Yeah, mon!
Love that cool runnings outro.
Great video! And I love the doggie! 😂❤
Lol the one dude named Derrick went 😮
Ah yes, the god of getting wasted, the god of trolling and the god(dess) of drag. I love this
So there’s this old Disney animation, I believe it’s called Pastoral Symphony. There’s nymphs and satyrs partying , and at one point this fat little man comes in riding on a donkey and drinking, everyone seems to be worshiping him too. I always assumed it was Dionysus but could he have been Silenus ?
This is my question too! That was probably my favorite scene in Fantasia - the pastoral one
Another amazing video!
Hermaphroditus is the only one out of all 3 of these I have ever heard, but never knew his story. It is nice to learn something new, and his story, as well as the first 2 is interesting.
15:34 ranma saotome: i understand your pain pal....