Kammapa - The World Eater - African - Extra Mythology
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A beast of never-ending hunger and greed, the Kammapa appeared suddenly from the mountains. Made of a slick carapace that could not be pierced, it devoured dozens of people in a single bite, whole villages in minutes. Only when it saw that nothing remained, it returned to its lair in the mountains. An old woman who hid in the baobab grove was the only human left in all of existence. But all was not lost for the gods gave her a child, Ditaolane, and he would save humanity.
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I had a thought that Kammapa could be based on a volcanic eruption - a large, glossy, shapeless dark form sliding down the mountain and devouring an entire village? You can see the similarities
and the roar could be the rumbling of the eruption
That's a really good theory actually. Intriguing.
that was my thought as well :)
Most likely,
-large blob
-swells up as it coats things
-cooled surface is tough for a knife
-destroys all it touches
-looks like it "retreats" upward as the magma cools
-comes from a large "cave"
Probably was lava.
I really doubt that, since there are barely more than a 100 semi-active volcanoes in the entire continent of africa. Africa is so incredibly huge with so thousands, maybe tens of thousands of cultures and only few live near them
"no matter how full it got, it hungered for more and continued to devour all things until there was nothing left."
me going for a midnight snack
Sounds more like Wall Street to me.
I'm half Sotho and at a yearly buffet we have at the family reunion, someone,normally me,gets the title of Kammapa.
This is some borderline eldritch horror right here.
exactly what I thought, kammapa is straight up a bloodborne boss
id say the borderline has been crossed
But if myths could be potentionally true.. Is there a chance that an actual abolleth corpse is hidden in the mountain ranges of Afrika? That said... Lets keep it lost as the island of ignorence where humanity lives on is the only thing that keeps the old ones at bay..
Dang, Mitty got thicc!
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey I am disappointed in myself that I can even understand your reference.
Kammapa is a really cool monster. Nice to see something that isn’t a humanoid or some awkward combination of different animal limbs.
I'm getting Tarrasque vibes
I’m getting volcanic eruptions vibe
It’s basically locust
Sounds mors like a shoggoth or dark young...
It reminds me of Calamity Ganon, Allied Mastercomputer, and late stage capitalism. I'm not sure which one of those is the worst!
Moral of the story: chew your food when eating, or you’ll have stomachache
Narrator:"... She knows that she is the only living thing left..."
She: *kills a grasshoper proudly*
On a grassy field, after coming out from behind a baobab
It's a locust. A metaphor!
Grasshopper: "You know, I can help you bring humanity back ..."
(gets crushed)
It's a myth. A talking grasshopper wouldn't be out of place.
Grass: I'm just standing here
@@extrahistory There's no such thing as a single locust. Locust is what some species of grasshopers become when they swarm.
Looks like the World Eater...
Got his Kammapance
Thank you for your puns
*Ba Dum Tss*
Aaaaaaaay! 😜
For a Sotho person from South Africa, it's honestly uplifting to see our mythology explored❤️
Norse mythology: Snake eats the world
Germanic myths: wolf eats the world
African(Lesothoan?): An actually fucking scary Lovecraftian abomination a body that’s half blob flesh half mouth
Morse mythology: .-- .... .- -
fleshmouth, would it feel good?
@@Pingviinimursu I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU have my like
@Ethic Ethnic people say European mythology, Asian mythology, American mythology. You only classify it when you go into detail
@@Pingviinimursu dit da da dit dit dit dit dit da da ?
??? h a t
I love these stories from mythologies that aren't main stream. We need more stories about African, pre-colonisation American, and Asian mythologies! It's so refreshing and new to see something that isn't Greek, Norse or Roman
exactlyyyyyy
I feel the same way about vampires from actual mythology. The strigoi has been rip-offed and remade too often. I'd like to see more stories with monsters like the draugr, yara-ma-yha-who, manananggal, and penanggalan. Hell, there's even a werewolf-esque vampire monster called the Varcoloc that causes eclipses by "devouring the sun and moon."
Or Egyptian
yooo same pfp
that's one heck of a heartburn
this was before Tums were invented
This person was 1 day earlier, speedrun
@@Kurtizss Nah, prolly a channel mod or admin. This video was either private or unlisted for at least 17 hours.
HOW WERE YOU HERE 18 HOURS BEFORE THIS CAME? are you one of the editors or is this a glitch?
Yes! Ditaolane and some Basotho/Southern African myths. I was hoping you guys would cover this one day. Here's hoping you'll do Thakane the Dragonslayer Princess or the Full Moon Prince someday.
Those both sound pretty interesting!
Based on the names alone I want them
Yo, just the title of those stories sounds amazing already
I'd love to see the 2 mouthed giant explained!
that would be super sick!
This Kammapa sounds like an interpretation of a volcanic eruption.
Well for me its a devastating landslide
Or locusts...Why exactly do you think the animator had her inexplicably step on one... Maybe a hint?
Virgin birth > chosen by gods to save humanity > Must go into the darkness to defeat the ultimate evil > Ushers in a new era of humanity. Wait- I know you!
Jesus is dat u
Horus
@@DHTheAlaskan yes Horus our true lord and saver!
Anakin, start panacin, I don't have a planakin!
@@niemand-4881 or Mitra or Dionysus or Krishna.
“The beast's hide is too thick to pierced from the outside. I must cut through it from the inside.”
what's he doing? he said the beasts hide was to thick to be pierced-but that doesn't make any sense- that's what i tried to tell him
So this is where Dark Souls devs got their inspiration for the Gaping Dragon...
"Shes the only living thing on earth"
Proceeds to show lush green trees and grass
@KeRon Morey Jr She was the last living human. Plants and trees are alive. But not living as you,me,and the rest of humanity does everyday. So the narrator is not wrong.
Bold of you to presume plants are alive. 😂
Did you even watch the video they revealed that they were still some humans alive in the stomach of kammapa
She crushed a cockroach it the intro
@@florians9949 did you even go to school? If they aren't alive how do they grow? Things that aren't alive don't grow
Ditaolane's attack from the inside of the monster reminds me of that one scene from the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy Two. Like, the one where Drax lept into the creature's mouth to stab it from the inside.
True, while skin is just as thought inside and out, I think stomachs are weaker. You can probably kill something from the inside. You just can't get back out.
i guess SCP style monsters are much older than i gave them credit for
my thoughts exactly
The concept of a shapeless horror is likely older than even the specific boogiemen that were invented by early cultures. After all, fear of the unknown or unknowable is as old as people can think.
Well yeah the whole SCP and even Lovecraft monsters and horror are based or at least loosely based on many mythological creatures and beings like that. Just like a comment above me said the faceless and unseen horror or wonder has been a thing in humanity since the beginning. So the all these eldritch beings are actually nothing new in terms of complte originality.The quite scary thing is that unlike the Cthulu mythos beings and the SCP ones which are tbh just very famous and good franchises, creatures like Kammapa were or are still believed by some people.
Now I can't stop trying to say baobab as fast as I can over and over again.
This is the remix edition of a song about pissing
My dude killed the apocalypse at a day old
You think any of the girls got a crush on him and upon hearing he was literally born yesterday they were super weirded out
1:28
Me, when I'm called to dinner.
Me too
Me when hungry
Extra Mythology and Extra History is the best!
So this thing is Garfield's divine ancestor?
“I hope it swallowed a cow or something.” 🐄
don’t know why that cracked me up!🤣🤣🤣
well shit i wasn't expecting this to go from giant all-consuming monster to a kid popping out of grandma in 5 seconds.
Wow, that is a metal story. Loved it!
"The beast's hide is too thick to be pierced from the outside. I must cut through it from the inside!" - Ditaolane the Destroyer
0:29 “and she’s the last living thing on the planet”
While she’s next to a baobab tree and stepping on a cricket
Lit,so glad to see an African story featured on the channel especially one from a country with so little representation as Lesotho l,please do more of these bro❤️🔥
They do a bunch of african stuff,what you on about m8? But yeah Lesotho IS pretty out there,i want more obscure stuff like this too
they've featured african mythology fairly extensively in the past.
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 I just looked through their Extra Mythology playlist and saw barely any African myths.
"She was the last living thing" - Shows character on grass, behind a tree, crushing a cricket, with a monster in the distance. :P
She was the last living human
That's so homosapicentric... *shakes his head in tempestosapianism*
@@kaelanirevyruun1676 Me: [Searches for tempestosapianism] Google: "Did you mean tempestosa pianist?"
A horrible chill goes down your spine...
Screams echo around you...
*_EATER OF WORLDS HAS AWOKEN_*
Hero: has a rusty old kitchen knife
Gods: “We will upgrade your weapon to a NEW AND SHINY kitchen knife!”
Well damn, those gods are quite stingy...
I wish that they released these tales in a book, so that we could read them to the next generation like they've been shown to us
Yes, finally, a Sub-Saharan African myth! And a really cool one, too! I liked the hero and monster a lot, and it is cool to feature something from the lesser-known Sotho people. Really cool all around. This may be my favorite myth featured so far.
Humans: lol we stupid, how tf we get outta here ?!?!
Ditolane: *INSIDE OUT*
Well that is one... interesting shape the Kammapa has.
TEETH!!!
ass face
Extra History: Kammapa, the beast with no head and face
Me: Haha, a butt
Quick question to those live in the region, was this used ever as a way to resist the British at all?
@@Monuver now hear me out. What if this myth existed before the scramble?
It is lava. The monster represents a volcanic eruption, which is rare in the region, so the mith became more embelished.
@@thecleitom9497 yeah, I feel like stories like this would far predate the large-scale European colonization of Africa in the 19th century, and probably even the huge spike in slave trade following the establishment of Spain and Portugal in the new world
@@Monuver You can find many similarities in all kinds of combinations if you try hard enough. You just provided proof for this.
Weren't there any stories before Exodus about heroes who betray their masters and become heroes to the people their masters are oppressing?
Moses vs. Pharaoh
Founding fathers vs. King George III
Harriet Tubman vs. slave owners
George Jetson vs. Spacely's Sprockets
Jake Sulley vs. the RDA
Pink Diamond vs. the Diamond Authority
Isaac vs. the Kaylons
imagine just being born a couple of hours later to slay a beast
How is this not a movie I'm telling you right now this would be like the biggest movie ever if somebody needs to make this into an actual movie it probably won't be near as good as the one you just made but still
This story feels so primal. I wonder how far back it reaches in origin
The real story is longer and not this cut short
Im honestly so disappointedthat so many people watched this version of it considering how distorted it is and how the important parts of it were cut out.
In the original,Ditaolane was born with great power,his name means Divine and he was born with a ring of gold necklaces around his neck,and its that after Ditaolane escaped from kammapa that all the villagers feared him cause he was able to defeat the kammapa and so they decided to kill him fearing his strength,they tried multiple times but never could until oneday out of saddness and frustration he turned himself into a rock as a way to hide,and a villager ended up picking up that rock and throwing it into the river,Ditaolane turned back into a human and left the village never to be seen again.
The original story just shows how ungrateful the people were and how a hero didnt even get the praise or barely the gratitude from those he rescued that he deserved.
Before there was the Gaping Dragon in Dark Souls, there was Kammapa! :D
Attack on kamappa.
In the past: Kammapa
In the future: Space Herpe
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne! From eaters of cities to eaters of worlds
i feel like she was a little premature in deciding the entire human race went exctinct
well the bible global flood story is probably based on a regional flood so its a common enough mistake.
@@john.harrison a comet was enough to send people into hysteria then i guess
Hey Extra History Team!
I love your vids! Keep going!
I want an extra history series about the Spanish Inquisition because it would be really interesting to see how the Inquisition system worked and what the Inquisition was not able to erase but that's just me I guess anyway I'm in the wrong place to talk about this because this is an extra mythology comment section
Wow, I was trying to think of ideas for a game jam game and this video just game me a GOOD one.
who else wants to see extra history episode about WW2 in yugoslavia
Not me.
sounds interesting. I'd love to see their take on it
I would. No one talks about it
its just death and rioting and death not anything special
@Brownskikuca they get demonised for good reason
Fascinating. Great job finding this unfamiliar story!
This reminds me of a story I read as a child where a man-eating elephant devoured two children whole and their mother tricked the elephant into sleeping to enter its stomach and freed not just her children, but a whole village worth of people, by cutting at its stomach lining so much that it died (I can't remember if the elephant was male or female, but that wasn't relevant to the story). I read it in a book about African tales, I think it was mostly central and southern Africa.
this makes me so happy
i'm Sotho, but I've never heard this story
thank you for so beautifully preserving my culture
I haven’t seen such a brutal death since a Krados vacation
He speedrun Puberty and became a chad
speedran*
They should make a game out of this myth.
Pretty short game. One boss fight and it is over
For a second I read it as: "Caramba - The World Eater" and was very surprised.
I’ve heard several African myths involving babies who grow into young adults in the span of a day. It’s an interesting idea, and I got to use the story of Kojo as inspiration for a mythology-based writing assignment.
I'd have never even heard of this myth if not for you guys, so thanks 😊
*The Eater of Worlds has awoken*
6:07 When Kammapa ate Zoey, it's fate was already sealed.
Never mess with a cat!
This immediately strikes me as a mythological tribal explanation of a volcanic eruption wiping out an unsuspecting village XD
Don't think there are many active volcanoes in mainland africa since the continent has so much land
Kammapa: eats almost all humans
Peta: eh?
The last survivor: steps on a cricket
Peta: And I took that personally
Another great video.
Ah, the classic mistake of swallowing your enemy whole and alive. How many monsters and video game bosses have died to that.
I wonder if FromSoft took inspiration for the Gaping Dragon from this one. Even if not the similarities are striking.
Could the Endless form Neil Gaiman's Sandman series be a potential topic for this segment? They are modern made-up legends but I feel they would fit.
This was really good It is on the verge of becoming a horror episode like the Christmas episode from a few years ago.
yet another cool and awesome tale I had never heard before
I love your videos keep up the good work
When you watched this, did anyone think of the beginning of Guardians Of The Galaxy 2?
Skin is just as thick from the inside as the outside?!? ;)
This is a great premise for a Sci-Fi story. Alien observers watch primitive man develop slowly over time. by accident, one of their lab experiments gets loose and falls in an escape pod down to earth. this Creature, with an insatiable hunger for all things organic begins depowering all the biomass it can. The aliens realizing the horror they Unleashed on this primitive species break the noninterference policy and imbue the few survivors left with extraordinary tools and abilities to fight back. it's only by a miraculous circumstance that pockets of human survive to restart a new.
One heck of a terraria boss
Great way to start the afternoon.
Favourite one yet
Thats really good thumbnail
YES! Extra Mythology!
I didn't have my glasses on and when I saw the big ass RAAAAAARRRR on screen, I misread it as Parappa.
that monster was one of the scariest things I've seen. And this is just a cartoon version of it
These are my bedtime stories lol 😂
Ok
What if my world has crimson ?
*Waits for the Warhammer 40K fans to show up*
WHY AREN'T WE KILLING YET!?
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
This is the comment I was looking for.
Great story
Wow. This is so crazy
Awwwww poor Kammapa, he just had the munchies.
What separates us from beasts is that we chew our food.
What a fascinating apocalyptic legend.
Hoping this was a 40k episode but its okay.
They have done at least one video game one so that may one day.
@@DarkApostleNoek 40K is not primarily a video game franchise
@@monticore1626 but the video games have been known to get people into the hobby. They did do a video on that.
I've watched so many of these videos my history teacher who loves myths is gonna be so pRoUd
Terraria's corrupted big worm: Actually, it is Eater of Worlds.
A story from Lesotho, I am now wed to this channel
i expected the knive sticking in the tree in the outro and wasnt disappointed :D
Kammapa needs a Snickers.
I would live to see some more SEA myths like from Cambodia and Burma. I think the Khmer creation myth would be a cool video idea.
And on a side note some Burmese history would be cool too since there's so few channels that talk about it.
Lovin it
Do have to wonder why a monster with dozens of sharp fangs would make the mistake of not chewing its damn food though, lol. Especially since that directly leads to its undoing.
Interesting how the trope of the quickly growing-child can be found both in West and Austral Africa, despite those place not having much cultural similitudes otherwise.
You should do the tokoloshe from South Africa, A Zulu/Xhosa mythology of a mischievous and evil spirit.
Really cool creature design
This was cool