As a Chinese, I've never heard of this legend before. The 4 significant creatures in Chinese myth are usually consist of tortoise, dragon, phoenix and tiger. I've never heard of any stories from bees. I'm not sure where they get these legends from. Do share the source of the story if it's been found.
atrudokht Some has wings. There are many variations as mentioned in this video, one interesting thing to note is when they were discussing the persian dragon, their depiction is an influenced from China during their contact through the silk road.
While most dragons from chinese folklore were wingless, there was one variation called a Yinglong that grew wings if it lived past the usual chinese dragon life cycle of 2000 years.
Chinese dragon can be born as dragon or serpent through cultivation become dragon, first they get lil bumps on their head, then the front limbs followed by back limbs, the horns will grow as well, the number of claws will increase from 3 to 5. Once they have 5 claws on all limbs they are true dragon. The in between is called 蛟。Can bring good or bad meaning.
Maybe that is what the dragon originally wanted but the people misunderstood it, and since it was getting more food out of the deal the dragon never bothered to correct them.
In the Vietnamese community, our most famous creation myth involves the marriage between a sea dragon and a beautiful mountain nymph. (Although in Vietnamese, she could also be considered a fairy or a goddess. In other words, she's a celestial being) Long story short, the mountain nymph Âu Cơ wasn't able to return to the Heavens because she tasted something of the Earth realm when she and her sisters visited. Thus, she had to make her home in the mountains. Meanwhile, the Dragon Sea King Lạc Long Quân (then a prince), went to the surface world and fell in love with Âu Cơ. (Being the king of dragons allows you to have a human form) The two were wed and she bore an egg sack with 100 eggs. From them came 100 children and the Vietnamese believed that they became the first 100 Vietnamese clans, one of them becoming the first ruler of Vietnam. Eventually, Âu Cơ missed the mountains and Lạc Long Quân missed the seas and the two decided to split ways, each taking 50 children with them, with the husband saying, "I am descended from dragons, you from nymphs.We are as incompatible as water is with fire. So we cannot continue in harmony." To this day, Vietnamese referred to themselves as the descendants of dragons and nymphs. As for Chinese dragon myths, My favorite involves the Jade Emperor and the Four Dragons who turned into the four rivers of China. Perhaps you should make future videos about these myths.
Hi guys, I live in Chile and the indegenous Mapuche people have a myth of 2 serpents that fought, one rising the sea to kill of humans (called cai cai villu) and the other (Tren tren villu) rising the land to protect them, finally creating the fjords of the south of the country. It makes an interesting read, and you could finally put some stickers down in south america in your map!
aww, he didn't talk about the filipino dragons, the Bakunawa and the Minokawa, dragons so large that they could each swallow the sun and the moon, respectively. tradition dictated that to make them release the sun and moon from their maws, the people would bang pots and make a lot of noise to make the dragons leave and spit out the heavenly bodie
Hardly Rainy Gamer yeeess sad haha but o well i hope they mention in the next episode the witch of Philippine myth ;the manananggal, mangkukulam, and mambabarang
In the mythology of my countrie Chile (wich is actually several different myths from different cultures and times) we had two giant snakes Cai Cai serpent of the sea and Tren Tren snake of the earth. Because of the constant war between them, cai cai would use tsunamis to attack tren tren and this in order to protect the living creatures of the ground would rise mountains and rechape the continents. Is a fascinating myth and I am thankful to this video for making me remember this.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar This is really weird, cause my country, Vietnam, has the almost exact story too. But in my country folk story, the feud originate between Son Tinh(mountain spirit) and Thuy Tinh(water spirit), from fighting over the king's daughter for the right to marry her. The kings set out a collection of special dowry for both to find, but because he is secretly in favor Son Tinh, the mountain spirit won. Thuy Tinh know about this ruse and it's furious, so around the anniversary of their wedding, he would raise water and cause flooding all over the realm. In return, Son Tinh will raise the land up, creating mountain ranges and valleys. This is use as an explanation why our country is that mountainous for kids.
well considerate when the ice age ended, sea level raised and a lot of folk around the world have their land flooded, they going to have similar story to explain that
In Slavic mythology snakes DO actually transform into dragons (and a thing called the Hala, or Ala, there like HUGE dragons that reatch above the clouds, they mostly appear as black fog or mist) AND ITS COOL AF. And yes, its dope.
Just an FYI: The story of Daniel over-feeding a dragon doesn't come from the Bible proper. It's from the apocryphal Bel and the Dragon, an additional late text added to the canonical book of Daniel. Loved this video! So interesting.
You forgot to mention Naga, the great serpent plays a role in Buddhist mythology and also heavily influence the creation myths in most Southeast Asian nations, for example, Cambodia.
Yes, naga may originate from Hinduism or some other script even older (who knows). Though my point back then was that in Cambodian creation myth, we believe ourselves to be descendants of a naga (local) and a human king (foreign). I'm not entirely sure, but I couldn't find that or any similar story in Hindu myth.
An explanation or perhaps a speculation, it could simply be a merge between Hindusim which was imported from India and got localized into the native context and belief system... :)
0:57: Fun fact: In the movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Tiamat was one of the many Titans (kaiju) that were awakened by King Ghidorah. Her containment unit was in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Serpents are basically another kind of dragon. The *amphithere* is a great example of a such beast. Amphitheres are *dragons that have no legs at all, have eyes like that in a peacock's tail, and have 2 wings that glittered and sparkled wherever they flew.*
In the end (in history) the white dragon did win since both norse and danish raiders did end up being a pretty decent size of the british genetic population prior to true global trade/before the commonwealth.
I'm surprised Mike didn't continue the story. King Vortigern was building a castle that was constantly being destroyed by Earthquakes. Not knowing why he was being plagued by Earthquakes, he consults with 12 wise men and at their advice eventually captures a young Merlin, intending to kill him and sprinkle his blood on the ground in order to stop the quakes. When young Merlin finds out what is up, he tells Vortigern that his blood won't stop the shaking and that he had built his castle on top of two sleeping dragons (one white and one red) and that whenever they woke, they fought, which was why his castle kept being shaken apart. The red dragon was Wales and the white, the Saxons and whomever won determined control of the kingdom and Vortigern needed to build his castle somewhere else. Merlin got to live and got a job as Vortigern's magician and then some stuff happened and then Arthur.
ANDELE3025 the white dragon represents the Anglo-Saxons, not the Vikings who came along a few centuries later. The red dragon represents those parts of western Britannia that preserved Romano-Brythonic culture and traditions.
No Quetzalcoatl? C'mon Mike! You have it right there in the board behind you! I really hope we get another mention because our mesoamerican Dragons are as badass and interesting as any other!
Jormungand/Jormungandr encircles just Midgard's ocean, not Yggdrassil. Nidhogg gnaws on the roots of the tree. But yeah, I'm bummed they didn't mention him too.
6:31 Level 100 python evolved into a level 100 dragon. Dragon wants to learn Break *{YES}* -{NO}- Dragon used break on the eggs. Eggs created many more animals
Instead of being sad that certain myths, creatures or places weren't mentioned, share the stories in the comments ! Keep the learning and appreciation of myth going ❤️
They mentioned serpents and dragons here. So it made perfect sense. But this series has neglected hispanic-american countries and our mythos. So it doesn't surprise me anymore
I've actually never heard of this particular Chinese story before. I always thought men and women came from Nu Wa, who created humans out of mud and breathed life into them...
Count me in bcs most Chinese records b4 the modern evolution theory appeared all point the creation of man to the goddess Nu Wa, some claimed she created men from mud, others described she had babies with her husband and brother Fu Xi, they are both half serpent, half man. But the story told here is partially true, it was the story of how Chinese came to been, the first clan leader was called The Yellow Emperor, he took a snake as his sigil and totem, by defeating other tribes, he would add their totems, part of them at least on his totem, so he defeated all the surrounding clans, added the features from other animals to the snake, then the snake became dragon, so the clan of Hwang Di (Chinese for yellow emperor) became Hwa Xia, the foundation population of China until now.
@@GKS225 as a chinese i haven't heard of that story as well. Dragon just came into our history in early dynasty and our people bloomed thats why we call ourselves descendant of Dragon. But i think Dragon is just alien space ship.
@@JKMT I finally found the source of story from the book, Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Apparently the story is from the Bai people in southwest of China.
the white dragon was supposed to represent the Saxon invaders to Romano-Celtic Britain. Merlin Ambrosius (yes that Merlin) predicts that the Red Welsh (or Celtic) Dragon would eventually overcome the Saxon White Dragon. Of course the Welsh eventually defeated the Saxons which allowed Wales to be it's own princedom for a hundred or so more years. It was finally the English king Edward Longshanks (Edward I named Longshanks because he was apparently so tall) who subdued the Welsh and made Wales part of England. Llewellyn the Last was the Prince of Wales that fought Longshanks and he was the last Prince of Wales to be born Welsh (hence the title). Ever since the heir to the British throne has been called the Prince of Wales (originally to appease the rebellious Welsh). Just an FYI
9:26 "If you don't have any endangered animal bones lying around, just pollute the water with household waste!" Also that's just the plot to Sprited Away
there were still 100 in total the monkey kept one of the eggs explaining the 1 in the middle, though the 98 at the end should have been 97 since one of the 100 eggs was the serpent.
Fan fact I heard about the Welsh red and white dragons. The red one symbolizes the Celtic people of Britain, while the white dragon symbolizes the invading Saxons - so the fight between the two dragons, was actually a metaphor for the Celts defending their land against the invading Saxons.
atrudokht No, Arthurian Legends depict occidental dragons to be good and wise most of the time. And there some nordic tales and myths who don't always depict them as alpha predators for humans.
I just finished watching through this playlist today and I was just wondering when there would be more. This is very pleasing, especially since it's DRAGONS.
Fafner is actually a figure from Nordic mythology there is a large run inscription outside of the Swedish town Eskilstuna it’s called the Sigurasristning
Nordic and German mythology are the same mythology, just with different names. I.e. The Allfather was Odin in Norway and Woden in Germany, but no matter the name, still the same guy. Which is why "Norse Mythology" and "Germanic Mythology" are used interchangeably.
Some differences. But likely, there would have been regional differences within Scandinavia as well. It's a bit.. not exactly okay to say they're the same, though. Like... it just feels wrong.
Sigart We know too little about continential germanic mythology to really make any distinct differences from norse mythology. The deities are the same but people gave them differing importance. German and norse myth probably have a similiar relationship as greek and roman myth do.
It's from the Apocrypha of Daniel. The Septuagint has it so the Catholic and Orthodox churches kept it. It was one of the books expunged from the Protestant Bible.
@@rexmundi3108 Actually Quetalcoatl was a Flying reptile not a dinosaur. Pterosaur arent dinosaurs. He means Quetalcoatl the mayan/aztec God who is a serpent god with Feather's.
I'll admit I'm kind of disappointed that Mike didn't mention the Dragon of Wawel. Basically, back before Mieszko I converted to Christianity, King Krak founded the city of Krakow. But the city was attacked by a dragon, who started by eating sheep but then developed a taste for human flesh. All of the knights failed to defeat the dragon, but one cobbler had a plan. He killed a sheep, filled it with sulphur and left it at the mouth of the dragon's cave. The dragon fell for the trick and ate the sheep... turns out dragons find sulphur too spicy for their taste, so the dragon drank water from the Vistula river to stop the burning. Of course, the heat in the dragons body turned the water to steam, and the steam built up to the point that the dragon exploded. Popped. Like a balloon. And then there's the standard ending: the cobbler marries the princess, they all live happily ever after and OH did I forget to mention what happened to the remains of the dragon? The cobbler made its skin into shoes for the princess.
Could you please update the Mythology Playlist and add the new videos!!! Thank you! I really love this series - I live how Mike is so enthusiastic about these themes - makes me smile a lot + learning much more fun ❤
Almost every culture has their own version of a dragon or great serpent. European Dragons and Oriental Dragons are the most well known but Africa has their own dragons too, Mexico has Quetzalcoatl, Australia has the Rainbow Serpent, Hawaii has the Mo'o.
Dear @crashcourse whtere does this myth of the dragon, the four beasts and the mother monkey that you mention in 5:25 come from? How can I look for it?
What version of the book of Daniel were you reading? Sounds hilariously and completely off of the story I’ve read Not trying to sound pretentious, just curious lol
Love the videos watch every time. I’m a single mom and currently working on my masters for genetics and recently started a new channel all about aquariums and guppies. Know it’s random but biology is fascinating and guppies are used in Genetic research often, just want to pass knowledge where I can. Thank you for the inspiration for deciding just go for it. Listening to your videos while doing homework is the must needed break I need. Enjoy, Happiest of New Years 2018!
The Welsh story sounds like a bedtime story talking about the defeat of the Scandinavian raiders. The Welsh with red hair symbolizing the red dragon, the Scandinavians with white blond hair representing the white dragon.
You mentioned snakes as background for dragons, yet there was no mention of dragons in America. With such diversity and richness in culture and myth, I find it pitiful that you guys did not include the feathered snakes of Aztec and Mayan cultures, as they are in every category, dragons. I realize that time and the length of the videos are a matter of issue when writing the episodes, but I wish you would be more inclusive to all cultures when presenting the subjects, if you do deep research you´ll find that archetypes are predominant in myths around the world. Maybe consider making a Part II video for some subjects?. I really like the show, I just wish it could take a direction where it would fit inn myths from all over the glove, and give them equal weight of importance, not just center around those in Europe and Asia.
About the origin of chinese dragon that depicted on toughtbubble section, is actually a myth from an obscure ethnic group on southwest china called Bai people. You can read about it on "Handbook of Chinese Mythology". Many ethnic groups on China has different depiction of dragons. Despite that, all of them agreed that chinese dragons are benevolent creature. Sorry for my bad english.
Learned this from the comment section, Kieran Shepherd "It’s from the extra books of Daniel, not part of the Jewish Torah, considered apocryphal (dubious) by Protestants, but canonical by Catholics."
Very interesting. I always had an idea that dragon mythology occurred when humans of civilized periods happened upon exposed extinct animal species, i.e. dinosaurs early large mammals. Thanks to this, I see I am mistaken. Thank you Crash Course!
Where did you get the story about Daniel from my memory it saif in the bible king nebacanezer was advised by his scribes to order the people to worship himself as a god and those who did not or where found worshiping anything would be put to death. Three times a day Daniel prayed towards Jerusalem so the scribes watched to see Daniel praying to something besides the king and he was sentenced to death the lions where kept from food until they where very hungry and Daniel was thrown in but an angel appeared and they did not eat him. That's the Genaral story about Daniel and the lions den in the bible so where did you get your story.
Noah Abraham they got it from an apocryphal addition to the book of Daniel. The story is Bel and the Dragon. Not biblical at all. However this story is accepted in the catholic cannon
Owen Govender one of the most famous would probably be Nezha’s story, but that one does not exactly portray dragons as super powerful. In chinese myth, there was sort of like a primordial battle/war between dragons and phoenix’s, of which all of the powerful members of both tribes died. As a result, both tribes were significantly weakened and I think the phoenix tribe was essentially wiped out except a select few?? So asides from some of those super primordial myth stories, dragons sometimes aren’t portrayed as very powerful in comparison. They are still really important to humanity tho, since they control rain/floods/water so are still respected
I've heard that a possible source for western dragons breathing fire is a misunderstanding of illustrations of the Nile monitor's lizard; it has a forked tongue, so if you don't know that it might appear as two tongues of flame.
There's a tiny part of me that wants Scotland and Northern Ireland to leave the UK, so that the British people can rectify the great miscarriage of justice that was the omission of the Welsh dragon from the Union Jack. It's almost like the people making the British flag were like "Oh, we have an opportunity to add a dragon to our flag. Should we do that, thus making it objectively better? No, let's leave it out and force people to fantasize about what might have been for the rest of eternity."
I'm aware that England and Wales were the same entity when the Union was made, but that doesn't change the fact that they are now and were in the past separate political and cultural entities. And St. George's Cross is the symbol of England, not Wales.
Oh, I never said that this was the only or most important issue facing the country (it's definitely not). I'm saying it's a problem that ought to be addressed.
Dude I love this series so much. I love it I love it. I love mythology and folk tales and all things like those. I just bought an entire book series about fairy tales and folk stories, mythology and urban legends. It is awesome. I even got all of them for 10 dollars!
Nice to see the Welsh dragon getting some recognition. I would have liked to have heard more about it in the thought bubble but I guess it is a bit too similar to the story of Susanoo and Orochi.
Oh, come on! The various Aboriginal Australian Dreaming Stories of “The Rainbow Serpent” deserved at least a passing mention. Derbarl Yerrigan (the Noongar name for her(?)) is so closely associated with water that what colonists called the Sawn River has, of old, been named Derbal Yerrigan. Across this continent the Rainbow Serpent is found in many Dreaming stories (ancient myths.) I can’t recommend highly enough the reading of (and, more importantly, listening to) Dreaming stories.
West: Dragons get killed by brave heroes
East: Dragons get killed by tigers, magic monkeys, ten-year-old children
never underestimate an asian kid
Any 10 year old in particular you're referring to?
Matthew Julien Nezha…
In the West dragons are seen as evil, but in the east they’re seen as good. East coast beast coast
As a Chinese, I've never heard of this legend before. The 4 significant creatures in Chinese myth are usually consist of tortoise, dragon, phoenix and tiger. I've never heard of any stories from bees. I'm not sure where they get these legends from. Do share the source of the story if it's been found.
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't mention Jörmungandr, the Midgard/World Serpent of Norse mythology.
He already mentioned Fafnir
@@vvaldbeere However he wrongly claimed it was a German tale
Timothy Blinn
Fafnir is from norse mythology which is a branch of germanic mythology. The claim seems pretty reasonable to me.
Timothy Blinn norse mythology comes from german myth
The middle son of Loki
Actually chinese dragons don’t need wings to fly. They are magical.
atrudokht Some has wings. There are many variations as mentioned in this video, one interesting thing to note is when they were discussing the persian dragon, their depiction is an influenced from China during their contact through the silk road.
While most dragons from chinese folklore were wingless, there was one variation called a Yinglong that grew wings if it lived past the usual chinese dragon life cycle of 2000 years.
Chinese dragon can be born as dragon or serpent through cultivation become dragon, first they get lil bumps on their head, then the front limbs followed by back limbs, the horns will grow as well, the number of claws will increase from 3 to 5. Once they have 5 claws on all limbs they are true dragon.
The in between is called 蛟。Can bring good or bad meaning.
@@theropen1997 first dragon came from Indian mythology named vritra
So are African dragons, like Heylél and Apophis!
What about Quetzalcoatl? It seemed perfect for this episode.
I know, right, had the same thought.
Generally I feel like they’ve ignored Central American and Aztec myths
I think he was already named in a creation mythos, as Kukulkan. I mean, I you see close to Mexico in the map you can see him.
yeah!!!!!!
They could at least talk about her big boobs and motherly personality, or was that in an anime
Trogdor reference in the first 20 seconds of the video? I already love it.
What if they just sacrificed a virgin sheep?
Maybe it was too risky?
Maybe that is what the dragon originally wanted but the people misunderstood it, and since it was getting more food out of the deal the dragon never bothered to correct them.
yeah. that makes sense. (no sarcasm intended.)
Illumimati: stay where you are
They don't exist in the UK they have only recently discovered they can be used for wool
In the Vietnamese community, our most famous creation myth involves the marriage between a sea dragon and a beautiful mountain nymph. (Although in Vietnamese, she could also be considered a fairy or a goddess. In other words, she's a celestial being) Long story short, the mountain nymph Âu Cơ wasn't able to return to the Heavens because she tasted something of the Earth realm when she and her sisters visited. Thus, she had to make her home in the mountains. Meanwhile, the Dragon Sea King Lạc Long Quân (then a prince), went to the surface world and fell in love with Âu Cơ. (Being the king of dragons allows you to have a human form) The two were wed and she bore an egg sack with 100 eggs. From them came 100 children and the Vietnamese believed that they became the first 100 Vietnamese clans, one of them becoming the first ruler of Vietnam. Eventually, Âu Cơ missed the mountains and Lạc Long Quân missed the seas and the two decided to split ways, each taking 50 children with them, with the husband saying, "I am descended from dragons, you from nymphs.We are as incompatible as water is with fire. So we cannot continue in harmony." To this day, Vietnamese referred to themselves as the descendants of dragons and nymphs.
As for Chinese dragon myths, My favorite involves the Jade Emperor and the Four Dragons who turned into the four rivers of China. Perhaps you should make future videos about these myths.
Finally we answered the most important question.
But what. About. DRAGONS?!
Glad to see I'm not the only Shadiversity fan in the room.
Swords!!!!!
SWORDS!!!!!!
CASTLES!
Just what I was thinking
Hi guys, I live in Chile and the indegenous Mapuche people have a myth of 2 serpents that fought, one rising the sea to kill of humans (called cai cai villu) and the other (Tren tren villu) rising the land to protect them, finally creating the fjords of the south of the country. It makes an interesting read, and you could finally put some stickers down in south america in your map!
aww, he didn't talk about the filipino dragons, the Bakunawa and the Minokawa, dragons so large that they could each swallow the sun and the moon, respectively.
tradition dictated that to make them release the sun and moon from their maws, the people would bang pots and make a lot of noise to make the dragons leave and spit out the heavenly bodie
Hardly Rainy Gamer yeeess sad haha but o well i hope they mention in the next episode the witch of Philippine myth ;the manananggal, mangkukulam, and mambabarang
Hahahha that's a dog in Chinese mythology. A pet of a three eye god I think.
In the mythology of my countrie Chile (wich is actually several different myths from different cultures and times) we had two giant snakes Cai Cai serpent of the sea and Tren Tren snake of the earth. Because of the constant war between them, cai cai would use tsunamis to attack tren tren and this in order to protect the living creatures of the ground would rise mountains and rechape the continents.
Is a fascinating myth and I am thankful to this video for making me remember this.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar This is really weird, cause my country, Vietnam, has the almost exact story too. But in my country folk story, the feud originate between Son Tinh(mountain spirit) and Thuy Tinh(water spirit), from fighting over the king's daughter for the right to marry her. The kings set out a collection of special dowry for both to find, but because he is secretly in favor Son Tinh, the mountain spirit won. Thuy Tinh know about this ruse and it's furious, so around the anniversary of their wedding, he would raise water and cause flooding all over the realm. In return, Son Tinh will raise the land up, creating mountain ranges and valleys. This is use as an explanation why our country is that mountainous for kids.
Victor 654 yeah there are a lot of myths that are repeated between cultures, we share many stories, truly interesting.
Reminds me of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire.
Native Americans have similar tales 😍😍 I would love to see videos of these 😍
well considerate when the ice age ended, sea level raised and a lot of folk around the world have their land flooded, they going to have similar story to explain that
In Slavic mythology snakes DO actually transform into dragons (and a thing called the Hala, or Ala, there like HUGE dragons that reatch above the clouds, they mostly appear as black fog or mist) AND ITS COOL AF. And yes, its dope.
I love how the welsh instead of killing dragons just get them super drunk and tame them XD that's proper nice hospitality
i'm from heilongjiang pronvince where the Black Dragon River lies, and i'm happy to see a myth of this river on crash course!
Anyone else find it interesting that snakes/serpents are often present for the birth of man and woman in mythology?
Gotta say... this was a hilarious episode. A++ for Mike refusing to hide how thrilled he is to discuss dragons for an episode
Just an FYI: The story of Daniel over-feeding a dragon doesn't come from the Bible proper. It's from the apocryphal Bel and the Dragon, an additional late text added to the canonical book of Daniel.
Loved this video! So interesting.
The Chinese story OMG the ending ....explains so much .
So glad I saw this
You forgot to mention Naga, the great serpent plays a role in Buddhist mythology and also heavily influence the creation myths in most Southeast Asian nations, for example, Cambodia.
i just tripped head first back in WoW
Yeah Naga in Warcraft imo came from that too, except the Naga in Buddhist Mythology doesn't seem to grow arms (nor legs) :D
I believe Blizzard changed all their creations' appearance a little bit from the original mythology to avoid religious offense.
Yes, naga may originate from Hinduism or some other script even older (who knows). Though my point back then was that in Cambodian creation myth, we believe ourselves to be descendants of a naga (local) and a human king (foreign). I'm not entirely sure, but I couldn't find that or any similar story in Hindu myth.
An explanation or perhaps a speculation, it could simply be a merge between Hindusim which was imported from India and got localized into the native context and belief system... :)
0:57: Fun fact: In the movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Tiamat was one of the many Titans (kaiju) that were awakened by King Ghidorah. Her containment unit was in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
What about Quetzalcóatl? The serpent God in Aztec mithology, who was also known as Kukulkán for the Mayans.
I know fucken morron.
Serpents are basically another kind of dragon. The *amphithere* is a great example of a such beast. Amphitheres are *dragons that have no legs at all, have eyes like that in a peacock's tail, and have 2 wings that glittered and sparkled wherever they flew.*
Of course the white dragon has to invade and attack the red dragon
In the end (in history) the white dragon did win since both norse and danish raiders did end up being a pretty decent size of the british genetic population prior to true global trade/before the commonwealth.
I'm surprised Mike didn't continue the story.
King Vortigern was building a castle that was constantly being destroyed by Earthquakes. Not knowing why he was being plagued by Earthquakes, he consults with 12 wise men and at their advice eventually captures a young Merlin, intending to kill him and sprinkle his blood on the ground in order to stop the quakes. When young Merlin finds out what is up, he tells Vortigern that his blood won't stop the shaking and that he had built his castle on top of two sleeping dragons (one white and one red) and that whenever they woke, they fought, which was why his castle kept being shaken apart. The red dragon was Wales and the white, the Saxons and whomever won determined control of the kingdom and Vortigern needed to build his castle somewhere else. Merlin got to live and got a job as Vortigern's magician and then some stuff happened and then Arthur.
ANDELE3025 the white dragon represents the Anglo-Saxons, not the Vikings who came along a few centuries later. The red dragon represents those parts of western Britannia that preserved Romano-Brythonic culture and traditions.
Yay, Lancaster!
Rory O'Kane a.k.a, the Welsh.
No Quetzalcoatl? C'mon Mike! You have it right there in the board behind you! I really hope we get another mention because our mesoamerican Dragons are as badass and interesting as any other!
He's a giant feathered rattlesnake.
:)
*mexica high five*
Callee
But still a dragon
Gunja Fury only if you're going by Old European standards and not Mesoamerican ones!
Not even a mention of Jörmungandr! The giant world serpent that encircles Ydrassil!
Jormungand/Jormungandr encircles just Midgard's ocean, not Yggdrassil. Nidhogg gnaws on the roots of the tree. But yeah, I'm bummed they didn't mention him too.
6:31
Level 100 python evolved into a level 100 dragon.
Dragon wants to learn Break
*{YES}* -{NO}-
Dragon used break on the eggs.
Eggs created many more animals
Instead of being sad that certain myths, creatures or places weren't mentioned, share the stories in the comments ! Keep the learning and appreciation of myth going ❤️
No Quetzalcoatl? I'm disappointed
I think they may have mentioned the feathered serpent before
that's a Serpent, not technically a Dragon
They mentioned serpents and dragons here. So it made perfect sense. But this series has neglected hispanic-american countries and our mythos. So it doesn't surprise me anymore
ulises amaro or jormungandr
except the title is called serpents and dragons
I've actually never heard of this particular Chinese story before. I always thought men and women came from Nu Wa, who created humans out of mud and breathed life into them...
Count me in bcs most Chinese records b4 the modern evolution theory appeared all point the creation of man to the goddess Nu Wa, some claimed she created men from mud, others described she had babies with her husband and brother Fu Xi, they are both half serpent, half man.
But the story told here is partially true, it was the story of how Chinese came to been, the first clan leader was called The Yellow Emperor, he took a snake as his sigil and totem, by defeating other tribes, he would add their totems, part of them at least on his totem, so he defeated all the surrounding clans, added the features from other animals to the snake, then the snake became dragon, so the clan of Hwang Di (Chinese for yellow emperor) became Hwa Xia, the foundation population of China until now.
Me I thought god just made people out of mud
I can't seem to find any Chinese source of these myth. Weird
@@GKS225 as a chinese i haven't heard of that story as well. Dragon just came into our history in early dynasty and our people bloomed thats why we call ourselves descendant of Dragon. But i think Dragon is just alien space ship.
@@JKMT I finally found the source of story from the book, Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Apparently the story is from the Bai people in southwest of China.
the white dragon was supposed to represent the Saxon invaders to Romano-Celtic Britain. Merlin Ambrosius (yes that Merlin) predicts that the Red Welsh (or Celtic) Dragon would eventually overcome the Saxon White Dragon. Of course the Welsh eventually defeated the Saxons which allowed Wales to be it's own princedom for a hundred or so more years. It was finally the English king Edward Longshanks (Edward I named Longshanks because he was apparently so tall) who subdued the Welsh and made Wales part of England. Llewellyn the Last was the Prince of Wales that fought Longshanks and he was the last Prince of Wales to be born Welsh (hence the title). Ever since the heir to the British throne has been called the Prince of Wales (originally to appease the rebellious Welsh).
Just an FYI
Plz can you mention the year of king edward
I like to imagine dragons
theokchannel a bit too radioactive for me :p
I like to Puff Magic Dragons.
you're a believer
get out
Maybe...maybe dragons like to imagine you.
i love the subtle trogdor reference there haha, burninating!!!
omg, dragons.
I just think they look cool tbh.
9:26 "If you don't have any endangered animal bones lying around, just pollute the water with household waste!"
Also that's just the plot to Sprited Away
Egg math doesnt add up to 99.
25 + 25 + 1 +24 +25 = 100
Late Night Breeze
Why am I suddenly reminded of the bullet counting scene in Clue?
Thanks. This was bothering me.
there were still 100 in total the monkey kept one of the eggs explaining the 1 in the middle, though the 98 at the end should have been 97 since one of the 100 eggs was the serpent.
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Fan fact I heard about the Welsh red and white dragons. The red one symbolizes the Celtic people of Britain, while the white dragon symbolizes the invading Saxons - so the fight between the two dragons, was actually a metaphor for the Celts defending their land against the invading Saxons.
Got to love a good dragon myth
True that. ;)
That’s only exist in Asia, a benevolent dragon.
atrudokht No, Arthurian Legends depict occidental dragons to be good and wise most of the time. And there some nordic tales and myths who don't always depict them as alpha predators for humans.
I absolutely ADORE Oriental Dragons. Tiamat is beautiful as well 😍
Can we get a shout out for Rostam?! That horse was awesome!
Love the Trogdor the Burninator joke
Dragon dragon. Rock the dragon.
Dragon ball z
ShenLong
Love this
So happy that the mabinogion was talked about and the story of Y Ddraig Goch.
Cymry am Byth!
in the Philippines we have a moon-eating dragon/serpent called the Bakunawa
the red dragon symbolises Wales and the white dragon, England. A simple, yet elegant metaphor for the struggle between our two nations.
God, I love Crash Course 😍
I love the pokemon cameos!!!! Python vs pikachu and caterpie
Is there enough mythology about/related to eclipses? It'd be awesome to see a chapter about it
Oh, believe me, there's plenty. The ancient cultures had to explain the sudden disappearance of the sun or moon somehow.
I just finished watching through this playlist today and I was just wondering when there would be more.
This is very pleasing, especially since it's DRAGONS.
Thank Akatosh! Finally!!
Love the Trogdor reference!
Who els saw the Pikachu under the Tigers rule 😆😆😆😁😁😁
But did you notice the Caterpie under the Bees' rule?
Me
Nawid N. Should have been a Weedle
OK, if the dragon ate some Pokemon, does that mean he is now a Rayquaza?
Where???
A Trogdor reference from PBS Digital Studios? My life is complete.
You missed Kukulkan as a far west exemple winged-serpent-dragon like god!
thank you for the homestar runner reference that was much appreciated
I'm surprised there wasn't much mention of the Central American Dragon/Serpent/Gods?
That has got to be the most simplified retelling of Faffnir's legend I have ever heard. Wow.
Fafner is actually a figure from Nordic mythology there is a large run inscription outside of the Swedish town Eskilstuna it’s called the Sigurasristning
Nordic and German mythology are the same mythology, just with different names. I.e. The Allfather was Odin in Norway and Woden in Germany, but no matter the name, still the same guy. Which is why "Norse Mythology" and "Germanic Mythology" are used interchangeably.
Some differences. But likely, there would have been regional differences within Scandinavia as well.
It's a bit.. not exactly okay to say they're the same, though. Like... it just feels wrong.
I may be wrong in this but the name of the inscription even seems to translate into "Sigurd's carving", then again I dunno, ancient Swedish is weird.
you're rigth it translates to Sigurd's carving and it tells the tale of Sigurd a warrior who killed the snake dragon Fafnir
Sigart
We know too little about continential germanic mythology to really make any distinct differences from norse mythology. The deities are the same but people gave them differing importance.
German and norse myth probably have a similiar relationship as greek and roman myth do.
And now, the D&D crash course special! featuring Tiamat!
Yo i never heard the version of the daniel story where there was an actual dragon involved
It's from the Apocrypha of Daniel. The Septuagint has it so the Catholic and Orthodox churches kept it. It was one of the books expunged from the Protestant Bible.
i love the battle aganist ragnarok and davy jones in the intro
Quetzalcoatl, Jurgamundr or the divine serpents of Australia?
Actually, Quetzalcoatl was a dinosaur, not a dragon.
@@rexmundi3108 Actually Quetalcoatl was a Flying reptile not a dinosaur. Pterosaur arent dinosaurs. He means Quetalcoatl the mayan/aztec God who is a serpent god with Feather's.
YES I love the trogdor reference so much
I'll admit I'm kind of disappointed that Mike didn't mention the Dragon of Wawel.
Basically, back before Mieszko I converted to Christianity, King Krak founded the city of Krakow. But the city was attacked by a dragon, who started by eating sheep but then developed a taste for human flesh. All of the knights failed to defeat the dragon, but one cobbler had a plan. He killed a sheep, filled it with sulphur and left it at the mouth of the dragon's cave. The dragon fell for the trick and ate the sheep... turns out dragons find sulphur too spicy for their taste, so the dragon drank water from the Vistula river to stop the burning. Of course, the heat in the dragons body turned the water to steam, and the steam built up to the point that the dragon exploded. Popped. Like a balloon.
And then there's the standard ending: the cobbler marries the princess, they all live happily ever after and OH did I forget to mention what happened to the remains of the dragon? The cobbler made its skin into shoes for the princess.
Could you please update the Mythology Playlist and add the new videos!!! Thank you! I really love this series - I live how Mike is so enthusiastic about these themes - makes me smile a lot + learning much more fun ❤
Almost every culture has their own version of a dragon or great serpent. European Dragons and Oriental Dragons are the most well known but Africa has their own dragons too, Mexico has Quetzalcoatl, Australia has the Rainbow Serpent, Hawaii has the Mo'o.
Dear @crashcourse whtere does this myth of the dragon, the four beasts and the mother monkey that you mention in 5:25 come from? How can I look for it?
What version of the book of Daniel were you reading? Sounds hilariously and completely off of the story I’ve read
Not trying to sound pretentious, just curious lol
It’s from the extra books of Daniel, not part of the Jewish Torah, considered apocryphal (dubious) by Protestants, but canonical by Catholics.
Kieran Shepherd Ooh, gotcha. Interesting stuff
Love the videos watch every time. I’m a single mom and currently working on my masters for genetics and recently started a new channel all about aquariums and guppies. Know it’s random but biology is fascinating and guppies are used in Genetic research often, just want to pass knowledge where I can. Thank you for the inspiration for deciding just go for it. Listening to your videos while doing homework is the must needed break I need. Enjoy, Happiest of New Years 2018!
But what about Jorrmangander the Norse Serpent
0:09 poor Thoth. He really needs a stand-alone video
and Quetzalcoatl or Kukulkan?
+50 points for the Trogdor reference.
Ryū ga waga teki wo kurau!
Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!
The Welsh story sounds like a bedtime story talking about the defeat of the Scandinavian raiders. The Welsh with red hair symbolizing the red dragon, the Scandinavians with white blond hair representing the white dragon.
You mentioned snakes as background for dragons, yet there was no mention of dragons in America. With such diversity and richness in culture and myth, I find it pitiful that you guys did not include the feathered snakes of Aztec and Mayan cultures, as they are in every category, dragons. I realize that time and the length of the videos are a matter of issue when writing the episodes, but I wish you would be more inclusive to all cultures when presenting the subjects, if you do deep research you´ll find that archetypes are predominant in myths around the world. Maybe consider making a Part II video for some subjects?. I really like the show, I just wish it could take a direction where it would fit inn myths from all over the glove, and give them equal weight of importance, not just center around those in Europe and Asia.
Could u guys make a series on Dinosaurs. And their species, classification and grouping and all that. And what led to their extinction.
This had four views when I first clicked I've never felt more important
About the origin of chinese dragon that depicted on toughtbubble section, is actually a myth from an obscure ethnic group on southwest china called Bai people. You can read about it on "Handbook of Chinese Mythology".
Many ethnic groups on China has different depiction of dragons. Despite that, all of them agreed that chinese dragons are benevolent creature.
Sorry for my bad english.
That’s not the biblical account of Daniel and the lion’s den at all 😂😂
Learned this from the comment section,
Kieran Shepherd "It’s from the extra books of Daniel, not part of the Jewish Torah, considered apocryphal (dubious) by Protestants, but canonical by Catholics."
OspreyKnight Exactly...the story’s even called “Bel and the Dragon.”
My favorite Serpents/Dragons are Kaikai and Trengtreng. They are awesome.
No Quetzalcoatl on a video about snakes and dragons?? Why?
reasons
Actually, Quetzalcoatl was a dinosaur, not a dragon.
rex mundi Actually, Quetzalcoatl was an Aztec god of sun and agriculture who appeared as a winged serpent. The dinosaur was named after the god.
Very interesting. I always had an idea that dragon mythology occurred when humans of civilized periods happened upon exposed extinct animal species, i.e. dinosaurs early large mammals. Thanks to this, I see I am mistaken. Thank you Crash Course!
Where did you get the story about Daniel from my memory it saif in the bible king nebacanezer was advised by his scribes to order the people to worship himself as a god and those who did not or where found worshiping anything would be put to death.
Three times a day Daniel prayed towards Jerusalem so the scribes watched to see Daniel praying to something besides the king and he was sentenced to death the lions where kept from food until they where very hungry and Daniel was thrown in but an angel appeared and they did not eat him.
That's the Genaral story about Daniel and the lions den in the bible so where did you get your story.
Noah Abraham they got it from an apocryphal addition to the book of Daniel. The story is Bel and the Dragon.
Not biblical at all. However this story is accepted in the catholic cannon
This is so cool! Like Catching a level 100 shiny rayquaza with a beast ball!
I'm chinese, i never heard of that chinese dragon myth
Wait then have you heard of any dragon stories because I am trying to get some more info on dragons
Owen Govender many chinese myths involve dragons, but dragons are often not the main character
Owen Govender one of the most famous would probably be Nezha’s story, but that one does not exactly portray dragons as super powerful. In chinese myth, there was sort of like a primordial battle/war between dragons and phoenix’s, of which all of the powerful members of both tribes died. As a result, both tribes were significantly weakened and I think the phoenix tribe was essentially wiped out except a select few?? So asides from some of those super primordial myth stories, dragons sometimes aren’t portrayed as very powerful in comparison. They are still really important to humanity tho, since they control rain/floods/water so are still respected
This guy is great at narrating mythology.
Does this make chihro from spirited away a Chinese demigod?
Trevor Williams no, and its a Japanese animation.
Nebuchadnezzar's logic: What? Daniel defeated my dragon? I'll show him! Throw him to the lions!
Nothing on the Mesoamerican feathered serpent? Ok…
I've heard that a possible source for western dragons breathing fire is a misunderstanding of illustrations of the Nile monitor's lizard; it has a forked tongue, so if you don't know that it might appear as two tongues of flame.
There's a tiny part of me that wants Scotland and Northern Ireland to leave the UK, so that the British people can rectify the great miscarriage of justice that was the omission of the Welsh dragon from the Union Jack.
It's almost like the people making the British flag were like "Oh, we have an opportunity to add a dragon to our flag. Should we do that, thus making it objectively better? No, let's leave it out and force people to fantasize about what might have been for the rest of eternity."
Wales was already part of England when the Union was made. Therefore, it is represented by St George's Cross (red cross on white field).
I'm aware that England and Wales were the same entity when the Union was made, but that doesn't change the fact that they are now and were in the past separate political and cultural entities.
And St. George's Cross is the symbol of England, not Wales.
Xerxes2005 point still stands that there was an opportunity for a dragon, and we received no dragon! 😂 🐉 always gonna be jealous of the bloody Welsh
Britain has other problems to worry about, not their flag.
Oh, I never said that this was the only or most important issue facing the country (it's definitely not). I'm saying it's a problem that ought to be addressed.
thank you for the homestar runner reference in the intro!
Troooooogdoooooor!!!!!!!!
Burnanating the country side!!!!
Thank GOD someone else got that reference :D
I'm just honored to be his emissary.
It was the first thing I noticed.
It's upsetting I had to scroll this far. Happy Decemberween everyone! It's only 55 days after Halloween.
Dude I love this series so much. I love it I love it. I love mythology and folk tales and all things like those. I just bought an entire book series about fairy tales and folk stories, mythology and urban legends. It is awesome. I even got all of them for 10 dollars!
I've never clicked faster
Nice to see the Welsh dragon getting some recognition. I would have liked to have heard more about it in the thought bubble but I guess it is a bit too similar to the story of Susanoo and Orochi.
There are 100 eggs.
25+25+1+24+25=100
Daniel Gysi makes sense
Going through the comment section...Wow!! I didn't know there were so many dragon types!! Good to know so thank you all and Google, here I come!
Oh, come on! The various Aboriginal Australian Dreaming Stories of “The Rainbow Serpent” deserved at least a passing mention. Derbarl Yerrigan (the Noongar name for her(?)) is so closely associated with water that what colonists called the Sawn River has, of old, been named Derbal Yerrigan.
Across this continent the Rainbow Serpent is found in many Dreaming stories (ancient myths.) I can’t recommend highly enough the reading of (and, more importantly, listening to) Dreaming stories.
I too was disheartened at the lack of Rainbow Serpent.
Trogdor reference made me smile. :D