Great monster topic! Near the end, you have a still pic from Jason & the Argonauts, an old fave. The great Ray Harryhausen, king of stop-motion, animated an interesting bit of the hydra lore in which the beast, defeated and burned, leaves behind its teeth, which are collected by the evil king. He then orders the teeth to be buried, and they sprout into warrior skeletons. Very cool, even if a little mixed mythology was at work there:)
@@WoM Yes, your lesson was fine; I loved it! When I said mixed myths, I meant the hydra/dragon stories have Jason in one "teeth adventure" and Cadmus in another. Those skeletons apparently grow everywhere LOL.
Ah yes; my spirit animal. Also let raise a glass to Cancer the crab. That homie saw the danger and still when to help their homie. Wasn't Lolaus Heracles lover?
The hydra is definitely a top tier monster, multiple headed serpentine or draconic beasties is just a really badass creature design in general. The Hydra is not the only multiple headed serpent in mythology, Orochi 8 headed serpent/dragon from Japanese mythology comes to mind, but it is hands down the most popular and is most likely the main influence for most multiple headed serpents we see in modern media.
Thank you, Hydra is simply put a beautiful creature appearing in multiple Indo-European myths, sure people know it from Greece first and foremost but as we all know Hydra is much more, even the Slavic myth of creation had a "Hydra" in it. Hydra is a magnificent representation of a wonderful animal, a multi headed chimaera if you may, but it's much more than just a bunch of snakes out together with a regenerative power. A Hydra is a symbol of destruction and death, a God killer, a monster that needed a demi-god (a manifestation of a combined human and God spirits, something much more important in Iranian and Indic mythologies) to be defeated. It's JUST the best monster of all the stories and legends, it's not too complex, not too strange and alien, it's something that may as well be real (in fact with blood magic [genetic engineering] it very much can become a thing) it's the true king of mythological monsters. So thank you for covering my favourite mythological monster ever! Another monster video idea - The Roc Eagle, a raptor bird so big it could carry elephants and was a nuisance to sea merchants of the Western Indian Ocean region :)
P.S. technically speaking in some versions of the myth the Hydra had a brain-heart which you needed to locate and destroy in order for it to stop regenerating and die. I could also speculate that the brainless copy heads would fall off once the Hydra felt safe enough? Would you want to drag additional arms around if you didn't have to?
Great monster topic! Near the end, you have a still pic from Jason & the Argonauts, an old fave. The great Ray Harryhausen, king of stop-motion, animated an interesting bit of the hydra lore in which the beast, defeated and burned, leaves behind its teeth, which are collected by the evil king. He then orders the teeth to be buried, and they sprout into warrior skeletons. Very cool, even if a little mixed mythology was at work there:)
Thanks and it sure was mixed but it worked well
@@WoM Yes, your lesson was fine; I loved it! When I said mixed myths, I meant the hydra/dragon stories have Jason in one "teeth adventure" and Cadmus in another. Those skeletons apparently grow everywhere LOL.
@@gabriellen.2886 lol, right I was even considering bringing up the skeletons but that's reserved for dragon talk ;)
Ah yes; my spirit animal. Also let raise a glass to Cancer the crab. That homie saw the danger and still when to help their homie. Wasn't Lolaus Heracles lover?
I am Alpharius.
Yes YOU are
Got to love all the different artwork in this video
The hydra is definitely a top tier monster, multiple headed serpentine or draconic beasties is just a really badass creature design in general. The Hydra is not the only multiple headed serpent in mythology, Orochi 8 headed serpent/dragon from Japanese mythology comes to mind, but it is hands down the most popular and is most likely the main influence for most multiple headed serpents we see in modern media.
Indeed!
Thank you, Hydra is simply put a beautiful creature appearing in multiple Indo-European myths, sure people know it from Greece first and foremost but as we all know Hydra is much more, even the Slavic myth of creation had a "Hydra" in it.
Hydra is a magnificent representation of a wonderful animal, a multi headed chimaera if you may, but it's much more than just a bunch of snakes out together with a regenerative power. A Hydra is a symbol of destruction and death, a God killer, a monster that needed a demi-god (a manifestation of a combined human and God spirits, something much more important in Iranian and Indic mythologies) to be defeated.
It's JUST the best monster of all the stories and legends, it's not too complex, not too strange and alien, it's something that may as well be real (in fact with blood magic [genetic engineering] it very much can become a thing) it's the true king of mythological monsters.
So thank you for covering my favourite mythological monster ever!
Another monster video idea - The Roc Eagle, a raptor bird so big it could carry elephants and was a nuisance to sea merchants of the Western Indian Ocean region :)
P.S. technically speaking in some versions of the myth the Hydra had a brain-heart which you needed to locate and destroy in order for it to stop regenerating and die.
I could also speculate that the brainless copy heads would fall off once the Hydra felt safe enough? Would you want to drag additional arms around if you didn't have to?
Whoa what a beautiful comment! And I had no idea it's your fave. Years ago I did make a video covering it in detail too.
That would make sense, just like lizards dropping their tails
For me it is, closely followed by Typhon in second place.
Awesome! Could you do cereberus Arthur?
Noted!
Super amazing
The Hydra is interesting mythical creature.
It really is