Are there any dragons you would like to know more about?

A veteran and psych here, I once saw lightening strike in a mountainous region with heavy rain. Let me tell you, if you've never seen it up close, nothing can compare to it. It's unbelievably bright and mesmerisingly terrifying.

thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening!

I’ve been caught outside during a massive lightning storm, having to walk a few miles by myself, as an adult. It was one of the more frightening experiences of my life. It was so unbelievably violent that I could not even stand to look at it, I stole some glances but I was completely humbled by the raw terror of nature.

I love how this episode ties in with the previous one about the dragon origins. The quality of your output keeps rising and rising. Thank you so much

The worst thing about thunder is not the rain that comes afterward, but the fire. In natural environments like forests or steppe, positive lightning strikes are the main source of large fires. As we've seen in Alaska, some of these fires can devastate areas for hundreds of miles. Some can run with a three hundred foot high wall of fire on the front. The sound of a wind driven fire is like a hundred freight trains coming your way.

Crecganford has become one of my favorite channels since discovering it! Your analysis of myths, legends, stories are fascinating! I love your work!

I have no idea how this channel doesn't have a massive following. Mad props my man, your presentation and expertise is captivating.

A large crocodile could certainly have bound access to water, emerging to drag down sacrifices.

I am looking forward to when you do a video like this for sun gods. I use a lot of mythological references in my writing and this was an eye-opening video on the “root” of storm gods and where their myths intersect. Thanks for all your hard work!

That was the most perfect subscription request ever.

My hunting dog still feels like that frightened ! I live in the middle of Germany and he starts trembling, when there is thunderstorm and bad weather in eastern France. Thank you very much for your wonderful deep work !

Indra does have the same consonants as the Germanic Donar coincidentally. There is another quality of serpents and dragons that is of note, and that is poisonous fumes. It is also these fumes that Thor succumbs to, either falling from his chariot to earth (Thunor) or taking a few strides before he falls (Thor at Ragnarökr). In a Hindu myth, it is the serpent Vasuki that emits venomous fumes. Of course, ordinary snakes can produce venom, but not venomous fumes as far as I know... The poisonous breath of serpents also reminds me of the book of Revelation, where a star called Wormwood poisons the waters and makes them bitter.

Thank you for the great videos. Thunder striking the tree would have also been one of humanity's earliest sources of fire, thus maybe connected with the stolen celestial fire motif.

Fight between dragon and storm god is in fact symbolic description of a bolide (flying and fire-spitting dragon) entering the earth's atmosphere and ensuing phenomena (storm god) - firestorm, thunder, hurricane and so forth.

I can't wait to hear u talk about Yahwehs original pantheon!

I've seen that type of storm you spoke of. That's the type of storm that's both deadly and gorgious, like staring into the eyes of a kaijuu sized carnivore. Forces of nature in such raw, unfiltered, no f**ks given form like that is true testament to legends.

Whenever I see waterspouts/tornadoes pop up over the water I always imagine a prehistoric man looking out from the beach and thinking of it as a dragon. A huge funnel of wind and water twisting from ocean to sky, all kinds of noise.

20:20 Awesome content. Another name for Vedic Indra is Purandara (= "destroyer of strongholds") - quite similar to Perun.

By the way this is literally my favorite channel on youtube. I think this field of inquiry is criminally underrated on the whole.

I love thunder storms they always make me feel good weather I'm walking in it or sitting inside with the window open

This dragon has never been defeated. It will be back one day. For now, it merely sleeps at the bottom of the ocean, near the sunken city of R'lyeh...

None of them are bad, and ALL work together to create a beautiful, wonderful life for us all ❤

0:52 ok that sound effect had me jumping. Thanks for a library of great videos. Inspiring for writing and D&D

Welcome back Jon. I miss you when you're gone. You have the best channel on the internet, dense, rich, and insightful. Great stuff.

17:46 Many people draw "Perkunos" to India's "Parjanya" or "Indra", but i haven't seen anyone talk or relate "Perkunos" to the vedic god of rain/water, who is "Varun"/"Varuna". We can see mentions of varun as early as the beginning of Rigveda. I feel, Varun like the Slavic "Perun" was the first god of water and rain, which then "Indra" took over the duties of later on(Edit: Here's another thing which came into mind, "Mithra" who was treated as a god, but wasn't worshiped as such, was also a good friend of Varuna, hence the term "Mithra" is still used in Indian languages today which translates to "Friend", this has definitely something to do with the Mithra of Persia and the Roman cult of Mithras, again..., just my thoughts). Those are just my thoughts, what do you think about this?? Also a small titbit, the word "Indra" refers to "Indriya", or sense organs. He is said to be a god with a 100 eyes(sense organs), and can feel or see what everyone can see. Yeah this description is also very rare, but i've read this in the ancient texts as well.. Is this somehow related to the ancient Canaanite religion(as their later angels in the abrahamic text almost fit this kind of description)??

Grew up in the Lightning capitol of the world, central Florida and have had many first hand experiences...Awe inspiring is an Understatement.. can understand how our ancestors saw God in it....

Another work of art keep up spreading the knowledge

Man am I glad I found this channel! This dives so hard into myths compared to a lot of other channels. This makes me want to do an entire day of deep dives into this

My dreams are narrated by this man.

The dragon slaying myth in some part of europe is also perceived as a change of season kind of event, like dragon kidnap the wove of the storm god the god would pursue and kill the dragon amd his blood would be the rain. At least i rememember reading of this in latvian myth or the like (lithuan latvian and such tend to be quite similar)

I appreciate your work as a Polythiest and a aspiring historian!

Amazing research as always

"There's thunder in his footsteps and lightning in his fists." --Christian Singer Rich Mullins, from song Awesome God The idea of YHWH being a storm god seems to be imprinted on believers even today.

Thanks for this fantastic education

honestly a video about God's old pantheon sounds really interesting

The first thunder clap made me jump lol

This is a great deal!: I like and subscribe, and give a comment now and then, and you teach me stuff and tell awesome stories. You are a great storyteller. Thanks

Storm witches were my topic of discussion this evening. This is a great tie-in.

It's hard to find quality content on yt, but there it is. Thank you ❤️

I have so many videos to catch up on! 85k subscribers now wow congratulations johnathan nobody on youtube more deserving! 👍🙌

Regarding the book of Job quotation, I suggest listening to Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Exeter). It seems YAWAH first had to bash the sea monsters. Then in Job he's more powerful and can catch them on a hook. Later in Jewish faiths he plays with sea monsters. She talks really well about this online. It's quite an interesting progression.

I remember when I was little sometimes there would be really big storms that woke everyone up. My family would get up and sit together to watch the storm. I loved it! Sometimes the thunder was so loud that even if you yelled at the top of your lungs the person next to you couldn’t hear you at all. The normally very quiet creek not far from our house would be rushing too! There were places where it ran through big pipes, big enough to climb through, and they became like giant hoses. Think how a hose is when you turn it up fully. The water rushed like that but bigger and faster, it shot out of the pipes at the exits, and occasionally there was so much water the pipes couldn’t carry it all! Some houses would flood a little in a storm like that and the next day after things quietened down us kids would play in any water that had collected and go to find the big branches or maybe a tree that had fallen. We always got leeches from the flood water but we didn’t mind! The water would drain away pretty quickly and the creek would calm down eventually too

As always, your content is outstanding. You're part of my daily enrichment of the mind. Thank you Jon.

look's like it's tea time!

Thank you for your fantastic work in narrating and explaining the myths of our ancestors (and providing us with the bibliography to go deeper into these interesting questions). Greetings from Majorca

Love all your videos, thank you.

That was fascinating. Thank you so much!

Thank you! Love your closed captioning. Never an error! Actual Intelligence 🕊️🖖

It's interesting how Thor "could be his own grandfather" with a different name when you consider the fact that the world will begin again after ragnarok, like the Hindu concept of Kalpas. This cyclical nature of the world and maybe then some of it's inhabitants being reborn/reincarnated lines up pretty well with Jormungandr as an Ouroboros having killed thor itself tying him directly to the idea of both worlds and souls as eternally repeating. What I am saying is that the Norse pagans might have believed in reincarnation..

Very interesting and so very well explained Outstanding work. Thank you

Yet another great video on a most interesting mythology. The only thing I missed, was the Old High German "Donar" showing up on your map. ;)

I love your show, sir; Such enriching content!

I love your work!

Not watched yet, saved for later. Beer's in the fridge. Always cracking content mate.

Excellent! Thank you!

I remember having been caught out in a thunderstorm while suffering severe heat fatigue, borderline heat stroke. And it was not a thunderstorm a couple of miles away, it was right above and around me. The thunder was like the explosions cannon fire, the lightning was blindingly bright. For the following three years after that, I suffered panic attacks at the sound of any thunder, however faint.

Awesome pick of subjects 🤘🙂👍

One of the big problems with trying to reconstruct the development of Norse Mythology is that most of the sources we have were written down by Christians centuries after the conversion of Scandinavia and Iceland. As such, stories like Ragnarok are likely significantly altered from their traditional forms to emphasize the weaknesses of Pagan deities compared to the Christian God. The respective deaths of Thor and Odin at Ragnarok is probably one such change.

I was always under the impression that legends of Leviathan were influenced by crocodiles rather than hippos (with the "rows of shields upon it's back")- which, given they can get 20ft long, makes a perfect Earthly dragon to mythologize.

I'm really digging all of these dragon videos. Keep it up!

2:34 Tupã ❤️ And don't forget the Yoruba god Shango with his axe, very similar to Thor. And the Aztec god Tlaloc.

Excellent content 😁

There are disturbing things at Karahan tepe that seem like sado masochism ceremonies to me. Good work!

I love Dragons but I'd love videos on the ... Gigantomachy, Dionysus, and their possible connection to each other and the Biblical story of Abraham and Lot. The various Origins of the names of the continents and people with and the table of nations. The Council of Kings at Byblos that seems to me to possibly be the origin of the idea of pantheons. I'd also love to hear more of Egyptian and Asian mythology and how it connects what you've covered so far... Also the how/where the "elements" like wind, water, earth, fire, void, came from and how they're all linked together... Likewise, is there any mythological links to the development of colors. It seems to me that there should be some sort myth that "created" the idea of each of the colors. I've never come across any but it seems like something that should be there to me.

Again another fantastic description of the history of our ongoing story. I play an RPG called Rune Quest, so much cross over; even in the entertainment dieties. Thank you Sir! I love your work. Best wishes to you and yours. Peace, m out.

Kind of shocking, I would have expected Yahweh to have originally been a sun deity.

New subscriber , nice and unique content about ancient past

My home-town in a valley with surrounding mountain ranges, in Montana, US, is considered semi-arid. The first time I was in a TENT in Minnesota (which has twice the annual rainfall amount) during a thunder-storm, at every thunder-clap I had a strong involuntary startle-response - even though I was consciously focused, counting seconds after lightning flashes, and anticipating the loud 'crack'! Makes sense to me - a Storm God battling a Dragon, forcing it to release precious water. It was an intense visceral experience - the kind of excitement (good or bad) that sticks in the memory.

Im curious about the 3 books on your shelf that together create an archer or centaur, what are they if you don't mind my asking? 🤔

you make videos like a pro wow I dont know how you dont have many more viewers

Another great presentation. Interested in any connections between dragons and volcanoes.

"Then follows a mighty battle between the gods and the Comet. It can have, of course, but one termination; but it will recur again and again in the legends of different nations. It was necessary that the gods, the protectors of mankind, should struggle to defend them against these strange and terrible enemies. But their very helplessness and their deaths show how immense was the calamity which had befallen the world."

I’ve recently found your channel and immediately subscribed and watched so many of your videos! Would you be able to do a video on the phoenix/firebird type of myths throughout cultures and history?

I’m an adult and I’m never afraid, but last night I was walking through my neighborhood and it sounded like there was thunder coming from the ocean! I heard it three separate times and i hurried home lol

Im wondering if the difference between the 'taming of the seas/dragon' myths in the west and the 'gift of water from a good dragon' could also have been influenced by the turbulent nature of the Atlantic vs the calm Pacific respectively; great work as always!

Both Indra and Thor were considered kings of gods(alongside Marduk, Ball, Yahweh etc etc) but as time passes on, Odin becomes most popular in Nordic mythology whereas Rudra/Shiva becomes one of the most popular in his pantheon. Now, both Odin and Shiva are same gods, both have a 3rd eye, both of them are described as wanderers. Why did this happen?

This sounds interesting, at like 2 o'clock in the morning I was reading about Norse Mythology, and Thor, and this video will be interesting to find why Storm Gods are the most powerful / the most praised.

Really excellent video, and I am glad to get answers to the question 'Why do good dragons go bad?'

Could the storm god defeating the dragon be seen as development of sailing using sails? Sails allowed sailors to follow the wind instead of the currents in the water that could be treacherous.

This is also why the people of the Visayas and Mindanao called on the protection of Bathala (or Magbabaya in the case of the tribes of Northern Mindanao) against the power of Bakunawa!

Really wish there was a class I could take for this kind of stuff

Great discussion. The myth of Varuna is linked to this theme as well. It's the prelude to the Indra vs Vritra.

I always found it interesting that name Indra is very similar to lithuanian word Audra (which pronounced very similary). Audra in lithuanian means storm. There are other Hindu gods those names have meaning in lithuanian, for example Agni god of fire and lithuanian word for fire being Ugnis (also sounds very similary), Ugnė being pagan lihuanian goddess of fire. Vāyu hindu god of wind and vėjas meaning wind in lithuanian. Dyauṣ hindu god of sky and pagan lithuanian god of sky and creation Dievas.

Great video! Can't wait for the Stanhope-interview, since there could be so much comparison between ANE and Indo-European culture!

Your videos are incredible! I was wondering if there is a timeline of who did what when?

Another cracking story. Your explanation of how The Thunder God's name changed, had me wondering if there were perhaps other names for Gods in Western Europe that influenced the changes.

Can you do a Phoenix/Dragon myth? Also, curious about why we don’t have a Persephone myth in the Nordics. Thanks

Hey Jon. Thank you for the great content. What camera do you use? Cheers

Indra was the son of Dyaus, as the name shifted westward Dyaus was called Dyaus Pitar. Father Dayus. Dyaus Pitar> Zeus Pitar > Jupitar

Can you make a video about princesses/women that fall in love with a foreign hero and betray their fathers? Like Medea and Ariadne. It's a popular theme.

What kind of knowledge the Ancient Ones were trying to pass in this metaphor?

Theres also evidence that yhwh was also considered a dragon deity at one point. Theres books in the old testament that talks about him flying in the air, nostrils large breathing out strong steamy air and his breath like fire. I also seen a KZfaq video talking about that as well

I know it didn't work out this way, but if you reverse engineer Fjorgyn through Germanic shift, you effectively get Porkin, which is what he was probably well known for

a similar story is repeated with the serpent in Slavic mythology. There are two versions of the myth. In the first version, Perun (the god of the principality and squad, thunder) defeats Veles, who is the god of Rus' (the people), cattle, poetry and wealth. In another version, Perun overcomes a snake that looks like a dragon. Moreover, Veles historically has its own symbol of chthonic animals, such as a bear, a snake, a dragon. Here there is a similar motif of how the god of storm and thunder overcomes a dragon that gives water, but at the same time there is also a motif of the emergence of power over the people. Perun, after the adoption of Christianity, switched to the saints. The symbol of St. George, who defeated the snake on the coat of arms of Moscow, is the same Perun. Saint George, as well as Elijah the Prophet, are identified with Perun of pagan Rus'. In the Slavic folk tradition, Elijah the Prophet is the lord of thunder, heavenly fire, rain, the patron of harvest and fertility. Elijah - "terrible saint." According to Slavic folk legends, based on the book (biblical, Bogomil) tradition, Ilya was taken alive to heaven. Until the age of 33, Ilya sat in bed and was healed and endowed with great power by God and St. Nicholas who walked the earth (cf. hero), after which he was ascended to heaven (eagles), cf. epic story about Ilya Muromets. The saint rides across the sky in a fiery (stone) chariot. According to Slavic beliefs, the sun is a wheel from the chariot of Elijah the Prophet, harnessed by fiery (white, winged) horses (v.-glory), or on a white horse (Bolg.), which is why thunder occurs. The Milky Way is the road that the prophet travels. In winter, Ilya rides a sleigh, so there is no thunderstorm and thunder (eagles.). The power of Elijah the Thunderer is so great that it has to be restrained: God laid a stone of 40 tithes (eagles) on Elijah's head, forged one arm and a leg (Carpathian); Ilya's sister Fiery Mary hides from him the day of his holiday, otherwise he will beat the whole world with lightning for joy (Serb.); Saint Elijah has only his left hand; if he had both hands, he would have killed all the devils on earth (Banat gers). Before the end of the world, Ilya will descend to earth and go around the world three times, warning of the Last Judgment (orlov.); will come to earth to die or accept martyrdom by cutting off the head on the skin of a huge ox that grazes on seven mountains and drinks seven rivers of water; the blood of the prophet spilled at the same time will burn the earth (Carpathians). According to a legend from Galicia, the end of the world will come when Ilya "is so full of thunder that the earth is rosipitsi and burned"; cf. Russian spiritual verse "On the Last Judgment", in the variants of which the saint acts as an executor of the will of the Lord, punishing the sinful human race

Thanks for highlighting the connections between dragons and storm gods. Regarding thunder and Thor, wasn't the connection that the noise of thunder was caused by his chariot as he rode it across the sky?

OMG I've actually got a hot coffee & a spliff ready 🤣😂 Chilling in London xxx

Your videos are amazing! Could you do one on GOBLINS? fascinating topic. Have a good day!

Hardly a definition, but... an analogy: Heaven~cortex, Earth~body, Thunder~nerve impulses from the brain, etc... Cheers!

Amazing video thank u! Well in my culture the Dragons are constantly warring with the Akua Gods (they are like the Annunaki) and all species in our past seemed to be giant…kamehameha was at least 9 feet tall.