Yesssss

No no his got a piont

Important note: does not work for Jormungandr

There HAS to be a d*ck jokes here somewhere but I just can't find it...

*snickers in Good Omens fandom*

@@motharchenemy8549 Or Ouroboros.

But it’s what you do with it that matters

Spider-Man Noir unfortunately got his spider powers first.

A few Wakandans he’s met have actually referred to Spidey as, “blessed by Anansi.”

Fun fact the first person to voice live action Spider-Man was Morgan Freeman in the 1974 kids education show the Electric Company while the actor Danny Seagren wore the costume for all the acrobatics

@@1stcaptainraldoron538 Apparently the radioactive spider was retconned to be an aspect of the god of spiders, called the Spider Totem. Peter's basically a druid.

there is a spiderman from a spiderverse where he gets his powers from anansi I think

Zeus would add "feeling horny" to that list...

@@pmprestes You could say that again

I mean, I add “the cost of living” to the list as well, but I’m a squishy mortal instead of a divine spider god who has no need for the 9-5 workday.

@@pmprestes Anansi once made an exception of dis rule

Hey friend I'm back to this video a year later and saw that for some reason I had disliked this comment. I'm here to fix that. Enjoy your shiny new like!

And today I learned where the English word "hammock" comes from. Neat!

Just noticed

@@nicholas209 so amaca is African?! Awesome. I learned where the Spanish work “maca” (hammock) comes from!!! Yayyyy

@@Alusnovalotus The Spanish word is "hamaca", not "maca"

@@MrTrellheim cool. Never hear it pronounced or spelled that way but, thanks 👍🏾

Nah, in the original tale he decided that he didn't want to hoard them the way the sky God did (totally forgot his name) so he and his wife shared them with everyone. So you could say he put them in the public domain. ;)

Reito Shizaki z

And that's why it's okay to pirate streaming video. ;)

@@fire23fairy American govt will be like "We need to hunt this Anansi guy!"

Don't tell Anansi that, he might think it was funny to try making people do that.

I agree

kelan baron so you’re not gonna talk about the “stealing Tiger’s tesicles” part of that same paragraph?

😂

I love this 😂

Well, that is what happened, sort of. Anansi was going to the market one day to get some food. Unfortunately he was very, very, very thirsty and stopped by a village on the way to the market. He saw a skinny old man with blue eyes and white hair sitting nexr to a hut. "Can I git some wate(r)?" The old man didn't respond so he helped himself and took some food. He stopped by the old man's house every time he went to the market and each time began taking more water, food, and money. One day he went to the old man with his daughter and asked. "Wanna get ma(rr)ied to my daughte(r) for 15 gold pieces?" The old man didn't respond so he took it as a yes. A couple weeks later he came back to have dinner with them but doesnt see his daughter. He starts eating but ends up spotting a wedding ring inside his meal. "THE FUCK!?!?!" Anansi yelled. For once, the old man laughed and said, "you steal my water, steal my food, steal my money then give me this lazy wench who can barely cook and expect me to be fine with it?!?!?! Well Anansi, I am death, and your time has come!" Anansi runs the hall out of there to his house. He grabs his wife and kids and runs to an abandoned old house to hide in. Unfortunately death finds them and they climb up a pole so he can't reach them. Death simply grabs his bag, and waits for them to fall. "Dad, I can barely hold on any longer, I'm gonna fall!" The first son says. "If you fall I'm gonna drag yo ass from (h)ell to make you pay fo(r) the fune(r)al!" Unfortunatly this threat doesnt work because the son falls right into death's bag. Soon enough everyone else falls and ana is is the only one left. He suddenly gets an idea and tells death "oh death! I'm so fat f(r)om all the food I stole, I'm gonna splatta if I fall!" Death believes this and brings a bag of flour for anansi to fall in. Anansi falls in it, and throws the flour into death's eyes and runs out of there!

Btw anansi can't pronounce r's that why I put them in parenthesis Jackson Mendoza me nuh choose none

Timothy McLean definitely a tsundere

Yeah it's pretty much the exact same trick used against bra Rabit. I bet the story tellers reused that part.

It's pretty me (mentally) when no one says "You're welcome".

For KZfaq, put an underscore (_) on each side of the word. E.g, "I said _ thanks, _ asshole!" without the spaces. KZfaq formatting doesn't let you only italicize part of a word, though, which is annoying.

I just thought of a full metal alchemist blooper where Alphonse is yelling “I’m trying to save your life asshole!”

Best crossover ever 😂😂

Yes

even if you don't like the video, what are you ghana do? sue red?

@@hakureikura9052 AYYYYY good pun

I feel like there's a pretty clear trend in mythologies around the world that the local trickster isn't really in the same category as the other deific figures, whether or not they are actually considered a God. Like even Loki isn't properly an Aesir like the others, he's just a Jotun that managed to establish himself with the rest of the pantheon. And while Sun Wukong eventually establishes himself as part of the celestial bureaucracy and as a Buddha, his origin is just as a weird stone monkey demon. Probably has something to do with the fact that Gods are typically seen as forces of Order in most mythologies. If you're a force of Chaos, you're usually considered something else. Obviously it's not a universal trait though, after all, Hermes is a trickster and indubitably an Olympian like the rest of his family, and I know that among the Haida tribes (Pacific Northwest Native Americans) they consider Raven, their local trickster figure, to be one of the foundational creators of the universe, right next to his dad. (Who, on the subject of stories, is actually considered the narrator of the Universe, as in everything in existence is literally a story that he is telling at this very moment (with occasional interjections from Raven who takes the wheel on the story when he feels like it))

the "n" is actually pronounced but its subtle. well i guess it depends on which region you're from. My dad is from Tema so he pronounces it with a subtle "n"

@@KwuOats yeah I'm from Ghana too and at the very least the n and y are pushed together so its a subtle n before the y then ends with the e which is pronounced like an I in the language(or like the beginning of the word "it"). Hard to describe in limited text but i dont agree at all that its silent🤔

I think I prefer this version. Like if you agree 👍

Then why didnt Anansi share it with us?! I need more African Lore!!!

Iain Hansen Until that spider is under your clothes. Then, nobody does. :)

and an Undersider

beruman And the Undertaker!

An underslider

@ beruman I understood that reference! And i wholeheartedly support it.

Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, ... Anyone else?

I would

Awsamazing Eden I alrdy got Gone tho! *wait* ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

YES

Yes

Sean well, I can tie you to the stick with him as a hight reference if you want.

he's shorter when not tied to it because a snake can never be perfectly straight, so he's probably longer if you stretch him out as far as he can go, but you may consider that like tip toeing to get taller. sooo, yea.

2:08 should solve your problem

"a snake can never be perfectly straight" When you really want to be into girls, but that cute guy just has to enter to your life every now and then.

@@laszlovarga6953 there's always the possibility of bisexuality

yes.

Drag in Hermès and Set for the show and throw in some Yokai and other beast and then we’ll have a show that Osp fans want to eagerly see

Let the chaos begin!

Throw in Coyote as well as Hermes (credit @fantasy shadows) and you’ve built a five man band of mischievous bs

And toss in Odysseus as the audience POV character.

Keanu Hixson oh my gosh I didn’t catch that the first time!

Keanu Hixson Guess you can say that All the Stars are watching Black Panther

Oh good I’m not the only one who noticed that

Have you seen how skinny he is? He could serve to put on a few pounds

Then order chicken or some ****. It ain't rocket science (and lord knows, avoiding anything rocket related is probably for the best with that Coyote's luck).

Exactly, you can build all these traps and explosives but don’t have enough sense to order dinner. Or maybe acme just doesn’t sell food.

Boycott Israel warner bros

Mabel Meehan +

Mabel Meehan How do you do things if you're lazy?

Angelo Igonia efficiency is intelligent laziness

yeaa,same.

Angelo Igonia so you don’t have to do them again

Anansi isn't quite as much of a dick as loki but they definitely have their similarities

Only the trickster god part of Loki, not the evil "kills Baldur and triggers ragnarok" part

Loki is also a total dick but also the reason why basically everything happens

Anansi is smarter than Loki, because Loki is known to get burned by his own schemes.

@@sflaningam7680 also loki regularly gets called out by thor, who is not exactly well renowned for his brains...

That actually hilarious

In his novel "Anansi Boys", Neil Gaiman suggested that Anansi's ownership of the stories is why people became more intelligent. Before Anansi, all stories were Tiger stories, where brute force prevailed and the strong preyed on the weak. After Anansi won the stories, intelligence in stories became more important, and heroes could win by outsmarting their enemies instead of outfighting them.

​@@jimmeans14 That's even better!

Well in the marvel universe he canonically is the one that created the web of life and fate (basically Every Spider-Man are his creation) so technically spider mans across the multiverse are his self insert

Fuzzy Stripetail *_I SAID THANKS, ASSHOLE!!_*

Mullerornis such bad history ⛔️ you’re confusing yam with cassava! Yam IS native to Africa

Yes, confusing it with cassava or those darn sweet potatoes, which annoyingly get called "yams" in America for some reason.

I would love to read a book about this

Isagail *Cough* SunWukongandLoki *cough.*

Loki v mercury v Hermes v anansi v son goku v coyote v raynardine v Prometheus v Lucifer! Pretty sure this would turn into a farce rather quickly. Ever notice how rare female tricksters are? When I was younger I thought this might be do to misogyny, but after reading a lot more mythology I think it's more that female mythic figures tend to be seen as some other archetype even when they have the *exact same M.O.* as their male counter parts.

MarvAlice Lucifer is evil though, not a trickster.

Every single apocalypse there could possibly be in mythology.

Every myth - that were currently the property of the Sky God and kept away from everyone else.

@@lorendaemon7945 Still, it seems kinda stupid to trust the spider fellow. You know, the animal most known for trapping things?

@@dannylamb456 like the first reply said, all story tropes including the stupid tricks anansi used on them we're monopolized by that God and he kept it all to himself and so they would have never known that it was a trick until it was too late.

@@dannylamb456 That's why Herakles, Anansi & co. are never straight forward with their trickery.

Senna Asad - is it possible to be straightforward with your treachery?

Ever wondered where cheese balls come from?

Weird I know. There are no Tiger in Africa.

Well Loki tied his own testicles to a goat and tried to play tug of war with it, so that's... nothing.

What about the time Loki shifted into a Mare got boned by a Stallion and gave birth too an 8 legged horse? Which became Odin's steed so if you follow that Loki is Odin's son then Odin rides his mutant horse grandson to Helhiem and back and to battle.

I bet he was drunk.

Loki, however, is not Odin's son, he's his bloodbrother (but not his brother by blood).

Or when he fought the Gargoyles

Omg yesssss

Yahh i forgot about that

Or was the original Spider-Man

Who's Static Shock?

My mom was a kindergarten teacher and for a month every year the theme was "Africa" (an oversimplified version of Africa but most of these kids hadn't yet learned that a world exists outside of Kansas so better than nothing ig) Anyway where I was going with this was that as she was writing lesson plans she'd put on a "book on video", and I remember the Anansi stories the best. That and some story where the ugly-hearted sisters threw eggs over their shoulder and the eggs turned into snakes or something...

Same here I loved when we had story time in primary school

phillips yeah I use to love those stories in primary school

Extremly interesting indeed, the sad thing is it’s comparatively quite hard to find much about African myths online (at least that was the case with the last one on this channel, I already knew this one). Sad because the only thing I love more than mythology is incorporating details, themes and characters/creatures from it into my writing and you can do only so much with only european mythologies before it gets unexciting and absorbed by the boredom that is mainstream fantasy.

Sherlock Smuuug exactly. Greek, Egyptian and scandinavian mythology eclipse every other.

+Vicente Ortega Rubilar Don’t get me wrong, I love them, the problem is every other lazy dope does too, so if you want to incorporate real-life myth into your work you need to pull up the sleeves and put some more effort into it, diversifying that stew of myth so you get something truly special.

s/mitology/mythology s/eclypse/eclipse (sorry, couldn't resist)

Vicente Ortega Rubilar That's probably because the Greeks and Egyptians wrote down a lot more of their mythology than African/sub-Saharan cultures did. In the case of the Scandinavians, their mythology didn't really get written down until well _after_ Christianity had been firmly established in the region, so good luck figuring out what's the original story and what's the version with Christian influences.

Which ethnic group is he from?

MJ Lycran Best line.

J _ the sky God, Nyame(Onyankopon) is actually the same as the christian almighty God. We were worshipping God even before the christians came over. But we were worshipping him through lesser gods. Which was our mistake.

@@a.inception1094 man stop disrespecting traditional african gods by calling them lesser gods

@@ronjayrose9706 They are lesser gods. Its just the way it is. We used to worship God through them. My gods, my description Rose.🙇

@@a.inception1094 well in my personal opinion there far greater than the judeo-christian God's

@@a.inception1094 lol anything to back that claim up dude?

He has a wife? Is it wrong that I shipped him with Arachnie?

The reason that version sucks is if he is so clever why does he need someone else to figure things out for him? Anyway my favorite version is where he only can't figure out that last one and his wife suggests the doll. That way she is still in the story, helps, but does not make it seem like Anansi is incapable of coming up with his own plans. I mean his whole shtick is being more clever than his opponents.

@@ShiningDarknes he was still quite clever. But cleverness is many things. Cleverness can be delivery of a plan, it can be how a thing is sold as much as how it is concocted. That story also offers a window into the culture from whence the story arises, as there were more than a few matrilineal groups in that part of Africa.

Wow

Thank you for that image

Same

Considering that "fairy" is also an euphemism for "homosexual", and remembering Hitler's views on the subject...yeah......

But there's an "n" before the "s"?

ok

Are you saying that Blue wasn't good enough?

Siki Arredondo no I enjoy watching both of them I was just implying that red is back

*was*

He's *in the cloud*.

god of disney

We got stories form a lot of places and people.

It wasn’t all over Africa, just a portion of the west coast. You really think they went all the way across Africa for some slaves?

@@thewrustywrench21 You're right, but my larger point still stands. Mixing the cultures of several tribes, even in West Africa, is still gonna jumble some myths.

@@Zarastro54 Even then, do you know how different they are translated into English/Spanish AND passed on by just word of mouth over who knows how long? It’s not like these stories were written down for their entire existence. Cultures change stuff all the time with their stories, they’re a product of their time and when they can’t remain static through being written they change frequently.

@@Zarastro54 One Dude’s version of the story can be completely different compared to another’s to the point it becomes almost unrecognizable. Cause people steal from each other all the time.

I heard it as a kids song!

Because cartoon.

Sadly, Wile never thinks to just chase the Roadrunner. It _always_ has to be an elaborate trap.

Timothy McLean He does try that though. He’s never tried a proper ambush before though, just hiding in a bush and catching the RR as he goes past. That’ll solve his problems real quick.

The roadrunner has the divine protection of the gods. He seems clarvoiant, supernaturally swift, and can magically move through solid project like rocks with tunnels painted on them. Or What we have here is actually the coyote's eternal punishment for pissing off the gods in life. This is his hell. To spend eternity in an endless struggle, not WITHOUT resources, but with too many resources and it's still not enough. Unless he can learn to let go of the road runner, he will forever be cursed to fail to catch it.

Yuri Hinamura Well, okay. I was thinking because it was Loony Tunes, but sure.

I thought the same thing😂

I saw the quote but didn't make the connection until you pointed it out. Good catch!

I did!

Maybe Loki can join the party? They would be called Troublesome Trio of Tricksters.

Trikster the sheer chaos would be amazing to ser

Don’t forget Loki

What a disaster that would be. I need it

That's an amazing idea! Also Loki "I'M A FIRE JOTUN YOU IMBECILES" Laufeyson. I hope your week gets better. :)

I didn't even catch that, though the sound still made sense in context, which I suppose is a compliment to Legend of Zelda's sound design. Thanks for pointing it out.

Of all times to find a Jojo reference

ah I see you’re a man of culture aswell

So thats where the pillar men learned the fake diamond trick...

I’d agree, except Joseph is more than anything an Absolute Beefy Boy. I see more parallels with Jolyne - especially the string! (Though she also likes punches)

Your next line: do you want to prove yourself!

Huge fan of this channel. Please keep up the amazing work.

Were there different depictions of Anansi? Usually, folktales tend to change a lot, so I'm just curious. Or was this just universally accepted?

I'm not sure about the American version/s of Anansi but in the Ghanaian one there's not really different versions. I mean technically there is but in reality we just smush them all together so he has some pretty wild characterisations

I knew there was a reason I always imagined him as bald. But i guess maybe this story was from before he lost his hair.

ReyesdeMadrid you can definitely say that - there isn’t really a timeline set for all his stories as far as I know.

Ahh so I'm not a idiot

Me!

I think he was in Gargoyles as well

jagirl966 He was! And I think he was voiced by LeVar Burton.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arVzaLGY26fSho0.html

Me!

Selena Gamya love that book! Anansi is so wicked though

I remember that story too!

My grandfather told me and my cousins that story, and once we even acted it out. I was a bush deer.

So yeah it's pretty heavely engraved into our culture. They even named a local televison show after him, which is pretty important to students.

@@comi33gaming37 But after these cute drawings I lost my arachnophobia XD

If it’s any consolation, I’ve always had arachnophobia without ever hearing this story.

Tell me some of the story!

The Gray Pet +

Thanks for the trivia!

makes sense sinc eyou all are just africans on foreign land

Could be the Christianity messing with the story

@@Tu51ndBl4d3 Not the Spanish Caribbean!

@@ThePaganSun two words:Puerto Rico

More like, told in the former British, French, and Dutch Caribbean but not the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Oswald the lucky rabbit

Indeed: Nobody washes Anansi down!

And a change of pace from Spider man too.

Although Spider-Man did find his way into the description

Jack Rackam Do you know what the song's name is? I really like it but I've never heard it before.

Google says it's Peggy Zeitlin - Spin Spider Spin. Link here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9V-ZJeWnamnh4E.html

I did! Cool Black Phanter reference.

Monaster01 exactly

Tessy I have heard people fine that it's hard to find those stories online tho :(

Celina k you have a good point :/ but Red does have a history of reading books for her video, and there are a ton of information on other cultures in various books (although I would personally read books written by historian from that culture like Alexis Kagame for Rwanda.) I know she’s busy, so whenever she has time, she could have a look at relevant authors and their books. If needed, I’d be happy to help :)

how about you make those video?