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Extra Credits so you’re saying that a giant hippie bang the sky?

Imao

Plz do more

GLAUBIM 2 he defeated the titans and stop typhon as well

Couldn’t keep his junk in his nonexistent pants

Accounting for time, about a fourth of the population is related to Zeus. Mostly his children. But, enough joking, SO many Greek Gods/hero’s have some relation to Zeus. Try me

"beating" everything that moves

@@novaanimations5958 from sheer volume of affairs though posidon had more children.

Zeus is awesome, one of my favourite gods, Odin comes next

Woman: *exists* Zeus: its go time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Dr. Vikyll Does that imply the moment they are born Zeus goes in? or does that mean he wait until they start ovulating? The answer changes everything

@@ilo3456 yeah this complicates it

Ovulation wasn't invented yet, Zeus could have impregnated a piece of rock if he would have been in the mood.

*Cronus.

Ahaha I saw that they skimmed over that bit

@Jahlani2010 there are two mythological figures with similar name. Χρόνος pronounced as Chronos which was a primordial deity for time and Κρόνος pronounced as Kronos while his Latin translation is Cronus son of Uranus.

yeah I wonder why almost nobody mentions that

Aren't we all born from sperms

Have you ever thought of compiling a source list, most Mythology books, with the exception of Norse Mythology, don't and might help with the wildly different versions thing. I know that there are different cannons in Greek myth but I'm never sure which version comes from which.

Can you share the sources later? This version is rad af but I wanna be careful sharing it.

On this note, the Hecatoncheires, the hundred-handed giants, are sometimes described as taking the side of the gods and sometimes the titans, depending on the source - and in particular whether you're talking about older greek accounts or later roman ones.

I'm just glad that I'm hearing the whole myth. Whenever I've heard Prometheus before, no-one explains that Prometheus made the humans after the age of heroes, which makes me think they are the first humans. It sure makes Heracles appearance confusing as shit.

I'd like to point out Kronos/Cronos/Cronus is a different being than Chronos. The Romans sort of combined them ( a little: Father Time holds the sickle Kronos used to castrate his father) but they were, for most of the sources commonly used, separate beings. Kronos is krah-nos, while Chronos is Kroh-nohs. It's no big deal, just want to be pedantic and maybe helpful in clearing a common misconception.

Is nice.

@@SentryWill is nice

Titans: hello we've been born

Mother earth is pregnant for the third time...

Which one earth-Chan or gaia I’m too busy observing the multiverse to tell

@@jacobsheehan9715 why not both??

To my knowledge the only version is the genitalia version.

He never said what chronos cut, exactly, just that it was a "Mortal Wound." I'd say castration qualifies. He probably just glossed over that bit for a more dramatic flow around the campfire.

I think they were using "flesh" euphemistically here.

Then again, I might just forgot this was an open to all publics video. XD

It was the severed genitalia - and the foam is the last bit of semen they contained. It's a bit graphic though...

Depends on how you pronounce that name. The original pronounciation is "Ouranos".

*gay communism ensues*

uranus (firmament/SPACE) was BEFORE gaia (earth/MATTER). they together gave birth to chronos (time/INTERACTION), who took the hegemonial throne of uranus by cutting off his manhood. if u take a look on ancient castration tools, they are not unsimiliar to a sickle.

Well Chronos did chop off Ouranos’ balls, which then became Aphrodite

I'm so immature. I can't stop laughing.

Liam-Ethan Wallis the Latin spelling is Cronus; the Greek spelling is Kronos. But yes, Kronos and Chronos are two different words in Greek.

@@paulchapman8023 the Greek spelling for Cronus is Κρόνος and the CHronos is Χρόνος

I found Kronos being used as the most common name.

I always thought it was spelt Kronos

Time for the greeks did not mean "space-time" but the passing of ages. Each brother of Cronus sired a family that keeped time (like Hyperion, father of the Sun and Moon and Dawn, the keepers of the day and night cycle, etc). Kronos himself was the destroyer of time, he represents the passing of ages that makes the world worse, like pollution in nature, or the corrosion of metals, or the moral decline of mankind, thus he devoured Poseidon (Sea), Hades (the memory of the dead), Hera (Sky), Demeter (Plants) and Hestia (Family).

Truee

And then his Sister-Wife makes life hell for the women he forced himself on

Well, he bang anything that move

@@weldonwin it's okay all the cool gods are married to their siblings.

And only SOMETIMES as a human. Greek gods are messed up.

And these pillars can be found today at Gibraltar and Morocco.

@@MegaMementoMori No, these are the pillars that Hercules erected, as in their name "Heralcean Pillars" to mark the end of the world

@@justadude3037 So where the pillars that support the sky are located now?

He also became the God of time

​@@lorraineadormonicus he already was since he took the throne.

Resurrected Helicoprion r/whoosh

Can't believe the ancient Greeks built temples to honor Zeus but nothing for Prometheus. But then, gods were perceived differently at the time

Nobody asked for spoilers

@@sharilshahed6106 Spoilers? What spoilers? Spoilers that mean nothing if you haven't played the game that came out in 2011?

@@resurrectedhelicoprion no, an eagle

Scrotum

Oohh that’s why the sea is salty

@@sadface7463 😆 oh, balls!

Kronos not Khronos (one is the father of the six Olympians and the other is time personified)

The problem is that there are multiple completely different versions of these stories, and they're rarely even internally consistent. Extra Credits seem to be blending bits from the Homeric, Hesiodic, and Orphic versions, which are the most 'popular' ones. The first deity might have been Gaea, Nyx, Tethys, Oceanus, Thetis, Chronos (not the Titan Cronos, who was different), and even a unnamed force/entity called a 'Demiurge' depending on which storyteller you're listening to at the time. What order it all happened in? Good luck with figuring that out. :)

Yeah I was confused too. I'll chalk it up to mythologies not really a set canon

Mulleronis I get that many myths self-contradict. However, it's still confusing why Extra Credits chose to mention Heracles existing before Prometheus did his thing, especially since Heracles later frees Prometheus from the rock within his own legend. Because this implies that there were in fact two heroes named Heracles in Greek mythology: The one that we are all familiar with, and another one who also existed before humans were created.

I've read some versions where Zeus grabs herakles out of time for the battle

Bad research from Extra Credits' part, that's the "Age of Heroes", L.O.L.

Also the Humans of the "Golden Age" had existed since Chronos' time it could have been Heracles was born in that time period and simply died in the Heroic Age much later because he was a demigod and Golden Age people lived far longer anyway.

Yes but the athenian mythos was revised many times to fit there own ethos.

He's kind of mixed the Theogeny and other stuff; in the original story the Gigantomachy (war with giants) occurred much later.

Eh, mythology isn't immune to plot holes.

isn't Heracles Hercules? Hercules being the Roman version of the name

V. Athanasiou I.E. foresight.

@@knightofarkronia8652 Kύδος!

Ποσο ωραίο είναι μετα απο 30 ωρες Προταγωρα βα σου βγαζει αυτα, θα τρελαθω

Chronos is the Titan of Absolute Time [past/present/future Worldline] Epimetheus is the Titan of Wisdom [the Past seen from the present]. Prometheus is the Titan of Deduction [the Future seen from the present]. Atlas is the Titan of Dark Energy [keeps Space from becoming a black hole].

Did I see you in the timeghost forum

YOU DARE BLASPHEME AGAINST THE POLITEICOS THE GOD OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!? Shun! Shun! Shun the nonbeliever! Shuuuun! Candy Mountain!

Oww wtf

Donovan Fox Sometimes mythology can be messed up. Like with Athena, who was born fully grown and armoured from Zeus' ruptured skull. Or Heimdall, who some claim was born from nine women! (Yeah, cultures back then didn't really have a modern understanding of human biology.)

@@LostArchivistevery god from every mythology: *arms crossed* want to try and correct us?

That entirely depends on who's telling the story. The issue with mythology is there rarely is ever 1 canon story, it varies between retellings and time periods.

There are thousands of different versions of the stories, think about how long the stories have had to evolve while being passed down generations.

And also having sweet love with Echidna, giving birth to hundreds of monsters.

yeah. there is a version of the story where Zues cuts open Chronos' stomach to get his siblings out.

That's Enceladus, king of the Giants whom Athena defeated by throwing Mount Etna atop him. However that did not kill him, just put him into a semi-coma, from which he occasionally wakes and tries to free himself, thus causing earthquakes. Funny trivia, in Greece we still occasionally use the phrase "Enceladus has woken" when there's an earthquake!

he is and the sickle was a scythe

@@ultragamer-lp9gu You are correct

Yep

ya what the hell dude

You are correct. They are wrong. Don't understand why do they keep calling Ouranus as Firmament.

Also pretty sure Rhea wasn't imprisoned. And I'd thought that Oceanus had simply been sidelined rather than imprisoned, but could be wrong there.

yeah, I don't think that Zeus and the others would imprison their mother, I think you're right about Oceanus, but I'm not sure...

Also Iris which is the mother of athena

The myths don't say much about Rhea, as I understand it.

Not just "a third", about ⅔ of all Titans weren't imprisoned, only those that sided with Kronos (*not Chronos*), the God of the Sun (Helios) was also a Titan.

Yes. That. Wikipedia says it's spelled "Hecatoncheires". I wouldn't know - I read about them in Polish ;)

Hecatoncheires in greek literary means one hundred hands, so I can see why they would translate it.

Because the name "Hecatoncheires" (Εκατόγχειρες) come for the words "Hekaton" (εκατόν) meaning one hundred and "Cheir" (χείρ) meaning hand. I am fortunate enough to be born greek and immediately understand the meaning of those names without researching. You can find that whole mythology by reading Hesiod's Theogony which is a 3-part poem explaining the creation of the world.

I think he refrained from saying it alot becuase it's a name I know I have problems pronouncing

Given current events, I hope you won't be too offended if I say being born Greek isnt the most fortunate of blessings....

It's already been done! Look up their "South Sea Bubble" series!

Support their patreon and vote for it.

Liam Ross the Dutch east India company was far bigger than the South Sea Bubble ever was. Also its story is far different.

Ah! My mistake. I'd definitely conflated the Dutch East India Company with the South Sea Company in my head. My bad!

I'm game. ;)

I was also under the impression that Heracles is the one that rescues Prometheus later on. So how is he gone before Prometheus is even punished?

Men used to be a single being with two heads, four arms and legs. Wasn't until Prometheus and Epimetheus came that modern man came to be.

Yeah, having really old myths that are passed down from mouth to mouth tends to leave many, many different versions of these myths. The ones I knew had the giants emerge long after this, and actually had Typhus rip out Zeus's tendons - he was only saved when Hermes and Pan reattached them with Lightning bolts.

I think hercules appeared in this just to reference the Disney movie

From what I knew about mythology man was made before any big war against Giants and etc. Never heard about Heracles being apart of it though.

I prefer Centimani, which is much easier to pronounce

And Uranus

There were multiple races of mortals, the death of one race led to the rise of a new race.

@@philipliao4006 didn't heracles rescue prometheus though? or are there multiple different myths? sorry if i seem ignorant, i've never studied greek mythology in depth

Name me a creation mythos that isn't.

@@TheStrangeSandwich Nors... no wait that one has two feet fucking achother to create the world.

i mean thr oracles basically had to get hot boxed before delivering the prophecies from Apollo ...

Well, that is mostly because it wouldn't make sense to distinguish the Age of Heroes from later men. If that was the case, how could Heracles have saved Prometheus from his punishment? By the telling Extra Mythology gives, he would to this day be chained at a mountain with an eagle eating his liver, but the story tells us that he was freed by Heracles in exchange for his help. Also, how could have Heracles even been born, if the first woman, Pandora, was created to punish Prometheus and his creation, humanity, for stealing the gods' fire? It's honestly a weird choice from EM.

yeah but there are different versions

Master Yoda yes same here

@Bread NoLastName Tartaros is both the pit and a seperate deity, just as Gaia is the Earth and Ouranos is the sky.

I get the feeling Heracles was something of a late-comer to the Hellenic mythos, retroactively added into all the good stories to make them more epic and make him sound better. I can't state this for sure, though.

No, he wasn’t. He’s been around as long as anyone, he’s just been inflated by both the Romans and modern media because he’s the most recognisable

Maybe he went to Elysium and decided to be reborn into the world again. So he probably took a bath in the River Lethe.

According to a lot of versions of Greek mythology, there was a total of five ages of "man." Each age saw a different race if men rise and fall, they were in order; The golden age (reign of the titan, Cronos), the silver age, the "bronze age" (not THAT bronze age..), the age of heroes (lots of demigods and some mortals possessing godlike gifts and talents such as Arachne for example), and the current "iron age" (modern man), our age. The first age "humans", were called the men of gold, not literally golden skinned but still quite different compared to their successive counterparts, especially the latter two races of men. The golden race of men lived during the peaceful reign of the titan Cronos, and lived in a world of plenty, no need of agriculture or raising animals, in fact they were said to be in complete harmony with nature and the beasts of the world, even possessing the ability to "talk" to all manner of animals and plants, they could even speak to things such as rivers, mountains, and other natural phenomenon. (back when such things were more "awoke" than they are now) The men of gold also could live very long lives, remaining youthful in appearance even into old age and when they died it was more like going into a gentle sleep, violent death was rare, their spirits could persist on after death as benevolent guardian spirits, watching over the still living. (this lasted well into the latter ages) There's more information on these ages, to much to write out in one post, it's actually very interesting, look it up if you have the time that is.

Yes, but how best to avoid silly mispronounciation puns, than to use "firmament" instead?

Oar-Awn-Os?

Uranus

Grumio Senpai I was just pronouncing my spelling.

@@knightofarkronia8652 I know, I just like saying anus

Yes! Being from France Greek Mythology was te most important thing in school!

Thx for replying bro

THEGAMING GEEK Uh...Greek mythology is pretty fucked up...

Yeah, if they are going to go with this super serious tone then the jokes seem out of place. I think they should either drop the jokes or lighten up the tone of the rest of the narration. (I would prefer the latter)

Yeah, I think a lighter tone overall might be better. I like the serious tone but I think I'd it more the other way.

Yes, the jokes are more something from Overly Sarcastic Productions than from Extra Credits, is a bit out of place.

I would prefer the former.

@@nidohime6233 It's not even that it's out of place for extra credits, they have a fair amount of humor in extra history and sci-fi, but it definitely felt a bit more straight faced than normal.

I think they needed to explain all the different versions rather than pick one. It would be less story like but more interesting.

Well it's clear there's parts of the Theogeny, but the basic creation myth is from Plato IIRC.

Credit to Disney for imagery of Hercules.

Yeah, thats how mythology is my dude

It is an age old tradition to edit the myths to suit the sensibilities of the culture telling them. Either that or they become lost in a dusty library forgotten until they are "discovered" again, or....lost for all time. The originals are better preserved this way as well, as the stories remain relevant and thus so to does their history.

Ballsack bath bomb, amirite!?

Different versions. Greek mythology doesn't exactly have a canon.

Alternate telling claims that Heracles existed before the age of men. Its rare, but possible

@Mullerornis More like he mixed up the timeline, but you are correct. Older religious customs and texts were very localized. Using newer sources (like Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hesiod) would give much more coherent ones, as they became much more common in terms of belief due to Roman assimilation of Greek religious practices post-Mithridatic Wars

It's well known that chronos hated condoms

that makes sense.... but wut bout abort- nvm im not going there

Two words: no condoms

A Semi Colon Plz. Look at Zeus, he got the same prophesy and he had many MANY more children

@@albertschoise8091 Zeus chill out