All the Greek gods are shitlords in one way or another.

Despina is also evil for creating winter

Don’t forget Zeus and other shitlords in Panthéon.😉

@@Scp-682_hard_to_kill_reptile Hephaestus, Hermes, Apollo, Boreas and Dionysus are the only Greek gods who don't intend on shitting on other people.

@@tedhubertcrusio372 Pretty sure if memory serves right, Apollo also had his own share. This guy did offend people and he had left descendants too

Sadly half of this myth was completely made up. Despoina wasn't a winter goddess, she didn't destroy Demeter's crops, she wasn't married to Boreas and she wasn't "neglected and and angry". The only myths she is in is the story of how Poseidon assaulted Demeter while she was mourning and searching for Persephone and where Demeter entrusts an minor oceanic god to raise and take care of Despoina just like Demeter and her sisters were fostered by some Titan's during the titanomachy. Otherwise we know nothing of her, we don't even know what her role was in Demeter's cult or what she even was the goddess of

@@parentalfigure2511 So most of it was made up? I guess it's ok if it were explained to be completely fictional.

@@parentalfigure2511 There are multiple versions of Greek mythology that varied from city-state and the time period in Greece.

@@serronserron1320 I am well aware that there are different variations and versions of myths depending on the region. What's your point? There is no classical text, evidence or proof of almost anything in this video. The only things we know of Despoina was what I listed in my comment, unless you can cite a classical source that proves that Despoina was a vengeful goddess of winter, married to the god of winter that kills her mother's crops cause Demeter hated her?

Actually it's despoina but yeah it shows great sisterhood of Elsa and anna

That’s probably one of the things they bonded over.

ya, I can understand here perspective as well, the mother but, it seems the ultimate fault is Poseidon.

I am just glad Despina found love and acceptance!

I feel like demeter was actually a kind godess (compared to others) but a bad mother...

@@patrickd.3681 yep

Indeed, at least she has a good ending.

We don't know if she does cause we literally only have the myth about Despoinas birth while Demeter was looking for Persephone and her Demeter giving her to a minor oceanic god to be raised. Otherwise we know nothing about her, she's not even the goddess of winter, we don't know what she was the goddess of! The crops dying were because of Demeter not "Despoinas rage at her being neglected"

Me too. A beautiful story about sisterly love.

There is a really big posability for this. Persephone was also referd to as Despina, and Kore.

I heard that from OSP’s video about Hades and Persephone. It’s almost like Persephone was worshipped in a particular group and her true name wasn’t allowed to be used outside of said group.

No wonder the name Despina seemed so familiar...

In Osp red said her name was despoina a bit different

As far as I can tell, and what I have seen. Persephone and Despina are in fact the same goddess, along with Kore, which is the polite name you use when talking about Persephone. It feels that Persephone and her mother likely predate the Olympian gods and whent through a lot of changes as the generations of story tellers whent on. This version is likely to explain Poseidon's connection as he was originally the one who took Persephone not Hades, as Poseidon was both king of the sea and underworld. So when Hades rose to be the king of the underworld, he also gained the story with Persephone. Likely the Poseidon part was then shifted to that of being the father of Persephone, then later when it was retold that Zuse was the father, then did they take the name of Despina and made it into a new Goddess.

And non of it actually happens in actually Greek mythology. Half of this was made up

Hades= best boy

You forgot Hestia

@@josefebahan9586 And Chiron

Woops

Hestia: Best girl, cinamon roll, deservs the best.

la fel și eu. Despina e frecvent ignorată și nu mulți sunt cei care știu de existența ei

Mă bucur că încă mai sunt oameni de bine interesați de miturile Greciei antice! O zi bună și frumoasă ca binecuvîntatele zile de demult ale Heladei vă doresc!

Yep,we had a ruler's wife, Doamna Despina ^_^ , her namesake and wife to Neagoe Basarab^_^ if im right

@@LiliLili-dv4qc Hobby-ul meu este mitologia de orice fel, am Inceput cu mitologia greaca si am trecut la mitologiile nordica, egipteana si azteca ca si favorite. Si oricate carti as lua cu acest subiect tot timpul mai descopar cate o zeitate noua iar la egipteni si azteci sunt cu sutele dar in ce priveste mitologia greaca sunt cam putine lucruri noi pe care le descopar .

Bro, half of this myth doesn't even exist

*Loki has left the chat*

Proof Greeks were into the ungodly

Should have turned into a Preying Mantis.

@@George-Hawthorne and you just won the internet

@@George-Hawthorne Or a Black Widow.

Eros and Pysche though :/

Dionysus and Ariadne

Also Hephaestus and his second wife, Aglaea/Aglaia

@@randomyoutuber3826 Eros DEFINITELY one of the best ships of greek mythology :)

@@SuperUniverse wow I was literally watching one of your videos like 5 minutes ago

"Despina." Perhaps the inspiration for the word despised??

@@sarahgilliss3503 or perhaps "despair"

I think it's a title more so than a name.

@@sarahgilliss3503 despina/despoina meant mistress. persephone and her were once the same goddess it's just that over time, they separated into different deities

@@tainii-san5879 It is a title, but she does have a true name, though it's not known to others (outside of her cult I think)

She didn't, cause we literally know nothing about her

@@parentalfigure2511 That just means we can give her the life we wish for her.

@@J1P2K So changing the entire Greek culture and religion? Boreas has a wife, there are already a bunch of deities responsible for the seasons and there is already a reason for Demeters crops dying during winter

Boreas wasn't married to her, he was husband of Oreithyia of Athens. And that's the least of the inaccuracies in this video

@@Floweramon Well, you realise there are different versions of the same myths. Just because you know one version does not invalidate the other version this video may be based off of, so before you call any myth 'inaccurate' do take in consideration it may not be the variation you know. :)

Yeah, fk that one disney movie, Hades is the best guy in the Pantheon

@@evep6886 I agree, but James Woods is too enjoyable to hate him in that role. And Ralph Fiennes looked badass

Good comparison.

"An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart."

Yeah, would've been cool if we had a source to half of this myth. Only Despoina's birth myth and her being fostered by an minor oceanic god is mentioned in myth. We literally don't even know what she was the goddess of

We really don't know if she does

Theres no evidence for Despoina hating her mother, being the goddess of winter or even being married to Boreas. Boreas is married to Khione. Despoina was given to a minor titan deity to be raised while Demeter continued her search for Persephone. Otherwise we have nothing about Despoina, not even her true name or her domain besides the mysteries of the Eleusinian mysteries. Most of the content in this video was made up for views, there's no basis for in in classical mythology

Athena cursed a flute because playing it made her cheeks look puffy

I’m upset that you mention female gods being petty and horrible and didn’t mention Hera

Athena didn't created Medusa except in the romans myths were she is used as a criticism for the emperor court. You also have to remember that the Greeks didn't have the same perception of traumas, if any, than us nor did they even think that marrying girls against their consent was bad. The gods are not ideals or models to follow, they are embodiement of reality. Since reality is mostly harsh and terrible, so must be the gods that incarnate it.

@@jessnalulila5709 I think she just rejected it.

Hestia tho...

not medusa

By the same God! Poseidon!

Yeah, this is probably a made-up story. But it’s fun anyway.

@@avalasialove Yeah but it still spreads misinformation about and actual culture and it's gods, religiion and theology

I also don't fail to notice that the name Despina sounds similar to Proserpina (roman Persephone).

There is evidence that. while searching for Persephone after she was stolen, Demeter was r*ped by Poseidon (who was possibly a horse-shaped diety of the Underworld/Underworld river in very early stories (Poseidon was in the place of Hades before the Greek Dark ages, Hades appeared in texts afterward)) and gave birth to Despoina and her twin brother Arion (horse). Originally, according to some sources, they were both horses. Either way, there is evidence that there were three goddesses, the clearest source I can think of being Pausanias. He said that Kore (meaning "girl", essentially) was Persephone (you don't say her name because she's SCARY (scarier than Hades if you believe Orpheus)) and he did not identify Despoina's name. The only ones allowed to say Despoina's name were initiated into her cult, so no one actually knows the name. This leads ME to believe that she not any goddess we know the name of, but I suppose she could be. Either way, she isn't Persephone because they explicitly have different dads (Zeus and Poseidon). Theoretically, she could be anyone with Poseidon for a dad. No matter what, mythology was never stagnant so she could be a million different goddess, existing now or not. Also, your English seems great.

@@KT-wv2io Thank you very much for the final compliment and for the information given. Carrying out a search on the figure of Arion, I found what you said, also the quotations from Pausanias. I didn't find the story that is specifically told in the video, but as you said there are infinite variations of the same myth. Where I live (Italy) the myths even change from city to city. In Sicily there was a strong cult of Persephone, who would have united with Zeus. In the country where I live even in the affair between Adonis and Aphrodite Artemis is "thrown in the middle". For the common imagination, she would be the last deity to think about such intrigues 😂

Thanks for telling me about Sicily! I'd love to look into that. Persephone is my favorite!

Medusas transformation into a monster is a Roman myth. The only thing they say about it in Greek mythology is that they laid in a field of flowers. Some historians did suggest that Demeter Erinyes an her assault by Poseidon may of been the blueprint for the Medusa myth. As Demeter turns into a mare headed snake haired monster that terrorizes towns and cities and starved the world

They are going with the interpretation where despoina and oreithyia are the same goddess

Exactly, they just made half of this up!

Cause it doesn't exist

They made up half of this video

Because it's all made up, almost all this video is inaccurate

She wasn't married to Boreas, she wasn't the goddess of winter, she wasn't cruelly abandoned by Demeter and she wasn't angry or vengeful. The only myths about her is her birth where Poseidon assaults a mourning grieving Demeter while she was searching for Persephone and where Demeter entrusts an minor rustic oceanic god to raise and take care of Despoina just like Demeter and her sisters were fostered by some Titans during the titanomachy. We literally know nothing about despoina or her role in the religion, we don't even know her real name

@@parentalfigure2511 alright we get it

Arion, I believe

@@jessnalulila5709 Thanks!

What would she want nothing to do with Demeter

I’d like to see her reunite with Demeter. Despite how the myth paints her, I don’t think she was the bad guy. It’s more likely that she was in shock as a result of her trauma and never learned to deal with it properly.

@@leirelarrakoetxea5747 Almost all of this video is inaccurate and not how the myth actually is

And I'm almost sure Boreas married Oreithia, not Despoina

The Percy Jackson wiki is really the only place where I found more or less matching details (under the name Despoina in the character list), and it wasn’t a 100% match. Most mythology sites don’t seem to have this story at all, or just fragments of the story told in this video.

Her name isn't known,the despoina thingy is just her title not her actual name,there was a cult in arkadia that addresses her as despoina,means mistress. Her true name are only given to those who worshiped her. Maybe everything about her is unknown since she isn't famous enough,and maybe that's what she really is,mystery. If i were a demigod,i want her to be my godly parent,she's snow,secret,shadow almost everything I love.

@@cemetiere That’s a good point, that what we call her isn’t even her name, which we don’t know. As for the snow thing, that’s one of the things mentioned in this video that I can’t find a source for, none of the Ancient Greek authors say anything about that. I can’t really speak to Percy Jackson, as I don’t read those books.

@@russergee49 Yeah,it's a such a confusing situation where we don't know anything about something,persephone as spring goddess and despoina as winter might just really a thing about siblings in greek myths,y'know like anteros and eros,unrequited and requited love,always opposite,and the other is the favorite.

Hahahaha 😂

Sorry to tell you, but this story is not necessarily "accurate" in terms of Greek Mythology. Despoine is the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon yes but there is not much to her story besides that. She is said to have been an Arcadian Goddess of Mysteries--her name Despoine is just a title and not her real name, and the only person (aside from her mother) that had anything to do with her was a rustic god (or Titan?) by the name Anytos who took care of her when she was younger.

@@XxMasterPt exactly

They forgot arion through

We don't know what Despoina's nature was. She wasn't the goddess of winter, she wasn't married to Boreas, she doesn't destroy Demeters crops and she wasn't angry or neglected. The only myths she appears in the story if her birth where Poseidon assaults a mourning grieving Demeter while she was looking for Persephone and where Demeter entrusts an minor rustic oceanic god to raise and take care of Despoina just like Demeter and her sisters were fostered by some Titans during the titanomachy. Despoina was a mystery goddess, we don't even know her real name or the role she filled. Half of the mythology was made up

What do you mean when Persephone is never mentioned as the goddess spring? There are literally many hymns described to her as the goddess of spring

So because Despoina was often conflated with Persephone, a lot of what we know about Despoina, like pretty much almost all of it save one fragmented thing from Callimachus, is from Pausanias Depiction of Greece. As Pausanias wrote, "Demeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter [Despoine (Despoena)], whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion (Arion)." Basically, if you aren't part of the mystery cult in Arcadia, you don't get to know. A lot of people think because they were conflated, that Despoina was probably a title for Persephone because Chthonic deity names were not spoken because in ancient Greece, you speak their name, you risk getting their attention and you did not want that because it put you much closer to death. A theory on why Despoina is listed as Poseidon's child rather than Zeus is that is probably carryover coming from Mycenean Greece, where Poseidon was the head of the Pantheon instead of Zeus at the time and he also fulfilled the king of the Underworld role. OSP's Miscellaneous Myths: Hades and Persephone covers the history stuff surrounding Persephone, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, and Despoina pretty well. They point out that Despoina could be an offshoot of whatever scary ancient eldritch Underworld deity that Persephone originally came from. Reason why I buy into this theory is there are a TON of queens of the Underworld: Persephone, Ereshkigal, Hel, Hine-nui-te-pō, and Izanami, just to name a few of them, and I find it very interesting that women are so prominently tied to ruling over the land of the dead and I really want to know where that stemmed from.

Remember. Hades and Hestia are by far best girl and boi in the entire pantheon.

that was all made up, The story of Despoina doesnt exist withn the greek texts

@@mewe1717 She exists but it was on the old myth, their old versions. Where Poseidon was their head god.

@@rossalbertdelacruz6751 Mycenean records, whom some are translated and others not, but yet there hasn't been a single one recording her story, and if there is, then go ahead and pull up those sources, because the only thing resembles the vid is what was told in the percy Jackson books, not real mythology

Exactly. I agree with Typhon destroying them too.

That's because most of this is made up and inaccurate

This version came from the roman writer Ovid, in the greek version she was a monster since the start

no in one version demeter had a choice and said if posidon made a horse she would marry him by the time posidon made it tho he lost intrest edit: why did i start my sentence with no lol

Then this probably isn't the best place to do so seeing as they made up half of the mythology in this video

Well if they do I'd suggest that you research the deities on your own time cause half of this mythology was made up. Despoina isn't the goddess of winter, she didn't destroy Demeter's crops, she wasn't married to Boreas and she wasn't cruelly neglected or abandoned by Demeter. The only myths about her is her birth Where Poseidon assaults a mourning grieving Demeter while she was searching for Persephone and where Demeter entrusts an minor rustic oceanic god to raise and take care of Despoina just like Demeter and her sisters were fostered by some Titans during the titanomachy

@@parentalfigure2511 offf and I thought that at least someone is saying the truth... Can you recommend some channel/s that are doing good work?

Cause she is a mystery goddess. We don't know anything about her. Half of this myth was made up

Most of this video was made up

Demeter being assaulted by Zeus doesn't exist in any myth, except where its Rhea and Zeus where they mated as snakes and Rhea becomes Demeter. But that is a super niche old version. Demeter was assaulted by Poseidon while looking for Persephone, she didn't abandon Despoina she entrusted a minor oceanic god to care for her similar to how Demeter and her sisters were fostered by some Titan's during the titanomachy. Despoina isn't the goddess of winter, she doesn't destroy Demeters crops, she isn't married to Boreas and she doesn't feel neglected or angry. We know literally nothing about her

@@parentalfigure2511 what Zeus mated with his mother?

@@user-tp9uw1pr6m yes in a super niche myth where Rhea is Demeter and she gives birth to a deformed Persephone

@@parentalfigure2511 oh I see.... did he still had his eyes though?

Despoina, Oreithyia, and khione are the same goddess in this interpretation

0:40 If Only I had a daughter like this, I would take care of her, help her with anything.

1:45 but her future changed. Still I wonder how she survived as a Baby. I think gods were by her side to not starve and suffer.

I know! And yet people make Hades out to be the bad guy...

@@rafaelantoniobazzanadossan9451 That’s what I’m saying

Zeus at least are more consentual

Yes, cause half it was made up

Despoina didn't married Boreas in GM, and what do you mean with "unlike her sister"?

Persephone did, he's called Hades

Half of this myth doesn't exist. Despoina destroying her mother's crops doesn't appear in mythology it's literally Demeter that kills the crops, bother does her anger or her being the goddess of winter or any marriage to Boreas. She's literally just mentioned in the story of her birth after Demeter was assaulted while looking for Persephone, and her being given to an minor oceanic god to be raised. That's all