Yu the Engineer and Flood Stories from China: Crash Course World Mythology #17

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Yu the Engineer and Flood Stories from China: Crash Course World Mythology #17

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On this Crash Course in World Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about floods and deluges, specifically in China. In Chinese myth, flood stories pretty much all revolve around a guy named Yu the Great, or Yu the Engineer. In the distant past, he was tasked with stopping the flooding on the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, and he did it. After working on the job for 13 years. Yu also founded the legendary Xia Dynasty. Yu exists as a sort of model for future emperors. He works tirelessly on behalf of his people, and always does the right thing. He's a good emperor, and a model for rulers to emulate. He's also super cool, and can turn into a bear when he needs to dig really fast.
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@Raida 7 жыл бұрын

I keep hearing Yu as "You", and suddenly this becomes the best self-help tape on KZfaq.

@GothamBum 6 жыл бұрын

Almost sounded like he was telling me what happened after I blacked out from all the baijiu last night.

@chaotic7255 6 жыл бұрын

Raida 😂😂😂🤣

@HWDragonborn 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine meeting a blind man name Yu "Who are you?" "I am Yu." "Are you deaf?" "Yu is not deaf, Yu is blind." "I am not blind, you are blind." "That is what Yu just say."

@TheTeKuZa 4 жыл бұрын

@@HWDragonborn Rush Hour joke

@GregTom2 7 жыл бұрын

All the other mythologies have heroes solve their problems by praying hard, or by killing stuff, or by tricking someone. Chinese mythology has heroes do heroic deeds with math and engineering.

@buukute 5 жыл бұрын

Still disappointed their parent

@fluorine3 7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad we finally get to talk about Chinese myth! But I think one element the video didn't mention is the comparison between Gun and Yu. When Gun (Yu's father) was called to fix the flood problem, he entered the heavenly palace and steal a magical "soil" called "Xi Rang" (息壤) or living soil, which would grow non-stop. Gun used this living soil to build dams and tried to stop the flooding rivers. He had failed and because he stole magical items from heaven, was executed by the fire god Zhu Rong. And then his son Yu was appointed to deal with the flood again. Yu learned from the mistakes of his father, you can't stop natural forces like water or wind, you can only channel them. That's why Yu decided to build canals and aqueducts to guide the water. The moral lesson is "unstoppable natural powers shouldn't be confined, it should be guided, channeled for good use."

@richardhaw9757 7 жыл бұрын

Yu is most probably a real person that was elevated to divinity through the generations.

@leezhieng 6 жыл бұрын

Just like Confucius, Guan Yu, etc.

@jasonnung2645 7 жыл бұрын

here are the Chinese characters of the people mentioned in this video: Yu the Engineer: 禹 or 大禹 ("Yu the Great") or 夏禹 ("Yu of Xia") Yu's wife: 涂山氏 Shun, the ruler before Yu: 舜 The god of the Yellow River: 河伯 (lit: "grandfather river") Responding dragon: 应龙 Helping tortoise: 贔屭 (pronounced: "bixi") Yu's father: 鲧 (pronounced "gen") Nine headed monster of floods and swamps: 相柳 (pronounced "Xiang liu") Monster of the Huai river: 無支祁 (pronounced "Wu Zhiqi")

@emmadong1802 5 жыл бұрын

谢谢

@brandontea3815 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Was about to do that! Haha

@angelmints 7 жыл бұрын

*finds wife literally turned to stone* "pls give me the baby" ...

@stephenlaw1910 5 жыл бұрын

Anna Macacchero Detoni something is wrong there

@slowsatsuma3214 7 жыл бұрын

We on 217 already ? Time flies man.

@treenutspeanuts 7 жыл бұрын

honestly.

@towhatdegree 7 жыл бұрын

Feels like the series was only on #16 like two weeks ago.

@daniellincoln3744 7 жыл бұрын

Dang what did we miss?

@ashboon1625 7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lincoln We missed 200+ videos :(

@asmaajama2201 7 жыл бұрын

I think the 2 in front means Season 2 so 217 is Season 2 Episode 17.

@mariabumby 7 жыл бұрын

Petition for crashcourse mythology to never end? Seriously love these stories

@sjneow 7 жыл бұрын

This should certainly keep going

@kylemwalker 7 жыл бұрын

The myths, civics, and education of ancient china is perhaps the greatest model of human civilization. Of course there are tons of acts of terrifying human depravity, but the model they set to try and curb that instinct is amazing. The myths are all based around humans and a quest to overcome our imperfections rather than as a way to live up to divine expectations or a promise of divine reward. Their civic model was one that aspired to reward hard work and honesty. Their education system was one of deep introspection and inspiring a desire to help the society rather than better oneself. It is less about reverence for an individual and more about reverence for their actions. Early American civic heroes approach this type of thinking. George Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

@AmandaFromWisconsin 7 жыл бұрын

Screw you youtube I wont use my full name I think Western culture is more individualistic, which isn't a bad thing, in my opinion.

@attalan8732 7 жыл бұрын

Amanda Tessmer I personally feel a good balance between East and West is the best way. Best of both worlds?

@WeiYinChan 7 жыл бұрын

Actually the flood was the result of two gods throwing a hissy fit, at least in the mythological version, the emperor didn't don't anything wrong. They fought each other over some stupid reasons (like insulting each other) and broke the sky during the fight. Water started pouring in and Nu Who, who was the goddess who created humans melted some rocks to patch up the sky but the damage was done and the flood was still persistent. Yu is actually not always a god/demigod and is sometimes portrayed as a human. Also Yu's father was first responsible for handling the flood, and he attempted to do it by building barricades and dams to stop the water. It didn't work and made the flood worse so the emperor had Yu do it instead. Yu thought outside of the box, and decided to do the complete opposite and tried to direct the water away from human inhabitations by digging tunnels. After succeeding, the emperor elected him as the successor to reward his work. I find this version of the story very important as it distinct our flood story to a lot of other flood stories m, like Noah's Ark. In a lot of other mythology, flood happened because God or a god was mad at humanity messing up and inflicted the flood was a punishment. But he (it's always a he) handpicked a small group of people who are obedient to him to save. In the Chinese flood story, the gods started the flood without any concerns for humanity (just like how real disaster happens for no intrinsic meaning), and humanity overcome the damage the gods inflicted on them with their own willpower and wit. This shows the difference in how people view "gods" and the relationship people have with them in different cultures.

@lissam8988 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you this is interesting thought. And I also had a thought. No matter what's going on around us, humans should be taking care of humans, no matter if you believe in a God or not. And this sometimes very challenging because the way the world views human life.

@janmelantu7490 7 жыл бұрын

So an Engineer becomes the first Chinese Emperor? China had their priorities straight.

@andreascovano7742 7 жыл бұрын

A theorist would be better tho

@Firmus777 7 жыл бұрын

Technocracy FTW

@culwin 7 жыл бұрын

Not a reality TV show host? Huh.

@itsKarenTerry 7 жыл бұрын

Most Chinese politicians today have engineering degrees. I wouldn't say being an engineer necessarily means you make a good leader. They've had great and terrible leaders just like any other country.

@joejoewoo1 7 жыл бұрын

lol

@wcainw 7 жыл бұрын

13 years no coming home and yet he has a son, something fishy is going on.

@user-wb7ez9ud4p 6 жыл бұрын

His son was 13 years old when he came back, mystery solved.

@spiriteagle5126 6 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought haha

@srishtiparihar960 7 жыл бұрын

crash course is the best channel on KZfaq

@Frahamen 7 жыл бұрын

*YuTube

@culwin 7 жыл бұрын

2nd best after Poppy

@dylansutherland8688 7 жыл бұрын

Frahamen *bah dum tsss*

@levlev.1028 6 жыл бұрын

affirmative! that is besides JustforlolzFYI

@pihungliu35 7 жыл бұрын

Speaking of turtle, there's a myth that Yu, when dealing with Lo river (a branch of Yellow River), found this one turtle having some carving on its back, which turns out to be a 3 by 3 magic square. It's called "Lo Shu Square," and plays important roles in Chinese divinatory. BTW, the 抱歉 (bao qian, means "sorry") in the episode is quite accurate tbh.

@giabea. 7 жыл бұрын

I guess I missed 200 videos...

@Suite_annamite 7 жыл бұрын

In the span of a week! Now *that's* a record miss! ;)

@Nelsonic92 7 жыл бұрын

me too haha

@tessacarstairs5998 6 жыл бұрын

Hey! Just want to point out that the crown (or hat) which is handed from Shun to Yu at 2:04 is wrong. The kind of hat used in the video was only used by emperors of the Qing Dynasty（1644-1911）, which was a dynasty thousands of years after the stories of Shun and Yu. Also, I've been a CrashCourse fan for over a year. Love the videos you guys made!

@ryanjin2623 7 жыл бұрын

LOL! They used He Bo's character model from SMITE in the video!

@simonlow0210 6 жыл бұрын

Ya. I noticed that too. XD

@Luboman411 7 жыл бұрын

LOL. So Chinese hero gods are engineers and excellent managers. Why am I not surprised that this is one of their more important myths? This is the culture that has, after all, made people who passed the imperial examination with flying colors a 1,000 years ago into demigods.

@XxOverAndOver6xX 7 жыл бұрын

I love Mike's delivery. It reminds me of a slam poet, and a lot of these myths are very poetic. This might be my favorite Crash Course subject 💕

@pancreasnostalgia 7 жыл бұрын

It's interesting how this episode supplemented the world history episode on Chinese history. I know a lot about modern China but not much about ancient China.

@baldbadger7644 7 жыл бұрын

Still, Popular Chinese myths were somehow used by emperors to enforce their rules and control the thought of people. in this case, the figure of "yv" (the bear-husband) is emphasize in many myths to tell the ancient Chinese people that everyone should work hard. Kindda like the old version "Chinese dream"

@starlinguk 7 жыл бұрын

张帅 And the Noah story and other Biblical stories of ten teach "it's OK to be an a-hole as long as you obey God."

@josiahsimeth3681 7 жыл бұрын

starlinguk regardless of where you're coming from, never interpret biblical old testament stories as just "be like main character". Most aren't the greatest role models. I would argue none are primarily there as role models.

@twistedtachyon5877 7 жыл бұрын

You're right about that... David the adulterer/murderer, Jonah the racist... the list goes on. Fallibility and sinfulness among humans is pretty dang consistent in in the bible, right down to the apostle John worshiping an angel in revelation. :p Heck, there's also the quote "No one is good. No, not even one."

@rollandibrahim4277 7 жыл бұрын

Unless you have proof that this myth came from the government, your conspiracy theory is nothing more than a propaganda from the other side.

@baldbadger7644 7 жыл бұрын

This is actualy from a paraphase from our history text hook

@PeterNjeim 7 жыл бұрын

What did my teacher tell me to do? * *

@jagawanakimi 7 жыл бұрын

Mike Rugnetta is so funny and cheerful. He makes this series more fun!

@TheTeKuZa 4 жыл бұрын

Me: Who are you? Yu: I am Yu. Me: Not me. You!

@user-pp4pu1eo4b 7 жыл бұрын

7:29 He saved the world through his intellect? Yu smart. Yu loyal. Yu grateful.

@firebucket8203 7 жыл бұрын

Will you be doing welsh and Irish mythology ?

@HeyItzRosie 7 жыл бұрын

Fire Bucket Hopefully because I would love to learn about The Morrigan and the rest of the Irish gods/goddesses

@firebucket8203 7 жыл бұрын

SuperGamerGirl72 I was always curious about welsh and Irish mythology but could not find a acceptable source to learn it from

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

SuperGamerGirl72 the Morrigan yes!

@ElBailes 7 жыл бұрын

I want some Cu Cullain goodness

@culwin 7 жыл бұрын

Nobody can say Welsh words.

@serllyvega7160 7 жыл бұрын

Finally!!! Another crash course mythology, I wish they would post more often 😪😪😪 love it!

@RafaelMascol 7 жыл бұрын

Not sure if your willing ignoring ancient Chinese literature but there's a flood story the precedes this one with The ancient goddess Nuwa (yes sounds exactly like Noah) who after a hole is torn in the sky she uses the 5 magical colored stones (like a rainbow) to repair the sky and cuts off the legs of the great turtle to make the 4 pillars that hold up the sky. Now along with her husband Fuxi, they populate the Earth. I would really like to see you do this story.

@joedawg199 7 жыл бұрын

#217, so is it season 2 already?

@zaneeverett5960 7 жыл бұрын

I liked the episode, and understand that this series focuses on myths, but I was disappointed that there was no mention of the recent archeological evidence of the Xia floods. It would have been nice to see a short segment putting thought into how real wold events translate into myths.

@MusicalRaichu 7 жыл бұрын

So Yu's wife couldn't BEAR her husband?

@kramermariav 6 жыл бұрын

MusicalRaichu 👏

@theslimreaper2877 6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@jackmahoy2874 5 жыл бұрын

👏

@ilovemylifeful 7 жыл бұрын

i cannot express my excitement when i see that there is a new cc mythology! i am so happy! thank you for making this series

@ave8243 7 жыл бұрын

i just love this series 😍💕

@crusatyr1452 7 жыл бұрын

I know, it still seems fresh after 217 episodes!

@ave8243 7 жыл бұрын

The GuardianX wow... time flew so fast huh

@Pandapucks 5 жыл бұрын

The story about the flood and emperor Yu might in fact be historical. The research paper was published in Science magazine in 2016. (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf0842)

@987weee 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for pronouncing Xia correctly. So many other people just dont even bother and call it "see-uh" which doesnt even sound remotely chinese.

@ninja_goose4360 7 жыл бұрын

I didnt know we had 200 episodes.. yall been workin hard..

@aperson22222 7 жыл бұрын

Why no episode last week? Was it rained out? Ha ha ha

@firebucket8203 7 жыл бұрын

Clever

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

aperson22222 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@starlinguk 7 жыл бұрын

aperson22222 I think Nick was ill or at VidCon or both.

@JimmyCelestica 7 жыл бұрын

starlinguk these videos are prerecorded

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

Will you do an episode on Filipino mythology please??

@Xagzan 7 жыл бұрын

Odds on their Maui looking like the Disney version?

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

Xagzan maybe, I'm hoping that he covers the myth of the Aswang- a Filipino vampire

@Xagzan 7 жыл бұрын

Isn't the Filipino vampire the Manananggal?

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

Xagzan I've always heard it called the Aswang

@meganthefencer694 7 жыл бұрын

lesslighter huh, didn't know that. Thanks

@tat3179 7 жыл бұрын

It looks like a still ongoing job to this day to me. Recent attempts to tame the Yellow River or the Yangtze River involves building the biggest hydroelectric dam in the world, the Three Gorges Dam.

@frankromans3000 7 жыл бұрын

This guy is so awkward yet charming....I love it!!!!!

@yihuiang3165 7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the origin and basis for these Yu "myths" differ from the other flood myths? A very important form of religious worship in China is ancestral worship, and hence it is unsurprising that old historical events become embellished over generations of retelling and hence take on "mythical" qualities. Would Yu seem more real if I tell you of a present day connection? In Yu's time, family names had yet to be widely adopted. When Yu's engineering project was proven to be a success, the workers were bestowed the family name "洪“, which means "flood". Fast forward today and this is still a prominent Chinese surname with families that can still trace back to this origin. Incidentally 洪 is my family name and I grew up thinking that this was my surname's origin story. I have since found out that my family's "branch" originated at a later time, but still, pretty cool, right?

@marius8014 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, Yu the Engineer!

@ModelOmegaForReal 7 жыл бұрын

there are so many "the great" and "the terrible" why can't we have more "the engineer?"

@chickknightgreenleaf820 7 жыл бұрын

question, what the heck it your animated Chinese emperor at 2:00 and 7:47 wearing on his head??? that not what they wear pre Ching dynasty.

@JonathanHung8 7 жыл бұрын

Chickknight Greenleaf lol I noticed that as well

@huilei8295 7 жыл бұрын

in ancient china, people believe emperor was the son of God, people shouldn't look at his eye directly, so he need to wear a curtain to cover his eye, and then it become a symbol of emperor. your means the last dynasty, Qing dynasty wasn't Han Chinese, so they were different.

@chickknightgreenleaf820 6 жыл бұрын

yes the Qing dynasty, I forgot the "Q" and "CH" pronoun difference in English and Vietnamese

@chickknightgreenleaf820 6 жыл бұрын

also... Yu the great wearing his robe backward.

@brandontea3815 5 жыл бұрын

From what I see, while reading Chinese myth, taking away those god related, and magic related part, the story seems so real.

@Sunnansjo 7 жыл бұрын

Nice Smite ref 3:56

@Animotion1000 5 жыл бұрын

This is a very immersive episode...it's almost a tabletop RPG

@rkpetry 7 жыл бұрын

Not presuming but in case you didn't schedule it, Be sure to include all the American Indian stories about the great flood when Manabush killed two Anamaqkiu spirits who lived in the underworld (caves beneath the heaven mountain), and another, for mistreating a trout....

@margarety.3918 6 жыл бұрын

I’m Chinese and I don’t mind the mispronounced characters, this is still really interesting.

@BrunoTP 7 жыл бұрын

Everytime Mike refers to Yu, I think it's me, haha.

@talathion369 7 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that we have just as much evidence for Yu the Engineer and the Xia as we do for Achilles and Troy. Both are stories filled with myth and legend, but we have some city ruins that archaeologists like to point to and say "this must be the site!"

@Mumu_UwU 7 жыл бұрын

I can't help feeling talked to directly every time he says YU, so Yu gathered the monsters and so on 😂😂😂😂😂

@Navesblue 7 жыл бұрын

What I got from this episode: "No matter the challenge. Yu can do it."

@spencerdougan1113 7 жыл бұрын

Anyone come here crying from idea channel????

@aaronsmith5864 7 жыл бұрын

Spencer Dougan yup

@Prussiaz 7 жыл бұрын

yessir

@selfdribblingbasketball9769 7 жыл бұрын

Man Idea channel is the best. Even though more than half the stuff he says goes above my head I love it.

@AirborneSurfer 7 жыл бұрын

Here's an idea: Mike Rugnetta is the figurehead of the maturation era of KZfaq.

@dexteradams6515 7 жыл бұрын

Many many tears.

@miguelrosario3935 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks CC

@mikeor- 2 жыл бұрын

Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BCE) Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 BCE) Zhou Dynasty (1045-710 BCE) Spring and Autumn (710-445 BCE) Warring States (445-220 BCE) Qin Dynasty (220-206 BCE) Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) Three Kingdoms (220-280) Jin Dynasty (280-420) Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-581) Sui Dynasty (581-618) Tang Dynasty (618-907) Summer and Autumn (907-960) Song Dynasty (960-1279) Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) Republic of China (1912-1915, 1916-1928, 1931-1949) Empire of China (1915-1916) Chinese Soviet Republic (1928-1931) People's Republic of China (1949-Current)

@cris7386 7 жыл бұрын

3:51 the smite design for he bo. Looks like they got a lot of inspiration from smite! xD

@pedroscoponi4905 7 жыл бұрын

For more eastern stories about role models, I recomend Extra Credits' mini-series on Admiral Yi. What a guy.

@budakbaongsiah 7 жыл бұрын

Pedro Scoponi That's no myth, though.

@pedroscoponi4905 7 жыл бұрын

It's history but it still sets an example just as well as any myth, so ¯\__(ツ)__/¯

@VChong1991 6 жыл бұрын

I like how they are using the Smite's He Bo model.

@IanHsieh 7 жыл бұрын

Kinda disappoint that this episode only covers only one main version of the Chinese flood myths. There is a version that says the flood is caused by the wars between gods damaging the separation of Heaven and Earth, causing the Heaven River to downpour. (INCEST ALERT) The ancestor of human Fuxi and his sister Nüwa was saved by the giant calabash gourd in their yard. They cut the calabash gourd into halves and use it as a lifeboat. And the rest is pretty similar to the Noah's ark story. Interestingly, some scholar believes that this is also the source of Pangu as the creator god, since Pangu can also translated into calabash gourd. There are a lot more flood myth in China, including another one where Nüwa (yes there is multiple versions of Nüwa), the Mother Goddess who created human, save the humankind from flood by sealing the hole in sky with 5-colored stones. The same war between gods that caused the flood also caused the entire sky to tilt to northwest and earth crumbled at southeast. This myth also explains why all celestial bodies rise in the east and set in the west, and why all rivers flows eastward to the ocean (at least in China).

@eboneezeradams1821 4 жыл бұрын

The job of Yu and his father (who actually was put to death for failing) was not to stop the flood. After the flood, whole valleys were filled with water and the job was to drain them.

@kennethliu470 7 жыл бұрын

I guess Yu's wife found his tunneling unbearable.

@FuZandy 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting take on the flood myrths!

@blackphillip5757 7 жыл бұрын

Damn, was really hoping for that episode on trickster gods.

@SortofUnpleasant 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video.

@aniqa5816 7 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thank you, CrashCourse, so much for making these videos. They help me a lot when I'm studying or just trying to learn something new. I just wanted to ask you...Do you know that your captions are a little off? At about 4:10 the auto-captions say "wooshii see the monster of the Hawaii River" when you said "Wuzhiqi, the monster of the Huai River." If you get a chance, could you please fix that? Writing in the correct closed-captions for your KZfaq videos will help the MILLIONS of people all over the world who rely on closed captions to understand and enjoy them too. (Especially when the words are not in English!) Thank you all so much, and keep up the great work! :)

@solaireofastora3 7 жыл бұрын

Wait I wasn't asleep for 200 episodes worth of time guys I think

@LunaGrimmmm 7 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain to me how his wife is 9 months pregnant if he hasn't been home in years?

@malchicken 7 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested to hear a discussion on the idea of 'history' when considering the role these "myths" played for the people of their time. Were these stories considered factual history? Was history as a factual event even a thing or is that a more modern concept (Karen Armstrong has argued something akin to this I think)? Was 'fact' even a thing? How did the people o the time view these "mythologies". Please discuss.

@DarkOmegaMK2 6 жыл бұрын

Yu's deeds were such that eventually a popular website would adopt his name in honor to him, and because of that, we have Yutube.

@Benni777 7 жыл бұрын

"Yu had help from other mythical helpers" me: "Rhett and Link?"

@rowanm4787 7 жыл бұрын

i love crash course

@May-sl8gk 7 жыл бұрын

Talk about the Taino Gods. They have all sorts of stories between the thunder god and storm god

@lordcawdorofmordor2549 6 жыл бұрын

The Yellow River is pronounced 'Hu-ang He' and for "Ying Long" a closer pronunciation is "Ying Lung" Also another version of the wife-rock thing is simply the wife waiting for her husband and turning to stone from grief

@jlk7417 6 жыл бұрын

The lady that you pronounced Tu Shen Chi made you sound like you said 'Too Angry' in actual Chinese XD

@babyfromda404 7 жыл бұрын

Do you guys have merchindise I hope you do because I love this channel so much 😀

@fegolem 7 жыл бұрын

Yu didn't go home for quite a while.... His wife is pregnant. I must have missed something.....

@user-si6qn5iw5s 4 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, I've never heard this one before.

@hikaru-live 5 жыл бұрын

This exposes a difference between Chinese and other civilizations in this whole flood myth: other civilizations just let it happen and let it go all controlled by a deity, while Chinese people actively tried to fix it regardless of the deity's will.

@qwerty_314 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe do an episode examining "fictional" mythologies in books, movies, and TV shows?

@aaronsmith5864 7 жыл бұрын

Erick R. Mendez as oppoosed to actual fictional mythologies

@cloudkitt 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think he made that obvious.

@MsDragonAngels 7 жыл бұрын

Episode #217????.......hmmmmm

@kevinj4663 5 жыл бұрын

You didn't talk about the more well-known mythology of the Great Flood in China. The one where the Goddess Nüwa who created mankind, repairs the sky and ends the flood.

@dorawang5451 6 жыл бұрын

I can tell you how Chinese dig into mountains. set a hot fire then put water over the fire to break rock. it took long time, but it get the job done before TNT.

@fyviane 7 жыл бұрын

In China, he would be considered a good husband.

@Kardia_of_Rhodes 7 жыл бұрын

Any chance you guys will do an episode on Steppe Mythology? Most notably Tengri, God of the Open Sky.

@purplepepper2503 6 жыл бұрын

Yu guys are awesome! ^_^

@cavv0667 7 жыл бұрын

Mike likes saying Doody!!! ;)

@benjaminchen8857 7 жыл бұрын

It would help if you flashed the Chinese and/or English names whenever you say them

@sophiamaghanoy7178 7 жыл бұрын

God of being Hangry😂😂 That's Hoobi in Come back home😂

@Jobe-13 7 жыл бұрын

VERY interesting!

@travishensrud8286 7 жыл бұрын

Will this video be added to the "Mythology" playlist??

@GuilhermeSilva-uq7on 7 жыл бұрын

Dude, I lost it at the bear part. auehauheuaheuqheua (This is how we laugh here in brazil)

@alexn.2901 7 жыл бұрын

I thought you laugh like this: KKK

@GuilhermeSilva-uq7on 7 жыл бұрын

there are a huge variety of types. "kkkkk" would be a more classic and traditional one. Nowdays we just type wildly some combination of letters and go with it. Looks silly, but its public consensus by now, so... aeuaueuaheuaruaheuahueha

@puffy54045 7 жыл бұрын

It's like the got on Smite and were like "Hey tis is what He Bo looks like now you guys"

@tobystewart4403 5 жыл бұрын

There is an interesting parallel between Yu disgusting his wife in "bear" form, and Noah being seen naked and drunk by his sons after the flood.His sons Ham laughs, and is cursed. In both cases, judgement upon the "naked" form of authority is cursed by the gods. God. Gods and Dragons. And Giants, and all the things.

@AnarelaSilvera 7 жыл бұрын

Knowledge is hot.

@blackburngaming8345 Жыл бұрын

"I wonder if there's a Greek god of being hangry." Considering there's over 3000 Greek gods and goddesses, probably at least one of them is the god of hangry.