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@CJCroen1393 Athena and Artemis both never marry or have children. Zeus: "Yeah, I'm not letting somebody like me touch my baby girls."
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@heikohonikel4462 The first full-length version of Journey to the West was published in 1592. While it has a basis in older folk tales (much like how the likes of Robin Hood and King Arthur had their stories circulating in Britain long before anybody put them to paper), it's definitely not 4000 years old because Tripitaka was a real person. His real name was Chen Hui, though he's better known by his alias Xuanzang (the translation of "Tripitaka" into Chinese), and his journey to India was lasted from 629 to 645.
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This channel has some of the best euphemisms for piracy. This one might've been even better than "involuntary treasure reallocation".
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The Fate franchise has actually done a lot to at least make people aware that Celtic mythology exists. Though I remain disappointed that none of the many version of Cu Chulainn in the franchise actually have the warp spasm. Not even the Berserker version in Fate/Grand Order.
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@Someonecalledeli Gilgamesh and Enkidu swung both ways.
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3:28 "Okay but if Lust is bad then why did God make it so fun?"
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Yeah, it's too bad they didn't get along. John's reign has way too little contemporary record given how much he accomplished.
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@darkherculeskabuterimon7203 Given the small population of gods, it's to be expected that they're all blood relatives.
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One of the earliest documented yanderes. Of course Japan made her a waifu.
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The whole "Zeus gets horny and bangs every woman in sight" thing originated with basically trying to explain how just about every other city's local god was actually just Zeus again. And when said local god had a wife who couldn't plausibly be "actually Hera under another name", they made her a mortal or demigod that Zeus banged. And then they had a theme going, so "Zeus bangs a random chick" is the go-to way to explain why various heroes have superpowers.
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@kgmotte2363 And some of the demons want to "eat him" in both senses of the word.
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This story had enormous influence on shonen anime, and I don't just mean how early Dragon Ball was directly based on it.
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@robbieaulia6462 Hippomenes: So I can look big and scary now. But Atalanta's still faster and do all the hunting, just like back when were humans. She's so awesome.
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@IISheireenII Sun Wukong says, you can never have too much immortality.
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Then Kaguya manages to slip away to Earth again and is like "you doofus, if you'd taken the elixir we could've hung out again."
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@shadowkhan422 Many spiders do that, but it's in no way universal. But the lumberjack seems to be have been perfectly willing to go out that way if it came to it.
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Yeah, the only "problem" with Hades in the actual myths is that he strictly enforces the rules (ie "dead is dead, no take-backs"). Which is a bummer for dead people (well aside from the ones who get to go to Elysium), but it also means no zombie apocalypses for the living to worry about.
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Journey to the West really was the original battle shonen.
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Athena: Okay brother, that's complete bullshit but you've caused enough trouble for poor Orestes so I'm voting to acquit him anyway.
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"You wouldn't like me when I'm sober."
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That's a much more recent concept. Originally, the sword in the stone didn't have a name at all, except in versions of the story where it's conflated with Excalibur and the part about the Lady in the Lake giving Arthur the sword gets omitted. (Though some versions also have him pull Excalibur from the stone, lose it at some point along the way, then the Lady in the Lake gives it back to him.)
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@thomasrinschler6783 Tyrannos in Greek referred to a ruler that seized power in a coup, basically. But not every tyrannos was considered a bad ruler.
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10:35 A pagan goddess casting knowledge on the various Christian denominations of Europe is certainly an interesting way to depict the situation...
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I automatically think of Mordred as a girl thanks to Fate. For whatever reason, I still have zero trouble thinking of Arthur as a man, though.
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Plot twist: Journey to the West was the Buddha's D&D campaign.
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Fun fact: in 1956, Malta voted to be fully integrated into the United Kingdom, but the UK refused to take them. Apparently because they were worried that other British colonies might want the same deal and thus colonies (which unlike Malta had non-white majorities) could end up with representation in the House of Commons.
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In addition to putting his best troops right up against Sparta's, Epaminondas also stacked those troops ridiculously deep. A typical Greek phalanx was 8 ranks deep. ie each guy on the front line had 7 other soldiers behind him. When phalanxes collided, those ranks would be pushing forward against the backs of the men in front of them, thus combining their strength against the opposing phalanx who did the same. But Epaminondas had the Thebans on the left flank stacked 50 deep. So each 8 Spartans had 50 Thebans pushing against them. This weakened the Thebans' own right flank, but that was up against the conscripted soldiers of Sparta's conquered "allies", who didn't even want to fight. Once the front line on the Spartan right flank started to fall, it was an absolute stampede. And as soon as Sparta's allies saw the Spartans losing, they noped the hell out of there.
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Isn't there a Korean MMORPG (of all things) based on it?
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@SlapstickGenius23 Yep, the Normans were the ancestors of Vikings who became French. Or relatively French, at least. William the Conqueror's great-great-great-grandfather was Rollo, a Viking leader who was granted a title of nobility in West Francia (what would become France), in exchange for no longer attacking Paris.
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Okay, so Kaguya is an immortal moon princess from Japanese folklore. Does that make her Tsukuyomi's daughter?
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@nyetloki And yet at least sometimes Zeus is described as more powerful than all the other Olympians combined. Which is in part why Hera always takes revenge on the kids from his affairs, because Zeus himself is too strong for her to harm directly despite her being a powerful goddess in her own right. And for all his many shortcomings, Zeus actually cares at least a bit about his kids, so Hera was hurting him by hurting them. At any rate, I can understand why Zeus would want to pass the buck on judging a beauty contest between his wife, his favorite daughter, and his aunt (or another daughter depending on which myth you prefer) who would objectively be the winner on account of beauty being her literal superpower.
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@Percival917 Why, when nearly all of Europe adopted the Latin alphabet, was it so impossible for everybody to just agree on which letters would be represent which sounds? Why did everybody have to be such hipsters about it?
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Fun fact, the rock in question was a meteorite that Elagabalus said was the symbol of his god (also named Elagabalus). Who he (she?) replaced Jupiter with as the chief god of Rome. And no, he didn't name his god after himself. It's the other way around. His real name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and it was only posthumously that he (she?) was called Elagabalus.
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So which came first? The idea that Morgan and Morgause were sisters, or the idea of just combining two women with almost the same name into a single character?
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It seems like the popes were lucky that Frederick II didn't pull a Henry VIII and say "fuck it, I'll start my own church."
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The British Empire: history's most aggressive drug dealer.
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@alicetully6825 Yes.
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@dragonnx2843 Still, there needs to be a warp spasm Berserker Cu.
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Thanks to the Fate franchise, I have a really hard time imagining Mordred as not a girl. Oddly enough, I still have zero difficulty imagining Arthur as a man.
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Ah, I've been needing more Monkey King antics. Also, sorry empress and scorpion demon, but Kuan Yin is still best girl.
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@clayxros576 Yeah, Hera would've totally arranged for them to end up with a kingdom if he'd just remained loyal to the wife she'd set him up with.
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The ancient Greeks thought butterflies were the souls of the dead (or at least represented them), and Psyche means soul. And as the goddess of the soul, Psyche was also the goddess of butterflies.
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The myths allude to her being really important to the point that even Zeus respects her, but never really explain why.
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There was also a sequel to the Odyssey, the Telegony. But since there's no surviving texts of it, all we have are summaries. Among other things, Telemachus ends up marrying Circe.
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@hunterzero8 That only has Cu Chulainn as a supporting character, though.
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@benjaminsmith3843 Atalanta and Hippomenes: "LOL, the gods think we can't have sex now?"
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Real question is why does Berserker Cu not warp spasm?
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In at least some versions he also had sex with Scathach. And her daughter. (No, not at the same time.)
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8:12 That's quite a bold claim. It's also an accurate one.
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@robmd887 Yes it is. But on the plus side, it's made a whole generation of weebs aware that there are mythologies beyond just Greek, Norse, and Japanese (the latter of which they were only aware because well, weebs).
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