Fun Facts from Ireland:Tir means land in Irish, and og means young, so Tir na nOg means the "land of youth". Grammar fact: the reason there is a little n in front of Og is that two vowels can't be next to each other in in a sentence. It is the same as using an instead of a in English. Fact out!!!
@talideon
7 жыл бұрын
It's even more complicated than that: the plural definite articles of Old Irish (nan and nam) ended in nasal sounds. When those endings wore away in most conditions, they were preserved where the following word began with a vowel, only they got reanalysed as part of the following word! It's this same process that gave us urú and seimhiú, but with different kinds of sounds lost at the end of the preceding word.
@mattkuhn6634
7 жыл бұрын
The diachronic history of Irish is particularly fascinating due to the sheer quantity of historical spelling like this that it seems to have. It reminds me of English in that sense, though I don't know which language has it worse - I haven't studied a lot of Irish.
@talideon
7 жыл бұрын
Oh, definitely English! The seemingly weird bits of Irish orthography actually continue to serve a coherent purpose, in spite of the basic rules going back to the first millennium. All the weirdness in Irish came into the vernacular between Ancient Irish and Old Irish. English, OTOH, has consistently gone out of its way to be messed up from Middle English onwards: it has multiple mutually contradictory spelling methods within its spelling 'system', and you need to know the rough etymology of words before you can even hope to get the spelling right. Things like vowel length are marked only sporadically, and with multiple different methods (because diacritics are scary), and stress is entirely unmarked. Irish, OTOH, just tries to get something workable from an alphabet that couldn't be more ill-suited to it, uses some admittedly strange methods to do so, but yet stays internally consistent. That leads to Irish looking much more scary from an orthographic standpoint than it actually is. Pre-1950s Irish was much more daunting due to the presence of lots of silent letters. Present-day Irish has only a few real spelling quirks.
@mattkuhn6634
7 жыл бұрын
Keith Gaughan yeah English definitely has a, we'll call it "fraught" history. It's funny that the two most widely spoken languages in the world, Mandarin Chinese and English, are two of the hardest to learn as a second language.
@maxwellsimon4538
7 жыл бұрын
That is very interesting, you are very interesting. Thanks for the facts.
@Albinojackrussel
7 жыл бұрын
My first intro to the maiden mother and crone was through terry pratchett, so I've never had an issue with it. I read it as Maiden- A time of exploration, of learning. All her focus is external Mother- at the height of her career (whatever that may be) She controls her world, and it is hers to rule Crone - introspective, self focused. Understands the world, but has distanced herself from it. And it respects those as all important
@IamMissPronounced
6 жыл бұрын
Albinojackrussel omg you're right!! I had been wondering where I first heard that.
@Lilliathi
6 жыл бұрын
Maiden - Fertile Mother - Fertilized Crone - Infertile Not trying to reduce women to their child baring capabilities, but you can't deny that this is a very large part of what it means to be a women, especially through history.
@Volzotran
7 жыл бұрын
I know other people have been asking this too but can you guys make a crash course linguistic happen, please.
@malloreyfennessy4626
7 жыл бұрын
omg please
@gracemilliman5403
7 жыл бұрын
+
@meerkatmonster1000
7 жыл бұрын
Needs to happen
@Dlawderek
7 жыл бұрын
Germanic Pstrąg I want this so bad
@TalysAlankil
7 жыл бұрын
You can care about linguistics and also apply linguistic descriptivism, because you recognize that linguistics is a branch of science and science is based on observation rather than conforming our view of the world to the model we built and rejecting all challenges to that model. Just saying. Languages didn't evolve until now because people said "oh no, i'm being grammatically incorrect!"
@dmovila
7 жыл бұрын
There is a similar story in romanian folklore about a young prince who try to find youth without olding and life without death (as his father promised him before being born). He meet a fairy and live happily until he goes hunting in the Vally of Forgiveness and remember his world wich was extinct for a long time by now. He goes back (but his horse returns quickly in the magic world) and in the ruins of his former castle, in a chest, he finds the Death who was waiting for him. Death slaps him and he turn to dust.
@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry the ending is really funny
@TheMangakid1995
7 жыл бұрын
Did something happen to Thoth's face or am I crazy?
@emo6577
7 жыл бұрын
TheMangakid1995 I saw it too. I was about to comment this exact thing
@malloreyfennessy4626
7 жыл бұрын
turned to the side?
@compilationerrorontest493
7 жыл бұрын
Harambe died exactly one year ago
@boikoi1531
7 жыл бұрын
TheMangakid1995 well, in Egyptian mythology, Thoth has two forms: one with the Ibis head ( the original ) and one with a baboon's head ( what they change it into )
@malloreyfennessy4626
7 жыл бұрын
Mary Chong cool I didn't know that
@bennblanchfieldryan2171
7 жыл бұрын
I am Irish, so first of all, "Tir na nÓg" means "land of the young" not "land of the blessed". Secondly, the poet (who was actually a warrior)'s name "Oisin" is pronounced ush-een. Lastly, Oisin got off the horse on purpose to help an old man move a Boulder then died.
@georgexm2032
5 жыл бұрын
lol thanks
@anthonyinholland294
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like they should do a little more research before making these video's
@roseheimbichner7296
7 жыл бұрын
Merry meet, Crash Course Mythology. You describe the Goddess of my heart very well in this episode. I believe Jung's theories about archetypes, and I believe the ancient Goddess-theory is very plausible, but I'm not bound to it. (I especially don't think everything was so non-violent in ancient times.) I believe in the unifying Goddess of a thousand names. She is spoken of in many myths around the world. She is the universe and we are all the stars. She is the dolphin, the night, the owl, all that lives and breathes, the wind through the leaves, the shifting of the clouds. I know this video isn't Wiccan, but thank you. You do her honor. I'm excited for the next video about the God of my heart. I've been watching every single episode of this series. It's my favorite on youtube, and I've been inspired to read myths in my own free time. Blessed be. )O(
@IamMissPronounced
6 жыл бұрын
Rose Heimbichner oh my....
@Ed-quadF
7 жыл бұрын
One of the best comments I've ever heard on a CC or any other channel. While this seems self evident, "We always need to be aware of how we're imposing our values on history and pre-history." Shouldn't stop there however. One could easily substitute science for history. There are probably a lot of other words to substitute. The last 2 episodes were really good, thanks for doing this.
@xsaberfaye
7 жыл бұрын
"Great goddesses are always complex and contradictory." Wow, basically sums up human behaviour.
@Nightcoffee365
7 жыл бұрын
Comment sections never disappoint me because I expect disappointment and receive it every time.
@Tuckems
6 жыл бұрын
Bennie Saying Things lmao
@guywhochangeshisprofilealo7163
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@maddieh5794
7 жыл бұрын
"She is often supPLANTED with Demeter" aaaayyyyyyy good pun
@noway3128
7 жыл бұрын
Quick note: it's Tír na nÓg, and Oisín is pronounced Uh-sheen.
@FireWithinCosmosaicSEA
7 жыл бұрын
"Six seeds of the blood-red pomegranate, and I am Queen." 👑🌬🕯🌫
@EmilReiko
7 жыл бұрын
In Scandinavia. abducted to the underworld by elves myths are quite common, and several of those has a narrative where one it taken by elves or spending the night with elves and then, when they return, many years has passed.
@cadr003
7 жыл бұрын
I love stories about Mother Goddess, but mainly creation and growth myths in general.
@EwitzAmanda
7 жыл бұрын
How perfect! I'm taking greek mythology this summer for a core class. Thanks a million!! :)
@claytonbenignus4688
7 жыл бұрын
I notice that Gaia, the Earth Mother Goddess, was unscathed over the unpleasant conflict between Uranus and Saturn that she instigated. Uranus wronged her and I don't feel for him. Saturn did what his Mother asked for him and got cursed for it. There doesn't seem to be any justice here.
@dinobotlover
7 жыл бұрын
"is it hot in here or is it all the mother goddesses" needs to be in a tote bag!
@Ceronocero
7 жыл бұрын
I've been reading Robert Graves. Although there is no proof of women ruling on pre-patriarchal societies, he does an amazing job telling his very plausible version of it. A lot of mammals also live as matriarchies, and you can even see some of it on current cultures, such as matrinliearity and many others, difficult to define. It is yet to imagine how different those cultures would be.
@IamMissPronounced
6 жыл бұрын
Ceronocero I know from school there are several aboriginal tribes in North America that are matriarchal.
@q345ify
6 жыл бұрын
My guess is that it societies weren't necessarily matriarchal (women ruling them or having more say than men) so much as the societies revolved around accommodating the women (staying in one place for a couple years to allow for pregnancy and early child rearing, as well as the usually more physically stronger- and more biologically expendable- men going out hunting while women- the generally physically weaker and far more biologically valuable due being forced to actually carry the children- gathered nuts and berries and what have you because it is a much lighter workload for them just in case they were pregnant) With all this being said however, they really didn't address what I think is the main problem with the goddess religions and pre-historic matriarchal societies and that's just because a society has a female deity very high up in or indeed at the top of a pantheon doesn't mean that women in society had political power, just look at Japan where their chief deity is the sun goddess Amaterasu yet women were historically always considered inferior, Athenians views on Athena is another good example
@thesungodterry
7 жыл бұрын
I love that the Japanese goddess Izanami is holding Calcifer in her arms.
@lauryn716
7 жыл бұрын
This is by far my favorite series from crash course!!
@Kayclau
7 жыл бұрын
I can't get enough of this series.
@AuChoco
7 жыл бұрын
0:36 Carl Jung kinda looks like an older John Green that has a different haircut
@ShadowMinder
7 жыл бұрын
This crash course has helped me so much with developing the creation myth and following religion in my story :D Thank you!
@IceMetalPunk
7 жыл бұрын
Are there any hypotheses about why the Japanese and Irish myths here are so similar, even though they're separated by a large amount of geography?
@varana
7 жыл бұрын
Archetypes, most probably. Life, death, the divine; the thing you must not do (Pandora's box, the tree in the garden of Eden, Orpheus not looking back, lots and lots of fairy-tales from many cultures...), divine and human lovers, and so on - those are basic ingredients in many stories around the world, and they probably could've named quite a few more that tell similar stories.
@PureeCharm
7 жыл бұрын
Psychology
@Ninja4hire110
7 жыл бұрын
IceMetalPunk I understand the concept of "archetypes" within the "collective unconscious" as proposed by Jung, but this deals with more overarching concepts and broad brush ideas, these two myths are way beyond that in similarities. Very weird... Perhaps both peoples are drawing from a much older singular story, though the geography doesn't support that.... Hmmmm... Stumped!
@varana
7 жыл бұрын
Err... sorry, I _am_ Christian. And I didn't use fairy-tales to group them together - there are many actual fairy-tales (i.e. Brothers Grimm stuff) that use this narrative device. And that is the point - whatever you think about the actual story, from a story-telling point of view, there are similarities in structure that are by no means exclusive to any religion or tradition. Even stories that are true for certain people, are stories - they share similar structures and narrative devices ("tropes", for the internet generation). That goes together with my "archetypes" above - I don't really subscribe to Jung's theories about the collective subconscious in all details. I think of those structural similarities more as literary devices that are common to many cultures because they touch something in the human condition itself.
@Xagzan
7 жыл бұрын
Proto Indo-Europeans? Japan also has the chaoskampf that you see in other Eurasian myths.
@GloriaNak
7 жыл бұрын
I love this series. Mike does such a great job.
@pls-shanice
7 жыл бұрын
I just want to say there's also an indigenous Australian story about a mermaid trying to keep a man in the underwater world until he realises how much he misses his family and decides to return - very similar to otto-hime and the tirnanog story
@chrishickey5394
7 жыл бұрын
bout time we get some Celtic myth! More Tuatha De Danann!
@Nowasta
7 жыл бұрын
Virgin, Mother, Crone...Man that brought back some nostalgia of the Discworld Series.
@tomus0n
7 жыл бұрын
When the Irish story was being told in the Thought Bubble all I could think of was how similar this story was to the fairytale of Urashima Taro, so I'm glad it got included haha
@ryanedwards7487
7 жыл бұрын
Loving the Conchobhar reference in the gravestones at 19:00+/-. Excellent little Easter Egg for that branch of Mythology.
@SuperMoatazAhmed
6 жыл бұрын
I still think that sometimes goddesses were portrayed outside the sexual/fertility context. Like goddess of War Athena, in Greece, goddess of writing and knowledge Seshat in Egypt.
@Bursykovski
7 жыл бұрын
I think it would be interesting to see how all the knowledge and theories about the Mythology's of the world apply to Mythologys of fictional worlds like Middleearth or Westeros.
@DeathssynProductions
7 жыл бұрын
fantasy mythologies, especially tolkein's are rooting in his historical knowledge and study. He was a historical professor for years, focusing on linguistics. He would have had an indepth understanding of most of the worlds mythos and religions and an expert's understanding in Norse Mythology which is something he often taught. So the LOTR universe underthe kind of evaluation you suggested would fit the archetypes perfectly, but would poorly match up to any particular source or religion, other than North Germanic.
@bullrun2772
4 жыл бұрын
DeathssynProductions I disagree
@bullrun2772
4 жыл бұрын
Yay
@waffle2434
4 жыл бұрын
They actually have a class like that at my University, it is taught by the head of the religion department, and he goes in-depth into compare and contrasting different fictional religions like the ones from Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek, with religions from our world. Apparently it is a high-level class because he likes to focus more on the fictional religions so you have to have already taken at least one or two religion classes before it so you already have an understanding of our world's religions, but apparently it is a pretty fun class.
@bullrun2772
4 жыл бұрын
waffle2434 that’s cool
@Sabbathtage
7 жыл бұрын
The supernatural lady and mortal lover match up did work out between Princess Tryamon/Triamour of Olyroun and Sir Launfel of the Round Table. Legend has it you can hear him riding his magic horse and one day out of the year he'll even joust with you.
@AstroFocus
7 жыл бұрын
Love this channel :D
@postmortemprince3086
7 жыл бұрын
I like ur videos AstroFocus !!!
@omnipotentwafflegod8061
7 жыл бұрын
+AstroFocus who dosnt?
@lailedcat
7 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard about the story of Otohime I was floored by how similar it was to Oisín i dTír na nÓg. Glad to see a bit of Irish stuff in here, since so many of us have been asking if it'd be included. :)
@raymondkim3740
7 жыл бұрын
Otohime is pronounced Oh-Toh-He-Meh, not Ah-To-He-Meh. The Japanese language is generally really easy to pronounce so long as you remember the five syllables. Also, the full story is that the young fisherman, Urashimataro, saves a sea turtle from being teased and bullied by some rowdy kids, and in gratitude the turtle allows Urashimatarou to ride his back to the Ryuugujyo, the Sea Palace. There, he meets Otohime and he stays in the palace for a few days to a few weeks with her eating food and watching dancers. The rest of the story is as told in the video.
@moonlightray8493
7 жыл бұрын
9:15 The Japanese folktale of Urashima Taro doesn't quite go like that, especially in the beginning. The reason the fisherman was brought down to Oto-hime *wasn't* because she fell in love with him; he had actually saved a turtle of whom was a guard of the palace under the sea, and was brought there as a token of thanks. Please look up "The Story of Urashima Taro" for the full story.
@alexparamount
7 жыл бұрын
there is literally the same story as the Tir nan og in Romania as well. basically this fair prince, seeking everlasting youth and life without death finds a fair maiden (or sometimes a fair maiden and her sisters, lucky chump) and he lives with them for an indefinite happy long time. but eventually he misses all those he left behind, wishes to go back and goes to visit his friends and relatives. but he only finds ruins of his family's palaces and all the landscapes that he thought he knew were changed and he ages centuries within moments and dies.
@Toshfunk
7 жыл бұрын
You should've done your research on the Irish pronunciation! Oisín is pronounced 'Uh-sheen'.
@juliamullaney4281
7 жыл бұрын
Tosh Molloy ahhh it made me so uncomfortable
@MusketPenguin
7 жыл бұрын
That and the "Tir-nan-og" It's Tir na nOg! I'd forgive the lack of fadas seeing as even I can't be arsed to put them in but at leasr put the letters in the right words!
@SyskeBehard
7 жыл бұрын
His Japanese pronunciation is atrocious too. Why don't they just consult people on this stuff >.
@Jotari
7 жыл бұрын
It's actually really strange he got that wrong. I can get a mispronunciation because a lot of people would be reading the names without hearing them but to actually miswrite the name it needs to be the reverse, you'd need to hear it and then write down how you think its spelled based on the pronunciation. I wonder where or how the people who made the graphic heard of Tir Na nOg. Because even a simple search on google using the wrong spelling automatically redirects to the right one.
@Xagzan
7 жыл бұрын
The Japanese is pretty easy too. Oto is always oh-toh. O is always a short o sound, never Ah. Irish is crazy hard for me though.
@peacelovencandy
7 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you guys discuss some South East Asian myths such as Nyi Roro Kidul, the Goddess of the sea or Hyang.
@vanessachan1562
7 жыл бұрын
Small part was hoping great goddess cards would be merch. Darn.
@IamMissPronounced
6 жыл бұрын
Vanessa Chan OMG I wish
@nori_04
7 жыл бұрын
how does this channel not have a million views
@lordwind9745
7 жыл бұрын
What happened to thoth's head?
@Crisperz
7 жыл бұрын
Zhechel Lin people said be gone thot too much and he left. that's his understudy
@vincentfiestada
7 жыл бұрын
I thought he was just looking straight at the camera and the animators drew him weird.
@ratdogandthevoid8812
7 жыл бұрын
I love these crash course episodes! Mike's voice is awesome and engaging.
@bidaubadeadieu
7 жыл бұрын
They didn't say it explicitly but the )O( moon they've been using is actually a longstanding symbol of the triple goddess (neopaganism). The moons are waxing, full and waning to represent the maiden, mother and crone.
@phelanii4444
7 жыл бұрын
as soon as you mentioned oto-hime I remembered okami... what a great game :D
@mangaluver1231
7 жыл бұрын
"We serve she who is Virgin, Mother, and Crone." Any other Witcher fans thought of Skellige NPCs who'd say that when he talked about the triple goddess?
@Pedrosa2541
7 жыл бұрын
I'm anxious expect the episode about Irish Mythology, is one of the moust marvellous and influential ones. It inspired Lord of the Rings to be the point where you can almost understand one by reading the other (Numerians > Nemed tribes)
@briankennedy1298
7 жыл бұрын
Sexy Lawn Ornaments is my new indie band.
@danlincoln1512
7 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else catch Thoth with the shamrock around 8:03? Getting lucky with the goddesses eh buddy?
@ReligionForBreakfast
7 жыл бұрын
Legend of Zelda is another goddess myth. All hail Hylia!
@bullrun2772
4 жыл бұрын
ReligionForBreakfast not exactly
@0ld_Scratch
7 жыл бұрын
my favourite is the Trickster
@feynstein1004
7 жыл бұрын
The Venus figurines do not necessarily confirm the existence of matriarchal societies. However, from anthropology, I think we can postulate that such societies may have existed. In pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer communities, most of the men would be usually absent doing the hunting and gathering. This would leave the women back home free to do other stuff. It's plausible that thus women back then would have had a more important role to play than men, relatively speaking.
@feynstein1004
7 жыл бұрын
Ohhkay. How is that relevant?
@stecky87
7 жыл бұрын
The stories about goddesses spiriting away their lovers reminds of 'Wise Man's Fear' when something similar happens to Kvothe
@sandradermark8463
7 жыл бұрын
Oisin reminds me of Taro Urashima... great rainbow bridge connection there!!! The message in both stories is: never tarry more than half a day in a magical land. Who knows if a day there equals a decade, or even a century, of Earth time.
@PalladiumAlchemist
7 жыл бұрын
Nowadays she's called "The Woman of Willendorf" because calling her a "Venus" imposes Grecko-Roman ideology onto her. Art historians and anthropologists still don't really know why she was made or what her roll was in her society.
@maximilian9000
7 жыл бұрын
pocket porn
@PalladiumAlchemist
7 жыл бұрын
Aaron Blades Definatly a possibility.
@BioBroly111
7 жыл бұрын
PalladiumAlchemist Romans didnt have ideology dudeeeee, Venus is an archetype not identity of a deity...
@PalladiumAlchemist
7 жыл бұрын
Жабокречина Thank you for replying, but I think you misunderstood my point. First of all, any society that has laws, an economy, a political system, or religion has an ideology. Rome had all of those. Secondly, Grecko-Roman in this instance means a traditionally western mindset, not literally ancient Greeks and Romans. Lastly, Venus is a Roman Goddess of love, but you can't just assume that the Woman of Willendorf is a goddess of love or fertility based on her looks. That is an inherently western idea based on Grecko-Roman tradition. Hope that clears up my comment!
@BioBroly111
7 жыл бұрын
PalladiumAlchemist This must be some new definition of ideology that i never heard about :( I didnt say your wrong but in Jungian context venus is archetype, you can call it whatever godess you like (same like zeus, thor, perun share same archetype). Cheers!
@janislav9473
7 жыл бұрын
I like this guy (have always been a fan of mythology, too). He never comes off as condescending or anti-feminist. He doesn't talk too fast and always makes the episode entertaining. (I also like John Green, but sometimes he talks too fast & I have to keep 'rewinding'.) Maybe after the mythology course he can do one on the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World and, even tho we have little-to-no evidence of most of them (such as the Hanging Gardens), we seem so eager to believe they really existed?
@Lilliathi
6 жыл бұрын
Of course he doesn't come off as anti-feminist, he's pandering to you.
@julianedesfayes6154
7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Loved the way you dealt with the topic. Wish it went even more in depth but this was very informative
@vvitchofthewest
7 жыл бұрын
The version that I learned in school of the Irish myth is that Oisín was a warrior, hunting with the Fianna when he saw Niamh on a magical horse down by a river. She said that his reward for his great deeds was being able to come with her to Tír na nÓg so he went but before he did he promised his father that he will return one day. The magical horse then carried them over the sea to Tír na nÓg and shortly after they arrived they married, and Oisín unknowingly spent 400 years in Tír na nÓg, but one day he remembered his promise. Reluctantly, Niamh gave him her magical horse and let him go on the condition that he will return and that he will not step a foot on the soil of Ireland. He agreed, and returned back to the place where he was hunting with the Fianna before, only to see that many things had changed. Confused, he rode up to a number of farmers trying to roll a boulder off of their field to ask them what had happened to this place, and seeing how much trouble they were having and seeing as he was the stuff of legend he leaned down in the saddle and picked up the boulder easily with one hand. When he went to throw it, however, the saddle strap broke and he fell to the ground. The horse, frightened, galloped back to niamh, and Oisín instantly aged all of the years that he had spent in Tír na nÓg. With the little time of life he had left, asked the farmers about the Fianna to which they responded that the warriors of myth were long gone, dead for many centuries. He died with that knowledge, and Niamh, upon the returning of the horse with no rider, grieved for a long, long time.
@divrodricks2525
7 жыл бұрын
Can y'all guys make a crash course about insomnia, it's history, and all aspects related to it?
@DjPhil94
7 жыл бұрын
the concept of time "catching back" to a human is explored really well in Space 1999 episode " death other domain "!
@4ndr38r1x1
7 жыл бұрын
There was a tv show called Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog and this video just revived some crappy CGI memories.
@celesteannlopezcastillo2058
7 жыл бұрын
Was that Calcifer in Isanami's arms? Nice shout-out. ^_^ This has got to be my favorite installment in this great Crash Course series.
@godalmighty211
7 жыл бұрын
Your channel is pure genius! Thanks guys, excellent excellent work!🤙
@sarahkraus8547
7 жыл бұрын
Do a video on Celtic/Irish mythology!
@cjam9457
7 жыл бұрын
I love these so much! Also, the host is super cute :)
@wingsofwrath4647
7 жыл бұрын
There is a Romanian fairytale called "Tinereţe fără bătrâneţe şi viaţă fără de moarte" ("Youth without Old Age and Life without Death") first written down in 1882 by renowned folklorist Petre Ispirescu, which follows a similar theme and manages to combine both the magical horse and the box. It's about the youngest son (of three) of an emperor who decides to go find a mythical "Land of Youth" (the parallels to "Tír na nÓg" as "Land of Youth" are interesting and probably not accidental, since the ancient Celts did inhabit parts of what is now Romania in the 4th century BC) in which people never age or die. He has a magical horse who eats fire and after many adventures, he finally gets there and finds the place inhabited by three "zâne" ( demi-goddesses with magical powers, always female, somewhat homologous to the "fairies" of English folklore. The name itself is said to originate from the name of the Roman goddess Diana as the Latin "d" sound often transformed into a "z" in modern Romanian). The youngest one takes him as her husband and he spends many happy years in that land, until, one day, he chases a rabbit into a forbidden part of the land called "Valea Plângerii" ("The Vale of Sorrow"), gets homesick and wants to return. They beg him not to go, but he does and he discovers hundreds of years have passed and nobody remembers him. During the journey he starts to age and finally when they get to the ruins of his parents' palace he is an old man. The horse abandons him and goes back to the Land of Youth. While looking through the ruins he finds a chest and in the chest, Death (who, interestingly, is always female in Romanian folklore), who quips "If you'd been any later, even I would have wasted away" and slaps him across the face, turning him instantly to dust.
@korviscapetrova5269
4 жыл бұрын
Thank God he mentioned that good for nothing Zeus. I got the innuendo almost immediately.
@Cyfiero
7 жыл бұрын
On the matriarchial goddess movement, one example I can think of related to it involves the etymology of the Chinese character for surname (姓). The character is composed of the characters for female (女) + life (生). Because of the "female" radical, some Chinese scholars over the years have theorized that the Chinese civilization had originally began as a matriarchial society, or at least one where descent was tracked matrilineally. Indeed, the Chinese goddess credited with creating humanity Nüwa (女媧) is given a fairly prominent role in the ancient mythology, being the one to repair the 4 pillars holding up the world when they were broken in a great war between the water god Gong'gong and Zhurong, the fire god who had taught humanity how to control fire. Some sources also expressly say that the greater role that Fu Xi, the husband of Nüwa, takes afterwards with providing humanity writing and basic technology and the fact that the tribal chiefs (recorded as the legendary sage-emperors) were all male represents a shift in "realizing men play a bigger role than women in life" (an idea I find really appalling & stupid). However, I'm not sure if the Chinese myths itself offer that interpretation or if that's an interpretation of the myths by modern scholarship.
@PartyPilotier
7 жыл бұрын
Love what you guys are doing on Crash Course Mythology. But why are you ignoring the Indian myths and Goddesses from Hinduism? There are many goddesses there with amazing stories behind them. Would love for you to do a part 2 to this video with Indian Goddesses as well.
@kathleenreeves684
7 жыл бұрын
Most goddess-centric modern religions refer to "Maiden, Mother, Crone". I am told, this is to clarify the word virgin. As you probably know, it can mean someone who has not had intercourse or someone who is merely unmarried.
@k.w.3885
7 жыл бұрын
Great video as always, but It'd be awesome if you guys elaborated on the "dead gods" archetype that tou mentioned briefly, and their roles in mythology. (Not just gods of death or the underworld, gods that have "died" in myths, like Balder in Norse mythology.)
@DanAlmenar
7 жыл бұрын
Question for Thought Café: Which CC has been your favorite to animate (as a team) up to this point? You make such an excellent work. Kudos to all of you! Edit: Oh, and please don't fall into the politically correct "we had loved all of them equally". Please.
@skj4559
5 жыл бұрын
another way to conceptualize virgin/mother/crone is: virgin = pure spirit, is not a part of the material world but has immense wisdom about the spiritual world and sometimes gives this wisdom to mortals. mother = the source from which all things material come from, the gate through which spirit passes through to become physical, the entity that gives everything life. crone = death, the afterlife where we must all go, the space we all inhabit waiting to be reborn
@Jimmy_Johns
4 жыл бұрын
I really needed an explanation for the change of Thoth’s head. Life didn’t make any sense for a moment! How dare you?
@EinerDerAnderen
7 жыл бұрын
I reflected way too much about "Goddess Petting Zoo" gag...
@BlackDiamondQueer
7 жыл бұрын
Suspicion that the other reason we're doing mothers first is to line up with mothers day and fathers day?
@SebiHemke
7 жыл бұрын
nice that you uploaded this today! it's Mother's Day in Sweden !
@SebiHemke
7 жыл бұрын
jokes on me!! it's 0:26 so it's no longer Mother's Day in sweden
@jonathanstern5537
7 жыл бұрын
I heard a different version of the Ossian story. He was from a time when men were as giants, so when he went back to the world of men, he saw that the people there were small and weak. He saw a group of men struggling to move a boulder that was keeping their crops from being irrigated, so, being the compassionate poet he was, Ossian moved the bolder from atop his steed. The boulder proved to be too heavy for him to carry with the easy he thought it would, and he lose his balance. Falling to the ground his years caught up with him causing him to die and decay.
@pixie7349
7 жыл бұрын
The triple aspect is used on male gods too in many types of paganism. And it's maiden, mother and crone. The reason they are separated is symbolic of the cycle of life. Sadly they do focus more on the sex parts in mythology. But alot of the myths we know could be distorted over time and there are alot of multifaceted mother goddesses who are also warriors. Kali-ma. The Morrigan. Etc.
@svetovanabozenstvi
7 жыл бұрын
Amazing as always
@kingofvhs5136
6 жыл бұрын
"Earth mom actually *did* come first" YOU THOUGHT WE'D MISS THAT
@bryson2662
2 жыл бұрын
I know I'm late to the party but I don't think maiden mother crone is "sexist" or whatever is implied by that.
@justinusknovarianto2536
7 жыл бұрын
heyy otohime wasnt kidnapping him, she was rewarding urashimataro by letting him stays on her underwater palace, and I can understand why did she let him bring that box (tamatebako) to the surface? I prefer the three boxes version though lol
@royalewithcheese7
4 жыл бұрын
5:51 not gonna lie that is a pretty badass story
@Iudexcursos
7 жыл бұрын
I Will Love to watch a vídeo about the use of mythology in nationalisms of 19th century.
@waynebissicks1073
7 жыл бұрын
The triple goddess is a wiccan goddess and she is seen as the maiden, mother and crone representing the 3 stages of life
@bridgebuildingheathen6731
7 жыл бұрын
Virgin, Mother, and Crone is almost exclusively a Victorian and later Wiccan concept. Hecate may have had a triple headed statue, which Wiccans mistake as a triple goddess thing, but any Greek Reconstructionist will tell you those head were all young. It's embrace and popularization outside a few tweedy academics came not from men, but from Women - like Gimbutas' friend Starhawk, who saw it as a way to see elderly women as having their own Wise Power. "Croning" ceremonies are very common among Wiccans as a celebration of the knowledge gained over a lifetime, and the idea is to embrace the uniqueness and beauty of every phase of life - old age included. Now, it IS a little off kilter that the Hunter, Warrior, and Sage titles of the masculine side of things are more job descriptions than ages, but the Wiccan Virgin archetype does include hunters like Diana, so "Virgin Huntress, Youthful Hunter" makes things vaguely more equal, especially since Sage and Crone are both seen as similar statements of wisdom as well. The only split then is Mother / Warrior. Personally, having these archetypes BE so binary is a positive, I think. It puts the extremes binary onto the archetypes, freeing up individual humans from having to carry it. Gender politics aside, on an individual experience level, some people think they must fit ALL of a gender stereotype to be that gender, and thus if you're say a guy who likes playing music more than sports and cars, you may wonder if you're non-binary based on that - nevermind that thousands of Greek males followed Apollo and made music instead of playing sports or racing chariots or what have you.(Also true of other deities, like Bragi.) Same for women who worry it isn't feminine to be a warrior who was good at track racing (like Athena for example, or even Freya).
@megan8741
4 жыл бұрын
Hekate is also used alot in wicca and witchcraft we love her lol and I cant speak for all but for me personally triple goddess also signifies that earth maiden being end of winter spring mother being summer into fall and crone being fall and winter
@NorthForkFisherman
4 жыл бұрын
She's the face of change, and of deep power, much like you see the sacrificed god in the Oak/Holly Kings and tales spun around John Barleycorn. Pretty much all of the existing monotheist traditions still touch on these really early relationships that the people had with the land and what we considered our place in it.
@jacobkemezys3453
7 жыл бұрын
6:43 Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle
@sammygocrazy
7 жыл бұрын
Who noticed that they put Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle at 6:40? I had to go back and make sure I wasn't excited for nothing.
@TravenTalks
7 жыл бұрын
To be that one Irish guy who complains . . . it's pronounced "Uh-sheen" xD Also, I noticed a few differences between the version of the Tir Na nÓg (another translation of which is "The Land of the Young") story told in this video and the one I learned, but then again I learned about the Christianized version where Oisín meets Niamh while he's out hunting with his dad and the Fianna (a legendary group of warriors in Irish Myth), and at the end, he meets Saint Patrick and gets baptized. Of course that version of the story was written to try and get people to convert to Christianity, but it's just an interesting to think about the differences between various versions of a myth and why those differences exist. I'm also kinda rambling here, so, bear with me if I don't make sense xD
@owenrdkennedy
7 жыл бұрын
You kind of messed up the story of Tír na nÓg. Firstly, Oisín is pronounced "ush-een". Secondly, Oisín didn't die immediately. He slipped out of his saddle after trying to help some men lift a heavy boulder. Thirdly, Oisín was actually a member of the Fianna, Ireland's mightiest army, not a poet. Fourthly, time flowed differently in Tír na nÓg. For every year Oisín stayed there, three hundred years passed in Ireland. Lastly, before he died he met Saint Patrick, who repented Oisín of all his sins. I understand that you were probably on a tight schedule and probably had to condense the myth but just thought you might want to know. Keep up the good work on this awesome series.
@Moonstone.mp4
7 жыл бұрын
This guy is a sitcom. 🤘
@Psd863
7 жыл бұрын
Is theres going to be an episode on modern myths? It would be fantastic to see an anaylsis of Tolkien's works, where he systematically tried to create a mythos from the bare roots.
@bangboom123
7 жыл бұрын
Well meaning Irish language check Tír = Land na = Of nÓg = the Young (with grammatical prefix) Oisín: "Uh-Sheen" Pronunciation was basically right for Tír na nÓg though (should've stressed the O a bit more but nbd). Tír na hÓige (Land of Youth) is a substitute I've heard in school. The idea of "Land of the Blessed" is probably a more accurate metaphorical translation for people unfamiliar with the myths though, as that's the idea it's trying to convey, so don't really fault you there.
@johnothansteley9266
7 жыл бұрын
I really hope that you guys do an episode on Aboriginal dream time!!!! 😍
@moongirl786
7 жыл бұрын
Did you guys see my comment from last weeks episode? Lol well regardless, thanks for including some Irish and Japanese myths, greatly appreciated! :)
@YoungTheFish
7 жыл бұрын
Oh thank gos (get it?) you are back. I thought the series ended prematurely.
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