Thank you very much! That's a good question. I'm very much not a subject matter expert, but I think the Hecatoncheries are pretty old. I didn't talk about it in the video, but there is a book about ancient Greek religion from 1896 called "The Cults of the Greek states" and there's a footnote in it talking about how Briareus-Aegaeon may be an old title for Poseidon. I found a copy on the Internet Archive, the footnote in on page 26. Poseidon is really old, older than ancient Greece, so i can believe they were originally old titles for him. I also think it's possible that they were the subjects of worship in a minor cult that got co-opted into the religion at large; or were just a different ocean god/set of gods whose popularity was less than that of Poseidon so they got side lined. Honestly I often find myself trying to reverse engineer mythological stories and characters and I could go on on this FOR A WHILE, but like I said I'm not an expert in the history Hellenic religion so it's just conjecture. That was a really good question, thank you for asking! :)
@@EveryPersonaExplained Thank you so much for taking your time to answer me. I always love anthropology and learning new things, and your videos are helping me a lot in that regard. About that book, I'll investigate it more in the future, it sounds really interesting. Anyway you got a new subscriber. Keep up the Axiom's work. ;)
This is very underrated series, good job man
Thank you! I appreciate it!
An easy way to describe Tartarus is “the Hell of the Underworld”.
Works about as well as anything else I found.
Nice series! Where do you think these guys come from in anthropological terms? Are they ancient or relatively recent to greek myth?
Thank you very much!
That's a good question. I'm very much not a subject matter expert, but I think the Hecatoncheries are pretty old. I didn't talk about it in the video, but there is a book about ancient Greek religion from 1896 called "The Cults of the Greek states" and there's a footnote in it talking about how Briareus-Aegaeon may be an old title for Poseidon. I found a copy on the Internet Archive, the footnote in on page 26. Poseidon is really old, older than ancient Greece, so i can believe they were originally old titles for him. I also think it's possible that they were the subjects of worship in a minor cult that got co-opted into the religion at large; or were just a different ocean god/set of gods whose popularity was less than that of Poseidon so they got side lined.
Honestly I often find myself trying to reverse engineer mythological stories and characters and I could go on on this FOR A WHILE, but like I said I'm not an expert in the history Hellenic religion so it's just conjecture.
That was a really good question, thank you for asking! :)
@@EveryPersonaExplained Thank you so much for taking your time to answer me. I always love anthropology and learning new things, and your videos are helping me a lot in that regard. About that book, I'll investigate it more in the future, it sounds really interesting.
Anyway you got a new subscriber. Keep up the Axiom's work. ;)
Of course, I try and answer every question or comment I get. Thank you for subscribing!
Content and scripting is great but you need to improve your mic quality. Like badly.