It's an allegory for the harsh and unpredictable nature of ancient living. They did believe in these gods, but consistently debated the nature of everything around them.
That's not a good way to use the word but yea they are forces of nature, cruel or kind, lucky or unlucky on a coin toss (by that I mean they are volatile like the forces of nature)
To be fair, gods in Greek mythology were also reflection on nature, fate, etc and give in those times where one unfortunate event can be the death of you, it was reflected by the mythology. For example Artemis was the goddess of hunting and likes, both the good and the bad of it. As sure she can protect you from the danger of wilderness, but she can also be danger herself.
Weirdly enough, I've read multiple mythology books including "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton and "The Library of Greek Mythology" by Apollodorus (I can't remember who translated it) and I still learned a couple of new myths from this video.
"Are you trying to defend yourself from a giant serpent that end your friends's life and if you don't self defence then yours too ? I'll punish you with punishing your children which has nothing to do with killing th serpent and your other children and then turn you and your husband into snakes to finally 'repay the debt' of defending yourself against our totally normal pet"- probably the gods
@@michaeljonathan9715What would you do if someone broke into your garden and killed your guard dog in self-defence? We shouldn’t forget that Cadmus really did commit a crime, even though he didn’t know better and the punishment was definitely not proportional.
The gods meddling in the lives of people causes so much chaos for the people they toy with. If you catch the attention of the gods, you might as well consider your life ruined.
Lol true. The only good ones from them are Hestia and Hades, who are more friendly, compassionate, not corrupt, not petty, understandable and just. Not to mention that they never meddles with affairs of mortals (us), only doing when we pray or bargain to them.
Knowing Aries I thought he would have actually been impressed and blessed him. meant as in "you will be a serpent" as in like you would lay low and strike in battle
@@jonathanprisbrey9473 That's what I thought as well. Not to mention that this snake would have killed the men otherwise, so what was Cadmus supposed to do, let it kill them? Keep your pets on a leash people.
@@arvayahrozier4402 I could just imagine Aries with a giant serpent and a modern day person walks up to him and demands that he put his snake on a leash. Then, Aries does something unexpected like apologizes and says he's new to the neighborhood.
@@thenovicenovelist Knowing Aries, he would probably feed that person to his snake instead. But it would be nice if the gods would calm down every once in a while.
@@nathalie_desrosiers No, I am referring to Jesus specifically. Consider his violent moments like in the market place. You musn't have read the Bible if you seriously think he wasn't prone to violence
You disregard that Christians believe Jesus to be the god of the Old Testament who ordered the jews to kill innocent women and children. Also, when Jesus comes back, he won't be so chill. "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me.’” Luke 19:27
@@starcapture3040Hestia, Hades and to a lesser extent Heapeastus (not perfect but he is in the right direction) Are the few wich Are acctualy nice enough
Oracle: "Go found a new city somewhere," Cadmus: "What about my sister?" Oracle (sarcastic): "What about your sister?" Every divine force in the universe just hated this family.
Cadmus was exiled from his home city until he returned with his lost sister. When he visited the oracle, they basically went “yeah, the gods spirited her away. There is no way you’re going to find her.”
Also Delphi : " Forget about your sister. when Zeus catch her, is another new myth story. Just follow my advise and you're gonna be fine." *Rolled his eye out with sarcastic giggle *
how ironic: I was recently looking up Greek based names for an original character, and Cadmus was among the names that I was considering. his myth was interesting to learn about on my own research, and equally fascinating to learn about through Ted Ed's wonderful art style.
I don’t think they did. When you usually see the gods punish people like in the Odyssey or other stories, it’s pretty direct and personal with a god. However here, it all comes off as if it really was just bad luck. Someone even pointed out Ares may have been complementing Cadmus when he beat the serpent, since he IS god of the battlefield and would love to see the bloody fight. The reason why they transformed him at the end was because he tempted the gods by saying something to the effect of “if you all are punishing my family, then you may as well turn me into to a snake!” Then his wife did the same after he finished transforming.
@@LordDaret wait isn't Harmonia a goddess? why is she even in this, she's supposed to be dining with her mother in Mt Olympus. Why is it demigods like Herakles got to be full on gods and enjoy curse free immortality and Harmonia had to be cursed and die and sent to Elysium.
Noticed that this was animated by the same artist who did the Oiwa episode. The myth was beautifully portrayed and I felt their animation style was very much fitting for the video!
I love Greek myths but it feels like every five videos has a Greek one. I can only listen to the Greek gods being crazy so much. Would love to see more cultures covered. Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Slavic, First Nations, Central African, Mesopotamian, Welsh…the list is endless.
Harmonia: "Oh father, I fell in love!" Ares: "Really? With whom?" Harmonia: "An handsome warrior! He founded a city! What was his name....Ah yes, Cadmus" Ares: "Oh daughter, I'm happy for y-wait, what was his name again?"
To be honest ' naga shapam' is deeply rooted in Hinduism as well . There are prayers and poojas (rituals ) offered in the name of naga ( snake ) to relieve people affected by the curses to this day .
Something that I think is missed on us modern audiences about the ancient myths is the concept of Destiny that the Greeks had, which I can't properly articulate sadly
Oh my god we literally just read the Bakkhai last semester (Bakkhai deals with Dionysus absorbing Agave and Autonoë into his Bakkhic rites and tricking them into killing Pentheus - the child that the video mentioned - for his hubris against him. Cadmus was like the One good guy in the story aside from Tiresias. Involved a bit too much wine, blood, and ... bulls for a classroom setting.) Awesome video TedEd!
Jeez, these gods were the worst. I mean, Cadmus and friends did as the Oracle said, this never mentions if he even got Europa back, and yeah, this was all started by Zeus, who was never held accountable for his actions...
Europa ended up on the island of Crete, where she had some kids with Zeus, and no one back home ever saw her again. Fun fact: Because no one knew where Europa disappeared to, her name came to mean “those places we don’t know much about.” The Greeks started to call the lands north of them Europa, or Europe.
You have to admire the art as well as the musical choices; it all fits so well with the video’s style! I always enjoy it when a new mythology video is released!
The narrator for “Slay the princess” is a guy named Johnathan Simms. He does great narration and I love his work with Magnus Archives. If you like horror content I couldn’t recommend checking it out more.
Lol I'm pretty sure he just forgot about it. Founding a city took priority over saving his sister I guess ha Edit: His father told them not to come back without his sister - they were essentially exiled. So after searching they gave up and did what the oracles told them.
If I remember correctly, the Oracle pretty much told Cadmus to forget about Europa, he'd never find her, hence the building a city - he couldn't go back to his realm without her, so he might as well start a new life. Fun fact: Europa was a Phoenician princess, so Zeus carried her over to an 'unknown continent' to hide her. That continent was named Europe in her honour.
Zeus kidnapped Europa and took her to Greece, more specifically the island of Crete. There Zeus transforms back and, according to many versions, grapes Europa, together they have three sons named Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. She also married the king of Crete. Europas son Minos later also becomes king of Crete and marries Pasiphae, the daughter of the titan sun god Helios, and together they also have many children, including a dauhter named Ariadne who later marries the olympian wine god Dionysus and in some versions even gets immortalised and becomes a fertility goddess herself.
"Besieged by bad luck" bad luck implies some element of randomness... everything bad that happened was Zeus and Hera's fault (Mostly Zeus's but the ability for any of the gods to punish him is limited at best) also a bit of Artemis but the whole "walk in on my bathing pool get turned into a deer" seems like a perfectly reasonable response. Ares didn't do anything except get mad about his snake dying... Side note Ares gets snubbed in basically every myth he's in: trapped in a jar for months, getting stabbed by Diomedes in the siege of Troy (and then mocked for it by Zeus), and his pet snake getting killed.
At our university classes one of our professor said, "A myth never dies. It's always carried out through human existence".Now I realize the truthness of it. Thank you Ted-Ed for this amazing video. Actually every video of Ted-Ed is excellent. I definitely love them always.
Cadmus: Oracle, my father has sent me to you for guidance on how to rescue my sister! Oracle: Okay dude, so here’s what you’ve gotta do. You’re gonna find this holy cow. You’re gonna _follow_ this cow. And then, WHEN IT LAYS DOWN, you’re gonna found a city in that _exact. spot._ Cadmus: …but that has nothing to do with- you know what, never mind
At least with most other myths of mortals being punished, it was deserved in some way (of course excusing all the women Zeus and Poseidon assaulted). Here, Cadmus just wanted to do right by his friends and family. Punished for trying to find his sister after Zeus was done with her, punished for defending his men, punished for having kids, punished for having grandkids.
The Ancient Greeks didn't see their Gods as Meddling into their Lives like this video describes.They accepted the Gods influence in their Lives as the way things were. After all they were GODS and had dominion over them
Al-Anaam 17: And if Allāh should touch you with adversity, there is no remover of it except Him. And if He touches you with good - then He is, of everything, Most Capable.
"Hist debt to the gods" What dept, Ares couldn't keep his damn pet on a leash and got annoyed when someone didn't like the idea of being killed by it. Zeus was cheating on Hera, and so she did the genious thing of punishing everyone besides Zeus. And then the man who did nothing wrong has to beg for forgiveness and be turned into a snake? I swear greek gods were the worst.
There’s more too! Hephaestus hated Harmonia for being Ares and Aphrodite’s daughter, so he gave her a magic necklace that cursed her with misfortune, which was why her family met such terrible ends.
Well, the curse on the family didn't end there. Oedipus was Cadmus' great-grandson through the direct male line, and he and his family have enough material for at least a couple of further videos.
You guys wanna know so thing? Europa the sister later gave birth to three sons on Crete (where she became queen). And one of them was future king Minos. And when he pissed of posideon, the god cursed his wife to fall in love with the bull that king Minos was supposed to sacarfuce to posideon. And so for the wife to do the thing with the bull, she asked Daedalus (Also known as the guy that flew with Icarus who ended up flying too high the wings melted and he died) to craft her a bull she can go into to ….do the thing… anyways she gave b8th to the Minotaur. And we all know how that story goes- (Fun fact: Dionysus married Ariadne the daughter of king Minos, and they are actually both 2nd cousins I’m pretty sure. Hey not as bad for Greek mythology)
I love how every Greek myth in a modern context just makes the gods come across like complete psychopaths
It's an allegory for the harsh and unpredictable nature of ancient living. They did believe in these gods, but consistently debated the nature of everything around them.
That's not a good way to use the word but yea they are forces of nature, cruel or kind, lucky or unlucky on a coin toss
(by that I mean they are volatile like the forces of nature)
To be fair, gods in Greek mythology were also reflection on nature, fate, etc and give in those times where one unfortunate event can be the death of you, it was reflected by the mythology. For example Artemis was the goddess of hunting and likes, both the good and the bad of it. As sure she can protect you from the danger of wilderness, but she can also be danger herself.
Indeed. If Kratos was part of these myths he would gladly avenge humankind and the Olympians pay for their crimes.
Have you read the Bible? Dude is a covert and overt narcissist.
I’ve heard some of these myths separately but never knew it was all in a family. That’s amazing.
Yeah I heard Cadmus here and there and recognized from Dc Comics stuff but this is the first time im seeing the source that links them
Weirdly enough, I've read multiple mythology books including "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton and "The Library of Greek Mythology" by Apollodorus (I can't remember who translated it) and I still learned a couple of new myths from this video.
God's missing with a whole generation
@@thenovicenovelist *Pseudo-Apollodorus
Same! Didn’t they were all connected and were family
i like how Europa got kidnapped early in the story and is never mentioned again.
And interesting to discover that the name of Europe is Phoenician meaning west or where the sun set
Her story is a another mess of shenanigans.
There is a version in which Europa arrives at the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia as a guest, at least they were reunited here.
got the Yue treatment turned into a moon
@@mastermelee2543 Yeah; the same thing happened to Phobos, Deimos, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Mimas, Triton, and Charon among many others.
Women: exist
Zeus: Welp, time to start a new myth!
Ganymede too 💔
why every greek mith starts with Zeus committing crimes 💀
😂😂😂😂😂
If only people would stop listening to the Oracle of Delphi...
He is the god of one night stands after all.
We might never know.
because someone was going to get the short straw of deeds when being composited/splintered from deities of older, forgotten religions
"When Hera learned that Zeus had been unfaithful...yet again" GIRL LEAVE HIM
That’s what sucks about being the goddess of marriage and the home - no divorce
She can't. She's his mother and his wife.
@@samimas4343 I can see the confusion, but his mother is the Titan Rhea
@@samimas4343 she is his older sister and wife not mother.
@@samimas4343 are you nuts ? check the Olympian Gods family tree again
With gods like this, why need demons?
"Are you trying to defend yourself from a giant serpent that end your friends's life and if you don't self defence then yours too ? I'll punish you with punishing your children which has nothing to do with killing th serpent and your other children and then turn you and your husband into snakes to finally 'repay the debt' of defending yourself against our totally normal pet"- probably the gods
@@michaeljonathan9715 Worse still, Harmonia was Ares' daughter...and she did nothing...
@@michaeljonathan9715What would you do if someone broke into your garden and killed your guard dog in self-defence? We shouldn’t forget that Cadmus really did commit a crime, even though he didn’t know better and the punishment was definitely not proportional.
The christian God is still worse
@@vilzeit8740 but he didn't break the ares's garden and he killed the serpent in self defense.
The gods meddling in the lives of people causes so much chaos for the people they toy with. If you catch the attention of the gods, you might as well consider your life ruined.
The Olympian gods were real bastards.
Lol true. The only good ones from them are Hestia and Hades, who are more friendly, compassionate, not corrupt, not petty, understandable and just. Not to mention that they never meddles with affairs of mortals (us), only doing when we pray or bargain to them.
Yahweh is worse
I think Kronos is still alive despite their best tries so theyre more like figurative ones hehehe
Lots of pantheons are like this, infighting and cruelty. The Norse were pretty insane too.
@@Carlos-bz5oook now I'm curious, explain how
Princess exists:
"AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS."⚡🤣
He hurled his "thunderbolt." He "zapped!" 😉
And then inside came Zeus. 😂😂😂
I really like this channel. In just a few minutes, I find myself so knowledgable about a subject I never would've searched before.
Kratos was right.
Should has recognised that the baby was a rock
Funny thing is Ares didn't do anything bad in the story, he said something when his snake was killed and then that's it.
Knowing Aries I thought he would have actually been impressed and blessed him. meant as in "you will be a serpent" as in like you would lay low and strike in battle
@@jonathanprisbrey9473I love that take on Aries character
@@jonathanprisbrey9473 That's what I thought as well. Not to mention that this snake would have killed the men otherwise, so what was Cadmus supposed to do, let it kill them? Keep your pets on a leash people.
@@arvayahrozier4402 I could just imagine Aries with a giant serpent and a modern day person walks up to him and demands that he put his snake on a leash. Then, Aries does something unexpected like apologizes and says he's new to the neighborhood.
@@thenovicenovelist Knowing Aries, he would probably feed that person to his snake instead. But it would be nice if the gods would calm down every once in a while.
Makes you appreciate how chill Jesus was.
My thoughts exactly
Then you haven't read the Bible
@@Carlos-bz5oo He did not say "how the people in the Bible were chill".
Because they were pretty f@cked up.
He said Jesus was chill.
And chill he was.
@@nathalie_desrosiers No, I am referring to Jesus specifically. Consider his violent moments like in the market place. You musn't have read the Bible if you seriously think he wasn't prone to violence
You disregard that Christians believe Jesus to be the god of the Old Testament who ordered the jews to kill innocent women and children.
Also, when Jesus comes back, he won't be so chill.
"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me.’” Luke 19:27
“Besieged by bad luck…”
Bruh, these were crimes committed by the gods themselves for their ego and vanity. Athena seems to be the only sane one.
Arachne: "Am I a Joke To You??"
There is still Hestia.
She was narcissistic and spoiled. Goddess of hearth Hestia was the only san one.
@@starcapture3040Hestia, Hades and to a lesser extent Heapeastus (not perfect but he is in the right direction) Are the few wich Are acctualy nice enough
By a not so high margin.
Oracle: "Go found a new city somewhere,"
Cadmus: "What about my sister?"
Oracle (sarcastic): "What about your sister?"
Every divine force in the universe just hated this family.
Cadmus was exiled from his home city until he returned with his lost sister. When he visited the oracle, they basically went “yeah, the gods spirited her away. There is no way you’re going to find her.”
Also Delphi : " Forget about your sister. when Zeus catch her, is another new myth story. Just follow my advise and you're gonna be fine." *Rolled his eye out with sarcastic giggle *
how ironic: I was recently looking up Greek based names for an original character, and Cadmus was among the names that I was considering. his myth was interesting to learn about on my own research, and equally fascinating to learn about through Ted Ed's wonderful art style.
I have an OC named Cadmus as well!
they punished him for just defending himself
It's like breaking a sacred law, doesn't matter if by accident or necessity, you get cursed.
Nope. This was all Hephaestus' fault because he wanted getback on Aphrodite for cheating on him with Ares.
I don’t think they did. When you usually see the gods punish people like in the Odyssey or other stories, it’s pretty direct and personal with a god. However here, it all comes off as if it really was just bad luck. Someone even pointed out Ares may have been complementing Cadmus when he beat the serpent, since he IS god of the battlefield and would love to see the bloody fight. The reason why they transformed him at the end was because he tempted the gods by saying something to the effect of “if you all are punishing my family, then you may as well turn me into to a snake!” Then his wife did the same after he finished transforming.
@@LordDaret wait isn't Harmonia a goddess? why is she even in this, she's supposed to be dining with her mother in Mt Olympus. Why is it demigods like Herakles got to be full on gods and enjoy curse free immortality and Harmonia had to be cursed and die and sent to Elysium.
Noticed that this was animated by the same artist who did the Oiwa episode.
The myth was beautifully portrayed and I felt their animation style was very much fitting for the video!
please keep making more videos on these greek myths, i love them
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"Unfaitful, yet AGAIN" Greek mythology summed up
I just love the image on 0:16 it’s so beautiful. Poster worthy
The animation and colors are really, really good!
I love Greek myths but it feels like every five videos has a Greek one. I can only listen to the Greek gods being crazy so much. Would love to see more cultures covered. Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Slavic, First Nations, Central African, Mesopotamian, Welsh…the list is endless.
I could cry I love these!!!!!
The content is a cut above the rest. Keep setting the bar high!
This is a video with very beautiful animation and a beautiful voice, thank you, beautiful art, the artist's hand is magnificent❤❤❤
Harmonia: "Oh father, I fell in love!"
Ares: "Really? With whom?"
Harmonia: "An handsome warrior! He founded a city! What was his name....Ah yes, Cadmus"
Ares: "Oh daughter, I'm happy for y-wait, what was his name again?"
The thing was,
He worked for Ares for 8 years as penance for killing his serpent. After that, he allowed Cadmus and Harmonia to get married.
@@austinkendrixfadera1705Funny how Harmonia is the goddess of harmony, yet even she couldn't keep bad luck at bay. Useless goddess. Lol.
@@markjosephbacho5652 How can you avoid bad luck when you already wear bad luck? (AKA the necklace of Haephaetus)
That "yet again" felt personal 😅
Whoever came up with the greek mythology is one high mf and one helluva storyteller.
To be honest ' naga shapam' is deeply rooted in Hinduism as well . There are prayers and poojas (rituals ) offered in the name of naga ( snake ) to relieve people affected by the curses to this day .
Something that I think is missed on us modern audiences about the ancient myths is the concept of Destiny that the Greeks had, which I can't properly articulate sadly
They were known for their tragedies, in which people have to face a choice that is both impossible and obvious, doomed to fall
I think I can: One always meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
(If that sounds familiar, it’s from Kung Fu Panda)
????
Such a beautiful animation! Reminds me of that earlier Ted-Ed video of the star-crossed lovers.
Oh my god we literally just read the Bakkhai last semester
(Bakkhai deals with Dionysus absorbing Agave and Autonoë into his Bakkhic rites and tricking them into killing Pentheus - the child that the video mentioned - for his hubris against him. Cadmus was like the One good guy in the story aside from Tiresias. Involved a bit too much wine, blood, and ... bulls for a classroom setting.)
Awesome video TedEd!
Meanwhile in the Underworld.
Hades: Guys please, he didn’t deserve this. None of them deserved this.
HECTOR!....HECTOR!....
HECTOR! Amazing video 😊
Love the animation style!!!! ❤❤❤
Love the illustrations and animation ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ soooooo amazing!!! 😻
❤ Awesome as always thanks
Jeez, these gods were the worst. I mean, Cadmus and friends did as the Oracle said, this never mentions if he even got Europa back, and yeah, this was all started by Zeus, who was never held accountable for his actions...
Europa ended up on the island of Crete, where she had some kids with Zeus, and no one back home ever saw her again. Fun fact: Because no one knew where Europa disappeared to, her name came to mean “those places we don’t know much about.” The Greeks started to call the lands north of them Europa, or Europe.
You have to admire the art as well as the musical choices; it all fits so well with the video’s style! I always enjoy it when a new mythology video is released!
Next level art direction ❤
That story is really heart-rending.
This video's voice reminds me of The Narrator of Slay The Princess, or just my personal definition of a "narrator voice", I love it.
The narrator for “Slay the princess” is a guy named Johnathan Simms. He does great narration and I love his work with Magnus Archives. If you like horror content I couldn’t recommend checking it out more.
Oh I LOVE Slay the Princess
Every myth starts with Zeus abducting women.
Hey Ted -ed sugestion make a video about the Los Angeles ritos of 1992.
The story & animation is very astounding
Good
Okay. But what happened to Cadmus’ sister Uropa?? They took her to Olympus? Okay. How did founding the city help. I’m confused
Lol I'm pretty sure he just forgot about it. Founding a city took priority over saving his sister I guess ha
Edit: His father told them not to come back without his sister - they were essentially exiled. So after searching they gave up and did what the oracles told them.
If I remember correctly, the Oracle pretty much told Cadmus to forget about Europa, he'd never find her, hence the building a city - he couldn't go back to his realm without her, so he might as well start a new life.
Fun fact: Europa was a Phoenician princess, so Zeus carried her over to an 'unknown continent' to hide her. That continent was named Europe in her honour.
@@Beregond35 thank you! I always enjoy mythology but sheesh it’s complicated sometimes
@@Thankwikipedia It really is! The fact there are so many variations of the same myths doesn't help either. But damn if they aren't interesting. :)
Zeus kidnapped Europa and took her to Greece, more specifically the island of Crete. There Zeus transforms back and, according to many versions, grapes Europa, together they have three sons named Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. She also married the king of Crete. Europas son Minos later also becomes king of Crete and marries Pasiphae, the daughter of the titan sun god Helios, and together they also have many children, including a dauhter named Ariadne who later marries the olympian wine god Dionysus and in some versions even gets immortalised and becomes a fertility goddess herself.
"Besieged by bad luck" bad luck implies some element of randomness... everything bad that happened was Zeus and Hera's fault (Mostly Zeus's but the ability for any of the gods to punish him is limited at best) also a bit of Artemis but the whole "walk in on my bathing pool get turned into a deer" seems like a perfectly reasonable response.
Ares didn't do anything except get mad about his snake dying... Side note Ares gets snubbed in basically every myth he's in: trapped in a jar for months, getting stabbed by Diomedes in the siege of Troy (and then mocked for it by Zeus), and his pet snake getting killed.
That explains the name in DC Comics, the government beefing with superheroes thinking themselves heroes beefing with gods
Project Cadmus
@@QuintenWhyte indeed
At our university classes one of our professor said, "A myth never dies. It's always carried out through human existence".Now I realize the truthness of it.
Thank you Ted-Ed for this amazing video. Actually every video of Ted-Ed is excellent. I definitely love them always.
Awesome!!!
WTF?!
I understand Kratos completely now it seems.
3:41 LOL I'm thinking of Yoru Ni Kakeru
Cadmus: Oracle, my father has sent me to you for guidance on how to rescue my sister!
Oracle: Okay dude, so here’s what you’ve gotta do. You’re gonna find this holy cow. You’re gonna _follow_ this cow. And then, WHEN IT LAYS DOWN, you’re gonna found a city in that _exact. spot._
Cadmus: …but that has nothing to do with- you know what, never mind
So his tragedies all started because zeus couldnt keep it in his pants yet again...
Local god fucks everything up yet again (litteraly)
Can someone explain what happened with the second and third wish I don’t really understand the ending
Highly recommend the audiobooks Mythos and Heroes by Stephen Fry for those who love Greek mythology
At least with most other myths of mortals being punished, it was deserved in some way (of course excusing all the women Zeus and Poseidon assaulted). Here, Cadmus just wanted to do right by his friends and family. Punished for trying to find his sister after Zeus was done with her, punished for defending his men, punished for having kids, punished for having grandkids.
The Ancient Greeks didn't see their Gods as Meddling into their Lives like this video describes.They accepted the Gods influence in their Lives as the way things were. After all they were GODS and had dominion over them
starting to understand why Christianity was appealing to Greeks, their pagan gods "especially Zeus" where not likable
yeah cus the christian god has never killed or smote anyone 🙄
I support you
The last piano part is too tempting. Source?
Where can I find such stories..like is there any book??
Al-Anaam 17: And if Allāh should touch you with adversity, there is no remover of it except Him. And if He touches you with good - then He is, of everything, Most Capable.
Cadmus just casually forgot his sister
TED ED: "A new greek myth video"
Me: Lemme guess... Zeus
Let's not forget that Oedipus was also a descendant of Cadmus.
Enough said.
Why am I not surprised that it was Zeus, YET AGAIN
Zeus was the cause of every tragedy in Greek mythology and yet no one punished him ??
Yeah, pretty much.
I was left wondering what happened to Europa. But I know it's another story.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the animation is?
I don't think much of greek mythology would exist if Zeus could have controlled himself.
such morals
3:55 “…which Cadmus traced back to the time -“
- Zeus dropped by the first time?
“- he killed the serpent.”
Oh.
I now understand why Kratos was so pissed off.
I really thought Ares would strike back and punish Cadmus' descendants until the end of time but he seemed chill after a while.😅
"Hist debt to the gods" What dept, Ares couldn't keep his damn pet on a leash and got annoyed when someone didn't like the idea of being killed by it. Zeus was cheating on Hera, and so she did the genious thing of punishing everyone besides Zeus. And then the man who did nothing wrong has to beg for forgiveness and be turned into a snake? I swear greek gods were the worst.
But like, this is just the tip of the iceberg. This video could have gone on for twenty minutes. Oedipus is in the line of Cadmus.
There’s more too! Hephaestus hated Harmonia for being Ares and Aphrodite’s daughter, so he gave her a magic necklace that cursed her with misfortune, which was why her family met such terrible ends.
Female in ancient Greece: Exists
Zeus: Wellp! Time to create new mythology stories
Well, the curse on the family didn't end there. Oedipus was Cadmus' great-grandson through the direct male line, and he and his family have enough material for at least a couple of further videos.
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"what if super-humans where real" is a tale as old as time itself
The animation style reminds me of Lore Olympus
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Cadmus did not deserve all of that!
well seeing the type of shenanigans people used to believe makes me thankful that islam exists
Divine beings, praticipation of victim blaming since 10.000 BCE.
Bro's shield had a face 💀
Kratos seem more heroic than ever
where can i see the transcript?
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So Unfair
i would have become kratos had the gods did this to me
Real
"How dare you defend yourself against the giant monster snake that is killing you and your men, unprovoked."
Greek Mythology is just the demon lords constantly beating the human heroes for just existing
It's amazing the greeks still believed in their gods
You guys wanna know so thing? Europa the sister later gave birth to three sons on Crete (where she became queen). And one of them was future king Minos. And when he pissed of posideon, the god cursed his wife to fall in love with the bull that king Minos was supposed to sacarfuce to posideon. And so for the wife to do the thing with the bull, she asked Daedalus (Also known as the guy that flew with Icarus who ended up flying too high the wings melted and he died) to craft her a bull she can go into to ….do the thing… anyways she gave b8th to the Minotaur. And we all know how that story goes- (Fun fact: Dionysus married Ariadne the daughter of king Minos, and they are actually both 2nd cousins I’m pretty sure. Hey not as bad for Greek mythology)