My favourite part of the myth is when Psyche is trying to drown herself and some nymph goes up to her, says "Excuse me, get your depressed vibes out of my river" and decides to help.
Fun fact: Psyche has butterfly wings after she gets ambrosia’d because the word “psyche” means both “soul” and “butterfly” in Greek, presumably depending on the context
And that's why Psylocke from the X-men often got a pink butterfly in front of her face when she used her telepathic abilities (back in the 90's when she was still a telepath. She later switched it for telekinesis due to convoluted comic stuff. I dunno if they've changed it again. Haven't been able to catch up with X-Men in a while).
You know you're being unreasonable when even Zeus hops on the bandwagon telling you to cut that shit out. Also, if Psyche represents the human soul and she's prettier than Aphrodite, the literal goddess of physical beauty, does that mean Psyche in and of herself is a reference to loving the person on the inside instead of for just their looks?
I'm pretty sure that the sleeping draught Persephone filled the box with was only deadly to mortals; if Aphrodite had opened the box, she just would've been conked out for the rest of the day.
“Why don’t you just kill her?” It’s not about efficiency, it’s about sending a message. If she simply dies one day, people will still remember her as the most beautiful person/thing to have ever lived. Aphrodite needed to smear her name and preferably face through the mud while she lives. Ruin her image. Make no one remember her being hot
@@Guian_6 Eros: oh I don't know why don't you try and not scare the shit out of them and make them jump off a cliff just to escape you (or not pick the ones that are TOO hot bc we all know how that ends up)
@@neutralpie420 Apollo: "Maybe get better at hitting moving targets!" Eros: "How about you stop giving me moving targets!" (Artemis suppressing a laugh remembering she keeps switching the arrows in Eros's quiver)
Wait what? A Greek myth where Zeus is helpful, the people who convince the protagonist to break their word are punished for it, the protagonist is forgiven for their mistakes, and it ends happily and is still an enjoyable story? WHAT!?
I know, this is WAY more like the plot to a Disney Princess movie. The greeks were BIG on tragic endings and MALE protagonists. Psyche actually got a sweet deal being one of the few FEMALE Greek heroines. Oh. And becomes a Goddess at the end too.
@@PlanetZoidstar Yeah, I mean honestly I'm surprised Disney went with the myth of Heracles instead of this one for their Greek Mythology movie. This would fit their bill _way_ better.
@Benjamin Klaassen Ah but then you run into pop-cultural views on these things. Heracles (or Hercules at least) has the best name recognition. Meanwhile poor Eros is mostly remembered as a chubby baby. Hard to fight against that to tell a love story.
@@megabladechronicles962 you really think Zeus is going to care about one more relation in that way because he won't it's Zeus you'd be happy to have another great grandkids are some mod.
Look if she was cursed to fall in love with a monster then the monster would likely treat her well. Aphrodite fumes that she was supposed to be killed and eaten. Eros: Look, she’s in love with the hydra. Done. A: Goooood *Cut to two weeks later* A: SON DID YOU MAKE THE HYDRA FALL IN LOVE WITH HER?! Eros: No, why? A: HE IS PROPOSING TO HER! E: What. Hades: And this way Aphrodite is beaten. Fates: We approve. She needs to be taken down a peg. Also we didn’t know the hydra was a helpless romantic.
Eros: Who’s the monster that has to fall for this girl? (Sees Psyche) Eros: The Monster is ME!! (Stabs self “accidentally”.) (Later) Psyche: I have to take a peak at this monster & kill it if it’s a threat. (Sees Eros) Psyche: OMG! He’s So Hot! (Stabs Self “accidentally” with Arrow and levels affinity with Eros to 200%) Flame: I agree!! (Burns Eros).
@@samuelthegreatoo it could never happen with the hydra, tho, since it is an instance of the "foreigner" trope that includes python, typhon, vrtra, grendel, tiamat (tehom in the bible). They can't be given redeeming qualities because that would stop the colonization drive that the indo-european cultures were based on.
@@samuelthegreatoo The only problem with the Hydra is the poison. Psyche: Hey there cutie, do all 9 of your heads need a kiss? Hydra: Oh yes! No, wait a minute-- (Psyche gets poisoned and dies) Hydra: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Aphrodite: Ha ha!
It's actually a lot closer to East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I only read one version of that fairy tale, but there were a lot of similarities with the plot.
Aphrodite: you tried to kill me? Persephone: you can’t kill a god, the death curse would just make you look older and plumper Aphrodite: why I’ve never had anything terrible done to you! Persephone: oh it wasn’t personal it’s just that the thousands of souls you caused the deaths of wanted revenge. By the way, during psyche’s brief visit she asked me to give this to you Aphrodite: oooo pretty box what’s inside? Persephone: you’ll find out
what's inside? REVEEEEENGEEE because like far as I can tell Hades and his wife are like the only really reasonable gods who don't actively fuck people over without reason
I love the karmic punishment that Aphrodite goes through for this whole story; she literally tries to ruin Psyche's life repeatedly, but accidentally gets her own son to fall in love with Psyche, and by the end of the story, not only is Psyche not dead, *she's immortal, and lovingly married to her son.*
Also, don't be smart, don't be too good at anything, don't get between two or more gods having a disagreement, and don't try to weasel out of your deals with the gods.
@@whyamihere523 His Roman form Cupid is the child of Mars and Venus but Greek Eros has 3 origin stories: He was a Protigni born of Chaos and urges his siblings to procreate and caused the birth of The Titans and made Orunus jealous of his children, He was born of Aphrodite moments after she was born of the sea foam from Orunus's testicles touched the sea alongside his twin brother Himeros (The God of Lust) or he emerged from the same sea foam as Aphrodite did with his brother just as infants unlike Aphrodite and she raised them like sons. In Roman Mythology Cupid, Erotes and Mors were born of Venus and Mars. Cupid is Love, Erotes is Lust and Mors is death. The Roman's didn't like the idea for Feminine Beauty being born from testicles, a prime symbol of masculinity in Rome as castration was a punishment to strip masculinity away as the ultimate humiliation.
New headcanon that they meet with Hades and Persephone regularly to have brunch and just chat together as the only functional relationships in the Greek pantheon.
Well considering the Trojan war was the fault of Aphrodite, an event that upped the workload on her husband and generally annoyed him, as well as other things she's done to annoy both her and Hades, yeah I can't blame Persephone for trying to kill Aphrodite
@@pancakeandwaffle4849 ok, Maybe my source isn't accurate. But RiordanVerse cupid... Yeah he scared me. Makes the valid point that Cupid and thanitos(death) are oftain mistaken and [q~"]one another. Because love and death are very similar. But Death is sometimes kinder
“She’ll fall in love with a monster that even the gods fear.” Technically the Oracle wasn’t wrong, Eros/Love IS indeed a force that even the gods fear.
Technically speaking, are Oracles ever “wrong” about anything? There are literally an infinite number of ways that prophecies can manifest, and whatever negative fallout occurs usually lies with those who interpreted them incorrectly. It sounds like a Catch-22, I know, but even Oracles are not omniscient, or else their prophecies would be rendered in a much more understandable way.
@@Hallows4 I don't believe they were ever wrong, no The oracles being always right and their prophecies being fundamentally inescapable was one of the MAJOR themes of greek mythology. So many stories are about trying to escape a prophecy but inadvertently fulfilling it, or attempting to avoid one way of fulfilling a prophecy but in the end what you did was the actual prophesized end.
@@JRexRegis i think ultimately they themselves dont know the full story about their prophecies nor even when theyre gonna happen. and perhaps theres many ways that they could happen regardless but they will. its the whole ''fate is inevitable'' thing which is a common trope even outside greek myths.
@@Hallows4 yeah, prophecies tend to be kind of pointless, they're either self-fulfilling, or they take to the Nostradamus school of being so vague you have no clue what they're talking about until the thing already happened.
This should be a Disney movie. One like sleeping beauty and Cinderella. Really. 1. Beautiful lonely princess 2. Malicious adopted parent 3. Assistance from various wildlife 4. One of them is locked up and the other has to go through ridiculous trials to get to the trapped one 5. All about love, literally 6. Three act structure It literally wrote itself for you Disney. Make it happen. EDITS: 7. Magic (how did I forget this one)
The story is actually kind of similar to a lot of telling stories Cinderella, especially the, you have to sort grains in less than a day but your good some animals helped you out.
@@davidhwang5838but they could work around that by not focusing on the beauty and the beast esque part, instead they could have it focus on the trials Aphrodite gives Psyche
Eros: Well, this burn is healed, I'm off Aphrodite: To do what? E: Talk to Psyche about why she would betray my trust like that so we can repair and hopefully improve our relationship A: You've been talking to Hades again haven't you? I told you that he's got it out for me! E: Why, because of all the mortals you've tormented and that really big war you've caused because you wanted a fucking apple? A: That's it your grounded! E: I HAVE MY OWN HOUSE!!
Hades: One of these days I’m going to fuck her up. Hmmm... Hey Thanatos? New orders: Don’t take someone who Aphrodite tries to kill. I wanna see her face when she realizes she can’t make more tragic romances. Oh yeah that musician guy who just lost his wife because Aphrodite is trying to make another trashy love story? Put her back. Orpheus, twenty minutes later: Hades, can I have my wife back? Hades: Dude I literally sent her back up 20 minutes ago. Just go back the way you came.
Jason: **Has to go on a whole adventure with major mythological characters to get some golden fleece so he can be king** Psyche: **grabs it off thorn bushes nearby**
@@Amy_the_Lizard Actually, 1) in some versions Heracles brought treats too for Cerberus, 2) like her the other tasks someone helped her by giving her that advice along with pointing out that she needed coins the pay Charon.
@@Amy_the_Lizard Heracles didn't have to just get past Cerberus, he had to bring him up to the land of the living, although maybe Cerberus would have been a little more cooperative if Heracles had brought a treat!
I like that one interpretation of this myth can be that the human soul has to contend with the trials of attraction and indecision before making a commitment. Psyche overcomes the challenges Aphrodite (sexual and visual temptation) poses with help from Hera (marriage, commitment) and Demeter (agriculture, fertility, a mother) and finds her way to happiness with Eros (true desire) producing Hidone (joy). Perhaps an outdated concept if tied too closely with marriage, but I think it could be boiled down to mean the human soul will struggle, but you can overcome with help and resolve to find your happiness.
tbf she was very depressed because she lost her one and only love due to some stupid decision led by bad people and was tasked with unreasonably dificult challenges. it goes even deeper huh.
I gotta say- Eros being a god that every other god fears, including Zeus the king of gods, is honestly hilarious and sort of badass- The power of love is so strong, that it makes death, lightning and the ocean tremble in terror. XD
Eros and Thanatos are actually commonly depicted as similar looking in statues and whatnot. They’re sort of considered to be counterparts and in their primordial forms they’re both children of Nyx
Yodeling Ram makes sense as Nyx is the only other entity that Zeus WILL NOT MESS WITH! Seriously one of her kids pulls a prank on Zeus and goes to her when he comes after him, when confronted with the goddess of night Zeus does a 180 and runs back to Olympus
Psyche: Will I ever find true love? Oracle: Yes, but your love will be a terrible monster that even the gods fear. Eros: My spidey sense is tingling...
You see the joke here is that When you think primordial you think monster and Eros had a double at the beginning of time and Eros can and has played Zeus like the worlds horniest ukelele because Zeus can’t keep it in his toga for 10 minutes
@@magda8496 If I'm remembering the myth correctly I'm pretty sure it was her parents asking the Oracle if they will ever find a husband for their daughter
Oh I see why Zeus didn't bang with Psyche, Eros was being locked up and well like she just said, Zeus's banging is kinda controlled by Eros. Also she was pregnant so it would be kinda weird
The problem is that the Greek Gods ARE what they control. Poseidon doesn't just control the Mediterranean, he IS the Mediterranean Sea. If he dies, the sea goes away. If Oceanus dies, the Atlantic ocean goes away. So if Eros dies, NO ONE will want to have sex anymore.
@@ethnichellenismincaliforni8215 Not all greek gods personified their domain. Hades for instance isn't death-That's Thanatos. Apollo isn't the sun, that's Helios, and Apollo just pulls him across the sky. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are overseers of their domain, not their embodiment. *Some* gods, like Eros, do in fact represent what they're a god of, similar to how nymphs are literally trees and rivers.
Wait, wait Psyche: *keeps trying to kill herself* Spirit: Yo, those sheep might kill you so you should get fleece off the trees. Psyche: Oh dang, ok! Man, could you imagine how terrible it would've been if I'd accidentally gotten myself killed? 🤷♂️
"Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite's gonna be a grandmother" "Oh my me thats hllarious" Ok by this point im convinced the greek gods are just a bunch of bad trolls
If all of mythology was real, half of the gods would be occupied with trying to make sure than the world isn't destroyed and the other half would be occupied with ensuring that the Greek gods behave.
@@celiaccrab6952 nah minthe got turned into a mint plant by Persephone your thinking of daphne who got turned into a laurel tree cause apollo pissed off eros.
I feel like Aphrodite could easily have solved this entire thing by going to Psyche and suggesting that she use her godly powers to de-pretty her a bit so she'd be able to actually get a date instead of this whole mess. Psyche would be happy with that, she'd get a normal happy life, and Aphrodite is the fairest in the land again... why is Aphrodite every jealous girl rolled into a goddess?
@@venom_colada1512 Dionysus never has it, Hermes steals it from time to time, zues doesn't even know it exists, posedion is too busy worrying about his Cyclops children, Hades is just sort of chilling with Persephone and a buncha shit is happening with that braincell
I love how this whole mythological story is a metaphor basically saying that “loving yourself is the only way bring you happiness” it’s just beautiful and I love it 😊
ReverseUnicorn Zeus: OK, my powerful grandson, the God of Love is getting older now. Time to get him LAID. She’s gotta be princess, because Gods always get that royal booty. And she’s gotta be hot. Like, hotter-than-his-mother-hot. And so, Psyche was born!
Red:"So, Psyche is a princess. But not just any princess, she's a BEAUTIFUL princess" "Plot Twist?" "But she's not just any beautiful princess, she's a LONELY beautiful princess." "Plot Twist??" Me: *Dying on the floor of laughter* "Dang, she got it going ON. I surprised Zeus didn't bang her." XD
Why do you think he didn't ? She spend a lot of time with an invisible boyfriend , we actually don't know if it was always eros since zeus can make himself invisible too .
Yup considering that most of the tragedies or history we got is when hera spot him we should consider that there is a vast hypothetical part were she doesn't spot him .
The butterfly wing motif probably comes from how butterflies are symbolic of the human soul in a lot of cultures. Which is rather perfect for Psyche, obviously. Wings also tend to represent freedom so it also probably represents the freedom of being in godly form and with her lover. I don't know if the butterfly = soul motif is the case in Greek culture, but in my opinion, if the shoe fits wear it. Lmao.
THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING MY INTERPRETATION!!!!!!!! I always thought it was something along those lines but wasn’t completely sure until I found your comment - YOU’RE A LEGEND!!!!
someone once pointed out that in the beginning of the story when psyche consults the oracle, the oracle is correct in calling eros a "monster even the gods fear" because even though he's not necessarily a bad guy, people are still scared of him because he can make them fall in love with anyone with his bow and arrows, even the gods. i thought that that was a really cool point so yeah.
"As soon as she opens the box, it turns out that the only thing in it is murder." I guess Hades' rather twisted sense of humor when it comes to doing favors for others has rubbed off on Persephone.
I'm amazed how much this seems like a gender flip of most ancient Romance myths, the Woman is the one being sent on seemingly insurmountable tasks by her boyfriend's mother.
In a way, its ironic, that the Romans beat the greek to a pulp, using tactics taken from them, and against them, then basically copying their religion, and flipping it vertically.
JaredMithrandir Not really, Prince and princess stories are similar in the hero’s journey just not in how they confront the “evil”. “Princes” usually find a teacher of old arts, learns, gets stronger, and beats the evil alone. While princesses, find help from those around her, bringing togetherness and alliances to fruition, and using those to defeat the “evil”
Eros and Psyche is honestly my favorite greek mythology love stories cause it doesn't involve incest, murder, or r*pe, and Psyche and Eros truly did love each other
Rachel Moody that's actually untrue. Not only is the myth of Cupid & Psyche extremely late/at the tale end of antiquity, its first and original iteration was recorded in a novel "Metamorphoses"-not an oral tradition. This story actually has a single absolute account with no variants. While there are images of Psyche & Eros depicted centuries prior to the novel, we have no historical documentation of this particular myth (or any like it) of the two prior to the novel in the 2nd century AD. At the very least, this is what all my professors have drilled into me & I have yet to come across any documentation to the contrary. [if anyone actually has a source of older myths or versions, please tell me where I can locate these because I would be absolutely fascinated to read all about them. I love all the distinct & varied myths]
Nobuko Watanabe I read a version in one of my English classes that instead of the trials taking place when Eros runs off feeling betrayed Psyche goes in search of him, and as punishment for betraying her son Aphrodite turns her into an owl-cursed to be in search of her lost lover forever, but never finding him. In that version including the whole soul and love meaning it was also supposed to be an origin story for the owl. (Like the Athena and Arachne story was an origin story for spiders.)
A note for your “woman marries monster and turns out he’s a hot guy” statement during the credits. Someone told me once the reason those stories are as recurrent and wide spread as they are is because in many cultures women rarely had say in whom they married, and often ended up wed to some way older douche who just wanted to get some and had money to pay the bride’s price to her parents. So those stories were a kind of psychological cushion to help women cope with the idea of being sold off to some monster or asshole, because “he’s not really a monster! He just needs true love to heal his heart and he will love you back!” It makes those stories vary creepy when read that way.
Wow... a Greek myth that ISN'T about rape!? and actually has a happy couple that consensually choose each other from the getgo!? where has this been in my life?
I 100% believe that Eros is one of, if not the, most powerful entity in Greek mythology. Considering how he, as the physical manifestation of love, is able to emotionally manipulate basically everyone aside from Artemis and Athena. Fel, if you think about it, he's partially responsible for most of Greek mythology.
I mean the three virgin Goddesses are described as literally being immune to love and sexual desire. Which honestly makes zero sense because Artemis in quite a few myths fell for Orion aka love meaning that she shouldn't even be immune at all. Well at least they have so Eros can't catch her off guard so he can hit her. Athena is literally sexless and therefore is literally incapable of being affected by love. Meanwhile zero explanation is given for Hestia. Man thinking about it these three are not someone you would even want to follow I mean the fact they can't feel love would make them absolute psychopaths and adds a horrifying twist on their myths. Artemis and Athena are always dishing up harsh punishments even though most of the time it wasn't even the victims fault since because they can't feel love they have no sense of mercy. And Hestia giving her spot as one of the Olympian and just quietly watching her hearth is because she literally doesn't care about what anyone even does they could literally all be killing each other in front of her and she wouldn't lift a finger.
@@Vandalieu No… It’s bs. Most of the original stories actually involve Orion dying because he gets a little too clingy with Artemis’ hunters. There’s literally 0 stories where Artemis falls in love with Orion. So yeah. Translators suck.
Her sisters didn't just fall off a cliff, btw. See, Zephyr, in this myth, works for Eros, more or less. So, he was charged with transporting them, just like he did Psyche. Except, as the wind, being invisible, he overheard their scheming, and was like..."yeah, not on my watch." So, he sorta just...conveniently missed his pickup time that he usually ran like clockwork. They jumped, expecting him to whisk them away again. He did not. They fell on some very pointy rocks from very high up. He then proceeded to tell nobody, possibly not even Eros (though Eros presumably already knew, bc he figured out long ago that they were bad news, anyway. He likely didn't ask questions bc he didn't want implicated in the murder of his in-laws. Of course, this is speculative headcanon. But, it makes sense, given the original text. It's also vaguely alluded to that Psyche set them up to be in a dangerous scenario, knowing full well what would happen, but feigning ignorance, bc "fuck my sisters, they caused my hubby to get mad at me").
Yeah, he serves Eros because he thrust a discus into Hyacinth's head, killing him instantly. He did this because he was jealous that he was with Apollo, hence why Eros became his master
I happen to know why psyche has butterfly wings, the greeks called butterflies psyches, basically they had the same word for soul and butterfly because the butterfly is that beatiful flying thing that survives the death of the caterpillar making it a metaphor for our own soul.
No offence, but here is a few plot points missed (not that important, just minor clarification). -Psyche's parents are the ones that went to the Oracle of Delphi. -Unlike most Greeks, she openly accepted her fate and stood on the cliff waiting to be snatched (with witnesses as if it were a ritual). When nothing happens, Psyche be like, "Fuck it" and jumps off, THEN she is caught by Zephyr. -Eros only spoke to her at night, and she was left confused by the servants. -The sisters always hated Psyche, yes, but they always spoke shit behind her back, so she has no clue. -The burn was incredibly severe, to the point that Eros was bedridden for days. -Aphrodite (pissed af) starts doing everything she can to hunt Psyche down. Meanwhile, Psyche cries on a riverbed contemplating suicide, and Pan the god of nature, comes in, notices she is lovesick and suggests that she prays to Eros for help (facepalm), leaving her to cry harder. Pan leaves in the face of awkwardness, and Psyche takes his words to heart and becomes determined to find Eros and apologize. But first (as you touched on) Psyche schemes revenge. Convinces one of her sisters that Eros broke up with her for this, and wants to marry her. The sis dumps her husband, runs to the cliff, and jumps. Psyche does the same to the other sis. -On her journey to Aphrodite's palace, she sees abandoned shrines of Hera and Demeter all dusty and dirty, she takes time to clean them. Mind you, she always respected the gods. And she even tried to stop people from calling her the Goddess of Beauty before the Eros shit. Anyways, both Goddesses offered to grant one wish. Psyche asked one of the obvious wishes (forgot which) and the Goddesses apologized for not being able to do shit because of Aphrodite's blood lust. -After Aphrodite gave the first sexist and impossible "perfect wife" task (grain sorting), DEMETER sent the ants to help. -The spirit that gave advice of the tree wool, was sent by Hera. -Styx Water is also deadly cold. -Zeus helped because Eros heard Aphrodite give the bullshit challenge of Styx water in a bucket, he asked Zeus for a favour. Zeus helped because he was terrified of Eros, and Eros did favours for him before. Eros did not go himself because he was in miserable pain and suffering from the oil. -Psyche was on a tower (for directional reasons I think) and contemplated jumping. Eros puts his spirit in the tower to help Psyche a bit. -Persephone was pissed af that Aphrodite roped her in her mess. So puts some deadly oil in the box to spite Aphrodite, but warns Psyche not to open it. -Psyche was self-conscious and worried Eros would call hate her, especially because of the state she was in. -Eros felt her suffering, and in his pain, flew to save Psyche. -The gods declared that curing her was impossible in her current state, so Hera and Demeter suggest making her a god. All gods vote yes, and Aphrodite reluctantly says yes because everyone else did (mainly because Eros is goddam terrifying af. Ask Apollo).
@@lifeenjoyer9699 Ohhhh. lol. I honestly didn’t expect everything to be textbook accurate/complete. I just wanted some information put out there which made the events less straightforward and random which personally, makes stories more enjoyable to me.
Little details like Eros and the invisible “monster boyfriend” having their speech written in the same colour when all your characters have distinct colours associated with them to hint that they’re one and the same is why I love your videos.
Haha Aphrodite! The girl she spent so much time and effort trying to torment is now immortal, married to her son and the mother of her grandchild.... You just gotta love what a middle finger that is to her 😂😂😂
Psyche (Ψυχή) has moth wings because the word ''moth'' in greek is ''psychara'' (ψυχάρα) and moths in Greece are generally believed to be spirit messengers sent by our loved ones! Most superstitious Greek people are afraid to kill moths in case they hurt their loved ones, and most people who know the myth don't because it's hella sweet. ( sorry for the tiy rant; 1/4th Greek, I live in Greece, I grew up reading Greek mythology, thought I'd help a bit ^^' )
blindraven Also 1/4 Greek!!! Relatives are from all over greece tough. Mainly Lesvos (I am so sorry if I spelt that wrong) and near the border of Macedonia and Greece
it doesnt get much better later on,you remeber the flood,or that time when good killed everybody on two cities because of sodomy?(including children and non sodomite citizens.) or that funny time when the firstborn of all egyptian families died the same night?
@@feelthepony Personally I'd sort anything in the old testament as divine myth of the ancient world too. Granted, the Bible is a little more game of thrones than telenovela but it still has its drama queen moments. (No offense to Christians, Jews or Muslims, I'm not implying your God has to be fictional, I'm just saying that He is just as likely or unlikely to be real as any other deity and I'm not picking favourites)
Recestii Cringelord remember by the time Zeus intervenes Eros already has dibs on psyche, and as we’ve established even the other gods fear Eros so Zeus probably didn’t wanna risk pissing him off by banging his girlfriend
One of my professor is actually an ex-model (yep... You heard right), the most handsome and chill professor.... We kinda hang a lot most of the time at our campus hanging spot
4:45 Eros: Mom I'm seriously fine! Stop torturing my girlfriend! Aphrodite: Mother knows best. Me: So....is Aphrodite related to Gothel? I mean their both obsessed with their own beauty and they both try to kill their kids' love interests.
What if Mother Gothel was inspired by Aphrodite? I mean, a lot of stuff in enterprise nowadays is inspired from mythology - mostly Greek mythology as well. The most obvious example would be Beauty and the Beast
And that's why Aphrodite should be the villain of a movie. I'm getting a little tired of Hollywood using Hades and Ares as villains and think Aphrodite was actually way more evil than either of them.
Indeed. All the cliques are on Mount Olympus! We got the jocks (Zeus, Ares, Poseidon, Artemis) and catty popular girls (Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo) who rule the school, the overachievers (Athena), the goths (Hades, Persephone), the preps (Hestia, Demeter), the nerds (Hephaestus), the party guys (Hermes, Dionysus), etc.
"You have done an exemplary job of earning the hand of my son" "The one I'm already married to yeah" Hahaha gets me every time. The sass. Eros and Psyche is my favorite Greek mythology story of all time and I love the way you told it.
I really love coming back to this video and watching their story; the art is so pretty, Red’s voice is so comforting, and dialogue from Red(and the pictures text) is really hilarious. So glad I found this channel years ago.
She's not just one Disney princess, she's 3! Belle -- she has a monster boyfriend and 2 sisters that are jealous of her luxurious living situation. The Little Mermaid -- OG version where her sister's tell her to kill the guy she's in love with but she can't bring herself to do it and Aschenputtel -- Grimms' version of Cinderella, who has animal friends that help her sort grains by type as a punishment-task before she's allowed to do a thing
In one of the original versions of the tale, yep! Her father is a merchant and they are all relatively well off; Belle's two sisters are used to being wealthy and snotty, while Belle is not only beautiful in visage, but also in temperament. She's humble and kind. So when their father loses his fortune, they have to move to a small village and live a frugal life. (This is actually alluded to in Disney's BatB: the lines "every morning just the same / since the morning that we came / to this poor provincial town" implies that she didn't grow up in that town. The fact that she reads and has dreams of her own also implies that she grew up wealthy enough to have the kind of time and education to think about things other than the most basic, secure life for a woman, i.e. marrying and having kids.) Belle, as you can imagine, takes the change in stride, but her sisters are not happy. They don't like to work and complain about it a lot. When their father leaves to reclaim his fortune, which they thought had been lost at sea, he asks them what they would like for him to bring back. The two older sisters ask for jewels and fine dresses, but Belle only asks for his safe return. Upon his insistence, she then asks for a rose because they did not grow in the poor town where they were now living. (I think the line from Maurice "this invention is going to be the start of a new life for us!" alludes to Belle's father getting his fortune back.) Anyway, I've gone on too long hahaha I can't seem to find the version that I specifically am recalling from which I read several years ago, but if you just google search "original beauty and the beast story" or something like that, you should be able to pull up some results :)
I read in a book that the greek have the same word for soul as for butterfly because both are capable of incredible transformation and change. So that might be the reason for that. Information is from T.A. Barrons Merlin series in which merlin finds someone who betrayed him who had turned into a butterfly to hide and remembers the whole butterfly soul similarity. So he learns that all things xan change and forgives the person because they clearly regretted the betrayal
Persephone: Aphrodite is such a bitch. Wish I could see the look on her face when she opens the box Hades: I'm sure Dionysus will tell us all about it next time he visits Persephone: I feel bad for that girl tho. She doesn't deserve all the shit Aphrodite is putting her through Eros: *dramatically kicks down the door* Hey why'd you kill my girlfriend? Persephone: wait what? Eros: Psyche opened the box and the murder you put in it killed her Persephone: *starts crying* what no I didn't mean to! I didn't know she'd open the box! Hades: *consoles his wife* shhh there there it'll be okay *snaps fingers to summon Psyche* Psyche: *rushes over to Eros to hug him* I'm so sorry I betrayed you trust can you forgive me Eros: of course baby I lo- Persephone: *bear hugs Psyche* I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! Psyche: It's okay. I understand the impulse. Aphrodite is such a bi- *looks over at Eros* can be a tad difficult Hades: I'm sure Zeus will be happy to make you into a goddess to keep Aphrodite from pulling anymore of this shit. Just ask him for some Ambrosia and he'll have much more leverage to tell her to stop Psyche: Okay. Wait so I can leave Hades: Yeah sure I don't care Eros: thanks guys! *grabs Psyche and flies to Olympus* Hades: And that's why I don't like visiting Olympus
If only Orpheus could just leave with Eurydice like that, then he wouldn’t have been ripped to pieces… but then again, him being ripped to pieces did help him spend eternity with Eurydice, so I guess that could count as a happy ending, sort of?
@@shookyscousinYeah, I'm picturing this scenario ending with Eurydice saying, "What the hell, man! Orpheus played his little heart out. Even the Furies were moved to tears! Why couldn't you let me just go like she did?"
@@daviddaugherty2816 hades:1st off,you literally died naturally by a snake,psyche literally got torn asunder by accident via god ppwer. ...that and honestly i didnt expect him to look back. Eurydice:... fair enough. Than:and that's what happened before psyche became a god. Zagreus:...noted.
@@spectrestain4360 No it was because Arachne boasted about being even better then Athena which was true but still you're basically asking to get smited by saying that plus Athena was the one who gave her her talent in the first place so it was an extra slap in the face. Athena punished her for her Hubris not for being better then her,also Arachne was written by Ovid who has a long history of disliking authority/gods especially Athena(lookin at you Medusa)so take that story with a grain of salt
@@whytho1534 To be fair, even if Arachne was acting all high and mighty about, Athena's punishment was still basically too harsh one way or another. She is less petty than Aphrodite, but that doesn't make her not petty
"she went into the underworld with only 2 golden drachmas and 2 doggie treats while she was 7 months pregnant. Respect." -Percy Jackson also, the box was filled with stygian sleep, aka, the essence of the underworld, so all Persephone technically did was breathe into the box Edit: I am honored to be the second top comment!
Cerberus doesn't attack living people who go into the underworld anyway (except Heracles who attacked him first); his job is to keep the dead people in, not keep the living people out
My favourite part of the myth is when Psyche is trying to drown herself and some nymph goes up to her, says "Excuse me, get your depressed vibes out of my river" and decides to help.
"get out of my swamp"
O N I O N S ! ! !
sucks_socks onions?
Layers
Mine was how even the other god's are like "You chill."
So...
Psyche did all four tasks, went to the underworld, and died _while pregnant?_
*Dang.*
I didn't even think about this, holy crap. And here I am, pregnant, barely managing through some of my workdays 😂
Kinga Kristóf Those work days are YOUR four tests.
Me and Seph were really impressed when she got down here for that box.
She was seven months pregnant when she went to the underworld
Talk about comitment,
...
Also child endangerment
A Greek mythology that involves love that DOESN'T involve incest, leaving your potential lover behind, and/or PERMANENT DEATH? IMPOSSIBLE!
BUT the most Meta-Blasmaphous Part is that ZEUS does NOT BANG, *even with the literal god of love involved*
What about Perseus
and the fact that it's Greek and doesn't involve rape?? *cue to crowd gasping*
No FR THO
@@zodiac5403 rightt
Wait- a happy ending? In GREEK MYTHOLOGY??? And to top it off, Zeus was involved and DIDN'T absolutely ruin everything? That's a miracle right there.
And it's why this is one of my favorite Greek myths.
The miracle is that Zeus didn't somehow get to Psyche before Eros.
@@justaguy2985 I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
That's the power of love for ya
Yup, you won't find either often at all in Greek stories
Fun fact: Psyche has butterfly wings after she gets ambrosia’d because the word “psyche” means both “soul” and “butterfly” in Greek, presumably depending on the context
Ohh so that’s why one of Thanatos’ symbols is the butterfly
also i guess nectar. And butterflies are nice
And that's why Psylocke from the X-men often got a pink butterfly in front of her face when she used her telepathic abilities (back in the 90's when she was still a telepath. She later switched it for telekinesis due to convoluted comic stuff. I dunno if they've changed it again. Haven't been able to catch up with X-Men in a while).
It's also the word that originates "psychokinesis" from it's greek letter.
Butterfly soul is what I got from that
You know you're being unreasonable when even Zeus hops on the bandwagon telling you to cut that shit out. Also, if Psyche represents the human soul and she's prettier than Aphrodite, the literal goddess of physical beauty, does that mean Psyche in and of herself is a reference to loving the person on the inside instead of for just their looks?
That’s actually genius!
Hit the nail on the head.
no idea but i very much like this interpretation, it is therefore canon for greek mythology/history/language
hm, so Eros falls for her because a woman's soul is the most beautiful thing?
Wow, that’s a great interpretation! I really like it, and it makes a lot of sense.
Might I point out that (if Psyche hadn't screwed it up) Persephone just causally attempted to assassinate Aphrodite.
I wonder if a story about the two fighting over the same dude had something to do with that.
Burnblast277 It could also be that goddess beauty is mortal to, well, mortals.
I like to think that Persephone’s beauty is ‘The Beauty in Death’
I'm pretty sure that the sleeping draught Persephone filled the box with was only deadly to mortals; if Aphrodite had opened the box, she just would've been conked out for the rest of the day.
In the version of the story I read, the box didn't contain death, just Sleep (capital S).
“Why don’t you just kill her?”
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about sending a message. If she simply dies one day, people will still remember her as the most beautiful person/thing to have ever lived. Aphrodite needed to smear her name and preferably face through the mud while she lives. Ruin her image. Make no one remember her being hot
...So why not use her godly magic to make her ugly, and THEN kill her?
@@RapidFyrez Because “we do a lil bit of trolling” is funnier than doing it the simple way
@@ShibuNub3305 lol
why the fuck do people remember killers and call them then
oh my god it's still just like high school
I imagine Apollo foaming at the mouth at Eros' happily ever after.
Apollo: hey Eros why cant any of my lovers become a god and not kill themselves.
@@Guian_6 Eros: oh I don't know why don't you try and not scare the shit out of them and make them jump off a cliff just to escape you (or not pick the ones that are TOO hot bc we all know how that ends up)
@@Guian_6 Because I can't keep up with you, when it comes to archery.
@@neutralpie420
Apollo: "Maybe get better at hitting moving targets!"
Eros: "How about you stop giving me moving targets!"
(Artemis suppressing a laugh remembering she keeps switching the arrows in Eros's quiver)
I read that Apollo sang at the wedding, so maybe he held no grudge?
Wait what? A Greek myth where Zeus is helpful, the people who convince the protagonist to break their word are punished for it, the protagonist is forgiven for their mistakes, and it ends happily and is still an enjoyable story? WHAT!?
I know, this is WAY more like the plot to a Disney Princess movie. The greeks were BIG on tragic endings and MALE protagonists. Psyche actually got a sweet deal being one of the few FEMALE Greek heroines. Oh. And becomes a Goddess at the end too.
@@PlanetZoidstar Yeah, I mean honestly I'm surprised Disney went with the myth of Heracles instead of this one for their Greek Mythology movie. This would fit their bill _way_ better.
@Benjamin Klaassen Ah but then you run into pop-cultural views on these things. Heracles (or Hercules at least) has the best name recognition. Meanwhile poor Eros is mostly remembered as a chubby baby. Hard to fight against that to tell a love story.
@@GriffinPilgrim Fair point, but still.
Zeus wasn't actually a d*@k in most stories... It's just that his d*@k caused way more problems than it should have, lol.
"Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite will be a *grandmother.*"
"Oh my me that's hilarious!"
I mean that's literally what happened
@Sjwaria Law but that would make Zeus a great grandfather since Eros is the son of Ares in this story
it is hilarious
@@megabladechronicles962 you really think Zeus is going to care about one more relation in that way because he won't it's Zeus you'd be happy to have another great grandkids are some mod.
@@megabladechronicles962 that is not true we don't know his dad some people assume ares but a lot of people think Hermes or ouranus.
Eros: Wonder who the poor lady I have to compel to fall in love with a monster is
*sees Psyche*
Eros: *Oh no, she’s hot*
Look if she was cursed to fall in love with a monster then the monster would likely treat her well. Aphrodite fumes that she was supposed to be killed and eaten.
Eros: Look, she’s in love with the hydra. Done.
A: Goooood
*Cut to two weeks later*
A: SON DID YOU MAKE THE HYDRA FALL IN LOVE WITH HER?!
Eros: No, why?
A: HE IS PROPOSING TO HER!
E: What.
Hades: And this way Aphrodite is beaten.
Fates: We approve. She needs to be taken down a peg. Also we didn’t know the hydra was a helpless romantic.
@@samuelthegreatoo Persephone: You’d be surprised of the things you learn listening to the rumor mill, girls.
Eros: Who’s the monster that has to fall for this girl?
(Sees Psyche)
Eros: The Monster is ME!! (Stabs self “accidentally”.)
(Later)
Psyche: I have to take a peak at this monster & kill it if it’s a threat.
(Sees Eros)
Psyche: OMG! He’s So Hot! (Stabs Self “accidentally” with Arrow and levels affinity with Eros to 200%)
Flame: I agree!! (Burns Eros).
@@samuelthegreatoo it could never happen with the hydra, tho, since it is an instance of the "foreigner" trope that includes python, typhon, vrtra, grendel, tiamat (tehom in the bible). They can't be given redeeming qualities because that would stop the colonization drive that the indo-european cultures were based on.
@@samuelthegreatoo The only problem with the Hydra is the poison.
Psyche: Hey there cutie, do all 9 of your heads need a kiss?
Hydra: Oh yes! No, wait a minute--
(Psyche gets poisoned and dies)
Hydra: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Aphrodite: Ha ha!
"Oh my god. It's just like high school."
True statement is true.
That moment when you realise it’s just 12 high schoolers sharing a game of sims
Terrible Writing Advice made a similar comment when he talked about constructing hierarchies...
They totally need to collab with him.
@@f.i.r.e.5119 what video
Aidan GRA
I think it’s this one:
m.ua-cam.com/video/iqVa8gP-d9s/v-deo.html
(Start from around the four minute mark, play for about 50 seconds.)
Yeah basically 😅
Only now I realize that Eros and Psyche is the first version of Beauty and the Beast.
Yeah, B and B was modeled after it. I personally like the original story better.
I guess this is what they meant by tale as old as time
@@aflyingdorito208 considering that some versions say Eros was the firstborn son of Chaos, yeah, literally tale as old as time
Considering that B and B is 4,000 years old (it was an oral tale until finally written down in the 1700s), I'm not really surprised.
It's actually a lot closer to East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I only read one version of that fairy tale, but there were a lot of similarities with the plot.
Aphrodite: you tried to kill me?
Persephone: you can’t kill a god, the death curse would just make you look older and plumper
Aphrodite: why I’ve never had anything terrible done to you!
Persephone: oh it wasn’t personal it’s just that the thousands of souls you caused the deaths of wanted revenge. By the way, during psyche’s brief visit she asked me to give this to you
Aphrodite: oooo pretty box what’s inside?
Persephone: you’ll find out
what's inside? REVEEEEENGEEE because like far as I can tell Hades and his wife are like the only really reasonable gods who don't actively fuck people over without reason
@@sarafontanini7051 not all the gods want to fuck people over some of them just want to fuck people.
hypnochonk Zeus: how about both?
@@baieon6716 i was actually talking about Zeus but yeah pretty much
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 Honestly as much as people rag on Zeus, he's really not that bad of a father/grandfather.
I love the karmic punishment that Aphrodite goes through for this whole story; she literally tries to ruin Psyche's life repeatedly, but accidentally gets her own son to fall in love with Psyche, and by the end of the story, not only is Psyche not dead, *she's immortal, and lovingly married to her son.*
Talk about a yikes in-law
moral of the story:
Don't be hot in ancient Greece
I mean she did become a god in the end
But also don't be ugly because you might be left on a mountain to die
Also, don't be smart, don't be too good at anything, don't get between two or more gods having a disagreement, and don't try to weasel out of your deals with the gods.
Just avoid the gods in general.
@@poankiyu7664 Not a good idea either, because then they might take offence to the fact that you are trying to avoid them.
“Eros flies back to Aphrodite to nurse his minor burn” XD I swear, this is every child when they fall
And there was also the new myth. Eros is a little bitch.
Eros is a mama’s boy big time 😂
Who is his father? Like I know how it happened balls and such but by technicality who would be his dad?
@@malachiroberts6198 Ares is his dad
@@whyamihere523 His Roman form Cupid is the child of Mars and Venus but Greek Eros has 3 origin stories: He was a Protigni born of Chaos and urges his siblings to procreate and caused the birth of The Titans and made Orunus jealous of his children, He was born of Aphrodite moments after she was born of the sea foam from Orunus's testicles touched the sea alongside his twin brother Himeros (The God of Lust) or he emerged from the same sea foam as Aphrodite did with his brother just as infants unlike Aphrodite and she raised them like sons. In Roman Mythology Cupid, Erotes and Mors were born of Venus and Mars. Cupid is Love, Erotes is Lust and Mors is death. The Roman's didn't like the idea for Feminine Beauty being born from testicles, a prime symbol of masculinity in Rome as castration was a punishment to strip masculinity away as the ultimate humiliation.
A... a happy myth? With justice? And civil, good marriage? Is this legal?
And also attempted murder. Do not forget the attempted murder.
@@Attaxalotl Not only attempted murder, but also regular murder
@@SophiaAstatine That too.
@Fahd The King impossible
New headcanon that they meet with Hades and Persephone regularly to have brunch and just chat together as the only functional relationships in the Greek pantheon.
Hermes to a fuming Aphrodite on the wedding day: You know I haven't seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself.
PFFFT HAHAHA
Lmao
Stolen from Disney.
why hermes tho? also, aphrodite definetly took that flower
@@eravern it's a reference from the disney movie Heracles
I love that Persephone intended to send Aphrodite a box of straight-up murder.
And probably trap her in the underworld.
I mean...can you blame her?
Aphrodite is kind of a dick
......literally-
I can see that happen in Lore Olympus tho-
Boopus Noopus The Great I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who imagined that.
Well considering the Trojan war was the fault of Aphrodite, an event that upped the workload on her husband and generally annoyed him, as well as other things she's done to annoy both her and Hades, yeah I can't blame Persephone for trying to kill Aphrodite
And then there's... Cupid. We don't like to talk about them.
*shoves Rome back in it's drawer*
blue's gonna be mad
Actually roman Cupid was somewhat terrifying.
....
Just not the little love baby.
no idea where that thing came from.
@@lahlybird895 what do you mean terrifying? I would like to know more
@@pancakeandwaffle4849 ok,
Maybe my source isn't accurate.
But RiordanVerse cupid...
Yeah he scared me.
Makes the valid point that Cupid and thanitos(death) are oftain mistaken and [q~"]one another.
Because love and death are very similar.
But Death is sometimes kinder
I think your gowing to need the whole cabinet for Rome.
Kinda ironic how the mythos of Eros aka sexual/romantiv love is one of the few myths in which Zeus could keep it in his pants.
Yeah cause Eros was too busy with this myth.
Lol
If I remember correctly Zeus was scared of Eros.
Zeus, now that Eros is locked: "Strange, I suddenly don't feel horny anymore."
Probably because Aphrodite had Eros locked up lol.
“She’ll fall in love with a monster that even the gods fear.” Technically the Oracle wasn’t wrong, Eros/Love IS indeed a force that even the gods fear.
Technically speaking, are Oracles ever “wrong” about anything? There are literally an infinite number of ways that prophecies can manifest, and whatever negative fallout occurs usually lies with those who interpreted them incorrectly. It sounds like a Catch-22, I know, but even Oracles are not omniscient, or else their prophecies would be rendered in a much more understandable way.
@@Hallows4 I don't believe they were ever wrong, no
The oracles being always right and their prophecies being fundamentally inescapable was one of the MAJOR themes of greek mythology. So many stories are about trying to escape a prophecy but inadvertently fulfilling it, or attempting to avoid one way of fulfilling a prophecy but in the end what you did was the actual prophesized end.
Yes
@@JRexRegis i think ultimately they themselves dont know the full story about their prophecies nor even when theyre gonna happen. and perhaps theres many ways that they could happen regardless but they will. its the whole ''fate is inevitable'' thing which is a common trope even outside greek myths.
@@Hallows4 yeah, prophecies tend to be kind of pointless, they're either self-fulfilling, or they take to the Nostradamus school of being so vague you have no clue what they're talking about until the thing already happened.
I love your interpretation of the myth that Zeus makes Psyche a goddess just so he can annoy Aphrodite with the grandmother barb. It's classic Zeus
Yes I also enjoy that.
Psyche: "You put murder in a box?"
Persephone: "I thought Aphrodite was supposed to open it."
Hades: Don’t worry dear we’ll get her to pay for what she has done.
@@codysonic1 hades:"casually takes the long list of what she did
@@TheFi3ndthe long list that is also next to the long list of Zeus’s wrongdoings
@@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether and poseidons and athena
@@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether and also ares war crimes
"More beautiful then Aphrodite!"
"Aw, that ain't good..."
That aint *god*
probably actually a good thing
psyche doesn't ship literally everyone
when I heard that: *FUCK*
at least Zeus didn't F up
Yep...she's so screwed.
This should be a Disney movie. One like sleeping beauty and Cinderella. Really.
1. Beautiful lonely princess
2. Malicious adopted parent
3. Assistance from various wildlife
4. One of them is locked up and the other has to go through ridiculous trials to get to the trapped one
5. All about love, literally
6. Three act structure
It literally wrote itself for you Disney. Make it happen.
EDITS:
7. Magic (how did I forget this one)
this myth was the inspiration for beauty and the beast and as you know Disney already made beauty and the beast into a Disney movie so
I may just adapt this to a play or screenplay tbh bc everyone's geard of them but most people don't actually know their full story
Make this the same universe as Disney's Hercules
The story is actually kind of similar to a lot of telling stories Cinderella, especially the, you have to sort grains in less than a day but your good some animals helped you out.
@@davidhwang5838but they could work around that by not focusing on the beauty and the beast esque part, instead they could have it focus on the trials Aphrodite gives Psyche
Eros: Well, this burn is healed, I'm off
Aphrodite: To do what?
E: Talk to Psyche about why she would betray my trust like that so we can repair and hopefully improve our relationship
A: You've been talking to Hades again haven't you? I told you that he's got it out for me!
E: Why, because of all the mortals you've tormented and that really big war you've caused because you wanted a fucking apple?
A: That's it your grounded!
E: I HAVE MY OWN HOUSE!!
E: Not to mention that I think it was an honest mistake on her part, and you feed me lies.
Hades: One of these days I’m going to fuck her up. Hmmm... Hey Thanatos? New orders: Don’t take someone who Aphrodite tries to kill. I wanna see her face when she realizes she can’t make more tragic romances. Oh yeah that musician guy who just lost his wife because Aphrodite is trying to make another trashy love story? Put her back.
Orpheus, twenty minutes later: Hades, can I have my wife back?
Hades: Dude I literally sent her back up 20 minutes ago. Just go back the way you came.
@@samuelthegreatoo Why do I read Hades' voice lines in the voice of Hades from Kid Icarus Uprising
@@macoud12 I read it with Hades from Disney’s Hercules
I love this.
Jason: **Has to go on a whole adventure with major mythological characters to get some golden fleece so he can be king**
Psyche: **grabs it off thorn bushes nearby**
Proof that psyche is smarter than jason
@@aleaf1494 And Hercules. She knocked out Cerberus with drugged cake, while in true Hercules fashion, he chose brute force.
@@aleaf1494 It was a specific Golden Fleece that was from a ram that was sacred to Ares. Also, it still had the hide attached.
@@Amy_the_Lizard Actually, 1) in some versions Heracles brought treats too for Cerberus, 2) like her the other tasks someone helped her by giving her that advice along with pointing out that she needed coins the pay Charon.
@@Amy_the_Lizard Heracles didn't have to just get past Cerberus, he had to bring him up to the land of the living, although maybe Cerberus would have been a little more cooperative if Heracles had brought a treat!
"Your essay is overdue."
How romantic.
I'm getting the butterflies already
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You should've heard the way he SAID it!
Lol
@@lasersnquasars6156
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I like that one interpretation of this myth can be that the human soul has to contend with the trials of attraction and indecision before making a commitment. Psyche overcomes the challenges Aphrodite (sexual and visual temptation) poses with help from Hera (marriage, commitment) and Demeter (agriculture, fertility, a mother) and finds her way to happiness with Eros (true desire) producing Hidone (joy). Perhaps an outdated concept if tied too closely with marriage, but I think it could be boiled down to mean the human soul will struggle, but you can overcome with help and resolve to find your happiness.
I think you’ve cracked it dude the hidden meaning behind this myth!
YOU ARE A LEGEND
... This makes my theory that it was an allegory for princesses marrying into foreign nobility make even more sense tbh
Eros: "Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite's gonna be a grandmother."
Zeus: "Oh my me that's hilarious"
I AM DEAD
amethyst_ cat Aphrodite: but-
Zeus: *SIT DOWN*
he must really want her to be a grandma
Ha
Yes Zeus, that is hilarious
Same. I laughed so hard I almost cried.
amethyst_ cat RuN
You know someone is being pure evil in greek mythology when Zeus actually becomes helpful.
I kind of believe this is the only myth where Zeus is useful
Lol
@@nataliagarrid he's always useful because for better or for worse he causes the story to happen. Helpful is another matter entirely
So dam true.
Darkhorsearmor o m g I’ve never gotten a comment to 1k and THAT WAS SO SATISFYING
Zephyr: C'mon I'll totally catch you!
Psyche's sisters: Okay, CATCH US!
Zephyr: Psych!
Psych!-e
@@eastia7518 I was waiting for someone to reply that!
Jealous bitches had it coming.
Why was this line not in Percy Jackson's greek heroes?
-e
Love how the representation of the human mind keeps trying to kill itself
That's...pretty deep actually. Something to ponder.
Don't ya just hate it when being human isn't easy
tbf she was very depressed because she lost her one and only love due to some stupid decision led by bad people and was tasked with unreasonably dificult challenges.
it goes even deeper huh.
Nothing more human than that
Because she found love after a life of solitude and then she lost it.
I gotta say-
Eros being a god that every other god fears, including Zeus the king of gods, is honestly hilarious and sort of badass-
The power of love is so strong, that it makes death, lightning and the ocean tremble in terror. XD
Thanatos or Hades? Because Hades is just the God of the underworld. Not death.
@@burnttoast.2017 I'd say both, since apparently both would be susceptible to Eros' power.
That's actually incredibly inspiring and hopeful isn't it?
Eros and Thanatos are actually commonly depicted as similar looking in statues and whatnot. They’re sort of considered to be counterparts and in their primordial forms they’re both children of Nyx
Yodeling Ram makes sense as Nyx is the only other entity that Zeus WILL NOT MESS WITH! Seriously one of her kids pulls a prank on Zeus and goes to her when he comes after him, when confronted with the goddess of night Zeus does a 180 and runs back to Olympus
Psyche: Will I ever find true love?
Oracle: Yes, but your love will be a terrible monster that even the gods fear.
Eros: My spidey sense is tingling...
You see the joke here is that When you think primordial you think monster and Eros had a double at the beginning of time and Eros can and has played Zeus like the worlds horniest ukelele because Zeus can’t keep it in his toga for 10 minutes
Something else was probably tingling too, if you know what I mean.
I thought women weren't allowed to consult the oracle?
@@magda8496 If I'm remembering the myth correctly I'm pretty sure it was her parents asking the Oracle if they will ever find a husband for their daughter
@@AznKage yeah, makes sense. Thanks
Oh I see why Zeus didn't bang with Psyche, Eros was being locked up and well like she just said, Zeus's banging is kinda controlled by Eros.
Also she was pregnant so it would be kinda weird
The problem is that the Greek Gods ARE what they control. Poseidon doesn't just control the Mediterranean, he IS the Mediterranean Sea. If he dies, the sea goes away. If Oceanus dies, the Atlantic ocean goes away. So if Eros dies, NO ONE will want to have sex anymore.
@@ethnichellenismincaliforni8215 So when Pan finally kicks the bucket we're all fucked?
If Eros dies then no one would love each other, just bang others out of anger
@@ethnichellenismincaliforni8215 Not all greek gods personified their domain. Hades for instance isn't death-That's Thanatos. Apollo isn't the sun, that's Helios, and Apollo just pulls him across the sky. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are overseers of their domain, not their embodiment. *Some* gods, like Eros, do in fact represent what they're a god of, similar to how nymphs are literally trees and rivers.
@@youtbuecraert Well... in ancient Greece someone did announce that Pan was dead so... 😓😓😓
(Red talked more about this in Hermes' vodeo, just saying)
I like that the whole "Gods are totally sick of Aphrodite being an ass" thing ultimately leads to Persephone opting for _murder._
Hades and Persephone are usually the ones to go for the quick and efficient solutions
More beautiful than Aphrodite. Yeah, those four words are never the start of anything good.
Steven Flaningam props for using the right form of than
Wow. Zeus was actually helpful and the sweet cinnamon roll that is Persephone attempted to kill Aphrodite. Awesome.
Rogue Viper Aenius?
@@Mysteri0usChannel i want a book about this
@@edarddragon We also need fan art, and after that, maybe some good ol' rule 34.
@@Mysteri0usChannel I like the way you think 😉
*TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!!!*
Wait, wait
Psyche: *keeps trying to kill herself*
Spirit: Yo, those sheep might kill you so you should get fleece off the trees.
Psyche: Oh dang, ok! Man, could you imagine how terrible it would've been if I'd accidentally gotten myself killed?
🤷♂️
If you gonna die, die on your own terms.
@@scottylilacleona9193 Only I get to kill me! If you wanna kill me, you'll have to take my life from my cold, dead hands!
Kevin T that is such a bizarre power move you have no idea.
I imagine your opponent staring at you in absolute confusion.
@@scottylilacleona9193 oh but i do
4:26 you know there is a problem when even Zeus help you out and it not because he want to sleep with you but because he actually want to help
It reminds me of a late night host during the fight with Al Qaeda: "When CANADA starts bombing you, you have to ask, 'Am I being a d***?''"
@@colinmerritt7645 So true. Very underrated comment.
"Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite's gonna be a grandmother"
"Oh my me thats hllarious"
Ok by this point im convinced the greek gods are just a bunch of bad trolls
She is thousands of years older than Zeus and Technically his Aunt (Oranus is her dad kinda?)
At this point, im not even suprised when it turns out the greek phanteon family tree
Is avtually a familty circle
Family is as family does
Petty petulant children is more like it
And not just the Greek gods its every God period
If all of mythology was real, half of the gods would be occupied with trying to make sure than the world isn't destroyed and the other half would be occupied with ensuring that the Greek gods behave.
I love how Eros and Hades are the most loyal husbands ever
Is it strange to suggest that the animations for every video seems to resemble a little bit somewhat like anime/manga?
I mean Eros is the better husband, hades had an affair with a nymph, then turned her into a tree
Meanwhile Zeus is less loyal then the praetorian guard
@@celiaccrab6952 nah minthe got turned into a mint plant by Persephone your thinking of daphne who got turned into a laurel tree cause apollo pissed off eros.
Especially Hades, who knew the literal God of Hell was a great husband!!
I feel like Aphrodite could easily have solved this entire thing by going to Psyche and suggesting that she use her godly powers to de-pretty her a bit so she'd be able to actually get a date instead of this whole mess. Psyche would be happy with that, she'd get a normal happy life, and Aphrodite is the fairest in the land again... why is Aphrodite every jealous girl rolled into a goddess?
Fr she is just a mean girl given too much supernatural power
The Greek gods all collectively share 3 brain cells. Athena and Hephaestus often hold one, leaving the others to fight for it
You expect A GREEK GOD to be reasonable? You must be new here
@@marinaaguas9219 tbh a lot of the Greek goddesses are Karen’s
@@venom_colada1512 Dionysus never has it, Hermes steals it from time to time, zues doesn't even know it exists, posedion is too busy worrying about his Cyclops children, Hades is just sort of chilling with Persephone and a buncha shit is happening with that braincell
I love how this whole mythological story is a metaphor basically saying that “loving yourself is the only way bring you happiness” it’s just beautiful and I love it 😊
Eros: MOM IM SERIOUSLY FINE STOP TORTURING MY GIRLFRIEND
Aphrodite: MOTHER KNOWS BEST
Darth Xader And then you see Rapunzel
Rapunzel: Stop torturing my boyfriend!
Mother Gothel: Mother knows best child!
Listen to your mother, it’s a scary world out there.
I thought they were married
Lily Ye this scene happens before that happens.
Okay
Holy crap! Zeus helping a woman get laid instead of himself?!
MADNESS
Solqueen86 A beautiful woman Zeus didn't bang himself?! More madness?!
Zeus going soft these days
Eros, the part that is aphrodites son, is also the son of Ares, who is Zeus's son, so Eros is Zeus' Grandson.
ReverseUnicorn
Zeus: OK, my powerful grandson, the God of Love is getting older now. Time to get him LAID. She’s gotta be princess, because Gods always get that royal booty. And she’s gotta be hot. Like, hotter-than-his-mother-hot.
And so, Psyche was born!
LMAO
Red:"So, Psyche is a princess. But not just any princess, she's a BEAUTIFUL princess"
"Plot Twist?"
"But she's not just any beautiful princess, she's a LONELY beautiful princess."
"Plot Twist??"
Me: *Dying on the floor of laughter*
"Dang, she got it going ON. I surprised Zeus didn't bang her." XD
Why do you think he didn't ? She spend a lot of time with an invisible boyfriend , we actually don't know if it was always eros since zeus can make himself invisible too .
Stormbringer: So True...
Yup considering that most of the tragedies or history we got is when hera spot him we should consider that there is a vast hypothetical part were she doesn't spot him .
Lmao Same
Pretty sure Eros wouldn't shoot an arrow at zeus to fall in love with HIS wife
The butterfly wing motif probably comes from how butterflies are symbolic of the human soul in a lot of cultures. Which is rather perfect for Psyche, obviously. Wings also tend to represent freedom so it also probably represents the freedom of being in godly form and with her lover. I don't know if the butterfly = soul motif is the case in Greek culture, but in my opinion, if the shoe fits wear it. Lmao.
THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING MY INTERPRETATION!!!!!!!! I always thought it was something along those lines but wasn’t completely sure until I found your comment - YOU’RE A LEGEND!!!!
Butterflies did represent Thanatos.
Aphrodite: I can't believe my own son did me like that!
Zeus: Ok, *grandma.*
Props to Zues for actually keeping it in his pants this time, total coincidence that this myth also has a happy ending.
@@PetrKitty9897 due to the fact Eros was busy in the whole ordeal :v
Ok, Auntie*
@@whytho1534 I meant it more as a "Aphrodite is a grandma to Hedone" joke
"She might even be prettier than Aphrodite"
-Hades, Lore Olympus
2018
Silver Speed y̥ͦ e̥ͦ s̥ͦ
Aphrodite:WHAT
Of course.Aphrodite isn't the prettiest goddess.She got jealous of girls who was prettier than her
I just got back from reading tat
Poor Kore.
someone once pointed out that in the beginning of the story when psyche consults the oracle, the oracle is correct in calling eros a "monster even the gods fear" because even though he's not necessarily a bad guy, people are still scared of him because he can make them fall in love with anyone with his bow and arrows, even the gods. i thought that that was a really cool point so yeah.
He is the son of Ares, and inherited the most deadly weapon possible
@@stonem0013 a b o w
@@freezaaaa a bow with the power of love
It took me six years to get it...
Also the oracle works for apollo who we have to remember doesn't exactly have the best past with eros cough*daphne*cough
"As soon as she opens the box, it turns out that the only thing in it is murder."
I guess Hades' rather twisted sense of humor when it comes to doing favors for others has rubbed off on Persephone.
Nah, persephone had that kind attitude before she was even greek
@@ADAJ342 Turns out, it’s part of why Hades thinks she's great. A similarly morbid sense of humor.
Besides, she thought it was for Aphrodite, and figured knocking her out cold for a few days would be a good prank.
@@shadowldrago guess humor IS a part of a good relationship, even twisted ones
@@NoName-in3sx I suppose so. I think it helps that since Aphrodite is immortal, it probably WOULDN'T have killed her.
"My god, it's just like highschool" I actually cried from laughing to hard and inhaling my soup
Rinrya Kayako thats so "soupy"
Livia Castaño calm down would ya?
SAME XD
"So Psyche low-key dies..."
*No matter how many times I hear it I always laugh!*
I'm amazed how much this seems like a gender flip of most ancient Romance myths, the Woman is the one being sent on seemingly insurmountable tasks by her boyfriend's mother.
In a way, its ironic, that the Romans beat the greek to a pulp, using tactics taken from them, and against them, then basically copying their religion, and flipping it vertically.
JaredMithrandir
Not really, Prince and princess stories are similar in the hero’s journey just not in how they confront the “evil”.
“Princes” usually find a teacher of old arts, learns, gets stronger, and beats the evil alone.
While princesses, find help from those around her, bringing togetherness and alliances to fruition, and using those to defeat the “evil”
@@nemtudom5074 they didn't cooy greek tactics, they rendered them useless.
Why?
It's surprising how much thousand-year old myths are more inclusive to LGBT and Women than modern day... well anything.
Eros and Psyche is honestly my favorite greek mythology love stories cause it doesn't involve incest, murder, or r*pe, and Psyche and Eros truly did love each other
Um, actually 🤓 the box was full of murder
That was a surprisingly upbeat ending for a story about the Greek gods' love life.
Leo Ryff Well, it would be really shitty if the god of love didn't get his own happy ending.
Leo Ryff lol true. Knowing Greek mythology I was expecting something much worse.
Some versions just end after the bit where Eros feels betrayed. That's the thing about myths. They're not consistent.
Rachel Moody that's actually untrue. Not only is the myth of Cupid & Psyche extremely late/at the tale end of antiquity, its first and original iteration was recorded in a novel "Metamorphoses"-not an oral tradition. This story actually has a single absolute account with no variants. While there are images of Psyche & Eros depicted centuries prior to the novel, we have no historical documentation of this particular myth (or any like it) of the two prior to the novel in the 2nd century AD.
At the very least, this is what all my professors have drilled into me & I have yet to come across any documentation to the contrary.
[if anyone actually has a source of older myths or versions, please tell me where I can locate these because I would be absolutely fascinated to read all about them. I love all the distinct & varied myths]
Nobuko Watanabe I read a version in one of my English classes that instead of the trials taking place when Eros runs off feeling betrayed Psyche goes in search of him, and as punishment for betraying her son Aphrodite turns her into an owl-cursed to be in search of her lost lover forever, but never finding him. In that version including the whole soul and love meaning it was also supposed to be an origin story for the owl. (Like the Athena and Arachne story was an origin story for spiders.)
A note for your “woman marries monster and turns out he’s a hot guy” statement during the credits. Someone told me once the reason those stories are as recurrent and wide spread as they are is because in many cultures women rarely had say in whom they married, and often ended up wed to some way older douche who just wanted to get some and had money to pay the bride’s price to her parents. So those stories were a kind of psychological cushion to help women cope with the idea of being sold off to some monster or asshole, because “he’s not really a monster! He just needs true love to heal his heart and he will love you back!” It makes those stories vary creepy when read that way.
Wow , that makes me really sad...
Oh shoot, thats dark
Wow
Explains all those "sold to Harry Styles" slow burn fics.
That's so fucked up...
Eros: Zeus If You Make This Work Aphronedite's Gonna Be A GRANDMOTHER
Zeus: OH MY ME
THAT'S HILARIOUS
Aphrodite: But--
Zeus: SIT DOWN
Sometimes my brother can be cool *SOMETIMES*
omg.
THAT IS PERCY JACKSON Narration
ROFL!!! That's an awesome take on it. LOL
Wow... a Greek myth that ISN'T about rape!? and actually has a happy couple that consensually choose each other from the getgo!?
where has this been in my life?
You forget about Andromeda and Perseus, Dionysus and Ariadne
I mean, there's still the whole "magical arrows forcing people to fall in love" thing that goes in that direction
@@PolishAxolotl perseus story is weirdly not horrible
And Zeus *GASP* doesn’t bang _anyone!?_
AND acts as a responsible ruler of the gods, resolving disputes and judging with fairness!
I can just see Hades and Persephone just laughing together over Aphrodite being just destroyed
And then feeling really bad that Psyche died so they undeadify her as an apology
Imagine if it worked.
Aphrodite: Hey! What am I doing down here?
Persephone: You're in my house now, b****
I 100% believe that Eros is one of, if not the, most powerful entity in Greek mythology. Considering how he, as the physical manifestation of love, is able to emotionally manipulate basically everyone aside from Artemis and Athena.
Fel, if you think about it, he's partially responsible for most of Greek mythology.
Hestia as well.
I mean the three virgin Goddesses are described as literally being immune to love and sexual desire. Which honestly makes zero sense because Artemis in quite a few myths fell for Orion aka love meaning that she shouldn't even be immune at all. Well at least they have so Eros can't catch her off guard so he can hit her. Athena is literally sexless and therefore is literally incapable of being affected by love. Meanwhile zero explanation is given for Hestia.
Man thinking about it these three are not someone you would even want to follow I mean the fact they can't feel love would make them absolute psychopaths and adds a horrifying twist on their myths. Artemis and Athena are always dishing up harsh punishments even though most of the time it wasn't even the victims fault since because they can't feel love they have no sense of mercy. And Hestia giving her spot as one of the Olympian and just quietly watching her hearth is because she literally doesn't care about what anyone even does they could literally all be killing each other in front of her and she wouldn't lift a finger.
@@Vandalieu The Orion myth is a load of bs because translators should just do their job without shipping people/gods
@@duxhunt its from an ancient Greek writer not a translator.
@@Vandalieu No… It’s bs. Most of the original stories actually involve Orion dying because he gets a little too clingy with Artemis’ hunters. There’s literally 0 stories where Artemis falls in love with Orion. So yeah. Translators suck.
Eros: Why did she *betray* me?
Aphrodite: Don’t worry sweetie, mommy’s going to make her dead very soon.
Me: Um… extremely motherly love?
Mother trying (failed or successful) to murder her son/daughter 's SO because they break their child heart is something that happened irl too.
@@DeathMessenger1988 godcest isn't that unrealistic, I'm 90% percent Hera is Zeus's sister
Ummmm ok
@@DeathMessenger1988 wait this isn't alabama
Aphrodite is zues aunty
Her sisters didn't just fall off a cliff, btw. See, Zephyr, in this myth, works for Eros, more or less. So, he was charged with transporting them, just like he did Psyche. Except, as the wind, being invisible, he overheard their scheming, and was like..."yeah, not on my watch." So, he sorta just...conveniently missed his pickup time that he usually ran like clockwork. They jumped, expecting him to whisk them away again. He did not. They fell on some very pointy rocks from very high up. He then proceeded to tell nobody, possibly not even Eros (though Eros presumably already knew, bc he figured out long ago that they were bad news, anyway. He likely didn't ask questions bc he didn't want implicated in the murder of his in-laws. Of course, this is speculative headcanon. But, it makes sense, given the original text. It's also vaguely alluded to that Psyche set them up to be in a dangerous scenario, knowing full well what would happen, but feigning ignorance, bc "fuck my sisters, they caused my hubby to get mad at me").
Yeah, he serves Eros because he thrust a discus into Hyacinth's head, killing him instantly. He did this because he was jealous that he was with Apollo, hence why Eros became his master
@@thedragonwarrior5861 I don't see the correlation between those myths.
I happen to know why psyche has butterfly wings, the greeks called butterflies psyches, basically they had the same word for soul and butterfly because the butterfly is that beatiful flying thing that survives the death of the caterpillar making it a metaphor for our own soul.
WOW that makes sense! I just thought they believed that deep-down we were all insects, that's pretty dumb actually 😔
I've never heard that either but it's the kind of story the Greeks would concoct.
Gabriel Valeriolete The More You Know
That's beautiful
Gabriel Valeriolete Psyche*
Wait, this is a mith were Zeus is there but keeps it in his pants, and there's a... happy ending?
Makes me wonder if there's some correlation...
Plot Twist:The unborn child of Psyche is from Zeus.
I agree with Zeus, making Aphrodite a grandma is THE reason to undo the Death in a dead person and then make the person roughly a goddess.
Even when he keeps his pants on, he still screws a woman over. Typical.
Zeus will get another nephew
Agung Priambodo niece. Hedone is a girl
No offence, but here is a few plot points missed (not that important, just minor clarification).
-Psyche's parents are the ones that went to the Oracle of Delphi.
-Unlike most Greeks, she openly accepted her fate and stood on the cliff waiting to be snatched (with witnesses as if it were a ritual). When nothing happens, Psyche be like, "Fuck it" and jumps off, THEN she is caught by Zephyr.
-Eros only spoke to her at night, and she was left confused by the servants.
-The sisters always hated Psyche, yes, but they always spoke shit behind her back, so she has no clue.
-The burn was incredibly severe, to the point that Eros was bedridden for days.
-Aphrodite (pissed af) starts doing everything she can to hunt Psyche down. Meanwhile, Psyche cries on a riverbed contemplating suicide, and Pan the god of nature, comes in, notices she is lovesick and suggests that she prays to Eros for help (facepalm), leaving her to cry harder. Pan leaves in the face of awkwardness, and Psyche takes his words to heart and becomes determined to find Eros and apologize. But first (as you touched on) Psyche schemes revenge. Convinces one of her sisters that Eros broke up with her for this, and wants to marry her. The sis dumps her husband, runs to the cliff, and jumps. Psyche does the same to the other sis.
-On her journey to Aphrodite's palace, she sees abandoned shrines of Hera and Demeter all dusty and dirty, she takes time to clean them. Mind you, she always respected the gods. And she even tried to stop people from calling her the Goddess of Beauty before the Eros shit. Anyways, both Goddesses offered to grant one wish. Psyche asked one of the obvious wishes (forgot which) and the Goddesses apologized for not being able to do shit because of Aphrodite's blood lust.
-After Aphrodite gave the first sexist and impossible "perfect wife" task (grain sorting), DEMETER sent the ants to help.
-The spirit that gave advice of the tree wool, was sent by Hera.
-Styx Water is also deadly cold.
-Zeus helped because Eros heard Aphrodite give the bullshit challenge of Styx water in a bucket, he asked Zeus for a favour. Zeus helped because he was terrified of Eros, and Eros did favours for him before. Eros did not go himself because he was in miserable pain and suffering from the oil.
-Psyche was on a tower (for directional reasons I think) and contemplated jumping. Eros puts his spirit in the tower to help Psyche a bit.
-Persephone was pissed af that Aphrodite roped her in her mess. So puts some deadly oil in the box to spite Aphrodite, but warns Psyche not to open it.
-Psyche was self-conscious and worried Eros would call hate her, especially because of the state she was in.
-Eros felt her suffering, and in his pain, flew to save Psyche.
-The gods declared that curing her was impossible in her current state, so Hera and Demeter suggest making her a god. All gods vote yes, and Aphrodite reluctantly says yes because everyone else did (mainly because Eros is goddam terrifying af. Ask Apollo).
Don't forget the Lame Ass Driver Aphrodite sent to slow Psyche down
we did it
we found the guy who responds in the "oh you're a ____ name every ____" memes
@@lifeenjoyer9699 what
@@electroninja7419 lol, in hindsight that was hard to understand
just look up "Oh, you're a kirby fan? Name every Kirby Lore."
@@lifeenjoyer9699 Ohhhh. lol. I honestly didn’t expect everything to be textbook accurate/complete. I just wanted some information put out there which made the events less straightforward and random which personally, makes stories more enjoyable to me.
“Your essay is overdue”
Caedran Yeidel I'm dying help m e
I have a cat that looks just like your profile pic lol
XDDDDD
Little details like Eros and the invisible “monster boyfriend” having their speech written in the same colour when all your characters have distinct colours associated with them to hint that they’re one and the same is why I love your videos.
What? A Greek love story with a semi-happy ending?
What a coincidence that it's the only one where Zeus didn't bang anybody.
Why semi-happy?
@@Ardito3709 She died
@@ellenzheng2155 But she's back to life....
@@Ardito3709 I mean yeah she came back to life and became a god too, but Hades probably wasn’t happy about it.
There's one more! Also the only other one Zeus didnt bang someone! WONDER WHY? THATS A HUUUGE COINCIDENCE HMMmMMMmmMMMm
mMmmMMMmmMMM
Haha Aphrodite!
The girl she spent so much time and effort trying to torment is now immortal, married to her son and the mother of her grandchild....
You just gotta love what a middle finger that is to her 😂😂😂
Psyche (Ψυχή) has moth wings because the word ''moth'' in greek is ''psychara'' (ψυχάρα) and moths in Greece are generally believed to be spirit messengers sent by our loved ones! Most superstitious Greek people are afraid to kill moths in case they hurt their loved ones, and most people who know the myth don't because it's hella sweet.
( sorry for the tiy rant; 1/4th Greek, I live in Greece, I grew up reading Greek mythology, thought I'd help a bit ^^' )
blindraven neat and also neat
blindraven Also 1/4 Greek!!! Relatives are from all over greece tough. Mainly Lesvos (I am so sorry if I spelt that wrong) and near the border of Macedonia and Greece
I love moths even more now ^^
Full Greek here! And wow, I've lived in Greece my entire life and never knew that...nowadays we literally just call them "night butterflies"😂
That's lit
Did... Aphrodite beat up a pregnant woman bearing her granddaughter?
WHAT?!?!!?!?!!?
Gods have no chill. None. Divine myths were the soap operas of the ancient world.
it doesnt get much better later on,you remeber the flood,or that time when good killed everybody on two cities because of sodomy?(including children and non sodomite citizens.)
or that funny time when the firstborn of all egyptian families died the same night?
+iñigo montoya
Then sanctioning the Israelites to commit genocide against the native tribes of Canaan.
@@feelthepony
Personally I'd sort anything in the old testament as divine myth of the ancient world too. Granted, the Bible is a little more game of thrones than telenovela but it still has its drama queen moments.
(No offense to Christians, Jews or Muslims, I'm not implying your God has to be fictional, I'm just saying that He is just as likely or unlikely to be real as any other deity and I'm not picking favourites)
Aphrodite can be a bitch, plus Psyche hurt her son so. Also there's a chance she wasn't aware she was pregnant
I love this channel's actual myths and history facts, but with a comedy spin.
Also like, get me a full cover of the song at the end.
Fun fact
The word for soul or psyche also means butterfly. So that could be why she is represented with butterfly wings so often.
Every myth where Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants also known as every myth
Destiny Cornell although in this myth he sees pshyche aka a woman even more beautiful than Aphrodite so I’m surprised he didn’t bang her
Recestii Cringelord remember by the time Zeus intervenes Eros already has dibs on psyche, and as we’ve established even the other gods fear Eros so Zeus probably didn’t wanna risk pissing him off by banging his girlfriend
Miss World-Bi-de true
Oddly enough, he didn't try banging the beautiful princess in this story.
But Zeus...doesn't even wear pants...
"my god it's just like highschool" I AM DEAD LOLOLOL
HilariouslyScary smells like Greek myths and angst
Its damn truthful though!
HilariouslyScary IKR?
HilariouslyScary ikr
HilariouslyScary me too
“Your essay is overdue”
That was bloody hilarious
One of my professor is actually an ex-model (yep... You heard right), the most handsome and chill professor.... We kinda hang a lot most of the time at our campus hanging spot
I had a really hot high school biology teacher who was italian, worked out, and single... I aced all his tests and did all the extra credits 😍
4:45
Eros: Mom I'm seriously fine! Stop torturing my girlfriend!
Aphrodite: Mother knows best.
Me: So....is Aphrodite related to Gothel? I mean their both obsessed with their own beauty and they both try to kill their kids' love interests.
What if Mother Gothel was inspired by Aphrodite? I mean, a lot of stuff in enterprise nowadays is inspired from mythology - mostly Greek mythology as well. The most obvious example would be Beauty and the Beast
@@shookyscousin oh my goodness I was imagining Aphrodite singing mother knows best you are so right
@@wasifabul2545
Great minds think alike!! 😆😆
And that's why Aphrodite should be the villain of a movie. I'm getting a little tired of Hollywood using Hades and Ares as villains and think Aphrodite was actually way more evil than either of them.
@@legoking6165 Or maybe just make a film on Ares abduction it behella funny to watch
"My God, it's just like high school..." pretty much sums up the Greek gods.
Indeed. All the cliques are on Mount Olympus! We got the jocks (Zeus, Ares, Poseidon, Artemis) and catty popular girls (Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo) who rule the school, the overachievers (Athena), the goths (Hades, Persephone), the preps (Hestia, Demeter), the nerds (Hephaestus), the party guys (Hermes, Dionysus), etc.
@@CJCroen1393 Demeter its more like a prof and Persephone Hestia and Athena the teacher Pets
Idk, doubt high school has that much rape.
"You have done an exemplary job of earning the hand of my son"
"The one I'm already married to yeah"
Hahaha gets me every time. The sass.
Eros and Psyche is my favorite Greek mythology story of all time and I love the way you told it.
Mine too it is so great
WHAT? A MYTH WITH A HAPPY ENDING?
A cute happy ending nevertheless.
Ikr?!
Right i was surprised also
YEAH IKR
Her sisters died along the way, but yeah, technically a happy ending.
I really love coming back to this video and watching their story; the art is so pretty, Red’s voice is so comforting, and dialogue from Red(and the pictures text) is really hilarious. So glad I found this channel years ago.
THAT SINGING AT THE END IS GREAT OMG!! I love this video :))
What song is it? It's so dang catchy.
Thank you~
p i n e c o n e sameee lol
p i n e c o n e I know it's so goof
I know
She's not just one Disney princess, she's 3!
Belle -- she has a monster boyfriend and 2 sisters that are jealous of her luxurious living situation.
The Little Mermaid -- OG version where her sister's tell her to kill the guy she's in love with but she can't bring herself to do it
and Aschenputtel -- Grimms' version of Cinderella, who has animal friends that help her sort grains by type as a punishment-task before she's allowed to do a thing
Helena W
Quick question:
Belle has two sisters?!?
In one of the original versions of the tale, yep! Her father is a merchant and they are all relatively well off; Belle's two sisters are used to being wealthy and snotty, while Belle is not only beautiful in visage, but also in temperament. She's humble and kind. So when their father loses his fortune, they have to move to a small village and live a frugal life.
(This is actually alluded to in Disney's BatB: the lines "every morning just the same / since the morning that we came / to this poor provincial town" implies that she didn't grow up in that town. The fact that she reads and has dreams of her own also implies that she grew up wealthy enough to have the kind of time and education to think about things other than the most basic, secure life for a woman, i.e. marrying and having kids.)
Belle, as you can imagine, takes the change in stride, but her sisters are not happy. They don't like to work and complain about it a lot. When their father leaves to reclaim his fortune, which they thought had been lost at sea, he asks them what they would like for him to bring back. The two older sisters ask for jewels and fine dresses, but Belle only asks for his safe return. Upon his insistence, she then asks for a rose because they did not grow in the poor town where they were now living.
(I think the line from Maurice "this invention is going to be the start of a new life for us!" alludes to Belle's father getting his fortune back.)
Anyway, I've gone on too long hahaha I can't seem to find the version that I specifically am recalling from which I read several years ago, but if you just google search "original beauty and the beast story" or something like that, you should be able to pull up some results :)
Ok, but the little mermaid's sisters try to convince her to do that so she won't have to die
2/3 of these aren't Disney. You're referencing the Brothers Grimm versions.
yea well the disney version would be more like
Belle - Monster boyfriend
Cinderella - 2 jealous sisters
Snow White - Animal friends
I read in a book that the greek have the same word for soul as for butterfly because both are capable of incredible transformation and change. So that might be the reason for that. Information is from T.A. Barrons Merlin series in which merlin finds someone who betrayed him who had turned into a butterfly to hide and remembers the whole butterfly soul similarity. So he learns that all things xan change and forgives the person because they clearly regretted the betrayal
that's awsome, but the greek word for soul is ψυχή and for butterfly it's πεταλούδα. they're very different
@Musa Ntasa ααααα δεν το ήξερα. ευχαριστώ 🙏
Omg I thought I was the only one who knew about that book!
Persephone: Aphrodite is such a bitch. Wish I could see the look on her face when she opens the box
Hades: I'm sure Dionysus will tell us all about it next time he visits
Persephone: I feel bad for that girl tho. She doesn't deserve all the shit Aphrodite is putting her through
Eros: *dramatically kicks down the door* Hey why'd you kill my girlfriend?
Persephone: wait what?
Eros: Psyche opened the box and the murder you put in it killed her
Persephone: *starts crying* what no I didn't mean to! I didn't know she'd open the box!
Hades: *consoles his wife* shhh there there it'll be okay *snaps fingers to summon Psyche*
Psyche: *rushes over to Eros to hug him* I'm so sorry I betrayed you trust can you forgive me
Eros: of course baby I lo-
Persephone: *bear hugs Psyche* I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!
Psyche: It's okay. I understand the impulse. Aphrodite is such a bi- *looks over at Eros* can be a tad difficult
Hades: I'm sure Zeus will be happy to make you into a goddess to keep Aphrodite from pulling anymore of this shit. Just ask him for some Ambrosia and he'll have much more leverage to tell her to stop
Psyche: Okay. Wait so I can leave
Hades: Yeah sure I don't care
Eros: thanks guys! *grabs Psyche and flies to Olympus*
Hades: And that's why I don't like visiting Olympus
You forgot the part where Eros says; Yeah, you can call her a bitch, I don't care
can't blame him
If only Orpheus could just leave with Eurydice like that, then he wouldn’t have been ripped to pieces… but then again, him being ripped to pieces did help him spend eternity with Eurydice, so I guess that could count as a happy ending, sort of?
@@shookyscousinYeah, I'm picturing this scenario ending with Eurydice saying, "What the hell, man! Orpheus played his little heart out. Even the Furies were moved to tears! Why couldn't you let me just go like she did?"
@@daviddaugherty2816 hades:1st off,you literally died naturally by a snake,psyche literally got torn asunder by accident via god ppwer. ...that and honestly i didnt expect him to look back.
Eurydice:... fair enough.
Than:and that's what happened before psyche became a god.
Zagreus:...noted.
"...even more beautiful than Aphrodite- Oh... that aint good..."
Yep.
*It is never good* 7_7 that goddess gets anal when she's not on top of the pyramid
_my god it's just like highschool_
@@yesikanarvaez5027 To be fair, they all do.
Yeah, she's doomed.
Ancient Greek Woman: “I am even more beautiful than Aphrodite!”
Ancient Greek Man: “ooooh that’s not good.”
Athena turned a lady into a spider because she was better at making tapestries
@@spectrestain4360 No it was because Arachne boasted about being even better then Athena which was true but still you're basically asking to get smited by saying that plus Athena was the one who gave her her talent in the first place so it was an extra slap in the face. Athena punished her for her Hubris not for being better then her,also Arachne was written by Ovid who has a long history of disliking authority/gods especially Athena(lookin at you Medusa)so take that story with a grain of salt
@@whytho1534 To be fair, even if Arachne was acting all high and mighty about, Athena's punishment was still basically too harsh one way or another. She is less petty than Aphrodite, but that doesn't make her not petty
Eros:”why did she betray me”
Aphrodite:”don’t worry sweetie mommy is going to make her dead very soon”
4:52 so you’re telling me that Persephone wanted to kills Aphrodite?
Persephone is the best
"My teacher was an an absolutely GORGEOUS man with a beautiful accent and the most piercing of eyes."
*your essay is overdue*
"she went into the underworld with only 2 golden drachmas and 2 doggie treats while she was 7 months pregnant. Respect." -Percy Jackson
also, the box was filled with stygian sleep, aka, the essence of the underworld, so all Persephone technically did was breathe into the box
Edit: I am honored to be the second top comment!
So a box of die
"I give you air from my lungs"
Hey you've read the book that's cool
Hang on but Persephone isn't from the underworld she just lives there
So I think she got Hades to breathe in it
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 shes been there for a while now so I think she did it
"Eros wakes up because OW and flys off because BETRAYAL"
Cracks me up every time!
Neat. You forgot to mention that Psyche was able to get to the underworld without Cerberus mauling her to death since she gave her some cake.
Cerberus doesn't attack living people who go into the underworld anyway (except Heracles who attacked him first); his job is to keep the dead people in, not keep the living people out