Miscellaneous Myths: Io
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The moon! The myth! The legend! The three millionth woman to live through an absolute nightmare just because Zeus couldn't be bothered to keep it in his pants!
Still had a better life than Callisto, though.
Pro tip, if someone is listed on wikipedia as a "lover" of zeus, that does not at all indicate that their relationship was consensual.
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The fact that Zues is in Heracles's family tower THREE TIMES is incredible, disturbing, and remarkably in character
Don’t forget about Poseidon in there!
So Heracles is 4X more Olympian
Meaning Heracles is slightly over 56% Zeus.
I was confused by the "family tower" for a sec but honestly it's quite fitting lmao
the same thing for Dionysus, his mother was apparently a daughter of Ares.
“Hera is mad at Io. For no reason.”
So..a normal Tuesday?
Hera not being angry and vindictive happens every day Zeus keeps it in his pants.
Salt Efan So never.
@@irondolphin9387 Sounds about right
@taniths 1st and only sgt iron on duty I'd say Hermes is less likely to troll *anyone* than Zeus looking for something or someone to screw.
Oooh, _Hera_ being hysterical. Must be a day that ends in "Y".
I always felt bad for Argus. Poor guy was just doin' his job.
dude didn't deserve dat shit
His legacy lives on in a bird, at least.
Is most telling it wasn't Hera that put the eyes on the peacock. It was when Io was under his watch, he raped her and she gave birth to the peacock
I dont reely no argus that much but i still feel bad for him
yer doin me a concern with that rabble of words.
I just remembered that there is a part of the myth where Hera tricks Zeus into thinking she killed the "cow" and served it for dinner. She was seriously trolling her husband on that one.
Is it wrong I find that funny?
@@DumbCrow1 yes
on one hand he deserves it
on the other, Io doesn't deserve it
I am surprised that Zeus is compassionate enough towards the mortals he screwed to feel guilt and try to fix things.
@@catiseith If Zeus had a lick of compassion at all he wouldn't have screwed the mortals in the first place. He's just scared he won't get any lovin' from his wife if he gets caught.
"Screw Zeus"
No! Don't screw Zeus. That's how 95% of Greek problems started!
The other 5% are only tangentially related to Zeus screwing things
@@chaosandbunnies8291 I'm pretty sure the other 5% are Apolo falling in love or one of his kids doing something that pisses one of the other gods.
@@canyouwriteanythinghere And Apollo is the result of Zeus screwing someone
@@chaosandbunnies8291 Yeah... And Zeus is Cronos' son and Cronos is Uranos' son and Uranos is... How was he born?
@@canyouwriteanythinghere Pretty sure Gaia made him, though I'm not sure how this relates to your original point.
"oops, incest!"
It's sad to think it's not the saddest part of that family tree.
Isnt most of that family tree incest?
I mean, Zeus and Poseidon been adding onto their own genepool.
I don't think divine incest really means much.
I just think it is creepy that Zeus showed up three times in that family tree
said every family of very high political power in the medieval period
@@broman2084 Is that an insult or a compliment?
She deserves an award for escaping the mind games of Zeus and Hera. Also for making the biggest horn dog in Greek myths feel guilty.
her reward should be immortality
@Benjamin Keslar it made me laugh, and then I remembered how fucked up it is.
@jeffery Fields No, not really
The star formations and planets are named after them, not the other way around.
@jeffery Fields no, because when naming these planets, astronomers looked back to older mythology and tradition, and named them. so they named the biggest planet Jupiter, after the head of the deities.
they named the planet closest to the sun, and as such also the fastest, Mercury, the fastest of gods.
They named the red planet Mars, for the god of war.
Neptun, for a far away, blue planet.
Pluto, for a planet who's not exactly a planet, one which they are not sure if is in or not, just as pluto isn't really an olympian, or part of the main group.
The only exception I know for this is Venus, as Venus and aphrodite were already associated with the morningstar since ages.
Lucifer's apiteph, morningstar, came very much so from connections the Catholic church made between him and Venus, originally.
@jeffery Fields the planets don't even have the same names as the Greek Gods, they have the names of the Roman versions of the Greek Gods.
Zeus: How many times can I get myself in this guy’s family tree?
Perseus: GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
Zeus: -Zoidberg noises as he charges into a random bedroom.-
"THAT'S AGAINST THE HOSPITALITY RULES!! PREPARE TO SUFFER!!"
@@monkey_blu It would be against the rules of hospitality IF I LET YOU IN BUT NO YOU JUST HAD TO BREAK IN THROUGH THE DOOR.
It's kinda weird that Heracles is technically the brother of his great grandpa
How can one family tree have so much incest
Holy hell, someone actually managed to get away from Zeus and Hera? She deserves a medal!
She deserves a fucking movie!!!
Being chased by a Fury makes you faster than Usain Bolt.
Hell yea she does!
I'd say statues and the like being made to honor you as divinity is better than a medal.
@@LadyLunarSatine oh yea right
"The greek equivalent of Godzilla" is the best description of Typhon i have heard in my life
i mean, Godzilla often has the title "The King of the Monsters" and Typhon has the title "Father of all Monsters", so...
Agreed
Typhon would eat godzilla for lunch
Yeah real accurate
It’s extremely accurate
Woman: **exists**
Zeus: *_it’s free real estate_*
Ganymede: am I a joke to you?
How bout naw
SyrinxPriest2112
Zeus: * slaps earth * this baby can fit so many illegitimate children
Zeus also banged Hera (pre marrige), after rejecting his proposals & advances, Zeus knows Hera likes animals
sooooo, Zeus turned into a cuckoo bird and chirped on her bedroom window, Hera let him in and hugged him
in between her boobs, whereupon Zeus turns back and promptly bangs Hera
Agung Priambodo one more reason to hate zeus. That god whore Zeus. So much shit wouldn’t have happened, if only SOMEBODY would’ve CUT HIS DICK OFF. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Fun Astronomy Fact: Io (Jupiter's moon) is one of the few satellites that have actual volcanism going on inside. The reason for that is that it's being pulled so hard by Jupiter's gravity that all the stress from the tidal forces produces Io's internal heat.
Talk about an unhealthy planet/moon relationship.
Wasn’t Zeus Jupiter in Roman mythology, too? Interesting..
@@anonymouscausewhynot i think so, but thats the point if so
@@davidbanan. Yeah, all the moons of Jupiter are named after different "lovers" of Jupiter/Zeus
That makes too much sense
Different Interesting Fact: Io’s volcanoes do not expel lava, but sulfur.
Be very very glad that you have to wear a sealed space suit on Io.
Or be very very glad that we’ll probably never go to Io or any of Jupiter’s moons, because Jupiter is so ridiculously radioactive that the only reasonable choice is to skip Jupiter and its moons entirely and head straight for Saturn’s moons instead.
Don't you love it when Zeus is your dad, great-great grandfather AND you great-great-great-great-great grandfather?
*I sure do!*
Dafuro poor Heracles
Maybe the insanity was due to the limited gene pool.
@@seanboyd2898 That just leads me to believe everyone that comes into contact with the gods are all somewhat insane.
Alabama 100
Dafuro and your boyfriend?
Io spelling out "KICK ZEUS IN THE" is the best thing I've ever seen.
it should've been: Cut Zeus' .... Off
I think everyone except Zeus agrees that he should get the Uranus treatment.
@@spacemegalodon5049 There was once a conspiracy led by hera to trap zeus forever and replace him with an olympian council. They managed to trap zeus with a special rope gods couldn't escape from, but a nymph found and freed him.
Apollo had to work for 12 years as a slave to a human king, also he was turned into a human for that period.
Ares wasn't allowed to kill anyone for 7 years.
Hera was tied up and left to hang above a giant ravine for eternity.
After a few weeks Athena convinced Zeus to let her go.
And the nymph was made immortal. Also her daughter was banged by Zeus.
The end.
So that kinda proves my point except they didn't cut his balls off and throw them into the ocean.
Ovid's Medusa is the original "give-a-villain-a-sympathetic-backstory" trope
So Maleficent is just Disneyfied Medusa. Yeah, that checks out.
And also inventor of the rule 63, being the first one to turn monster into a hot waifu
All of you need use something that isn't tv tropes holy shit
@@vintheguy i mean this very channel dives into tvtropes, so
@@georgeuferov1497 wait, that's not what rule 63 is.... The gorgon was always a woman, rule 63 is swapping genders. at best you're referring to rule 34 in the sense of 'take something strange and make it bangable', though that would really just be in bad taste given HOW Medusa was rewritten by Ovid, not as a super hot woman but as a victim of assault.
Compromise: Medusa was always a monster, but Poseidon still wanted to hit that.
Oh he did. Even before Ovid wrote his version there are small references to Poseidon “laying with Medusa” in a field of some kind.
That's how I like to see it and there's definite evidence for it.
Provided everything is *purely consensual,* I find it oddly sweet. Poseidon saw a hideous snake monster who turns anyone who looks upon her to stone and his first response is "WHO IS THAT FINE LOOKIN' LADY?
Under the sea, under the sea...
@@CJCroen1393 It's Greek Mythology.
Almost nothing is ever consensual!
I mean, overall Poseidon is a bit safer than Zeus, and I like the idea of Medusa having an actual relationship with someone. Obviously not counting her sisters.
«Screw Zeus»
-... I don’t think that is a good idea, Red
Doesn't matter, can't be avoided.
(Like the “in Russia” memes)
In Greece, Zeus screw you
.... how many famous teachers has zeus actuly... *ahem*’d
tron 1112 fucked over? Probably a lot
Way too goddamned many, He’s resposible for so many of the greek people who dies tragically due to upsetting Hera or somethng
Well this certainly explains why Hercules was such a badass considering he's got three doses of Zeus and a little bit of Poseidon in his family tree
@@AnimeAngel88 can't find it would you be willing to drop a link
ua-cam.com/video/M16jOVC5kpA/v-deo.html
@@AnimeAngel88 thanks homeboy
@@fearthepiggaming2998 I'm a woman.
@@AnimeAngel88 my bad still thank you
I never understood the Athena's curse version of Medusa's origin, since there were other Gorgons. Thanks for clearing that up for me Red.
Marduk Sometimes that’s explained by Poseidon and Medusa having a consensual relationship and Medusa’s sisters help them sneak into the temple.
As I heard the myth, Athena cursed Medusa and her two sisters into being gorgons, but for some reason, she made the two sisters immortal, while Medusa retained her mortality.
This isn't the first time this happened...
Talk about victim blaming to the extreme. Not only does the woman get blamed for getting raped, but her bloody sisters get punished too by mere blood relation. Being Greek sucked.
Don't trust Ovid's Medusa. It's full of shit.
I didn’t think I needed to see a picture of Athena quickly smacking Arachne with a stick but here we are. Amazing work as always Red!
If I remember correctly, the picture is actually from red's video on arachne.
It is, and Ovid’s version of the myth had it so that Athena did it out of jealousy for some reason, rather than the more widely accepted and reasonable canon that she did it because Arachne blatantly mocked her and her family with her tapestry.
Aspiring Marauder You mean from the Aphrodite video? As the Hellenized version of a Semitic god, read “Hellenized” as “Bastardized”. That was a video on a Greece god after all.
Honestly Io is such an underrated person... Like, she went through all that crap and STILL got a happy ending AND GOT ZEUS TO FEEL SORRY??? AND SWEAR TO BACK OFF FOREVER?????
WE STAN.
In school in year 5, we had a Greek day where everyone dressed up as people from myths. There were about 30 of Zeus and Aphrodite, but then I was there as Io.
@@SaveVenice based
Zeus: "I'm the king of the playboys!"
Poseidon: "Challenge accepted, bro."
Hades: "....Apparantly, I'm the only one here who ever grew up."
and hade had triplets with Persephone
joaocisne556 to be fair to Hades he did marry her (or kidnapped then married depending on the source) and those kids are from that marriage. He also seems more responsible taking care of the underworld and the dead with far less myths is him messing around compared to his brothers.
Hera: “Ahem.”
Demeter: “Forgetting someone brother?”
Hestia: *being adorable*
Hades: “.....”
Hera/Demeter: *glares*
Hades: “My apologies Hestia, I didn’t mean to exclude you.”
Hestia: “Forgiven brother.”
Hera: “Now See Here!”
@@shadowwriter329 me:No offense Hera while you are justified..doesnt exactly change the fact you cant make your Husband not sleep with Every mortal that still breathes..and i really dont think its fair to blame it on the kids dont ya think?
Hades:Hera..sweety deary..no offense BUT FOR THE LOVE OF ME!You know how crowded this place gets when You trow a "Zeus did it again" tandrum..TOO MUCH you make Athena and Ares look like saints!
Then Disney show up...
"Screw Zeus. Someone should really overthrow that guy."
*Kratos would like to know your location*
God of war Kratos or actual Greek myth Kratos?
@@davidrozo766 My guess would be the one that actually killed Zeus, so video game?
@@davidrozo766 Greek myth Kratos is a winged enforcer of Zeus that never disobeyed him. He was the son of Pallas and Styx. And brother to Nike, Bia and Zelus.
@@Guciom maybe kratos was named after the servant of Zeus as a sort of showing of respect? Ironic how that turned out
@@steadyalbatross Well Kratos is basically the same one in the game and in the myth only in the myth he was winged Titan. But both i nthe game and in the myth you always see Kratos follow Zeus;s commands even putting his live through the risk of killing a god and up to god of war 2 Kratos still follows Zeus's order until he get fed up and then wrecks Rhodes then get impaled with the blade of olympus and then you know how it goes.
Never call a woman cow.
Call her Io.
A tragic victim of circumstance?
Yukari fans be like.
@@foxgamer8847 You a Persona fan: Yukari Takeba.
Me, an intellectual: Io Nitta from Devil Survivor 2.
Where's the beef?
Io means ‘me’ in italian
4:56 "Io is widely worshipped as a god" Specifically as the Egyptian god Isis.
Imagine her taking Ra's true name for some self-security in case Zeus kicks down Egypt's door to try something
@@JoshtheOverlander truth
Really? This entire time I figured it was Hathor
No, as Hathor. Hathor is the bovine goddess. Isis and Hathor were eventually conflated, though.
So this is why yukari's persona evolves into isis
'the world's most powerful man child' I have never seen a better description of Zeus in all my life
Welcome back to the hit reality show ‘GODSDAMNIT ZEUS’ in this episode, Zeus gets *cowed.*
_I’ll see myself out._
No, tell me more
Holy COW! I-Ove this show!
No, no. Stay! ENCORE! ENCORE!
@@madelinecarroll7503 Both the woman and the entire fucking continent.
Not just by Hera, but by an ACTUAL COW!!!
Ovid is living every fanfiction writer's dream, where his "fix-fics" are so famous that popular culture has completely replaced previous iterations with his.
Will Zeus ever keep it in his pants?
No. No he won't. What did you expect?
TotalHumanScum if it weren't for Zeus’ libido, Greek mythology would be a whole lot boring.
Well technically, he doesn't wear pants...
Honestly, I’m just happy the Ancient Greeks had just ONE god be the inciting incident for half of their heros. Most of the other ones at least try and court the people they fall in love with. Imagine if ALL the gods in the pantheon acted like Zeus. Greek Myths would probably be classified as Erotica.
How can he? In the depictions I've seen he's either naked or wearing some kind of robe... It's hard to keep _it_ in article of clothing you're not wearing.
Next comes a stoy of how Zeus had his dick cut off and was killed by the pantheon after the Olympians. Then the dick fell in the sea and that's why electric eels exist.
Hermes: “is it a booty call?”
Zeus: “kinda”
Hermes: “fine”
I had always been confused by the fact that she was one of the Gorgan SISTERS and the fact every source I had said that she was TRANSFORMED into a gorgan even though it never mentioned her sisters being transformed too.
So...
THANK YOU!!!!
Yup. Three Gorgon sisters. And then Ovid made up the backstory cause he hated the emperor
@@Cell287 and being too lazy for not doing plotholes and give tragic backstory to someone who not have close relatives of same monster-kind
@@AtticusKarpenter yup
It might have been the translation I read (I read a free PDF of the Theogony), but it says that, while Medusa was a sister of the Gorgons she started as a mortal and "Suffered a woeful fate." It also states she slept with Poseidon. Did I read a bad translation or?
Nobody:
No one:
Not a single person:
Every Greek myth: aND THEN aLONG CAME zEUS
he hurled his penis-bolt
He came, he saw, he came
You know, he’s “father of gods and men” for a reason...
@@williamwyckoff It was a nAaAasty place.
@@sketch-eee4165 There was *** wherever you stepped
Anyone else feel like it was unnecessary to kill good old Argos?
He was only doing his job...(,_,)
There's more to the tale than was mentioned. In some versions, killing Argos was because he killed Echidna, mother of all monsters. See, Typhon came to kill Zeus and a whole fight broke out that ended with Zeus throwing a mountain on top of Typhon to kill him. Zeuse then decreed that his wife, Echidna, would be spared because she was a widow and had birthed many of monsters--Cerberus, the Hydra, Chimera, Sphinx, the list goes on--who may seek revenge on humanity for her death. Argos killed Echidna in her sleep.
So killing Argos was hitting two birds with one stone. Io was freed and Echidna was avenged.
Fine looking lady: *Exists
Zeus: This is the love of my life
That's kind of a misinterpretation, most stories involving Greece's favorite adulterer rarely mention him being in love. He rarely looks at the same girl twice unless the first time didn't involve actually getting to do the deed. He's just hornier than a bunny in spring.
TheWebofHope
Come to think of it...is there ever a real reason why Zeus wants to have sex with anything that moves?
I love how heracles' family tree is just someone someone zeus someone someone zeus over and over again
(Basically) every Greek myth ever:
Zeus: Oh she’s hot
Hera: *death glares*
Let the insanity cook for a bit and you get a dead mortal(or something) and a child nobody wants or a hero or both
Or a big new monster for his born-of-rape bastard demigod children to kill.
and then Hermes has to lead them to Hades and he & Persephone will cheer them up
@@agungpriambodo1674
Literally any living female: So I was just minding my business and then.. *sobs*
Hades: Persephone! We got another one!
Persephone: *hands them tissues and pomegranate ice cream* there there honey it's okay
Last time I was this early hyacinthus was still alive
Chtere 201855 MOOD
Chtere 201855 we shall always remember
Oh... I need more of the gay
Me to
OHHH SHIT BOI! Are you Helios’s son cause you got burned!
HUSHSHSHSHS
So Zeus is Heracles' Great-something grand father, and his dad. Nifty.
He is Great-something grand father TWO TIMES!
This must be a new record!
You think his dna looks like a lightning bolt at this point.
@@jacobwilson8579 I lost it. I absolutely lost it.
@@jacobwilson8579 Well it's no surprise that he is the most powerful hero of Greece if he had Zeus DNA times 3 and Poseidon's once( Good Gods{Hades and Athena mainly} how fuckn wonderfull that Hades don't have his brother tendencies because with all big 3 DNA in one single hero...
Baszko Jesus imagine
Honestly I still love that screenshot of someone tweet that was floating around Pinterest. About a horde of Zeus child’s that team up to... resolve some daddy issues . Mainly Zeus tbh. With a kind old woman/witch that is totally is not Hera that is super done with her husband I swear!
... I actually want it in a book format
One word, Kratos.
I almost want to kiss you for pointing out that Ovid made his versions of the myths up.
That guy just ain't reliable for several reasons, including the fact that his Metamorphosis books were literally written as propaganda for Julius Caesar’s deification, and his control over Rome was divinely sanctioned by the fact that he was a descendent of the goddess Venus.
Ovid basically re-wrote and changed the ancient myths so that they’d match with the Roman gods; i.e. Mars (Ares) and Venus’ (Aphrodite) roles were increased, whereas chthonic gods roles were reduced. Among other things involving other gods, Ovid went as far to reduce Hades (or rather Pluto/Dis Pater/Orcus/shit-toI-of-other-names) to an elderly god of the riches below the earth and Persephone to a simpering maiden who was more concerned about her crushed flowers than the fact that she was being abducted.
After Julius was assassinated and subsequently deified under Augustus, and following the entire Pax Augusta and the century-long rule of the house of Julii, Ovid became scripture. The mythology was an afterthought, Caesar and the deification of his descendants was the goal.
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The thing that people need to remember about the ancient Greco-Italians is that different cults had different traditions that were then looped in under the worship of the Theoi. Some stories were later changed for continuity, and many different things were said and believed about the many different characters.
Master Yoda I was referring to Julius Caesar's deification and divinely sanctioned ridership over Rome. But yes, Augustus had it written.
@@harperfrye2800 All the versions are made up though?
sander heutink Not always, sometimes they were documentations of regional/cultural beliefs.
sander heutink the only difference in myths is which is older
Many myths can be seen as propaganda between cities and civilization. I always thinkthat the story of Minotaur was something made up by Athenians for demonizing people of Crete like "They fed a monster with the flesh of our young people".
(For every parallel Fascist or Stalinist propaganda, you earn a godwin point !)
“And never has to deal with Zeus again!”
Io: *flips Zeus off*
Me: YES. SHOW HIM THE ALMIGHTY MIDDLE ONE
Every time I watch this video, I pause that frame and just stare at it with deep satisfaction. LOL
AishaVonFossen I thought the same until I realized that Zeus shows up multiple times throughout the family tree of her descendants...
@@noclue4108 * sigh * Yeah, technically she would deal with him again, at least through her family to come. But at least she herself wouldn't. LOL
yeah, that's great happy ending
Having only ever heard up until the "turned into a cow" part of Io's myth, the thing that surprises me most is that Zeus felt guilty at all given he seems to never do so in any other myths I've heard. This is especially surprising given Ovid's apparent antiauthoritarian bias. Huh.
Zeus is surprisingly frequently depicted as a manchild who never thinks through the consequences of his own actions, but he still does feel bad about mortals in unfortunate situations, especially when it's his fault.
Loving that family tree with the action movie titles for Zeus. Maybe soon we’ll get Zeus 4: Return of the Perv-God
Then zeus 5: it's about time
Zeus 6: the revenge of hera
Zeus 7: Zeus strikes back
Zeuz 8: the lightning strikes twice
...and I'm out of ideas
That family tree.
*Sweet home Alabama plays intensely*
*Hapsburg family theme plays
@@mankomamada2545 *Full House theme plays
xP
@@Knasbas I'm sorry,I've never watched Full House.Is there some wierd incest plot?that sounds strange.
more like family thorn bush
@@mankomamada2545 Sorry for the confusion. That was just a really messed up joke om my part. ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
Character bashing: a thing in fanfic for at least 2000 years.
Apparently! Reassuring thought, really. After all the years I have spent in the Harry Potter fandom trying to dodge Ron bashing.
@@oof-rr5nf does anybody here follow hades on twitter
Hades' twitter is a normal suburban guy who's a stable CEO of the Underworld Hotel,married to Persephone who he never cheats on, and takes care of their children, along with Aphrodite's bastards
@@agungpriambodo1674 but you think hades apreciate dank memes?
@@unkindled6410
Man, being God of the Underworld is hard work. I think he would actually appreciate dank memes.
OSP: uploads
Me: clicks as fast as Zeus pounces on hot women
Notices in Herakles's genealogy that Zeus is both his Father's and his Grand Father's and his Great Grand Father and...I gonna stop here
Zeus, the ultimate MotherF***ka
Oh shit it's TRUE herc was a descendant of perseus wasnt he lol
"MotherF***ka" in every definition of that word.
Which means Zeus was just constantly having sex with his own daughters, great-nieces, and granddaughters.
Wait does that technically make Zeus his own father in law... Twice?
@@anonymousdratini in the case of the marriage of Persephone and Hades, he is both father in law for his brother and brother his law for his daughter...and also is her Uncle in law ?
Thanks God the Greek Gods have the excuse being the incarnation of concepts
Red: when Hera find out what happened she was mad.
Me: FINALLY Hera is going to channel her creative wicked witch powers towards Zues I wonder she is gonna curse him wit-
Red: at Io for some reason
Me: WTF,Hera I need answers and some creative cursing
According to some random comment on this video (aka I could be SO fucking wrong) it's because in Ancient Greece a wife couldn't retaliate against her husband but abusing his LOVERS was fine. So basically: "No punching up, but stepping on those below you? Epic, go for the throat."
Yeah...
Also, also, Hera originally wanted to take revenge on Zeus, bc she also had to marry him without wanting to but he won the battle and tortured her until she swore to never try to go against him again, that's why she only goes against the lovers and kids but never Zeus.
@@andreaguzman4885 See this is why I laugh my ass off at anything that portrays Zeus as good
I just sit there like "DO YOU KNOW MYTHOLOGY-"
Thanks for the tidbti, I didn't know that
@@anonguy772 Same, every time modern stories portray Zeus as a good guy and Hades as the Villain I cringe, bc in reality 90% of greek problems were Zeus fault and Hades was just the introvert who did his job and loved his wife. I think Lore Olympus is the one most similar with how the gods were, well except for my baby Apollo.
Why doesn't Hera just get the poor maiden away from Zeus before has a chance to have his way with her.
She wouldn't be retaliating against his crime, she'd be preventing him from making one.
Red - "Hey, here's all the info on Hermes!"
Audience - "Sweet. Hermes is as weird as ever."
*Io appears*
Red - "Did you notice the foreshadowing? :)"
Thank you Red for all the work you do. I hope someday we see how Hades or Hestia was created. I really don't know much of Hestia, since all Olympian head counts I saw always had Dionysus. And Hades is just Hades.
Both Hades and Hestia were born from Rhea and Cronos and inmediately swallowed by their dad. They are part of the original 6 olympians (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter).
My beast friend's head was cut off
This is your fault....
COW
Zeus feeling regret
I- I can’t believe it!
just the teeniest bit
IMPOSSIBLE
I can't believe its not butter!
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge that Hermes is the greatest Wingman that ever lived?
Get it? Wingman? Shoes with wings?
WAKA WAKA... Okay, I'll see myself out.
I am offended that nobody has applauded your Muppet Show reference here.
Fozzy: Not bad kid, not bad..
i finally understand it
wingman is like the helper that can be count on of somebody right?
@@riceanimation8751 A wingman is the person that helps you get a date
@@marcus2431 oh ok
I wonder how many times the Greek god family tree would have "Oops, incest" or "Zeus, for the nth time" in it
Probably for at LEAST as many likes as that comment has.
Isn’t the entire pantheon a result of incest ?
@@thegrandberry4418 it is. Gaia and Ouranos were mother a sun/brother and sister, the titans were all siblings, and the Olympians were siblings.
@@malcomalexander9437 omg
I've seen the Ovid version of Medusa's myth popping up all over lately. Thanks for clarifying that it was Ovid fanficcing the Pantheon. Great video!
All myth is *someone* fanficcing a pantheon.
To be fair, myths themselves are just retold and re-edited fan fiction about the various systems of natures in a humanoid AU.
I believe Red said it best one time where “nothing is actually canon, it’s all stories interconnecting with hundreds of years of retellings and such”. Really pantheons are some of the earliest form of fan fictions that everyone messed around in, in the form of cults of the time. So really I say don’t try and stress out on the canonicity of myths.
@@andrewrawlings5220 If the Myth predates the person who wrote it (Ovids case) then it should be Fanfic as he wasn't the original writer of Medusa tale
@Aibori KJ The entire point is that there ISN'T an "original". There is no such thing as an original version. Ovid's version is exactly as valid and exactly as invalid as anyone else's.
i really want Red's full version of each song she covers during end credits, that voice is golden!
Ditto
I'd settle for an explanation of "Michelle" being at to beginning.
Y'know, I always thought it weird that Medusa had two siblings who were also gorgons and yet was also originally human. Turns out there was a reason for that.
Some versions have Athena take pity on her and turn her sisters so she'd have company
Surprising he didn't just say her sisters were also priestesses and Poseidon went for a triple. Any number of reasons for them to split up or be killed separately leaving Medusa to be the big bad for Perseus.
Apparently, Athena thought that the sisters let Medusa go see Poseidon so she cursed them as well
4:14 Hera being furious at Io was most likely because the gods aren't allowed to war directly with each other. And so, caught in a box, Hera does the next best thing: torment Zeus by attacking his latest victim. This doesn't make Hera just, but it does explain her mentality, I think.
Wait, a happy ending?! In Greek Mythology?! We found another rare gem!
I know, right?
There are a few happy endings in Greek Mythology, like Eros and Psyche, Philemon and Baucis, Perseus, possibly Odysseus, and Pygmalion, to name a few.
@@EmmaAppleBerry gotta love sexism and If this is satire it's fucking hilarious.
@@EmmaAppleBerry it's greek mythology from thousands of years ago
what did you expect
@@kayfactor6663 what are you on about i didnt expect anything at all. I was responding to the main comment.
"Io's great great great great great great great grandson"
This sounded so funny for some reason lol
And Zeus' great great great great great great great grandson, great great grandson, and son.
It's even more funny when Zeus pops up in the family tree like 3 times.
"Worth it!"
All of your acoustic covers absolutely SLAP and also wonderful vid as always, Red
Uliana Chembrovich Michelle
On a down note: Io's dad Inachus never gets to know what happened to her, and spends his time filling the river with his tears over his lost daughter...
She never sends him so much as a letter?
There is no canon. Only different version. Great Point!
If I'm remembering correctly, another detail from Prometheus' prophecy was that this descended of Io's would end up freeing him, which ended up true when Heracles killed the eagle eating Prometheus' liver and broke his chains, but one piece remained on Prometheus' finger and became the first ring.
My Precious
Hades:”How am I the bad guy? I’m not even in this story.”
What is this a reference to something?
Wait so Ovid essentially made the tragic Medusa background from whole cloth? I I have heard only really hear variations of his version, and it referred to like it was a through line. Thanks for making this more common knowledge Red. And yeah this seriously is one of those perfect example of why death of the author is boring to subscribe to. Even our oldest and most wide-spread stories, are spread through a chain of differing interpretations and can tell us so much about the values of people even when we are not sure when a certain version actually is from.
Art does not suddenly loose that property when it is retold long enough, instead that constant reiterating makes the myths so much more powerful and fascinating.
*When you hit the like button and it goes from 2.8 to 2.9*
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Athena: "So I turned that bitch into a spider."
Aphrodite: "Awww, how sweet, now she can weave her heart out for all time."
Athena: ".....dammit."
Actually, Athena did that in purpose.
I enjoy seeing Zeus multiple times in the family tree. Classic Zeus!
me and friends of mine tried once to build up a mythological family
after a while "dammit zeus not again" was the most used phrase
4:56 I just realized just now that Io is flipping off Zeus lmao 😂
YOU WERE EXPECTING DIO
*BUT IT WAS I IO*
Yass my dude!
is that a Jojo reference?
I like to picture at the end of these videos the main character of that particular myth plays the guitar and sings whatever song red is singing and the image of Io playing guitar and singing "I will survive" is amazing.
While Ovid's version of Medusa's origin isn't in keeping with Athena's character (I actually thought it was Aphrodite which I guess shows how good my memory is), I think it's rather in keeping with the many many many many MANY stories of Zeus or Poseidon refusing to take no for an answer and their victims getting punished for it.
Yeah, but if we have to do something, we have to do it right!😂
From Cow to volcanic moon this girl cannot get away from Zeus
So that's why Yukari's initial persona rides on a cow's skull.
And why her persona transforms into a egyptian goddess
Zeus and Hera had a cow, E-I-E-Io.
That bovine lady was the girl E-I-E-Io.
Adventure here as a victim there, trot afar, gallop off, everywhere her hooves a-clop
She fulfilled her prophecy,
Now human named Io.
*Zeus appears* "Why do I hear porn music?"
Zeus: Did somebody order a pizza?
@@Hulkzilla0 yes, but I don't have any money
Fun fact: one of Hera’s epithets was “cow eyed”. And it was meant as a *compliment* .
BULLSEYE, HAHA!!
wait, what do you mean this isnt the archery competition?
oh.
OH.
>_>
"Kick zues in the.."
Godly sausage
Can it just be kick Zeus. I would be happy if we just kicked him like several thousand times.
@@chebikitty5566 Tutorial to punish Zeus (Best done if you have infinite power)
1 - Create the demonic equivalent of Lego, AKA Lego but designed to be painful
2 - Make an entire dimension out of it
3 - Remove Zeus' power and also his clothes
4 - Dunk him in the Lego world naked and powerless
5 - Laugh like a maniac at the karma
Done
Bonus: Go in there yourself once in a while and kick him. Repeteadly. In the balls.
Enjoy! :D
I need a retelling of the greek myths where Hera is actually chill. When Zeus decides to take an interest in a new mortal, she'd sit them down and make them tea, and then threaten Zeus into paying child support
So the tragic origin story of Medusa was actually some piece of fanfiction created by some guy with an anti-authoritive point of view? That's interesting, I didn't know that! Thanks for the enlightenment, Red!
Hermes "Is it a booty call?"
Zues "Kinda."
Hermes "... Fiiiiine."
Poor Hermes, janitor of the gods.
Such a millennial icon
Last time i was this early Zeus and Hera were just two siblings chilling
C Christopher *sweet home Alabama plays.*
"The world's most powerful man child" sounds about right.
... wow, I honestly never had insight into Aved personally (nor which iteration of Medusa came first). Red, you continue to rock my (mythological) world!
My favorite part about the Io myth is the fact that Zeus basically says "I promise I'll never try anything with _this specific woman_ ever again!" to get Hera to lay off on Io, and never says anything about trying anything with _other_ women. It makes me wonder if Hera was genuinely touched by that or just figured it was the best she'd get out of him XD
Also, love the little rant in the credits. While I do personally agree with Death of the Author on some degree myself (so I disagree partially with Red on that front at least), I also agree that the idea of there being a "true canon" to Greek Mythology is pretty much meaningless, because even the people who _originally wrote it down_ couldn't agree on what happened in it. Ovid's takes on the myths in particular were, iirc, basically glorified fanfiction. Greek mythology has ALWAYS been open to interpretation and always been able to be adapted/altered/refined depending on who's writing about it. And it continues to be that way even now.
I noticed JoCat as a Patron of your videos.
This pleases the plant
Thanks so much for your credits text about the "real" version of myths! I get the same feelings when people talk about the "real" version of fairy tails as they are a type of myths which evolved a lot before being written down and have different meanings depending on who tells them and who listens (I would be interested to know if Rapunzel has any link with the myth of Danae: girl grows up locked in a tower, figure of power manages to get in and knocks her up, when her parent/guardian realises it, she gets thrown out of the tower)
ohh my god I never thought about that!
Excuse me, can we take a bit of time to look at HOW MANY TIMES ZEUS IS IN THAT FAMILY TREE?!?!
Three times...that we know of...
1:25 i’ve never heard a more clear summary of zeus in my life
4:59 - 5:09
I AM SHOCK!!!!!!!!
Despite Zeus divine intervention by banging on the line of Io’s descendants twice.
And the fact that Heracles (Hercules) is a direct descendant of Io and Zeus trice.
WOW!!!! 😮
Shocking
5:06 Wait that mean that since IO is I think a half god because her father is the river god that means her son is 3/4 god and that his daughter is 3/8ths god and then that Poseidon messes that up by making her son/daughter(idk) 7/8th god and then both his/her sons/daughters are 7/16th god and then both there sons/daughters are 7/32 god then since both of them are first cousins and since they got, eww, together, eww, that make there son/daughter abas the same 7/32nd god as they are both since nothing is being added or subtracted then that would make abases son/daughter 7/64th god and then his /her daughter 7/128th god then Zues fucks that up by making her son Perseus 71/128th god then his son/daughter is 71/256 a god right so that his/her son/daughter is 71/512th a god right then Zues fucks that up by making Heracles 327/512th god wow that is cool. Also that make Perseus, Heracles both his great grandfather and brother LMAO like what?
Props to you for doing the math
liam perry don’t think too much about it.
What
Someone did the math and apparently Hercules is actually about 75% god, so there's that.
Come again?
When you watch the Perseus video, and then watch this, you realize Red used Ovid's telling of Medusa, and now here she is years later correcting herself.
I'm still surprised no one's made a sitcom based on the entire greek mythology
That Guy From Outer Space I think they did... it ended after season one I think 🤔
i live for miscellaneous myths tbh
2:24 Now I know what Thor meant by "Shapeshifting rapist"
This is the nicest Hera has been to any of Zeus' mistresses. Relatively.
I think my favorite underrated moment in this video is the family chart she makes at the end. Put effort and thought into it, also funny as hell
“OoOpS, iNcEsT”
that comment alone explains lots about greek myth
Hera ruining everyone lives for minor things that is out of their control.
I lost count, do you guys have an idea what part we are in?
I think the treatment of Arachne was justified, and way nicer than some of the things other godesses would have done. The punishment was irony, not death by quest, as Hera or Aphrodite tried to do multiple times.
She had it coming. She insulted a goddess then wove a tapestry of said goddess’s dad banging a bunch of ladies
@@ametsunami4070 I agree and It's real maybe they mourn at the loss of europa and lots of mortal being tricked by Gods I think Hera's punishment was way worse than Athena
Partly because Arachne claimed to be better than Athena, whose spheres of influence include weaving.
@@ametsunami4070 So...she basically told the truth.
@@ametsunami4070 I mean, that's not Arachne's fault that what she said bothered Athena, she was telling the truth
Wow. Calling Zeus a man-child. I LOVE IT! Keep doing more!
no lie only fax
Now I'm just scared for her