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Atlas: The Strongest Titan (Greek Mythology Explained)
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Atlas #GreekMythology
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Just imagine if one day atlas just yeet the universe aside and stand up, i bet that would be the most satisfying" back-crack" ever.
That will never happen, Turn to Jesus . Jesus is Lord
@@jyk4736 um... U do know im Christian right? I just said that as a joke
@Jayllourd Mars Gomez do you knw what it means to force?
Ok guys... lets not make this political or religious
@@sesameseed5078 God isnt a religion tho, he just wants a relationship and he hates sin. Thas all
Atlas is the very definition of "I'm carrying my whole team"
Ok.
@@zhangxina19 yare yare
@Flynn Jonathan bots lol
Why do you think Kronos Put him in charged the Titan army.
Plot twist...Atlas is a masochist.
Atlas is my favorite titan, the idea of him holding the earth/heaven for millennia is just so cool.
Right, plus Atlas is a true being a.k.a Titan who keep his promise and do what he say hes going to do and do it. Atlas should be treated better.
@@gabrielhughes8221 eh, Atlas has moral dilemmas just as other personage. Atlas was not righteous nor evil, and it's common nature to try to navigate ones way out of a captive/prison situation. Also... Heracles didn't dupe him again, trust that Atlas did in fact resume his position, but also yes.. Atlas had a "left" mind to not continue his sentence any longer.
@@SilverPhoenix-PlazmaMoon Oh wow very interesting.
The book of solom describes demons of such characteristics and Solomon binded them to hold up the heavens an the eart
But who did it before him if that was a job that needed to be done? It's just feels like a temp work, someone made one day.
It's also dumb because why doesn't he drop everything and kill Zeus. He lost the war and expected to die.
Atlas holding up the cosmos for so long embodies his patience, strength and selflessness.
In a way, it feels like all of us are Atlas, each having to carry the burden of our entire lives until the end, holding it firm to make sure we don't decide to let it all come crashing down, while the strain of it only bears down. Gravity doesn't stop and neither does life. Keep holding it as high as we can until we no longer can.
I like to think that Atlas was honorable but uncompromising, loyal to a fault to his friends and family yet ruthless to his enemies and who can blame him for defending the only family and structure he's ever known?
Well said me too
Atlas was a noble Titan. It was his sense of duty that kept him holding the sky. That was how the Titans were defeated, by getting Atlas to act as a pillar. Perseus unknowingly freed him from the burden.
*SKY
@@argentivulpes2813 thanks for the correction. There's a saying in China that says women hold up half the sky. I wonder where Atlas' better halves went while Atlas held the sky.
@@jankarlelenzano6591
Well, how would they be the "better halves" in terms of strength, or just because they're women? 🤔
@@thalmoragent9344 maybe I should have put quotation marks, to indicate sarcasm.
Always just saw him as a guy punished because he fought on the losing side. Thanks for giving him some depth.
Atlas is definitely my favorite Titan ever. Along with Cronus and Oceanus. But mainly Atlas.
I like Starfire and Nightwing. Oops wrong Titans. 😋😁
Prometheus is my boy
Hyperion, Crius, and Thia are my favorite.
My favorite Titan is the Tennessee titans #titan up
His name was featured in the acronym S.H.A.Z.A.M.
2020 Atlas drops the world and goes nope. No more I'm not dealing with earth anymore.
He's holding the heavens tho not earth
@@ebonilla2486 that's what I meant.
can't blame im
🧐
@@gitBritt either way it all comes to an end if he lets it fall
Atlas has always been one of the most interesting characters in Greek mythology to me
I think his fate/life is definitely one of the saddest, similar to Prometheus, although Prometheus was saved and Atlas was "killed" by Perseus. Very entertaining and educational, big up
Actually he was freed by Hurcules in one version.
It's unfortunate that Atlas suffered a terrible punishment at the hands of Zeus and is forced to hold the entire world on his shoulders, but I'm also impressed in how Noble and sinister Atlas can be from what I heard hear.
You should do a video on my boi, Achilles. The rageaholic speed demon, who chose to live a short, yet glorious life, rather than a long, uneventful life.
Cheers for the good content
The first speed runner
@@mainemail5506 yes
Man has to have the worst back pain ever like
I want videos about Nyx, Tartarus, and Hecate.
ur emo/edgy we get it.
@@Dustpuma1 They're interesting gods, and neither tend to get much attention.
The Horned King Ian gone cap this interesting asf😂
@@Deeboy870 ... what?
@@Dustpuma1 being emo or edgy has nothing to do with curiosity of Nyx, Tartarus, and Hecate. Though they're dark and underworld gods.
“Realizing the gravity of the situation”
-Hercules is forced to keep the sky from falling to the Earth
Intended or unintended pun?
When Atlas came to get the apple, that must have been the most awkward family reunion ever.
Or the happiest
Nothing excites me more than learning about Greek mythology....💖
Myths are close to our true ancient history!!! Just saying
@@typojakob myths not really to history but legends,it was stories that were made to answer questions that at the time people can’t answer.
I worked at this golf course and the other employees would call me Hercules, there was this older math teacher i worked with and he said you aren't Hercules you are Atlas. Thats where I got my nickname. It is nice to know specifics. Great video.
Do the "Three Fates" next, said to have been Greater than the Gods.
Atlas is a mountain range in north Africa,
ancient greeks spoke about the wolrd as though it was its self made of gods. they used their names to describe thier ideas in daily life.
*"He's got the whole world in his hands"* lol 😂 sorry
You wrong.. LMBO..😂
you just won the internet today!
Space Pirate Jacen
He didn’t hold up the world. He held up the sky, preventing it from colliding onto the earth.
If you are referencing Jesus, you are referencing Jupiter/Zeus.
Jupiter represents expansion, Zeus kills Father Time. Sound familiar?
The symbolism of eating children, is killing precious time.
@Amber Hoke I’ve studied symbolism, etymology, mythology, religion and syncretism for close to 20 years. I don’t spread bullshit. If you don’t believe me, do your own research.
I'm confused about something. In the video the narrator claims that Atlas met Perseus after Heracles but if I recall correctly Alcmene, Heracles mother, was the granddaughter of Perseus which means Heracles was the great-grandson of Perseus so how could Atlas meet Heracles before Perseus if Perseus was born before Heracles? Answers anyone?
You can meet children before meeting their great grandfather as many live to see generations of children.
@@hydrolito True I guess though since Heracles was an adult when he met Atlas then Perseus must have been very old though since he was a Demigod it's possible this could have made him unnaturally long-lived.
according to Prometheus bound , Prometheus tried to persuade his family to fight for olympians but only Epemetheus agreed , although he himself later regretted this and believed he had replaced one tyrant with another.
I would really like the next titan video be about Hyperion
p.s. atlas meeting Hercules then Perseus is probably one of the first prequels in history of storytelling.
You mentioned that Ge (Gaia) had asked for help to kill chronus which was a mistake you made a few times, it was Uranus not Chronus she wanted killed 😉
@Willy Poundertoosh chronus or cronos?
Also no!
@Willy Poundertoosh Uranus is cronos father I believe
Cronos was asked by Gaia to subdue Uranus who sliced off his junk and threw it into the ocean. Rhea asked Zeus to help kill Cronos.
It's probably time for him to let go
Thats what happened earlier this year
Since he isn't holding anything but maybe his own balls, I'd say that's fine because The Bible doesn't state this therefore this isn't what he's doing.
🅰tlas : The Most Unjustly punished and tortured Titan :[
Stories tell that years/centuries later all of the Titans were released from Tartarus. Kronos was made king of Elysium. Zeus freed Prometheus but demanded he wear a ring with a chunk of the mountain he was incarcerated on.
Atlas was said to be released from his sentence, other claims say he was turned into a solid mountain by Medusa’s head.
But again, these were written into the mythos centuries later. So the legitimacy of it is questionable, but i always liked the idea of Prometheus and Atlas meeting so long after the Titanomachy and both asking each other who Zeus fucked over more lolXD
@Space Ghost definitely Prometheus
@Space Ghost Word.
i think the worst and unjust punishment was Medusa
Space Ghost don’t forget that Prometheus was saved atlas was not
Wait so how was everything held up before Atlas?
They just left it on a table or something.
@@uglyhorseE thanks, now im not confused at all
Lol good question...
And whats holding the ground hes positioned on?????????
And how can he wedge them undies to a comfy position if he cant let go????????
And how can he eat and use restroom when he needs too?????????
@@hsmith979 he’s an immortal Titan, he doesn’t need to eat
From what I remember everything was held up by the combined power of 4 titans that represented the cardinal directions(I can't remember all of their names but I think hyperion was one of them)
I can't picture in my mind how Atlas could hold the sky on his shoulders even though the sky is intangible.
there's literally a picture of that in the video. picture it like that
Because you have a modern understanding of the sky. The ancient Greeks believed the sky to be a hard canopy spread out over the earth.
The earth is surrounded by the sky.....
On jesus christ I woke up thinkin about an atlas book I had growing up that was stolen. This is wild.
synchronicity
Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhh Ok... LMAO! Man, on Thor that really is wild!
Did Cronos really eat his children or is that just a metaphor for an empire conquering and re-assimilating break-away and younger civilizations that spawned from its Empire.
Zeus's story is about being in an unknown territory, allowed to amass power and resources for a rebellion.
Personally I always liked Atlas and Prometheus, over all other Titans And Gods.
technically all mythologies are legends that are rooted in facts so yeah you are probably right
Both i think are correct
Zeus's killed his father same story as when Lucifer betray God.
Can be metaphor for imprisonment of his kids and only Zeus was able to escape.. We have similar mythology in Hinduism where a king has prophecy tat his 8th nephew will kill him so hi kills all the his nephew and niece as soon as they are born.. But the 8th kid is saved by his father ND transported to nearby village and in his teenage he fulfilled the prophecy..
from what I read. they were so powerful he feared for his position.. like a Lion kicks out the young whats they learn how to Hunt... Its a pride thing
Atlas is a plagiarized version of Egyptian Deity Shu. The Greeks get too much credit when truthfully they were students in of Khem
How so?
Students of keen were part of a more ancient order at the basis of belief. Just as most all major religions have been. God works in all men. Because of the Tower of Babel, God confused the languages of all man so they could not understand. That is when religions split
Ok and now they are two different gods
@@singmysin they're not two different God's. They're the same God being portrayed by two different civilisations. And obviously the Original holds more value
Cool, didn't know that much about Atlas yet. Nice artwork by Iro Pagis again.
I always wonder how did atlas even got the apples like did the gods that saw him did not question how tf is this titan even here? Whos holding the world wtf? And you want golden apples?
Lol true,but i think zeus(or odin i forgot) have the vision of the whole world so he tell the guardian and gods of the apple already know he’s coming
Atlas is giving his grandpa Uranus an endless piggyback
Hercules was like dame smh poor guy, let me atleast get him a pillar.... lmao.
If u think abt it, the titans helped humanity much more than the greek gods ever did in the stories....given fire by prometheus (even created by prometheus lol), alive cuz atlas holds the heavens and meanwhile the gods gave humanity a couple of horses and turned them into spiders or grated meatballs
I would like to see a video dedicated to Hera the queen of the gods
There is no such Female Diety today...
There is only The King of The Gods > The Son of Man
And He has been King for 4 years now..
And He does NOT have a Queen yet...
The "Queen of The Gods" as you say, got DETHRONED 5 years ago by a Human.
The Son of Man, He Is Human.
He calls Hera, Hekky...
For personal reasons and Hera LOVES it...
Go ask her...
Tell her I said so...
@@justelder6192 wtf
@@justelder6192 you seem to be on a copious amount of narcotics
Who hold the sky before Atlas ???
nobody , meaning old world was a mystical and foggy place
I can explain this one for u, well see when gaea created Ouranos, the father of the titans , Ouranos was the sky and didn’t need to be held up by a titan at the time. But see Gaea became angry with Ouranos because he cast away Gaea’s other children, the cyclopes and hekitonchires (forgot how to spell it) . Ouranos viewed them as hideous and abominations, Which angered Gaea. She then fashioned a Scythe or Sickle, and had her son Kronos murder Ouranos. This is what led to the sky being needed to be held up and it had titans taking turns holding up Ouranos.
was juuuuuuuuuuuust about to ask the same thing.
the 4 brothers of Cronus held Ouranos (Heaven) up before Atlas.
@@locolando8139 still doesnt work as punishment was give after the great war between titans and gods so who held the sky in the period between ouranus defeat and cronos defeat
as long as you are aware that this is not the original version of the story and was rewritten and all lies the greek gods were always a troublesome and treacherous. Atlas is Chronos is Saturn and he is The Guardian of Planet Earth. Saturn was called Garden and Earth was called Arden
So Hermes is Atlas grandson. Neat you learn something new everyday
Maybe Uranos, the sky God in next episode?
To step out of the typical 3D interpretations of Atlas' punishment, and recognize the extant higher (and lower and lateral) dimensions, it sounds like Atlas was sent into the Void. The punishment is symbolic of "carrying the weight of the cosmos" (Zeus' responsibility), and the true punishment is standing in the Void, a very real realm outside of realities, removed from his trouble causing. And word has it, Atlas WAS eventually allowed back. Just some potentially triggering considerations for humans.
nice.
Gotta give this a thinking!
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Playing D&D with the people who created these Legends and gods would be THE greatest thing to ever happen, ever. It would cure cancer, I'm sure of it.
The gods are the children of titans so arent titans gods themselves?
Yes they are they are the Elder gods
You seem to have left out that the Earth and sky were themselves gods who were characterized as being lovers, so Atlas was tasked with keeping them apart.
Sure you're not mixing ancient Egyptian into Atlas' story? 🤔
CBing gramma & grampa. Cause no one wants to see that.
Not really, since Chronos "killed" the sky, aka, his father before he took the throne so that's not what Atlas is doing.
@@Lupinemancer87 can't kill a primal
Kenji87 Chronos didn’t kill Ouranos, he simply cut off his testicles.
Not much better, but eh.
3:30 that made me wheeze so hard-
Atlas, holds the world up in West Africa, Mauritania? Perseus crystallized him into the mountains? Could perseus be the cause of the downfall of Atlantis? Killing Atlas destroyed Atlas' kingdom?
I'd like to hear more about Percius and Hercules.
could you do the father of atlas & his brothers & their wives if you haven't already?
Zeus has a PH.d in giving punishments
Learned more about Atlas than him being "the titan burdened with holding up the heavens".
Your mention of "inheriting" Kronos' selfishness, makes me wonder if the gods/titans have traits of each other, or their "parents".
For example, a more benevolent/malevolent nature.
Yeah in truth the gods are also Titans. The gods like Zeus and the others who was around his time their our know to be the second generation of Titans. However like you said the Titans are more into the elements in all Nature. The so called Titans is more as spirits/ entity being's ,and their bright the gods who the gods are more connected towards the Cosmos. In a matter of speaking the gods seem so what equal to their parents or a little bit more powerful!? Its both been stated or just a Theory???
Thanks that was very helpful 😊
Next you should do the other punished titan Prometheus, of course. And then Hercules. Hopefully you have already done those. So lets go watch them.
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼 How about weapons of the gods/titans?
The Legend of History, I Love and, Respect Atlas for his Strength, and, Protecting the Entire the Planet and, Children, and future generations, 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🤝💯💡👑.
12:01 saying that Atlas is honorable
Atlas, alongside his brother prometheus are my personal favourite titans.
I believe atlas is the same as people today some just want peace but when themselves and there family that are threatened they take action and even if they fail they fully take the consequences of there actions but that's just me the only tribe we have is family but what is family
Would you please do a video on the Titanesses? That would awesome!
If Atlas had met Heracles before Perseus that would be a contradiction, given that Heracles was a grandson of Perseus. Unless, of course, Perseus lived on well after Heracles was born. I guess if you conflated the two separate accounts Perseus went West before deciding to go East and establish the Persian kingdom.
A video on Hyperion or Helios would be nice.
Yes, I would love to see a video of these two sun gods and their similarities and differences!
@@j.leecharlton3740 Hyperion is actually *not* a Sun God. Only his son Helios is. Hyperion represents Heavenly Light and is seen as the Watcher from above.
Almost close! I knew he was associated with the light somehow. I need to brush up on my Greek Mythology a bit more. Thank you for the reminder.
@@j.leecharlton3740 I'm glad to have helped a little. I've been focusing pretty heavily on Greek Mythology lately (mostly thanks to the God of War series), so I'm happy to have helped expand your knowledge.
@@auroramartell Then this also explains the representation of Selene for the Moon and their sister Aurora to symbolize the Dawn in the sky too. It's all coming back to me.
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Nice work and please make one video on The Titan #Hyperion.
Atlas reminds me of that Lil Wayne song “drop the world” 😂🔥
Yep🤣🤣🤣
Citizen Solider’s Weight of The World
Wouldn’t the Olympians themselves be Titans? They are the children of Titans, in the same Atlas is himself. What was holding up the skies before though?
Hera would be interesting to know more about
If Atlas becoming a huge mountain range could be most plausible, would that mean the strain of bearing the heaven's weight upon him, would no longer exist?
The Perseus story is before Heracles bc Heracles great grandmother is Perseus' daughter
I don't feel like it's the 2nd one because in Hercules's 12 labors. Hercules was able to hold the sky for Atlas
Ancient Greeks sure have a very intelligent ideas to makeup stories like this. It's so strange.
Lol You all are going to be very surprised when you find out what is real..
These ancient niggas took hallucinogenics, only way they could come with this shit.
No Make up stories those stores are fucking real
@@mosthigh1007 I already know it’s real
I think it was in an old film adaptation of the Percius myth. (Maybe even the original clash of the titans. I can't remember well since I last saw it over ten years ago) that Percius came upon atlas in his travels and took pity on the titan who seemed to be kind hearted. And when he came back from killing Medusa, Atlas asked him to turn him to stone so he would be at peace and no longer have to suffer. I can't remember well but I always preferred that version of Atlas. A good natured being who simply wanted to be free of his pain. Though in that same vein I like the idea of Heracles building some pillars for him so he could be free. I always imagine him going to be with what's left of his family.
I don’t think he’s the strongest. He’s capable of lifting the sky, but in Hercules’ labors, Hercules held the sky for Atlas so Atlas could retrieve some golden apples for him. And Hercules was a demigod. Thus presumably weaker than a god. And Titans are very much the same kinds of entities as gods, only separate by generation.
Heracles got help from Athena and he only held it for a few days and it nearly broke him.
Facts
Hercules was as strong as a god. Mythology isn't super consistent but the myths suggest that Atlas is the strongest of all the gods. Prometheus called Atlas supreme in strength. And in the Perseus myth it's suggested that no one can compete with Atlas' strength, so Perseus turns him into stone instead.
@starlight_93 actually there are black Attica depictions of Athena watching over Heracles as Atlas retrieves the golden apples. So you are incorrect there literally are some showing Athena helping Heracles. Now it is correct that its not a common depiction but it is indeed an actual one of the period.
@starlight_93 There is an ancient greek vase with a depiction of Athena helping Heracles lift the earth/heaven.
Could we get a video about HYPERION please.
Just listening to the various myths or stories of Atlas I think I have a better comprehension of the etymology and origin of what the world is familiar with about the word "atlas" and how it figures in with geography, maps and the mountain range in Africa.
Kinda wish he would toss up a vid of Xena warrior princess
Can you do one on Metis?
Atlas is my favorite Titan. Maybe do his father Iapetus next.
Try Rhea, the Mother of the Olympians!!
Atlas got the best thing he could have, by being turned to stone. he has no weight to bear or anything seems bitter sweet.
So, in all this narrations, the only question that was not answered is "What or Who was holding the Heavens and the Earth before Atlas?"
The fallen Angel's proclaiming themsleves gods
I agree.
Makes perfect sense.
@@ricovdcafda for real ain't no way people in that time having that type of mindset
Those Titians were Fallen angels
No
Do a video about CALYPSO
PLEASE
What happened after he was made rock becus kf not guestinf properly
Living for your videos on Greek Mythology!! Can't wait for more!!
I never liked how an elder god could be turned to stone like that.
meaning if medusa had a chance to make revenge with the male gods she can turned them into stone
Yeah it makes not sense.
The celestial sky is too heavy for Atlas to shrug it off. He isn't enduring it willingly.
How did the Greeks come up with so many stories ?
Well I guess that the authors just had so much free time that they decided to write some stories about thier beliefs to thier people.
I thought Heracles was the grandson of Perseus. I'm a bit confused how Heracles was the first to outsmart Atlas then Perseus. I thought the whole killing and using of Medusa's head was from before Heracles was even born.
always remember: Mythology is NOT an Orthodoxy.
Any poet or priest or philosopher can write any re-working of the mythic figures that they are inspired to write (but they should only do so when legit INSPIRED to do so, not to host book signings). It's a flexible, even personal, and evolving "doctrine" of wisdom.
(which made it adjust perfrctly to harmonize with scientific discoveries. there's no conflict between Science and the Sacred in Paganism
I think the narrator means HERCULES not Heracles ..as Hercules had to do the 12 deeds ..
@@zigmeesherpa4488 Hercules and Heracles is the same person. Hercules is the Roman name given to Heracles.
@@Lu11abi This is already a written literature, and there's not one where Heracles lived before Perseus. And the whole killing of Medusa was done by Perseus and not Heracles. You can just search it online, or grab a greek/roman mythology book and read the stories.
@@daveDickinson5983 thanks man I didn't know👋🙌
Jupiter goes toe to toe with Saturn on December 21.
How do you know???
@@angelnicolemclean4454 it’s called the great convergence. It already happen
I feel atlas was a unsung hero
Where do yall learn more about greek gods and the wars? Are there any books? Im reading Percy Jackson and now want to learn more about the gods
So what was holding up the sky before Atlas?
Heavy is the weight - Memphis may fire. Atlas life song.
Atlas's Strength is remarkable 👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐
If I were Atlas, I'd shrug.
The Titans held supremacy over the whole Earth and all living things on it until Cronus became power-mad (insane?), devouring his children including Zeus and Hera, the future Olympian King and Queen of not only the Gods but mankind as well. Getting to Atlas, because he took part in the Titan-Olympian War, Zeus proved how cruel he was by subjecting Atlas to his eternal fate: holding up the sky (heavens) on his shoulders. I always wondered what would have happened IF Atlas dropped the sky (or Earth) from his shoulders! Can you conceive such an event happening? IT WOULD BE THE END OF NOT ONLY OLYMPUS, BUT EARTH AND THE CREATURES ON IT! OLYMPIAN RAGNAROK!!!! Atlas is my favorite Titan, along with Prometheus, who also suffered at the wrath of Zeus! Atlas should have ruled Olympus!!!!😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
agree
Yes, Cronos swallowed the stone instead of Zeus. Rhea, Zeus's mother, hid the infant God (Zeus was not a man, i.e. mortal) so he could grow to adulthood and take on Cronos and free his brothers and sisters. So yes, Amber, thank you for clarifying that!
Congrats on a job well done with your channel, The Legends of History. One detail though, the battle is known as titanomachy. Thanks for the content you prepare and offer here
Anybody figure out what all these myths mean? Do the represent countries rising and falling, do they represents people minds and and they think, or is it all just somebodys mad mind explaining away concepts without any rhyme or reason?
Ever consider doing some videos on Tolkiens mythology??