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hi I'm Mike this is crash course

mythology and today we're going to talk

about something that's almost impossible

to avoid when discussing is creation

best sex or more specifically sexual

reproduction yeah it's going to be a

little awkward stop covering your ears

so you're going to be fine you can

handle it we can all handle it we're all

adults and after all sexual reproduction

is how all of us got to be here well

maybe not Toto is born of set skull

bula but for the rest of us it probably

makes sense that a lot of cosmic

creation that's often invoke sexual

reproduction still cosmic sexual

reproduction is a little different and

sometimes a lot weirder than human

sexual reproduction well I mean

depending upon what you're into of

course

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so let's ease into this with a little

lacking

sexy sexy Lackey so you know how when

you grow plants they come from seeds

well in Latin the word for seed is semen

which is why I'm an seminal fluid is

also sometimes called to seed the idea

of something growing from a seed is a

logical analogy to creation but multiple

godly fluids seem to be fertile as we'll

see in an Egyptian creation in one of

the many versions of the Egyptian

creation story the Creator God says I

fulfilled all my desires when I was

alone before there had appeared a second

to be with me in this place I assumed

form as that great soul wearing I

started being creative while still in

the primeval waters in a state of

inertness so it was I who spat forth

shoe and expectorated tested so honestly

that sounds a lot more like saliva at

least in translation but the image

becomes clear in a later part of the

myth when the God relate when I rubbed

with my fist my heart came into my mouth

and in that I spat forth shoe and

expectorated tests knew thankfully this

myth isn't actually explicit and what

the guys are doing and the anatomy is

obviously a little strange but here the

God alone fulfilling his desires and

rubbing with his fists with the result

that two new figures also gods are

created it's not Shakespeare level body

but neither is it Disney Channel

material right notice that the Creator

God here is alone and also presumably

male this may suggest a patrilineal

culture since creation occurs without a

female presence the story of boom both

creation from the bush angle bond to

people in Africa is remarkably similar

including water solitary creator and

best of all vomiting yeah it's a banner

day for bodily fluids here at crash

course in the beginning in the dark

there was nothing but water and boom bo

was alone one day Bobo was in terrible

pain here etched and strained and

vomited up the Sun after that light

spread over everything

the heat of the sun dried up the water

until the black edges of the world began

to show black sand banks and reefs could

be seen but there were no living thing

boomba vomited up the moon and then the

stars and after that the night had its

light also still boomba was in pain he

strained again and nine living creature

came for last of all came back again we

have a solitary man creating the world

using his body and bringing it forth

after being in terrible pain which is

possibly an analogue to female

childbirth and speaking of pain few

myths involve more of it than the Greeks

creation story involving Aphrodite I

mean this myth just has it all

water genitals violence creation armored

giant really just the whole completely

horrifying Magilla here's the version

found in Hesiod's Theogony great heaven

came bringing on the night and desirous

of love he spread himself over the earth

stretched out in every direction

his son Chronos reached out from the

ambush with his left hand with his right

he took a huge sickle with its long row

of sharp teeth and quickly cut off his

father's genitals and flung them behind

him to fly where they might they were

not released from his hand to no effect

for all the drops of blood that flew off

were received by the earth and as the

years went round she bore the powerful

Aran II and the great giant in gleaming

armor with long Spears in their hands

and the Mintz whom they called Melly I

on the boundless earth as for the

genitals just as he first cut them off

with his instrument of adamant and threw

them from the land into the surging sea

even so they were carried on the wave

for a long time about them a white foam

grew from the immortal flesh and in it a

girl form first she approached holy sigh

Sarah and then from there she came to

Siegert high press and out stepped a

modest and beautiful goddess and the

grass began to grow all round

beneath her slender feet gods and men

call her Aphrodite

because she was formed in foam and

Siberia because she approached sigh

Sarah and Cyprus born because she was

born in wave washed Cyprus and genial

because she appeared out of genitals

side note I need to stop using the word

genial as an adjective and there you

have it ladies and gentlemen a violent

castration but get a word meaning

friendly or cheerful and the goddess of

love

well one goddess of love there are lots

of others and we'll see more of them in

later episodes on Pantheon but enough

about saliva and vomit and bleeding

testicles and other horrifying things

that can potentially be read if semen

let's turn to that other important part

of sexual reproduction the egg a number

of cultures have creation myths that

feature something called a cosmic egg

and one Indian creationist found in the

chateaux pasa bro hamana the Creator God

in this story called Prajapati forms a

cosmic egg after creating water out of

which this egg come various creatures

but most importantly the earth and the

rest of the universe which confusingly

in also water one translation from the

19th century puts it this way he desired

may I be reproduced from these waters he

entered the waters with that triple

science then an egg arose he touched it

let it exists let it exists and multiply

so he said from it the Brahman was first

created and that which was the shell

became the earth the juice which flowed

from it became a tortoise this whole

earth dissolved itself all over the

water all this universe appeared as one

form only namely water so that is

confusing and also wet also what is this

triple science that he enters the water

with what we do understand is that water

brings forth an egg and from that egg

comes the Earth's sky a tortoise and

more water there's an early Persian

creation story that's similar to the one

from India and that it also had an egg

and hey our old friend water is here too

according to this story the god of good

hora Mazda and let's remember this is a

God not a make and model of car ha ha ha

ha

a horror Mazda created a perfect

spiritual world before creating the

tangible and this perfect world made the

god of evil I'll remind you

aka Ahriman so angry that he burst

through the cosmic egg causing such a

disturbance that the Sun began to rotate

through the sky instead of standing

still this in turn led today night

mountain valleys most importantly the

destruction of the perfect world which

led to work pain death for Humanity so

nice going evil you know they say you

can't create the universe without

breaking a few cosmic eggs what too soon

and why are they no creation myths about

cosmic bacon I could really go for a

common breakfast there's one more cosmic

egg creation myth that I want to talk

about and it follows really nicely from

the zoroastrian one about a hora Mazda

and on reminding you because like that

one it features a duality as a

fundamental principle of creation one of

the many Chinese creation myth combines

a cosmic egg trope with a world parent

myth let's go to the thought-bubble

in the beginning was a huge egg

containing chaos a mixture of yin yang

female male passive active cold heat

dark light and wet dry within this union

was fond COO that which was not yet

anything but which closed forth from the

egg as the giant who separated chaos

into the many opposite including earth

and sky Fong who was covered with hair

horns sprang from his head and tusks

from his mouth with a great chisel and a

huge mallet he carved out the mountains

valleys rivers and ocean he also made

the Sun moon and star he taught the

people what they know when Fon ku

finally died his skull became the top of

the sky

his breath the wind his voice the

Thunder his legs and arms the four

direction his flesh the soil his blood

the rivers and so the people say that

the fleas in his hair became human being

everything that is is Fung - and

everything that Fon ku is

in the yin-yang with fonkoze death a

vacuum was created and within this

vacuum pain and sin were able to

flourish in the beginning with chaos

from which light became the sky and

darkness forms the earth Yang and Yin

are contained in light and darkness and

everything is made these principles

thanks thought-bubble here we see that

many of the themes in creation myths

overlap for example last week we talked

about chaos as being a state of

undifferentiated and here it appears

again although this time it's a series

of dualities mixture of yin-yang unlike

in the Bible where God has to come in

and create a duality as a way of

imposing order although this myth

features a cosmic egg it's also an

example of what are sometimes called

world parent myths where a Creator God

brings the universe into being through

actual or metaphorical sexual

reproduction or as in this case by being

differentiated into aspects of the known

world those of you who remember crash

course world history episode 6 on Vedic

religions Buddhism and Ashoka might

recall the story of Purusha who was also

divided up into aspects of human reality

although funko and Purusha are usually

thought of as male if they are thought

of having a gender at all often the

world parent is portrayed as maternal an

earth mother as opposed to a sky father

but that is a story for another day so

that is our first take on creation

stories that involve either explicitly

or more symbolically sexual reproduction

as you can tell these myths are not

always straightforward or biologically

possible strictly speaking I also hope

you haven't come away thinking we're

reading too much into these myths that

we have dirty minds which is what toe

over here thinks I'm not the dirty bird

you're the dirty burn but that's the

exciting thing about myths

they're open to various interpretation

try your own reading while still

noticing the broad commonalities in

these stories taken from many different

parts of the world and thanks for

watching we'll see you next week crash

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