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hi there I'm Mike this is crash course

mythology and today we're going to pick

up where we left off last week talking

about sex

mythological sex legendary sex sex that

results in the creation of the world

there's also going to be more castration

and also dwarves stop hiding Thoth you

can handle it this time we'll focus not

only on sex itself but on a common

side-effect children mostly adorable

mythological babies but there are also

those who are self begotten like our own

Thoth and also like Athena Greek goddess

of wisdom who sprang fully grown from

the foreheads of their father

long before epidurals were invented to

couch

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last week we started with spitting

vomiting father's some of whom managed

to pull off creation without any female

counterpart in general though the world

creationists includes some kind of

duality whether it's that separation of

male and female light and dark good and

evil or day and night the idea of Mother

Earth is a pretty common one in the West

and it's been remarkably persistent in

fact in the 1970s British scientist

James Lovelock updated the myth in a

scientific hypothesis defining mother

earth under her Greek name Gaia as a

complex entity involving the Earth's

biosphere atmosphere oceans and soil the

totality constituting a feedback or

cybernetic system which seeks an optimal

physical and chemical environment for

life on this planet so let's begin with

the mother of them all

Gaia according to Hesiod first came the

chasm and then broad-breasted earth

secured seat forever of all the

Immortals who occupy the peak of snowy

Olympus earth bore first of all one

equal to herself starry heaven so that T

should cover her all about to be a

secure seat forever for the Blessed God

but then bedded with heaven she bore up

deep swirling Oceana and a bunch of

other supernatural beings including seus

preyas SIA Rhea memory Phoebe typhus and

most important for us in this episode

Cronus god of time and future castrator

these beings are called the Titan Gaia

also bore the one-eyed Cyclops 'as and

the hecka tongue curries who were giants

with a hundred arms and fifty heads that

were so scary that heaven hid them away

in a cavern inside of Earth called

Tartarus which made earth angry really

can you blame heaven those are 50 faces

only a mother could love before we get

into all the incest and castration that

follows let's pause and think about why

people might want to characterize earth

as a mother rather than a father one

obvious answer is that tradition

mothers are the ones who give birth

unless we're talking about seahorses so

it's not a huge stretch to think of

creation as coming from mother and

mothers are nurturing in the biological

sense that they provide physical food

for infants by the same token in

agricultural societies and probably

hunter-gatherer and herding cultures to

the earth provides the food the people

in animals need to live so the metaphor

of Mother Earth makes a lot of things

the mothers of myth aren't always the

most doting and they're often pretty

powerful in many myths they love their

children a lot more than their husbands

who to be fair can be apocalyptically

horrible let's go back to the Greeks we

saw in a previous episode what happens

when earth or Gaia was ticked off that

sky aka Ouranos

had locked up her fifty headed children

she gave a sickle to her son Cronus who

castrated his dad and as a result

Aphrodite was born surprisingly arañas

didn't harbor too many hard feelings

maybe because he and Gaia knew that it

would soon be curtains for Cronus at the

hand of his own children no less we're

going to see this prophecy about a hun

overthrowing or possibly even killing

his father a lot and your parents were

worried about your goth phase Cronus

knowing what he had done to his own

father was understandably nervous about

his children going to his sister Rhea

again infest pretty common in

cosmologies and Pantheon actually maybe

we can just have some kind of incest

alert instead of me mentioning it every

time it comes up yeah that's perfect

stuff so as each of his children were

born Cronus took them up and swallowed

them as Hesiod tells us his purpose was

that none but he of the lordly

Celestials

should have the Royal station among the

Immortals in the same way that Gaia was

upset about Iran owes imprisoning the

hecka conquerors Rhea was not thrilled

about Cronus eating all of her children

so with the help of her parents she came

up with a plan when her son Zeus was

about to be born

Rhea knock-off to Crete to give birth

and handed baby Zeus off to his grandma

Gaia Rhea then wrapped a stone in a

onesie and showed it to Cronus who no

big surprise grabbed the stone and

apparently he had very strong teeth and

also was somehow unfamiliar with the

density of your standard baby but hey

okay Zeus grew up and he set to work

overthrowing his dad and fulfilling the

prophecy because that's how prophecies

work knowing that he needed help

to unseat his father and the other Titan

and also to set his siblings free from

daddy's tummy Zeus released those fifty

headed hecka tongue curries and together

they went to war he also freed Ria's

other children and together they

defeated the Titans

Zeus and his fam became the gods of the

Greeks like I said this idea of the Sun

rising up to supplant the Father causing

a war in heaven it's pretty common in a

number of creation stories for example

in the North creation myth from the

prose edda an Old North text we find the

evil frost giant Amir who not only

created man and woman from his sweaty

left armpit which explains a lot when

you think about it but also created a

family of frost giant and also also

somehow another man named Bowie who has

a son named Bor who in turn married best

la the daughter of the frost giant bull

for because I guess alliteration was in

the style at the time best Lou gave

birth to three sons vilely they and Odin

so here's where the story gets really

interesting thought bubble the three

brothers finally they and Odin paid Amir

and the other frost giant even though

they created them notice the emerging

theme here so then they battled and

defeated killing Amir then the three

gods used Amir's body to create the

world his flesh became earth his bones

became mountains and stone his blood

served well to make the lake that dotted

the world and the Seas that surrounded

it and his skull reviews for the Scott

and yes this does sound a lot like the

Chinese creation myth of onku with a

skull instead of a cosmic egg but I

guess God blood always turns into water

anyway a dwarf stood at each of the four

corners of the sky the dwarfs were named

east west north and south the gods made

the sun and moon from the sparks of

muscle to the Giants they assigned a

place called Jotunheim the brothers then

created a fertile area called me

from Amir's eyebrows and they created a

man from a fallen ash tree and a woman

from a fallen L Oh Dave them life viley

gave them intelligence and emotions and

they gave them senses ask was the man

and M blue was the woman vivre were the

parent of the human race and because the

North gods were very into upcycling out

of the maggots that had come from

Aamir's rotting flesh the gods made

dwarf core dwarves as for the sons of

Bor

they formed a family of gods and

goddesses called the Aesir led by the

father God

Oh Dee they built a wondrous home over

Midgard and called it a scarred the two

zones were linked by the Rainbow Bridge

Bifrost thanks thought bubble

we'll be hearing more about these gods

of Asgard later but right now I want to

use this myth as a Rainbow Bridge my

favorite kind of bridge to a similar

creation story fans of crash course

world history know that we love the Epic

of Gilgamesh but there's another sacred

text from that part of the world via

Numa a leash from Babylonia that gives

us one of the world's oldest creation

stories and hey surprise it also

features a war between younger gods and

their parents as a bonus it also has

primordial waters an angry mother

goddess and a Big Bad creator dad Oh Sam

could you just make a note to trademark

angry mother goddesses Big Bad creator

dead man named game theory sandwich menu

items possibilities are endless in the

beginning of the numa a leash the

primordial freshwater OPSEU and the

primordial saltwater Kamat get together

if you catch my drift and produce the

land in the form of silk deposits WaMu

and l'homme the Landin got together and

created the first family of god on

sharkeisha and their son Anu who then

created a second set of deities led by

iya not to be confused with the Greek yo

switch means Dom iya and his brothers

were a wild bunch of crazy kids who

disturbed their grandparents OPSEU into

Yama before ops who could carry out his

plans to force he and his brothers to

turn down their music and go to their

room eeeh and co kill da su which does

seem a little extreme unsurprisingly

Tiamat was none too happy so she created

a bunch of snakes dragon fish men bull

men and other Horrors to teach those

boys a lesson

eeeh on char and on who went to war

against the monster

were unable to defeat them without the

help of eosin margin now Marv Duke who

Mia called the great son with a you was

no dummy

and he saw his father's weakness as a

chance to take over we made a deal with

ya

Marduk would help defeat Yama if he

could be named king of the gods and also

the universe and we did he agreed Tamar

do steal and he went off to fight Tiamat

who as sometimes happened had

transformed herself into a sea monster

we made it we made it to sea monster

anyway you probably know where this is

going Marduk defeated Yama and became

the king of the gods but hey surprise

ending mark took Yama and divided her

like a shellfish to create the world out

of her head

Marduk made a mountain her eyes became

the Tigris and Euphrates rivers her

breasts Hill her nostrils reservoirs

Marge's been established Babylon as his

temple city and the unified home of the

gods out of the blood of chaos Sun King

GU Marduk's Hadiya create human who

would do the work that the gods

preferred not to do like weeding and if

they plant God's hate so once again we

see that a parent is divided up to

create the physical world often this

division is described as a sacrifice and

used to explain sacrifice rituals we

find in many religion now are these

myths just a way of justifying existing

religious rituals or is there something

else going on here

maybe these myths have a psychological

dimension to they illustrate the

willingness parents may have to

sacrifice anything for their children

but also some of the messy complicated

angry feelings that parents can feel

towards their kids and that kids can

feel towards their parents so thankfully

that usually doesn't result in

castration these myths show us that

these feelings are as old as and are

even may be the source of creation

itself thanks for watching we'll see you

next week

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