Let's Find Out - Greek Myth: Creation and the Birth of Jupiter | ASMR

Episode Date: June 11, 2019

The Ancient Greeks believed that in the beginning, the world was in a state of nothingness, which they called chaos. Suddenly, from light, came Gaia (mother earth) and Uranus (the sky) along with other old gods(called primordials) like Tatartus (the pit of eternal damnation) and Pontus (the primordial god of the oceans). Gaia and Uranus had 6 sets of twins. The most important of the 12 children were Kronos and Rhea. Gaia gave birth to some monsters called cyclops and the hundred handed ones. Uranus disliked the monsters, so he threw them in Tatartus. Gaia, angered by Uranus, sought revenge on Uranus. Gaia used her son Kronos, who chopped off Uranus' genitals. Kronos threw Uranus into the ocean. From the blood of his genitals, came the goddess of love and beauty—Aphrodite. Kronos married his sister Rhea and gave birth to 6 children, who were called the gods.Kronos, who was afraid of a prophecy delivered to him a while ago(which stated that one day his children will cut him up), swallowed each of his children each time they were born. Rhea did not like this, so she saved Zeus and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. Zeus was raised by a centaur named Chiron, who is also the son of Kronos, in a mountain cave.When Zeus was old enough, he tricked Kronos into drinking a mixture of wine and mustard. Kronos vomited up the rest of the gods, who, being immortal, had been growing up completely undigested in Kronos' stomach.Zeus and other gods, then had a big war with the Titans.Zeus won and banished Kronos to Tartarus. Zeus was from then on the leader of the gods. Man was created by Titan Prometheus, who did not participate in the war. Thanks for watching. #ASMR #AncientGreece #Myth ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►socials... The podcast (audio versions) of my content: ▸🎧 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2u11T58 ▸🎧 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/letsfindoutasmrs-podcast/id1448116527?mt=2 ▸📧 Email................... [e-mail] ▸📧 Instagram........... @lets_find_out_asmr ▸📧 Twitter................. @Glycoversi ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►Support for the channel... ▸Shop on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2LnNXd6 ▸PayPal ......... https://www.paypal.me/LetsFindOutASMR ......... [e-mail] ▸Patreon ........ https://www.patreon.com/LetsFindOutASMR Want to just give a gift? ▸📩 Wishlist (for the channel): http://a.co/9vUJ8eF ▸📪 If you'd like to mail me something: Let's Find Out ASMR (Rich) P.O. Box 1582 Palm City, FL 34991 Or do you transact in nerd? ▸₿ Bitcoin: (A scannable QR code) ........ http://i.imgur.com/wKIsPIB.png (wallet address) ........ 1XPhPoyeqc3Xf1uktCPXCzfdEdi9PA7Xh

Thunderstorm is just passing over right now. I didn't think there's any better time to film a myth video involving the creation and the birth of the God of thunder himself, Zeus, to introduce this video other than to emphasize my own fascination with mythology, especially in light of learning. He's the structure of the... psyche in the human mind or they had to rely on religious language and stories as proto-scientific prehistoric interpreting the world and phenomena and that's to me it's in combination with that modern psychoanalysis psychology myth can be interpreted with evolution as

well just if you think about the untold countless struggle whether it's with nature proper or the nature of other tribes there must have been so much grief in suffering relative to today they were helpless against disease. They were exposed to the elements. Basic things. Prepare food and fire and means that are told, which was actually a pretty nice $10 find at, I think Barnes & Noble around here, which is one of the main brick and mortar retailers in the states here. I forgot where I was going with that sentence, but ancient prehistoric untold numbers of kings. It's so interesting to view them as the amalgamation of

enduring the most ideal qualities of how to act and how to lead your people. Very much the deceitful, dishonest, treacherous, volatile, belligerent, lustful, vengeful, resentful, jealous all these attributes of humans and gods

overlap widely to me that's so fascinating to view mythology through that lens much a historical document or a childlike attempt

to explain nature and natural phenomena but a projection of our inner chaos and order in our minds out onto the world in a story form in an easily consumable, digestible way that tells us maybe hundreds of thousands of years of the characteristics that we both fear and aspire to be and become.

And that can tell us a lot about ourselves. And I love that. So without rambling anymore, let's dive into What might be the most profound the greatest Greek story ever told. Now question my big fat Greek wedding love is here to stay and so is her family It's VHS It's so in itself aside from the joke that I had to I was compelled to pull on you guys you know a genuine look some of the more

enduring virtues they might be your biggest critic they're also your biggest supporter all jokes aside my big fat greek wedding is a timeless classic here we have sicily the cultures must have intermingled or at least derived from a common ancestor being the indio and indo-european language language tree at least

this is the context in which you know the geographical context from Italy all the way to here northwest of Asian Minor Turkey Hellespont Detroit right there and this is the area into which

ancient ancient peoples came in either integrated or completely destroyed the original inhabitants, which, uh, depending on how far back you go, might be even, those might be considered Neanderthals. You know, they say history is written by the winners. But they also say reality always gets the last word. Perhaps a fusion nuggets of wisdom. Something is that these myths that have been transferred down, in a way they're kind of defined by their practicality.

And the pragmatic view of philosophy, then that which is most useful for life, that which is most practical, most wise, is that which is truest. And that's what I see in these myths, is enduring truths that, by their very nature, benefited those societies that continue to pay respect and revere them for the truth that they contained. Because even if you interpret myths that are meant to be taken metaphorically, literally, you're also going to, you're still going to respect the morality that they encompass. That is implicitly the core of

their essence. So, here we go. We have, I mean, this whole book contains some very beautiful I feel like that might be Odysseus. I'm really sure, but it seems like that's Odysseus. Coming back, that's Argus

leading. Maybe, maybe not. It can get misinterpreted. And this book is absolutely full of beautiful, stunning images, art pieces, historic pieces of art that really go along with all the stories. Creation of the universe. Generations. Theology is the science, which treats of the early traditions or myths relating to the religion of the agents. It includes, besides a false,

full account of the origin of their gods, their theory concerning the beginning of all things. Among all the nations scattered over the face of the earth, the Hebrews alone were instructed by God, who gave them not only a full account of the creation of the world and of all living creatures, but also a code of laws to regulate their conduct. All the questions they Fane would ask were fully answered and no room remained for conjecture. It was not so, however, with the other nations. The Greeks and Romans, for instance, lacking the definite knowledge which we obtain from the scriptures, and still anxious to know everything, were forced to construct in part their own theory, as they looked around them

for some clue to serve as a guide, they could not help but observe and admire the wonders of nature. The succession of day and night, summer, and winter, rain and sunshine, the fact that the tallest trees sprang from tiny seeds, and the greatest rivers from diminutive streams, in the most beautiful flowers and delicious fruits from small green butts. It all seemed to them of a superior being with a capital B, who would fashion them to serve a definite purpose. They soon came to the conclusion that a hand, mighty enough to create, to call all these wonders into life,

could also have created the beautiful earth whereon they dwelt. These thoughts gave rise to others. Superstitions became certainties, and soon the following myth or fable was evolved, to be handed down from generation to generation. At first, when all things lay in a great confused mass, air, earth, and sea, and the covering heavens were known, the face of nature over the world was one and men have called it chaos formless rude the mass

dead matter's weight inert and crude where in mixed heap of ill-compounded mold the jarring seeds of things confusedly rolled the earth did not exist land sea and air were mixed up together

so that the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, nor the air transparent, yet beamed. From yon's rurulian height, no orbiting moon repaired her horns of light. No earth self-poised on liquid, ether, no sea its world in clasping waters flung. Earth was half air, half sea, an embryo heap. It was earth fixed, nor fluid was deep. Dark was the void of air, no form was traced. Obstructing atoms struggled through the waste. Where cold and hot and moist and dry rebelled, heavy the light,

and hard the soft repelled. Chaos and Nix. Over this shapeless mass reigned a careless deity called chaos, whose personal appearance could not be described. There is no light by which. which he could be seen. He shared his throne with his wife, the dark goddess of night, named Knicks or Knox, whose black robes and still blacker countenance did not tend to enliven the surrounding gloom, Erebus, Euther, and Hamera. These two divinities wearied of

their power in the course of time and called their son Erebus. or darkness to their assistance. His first act was to dethrone and supplant chaos. And then, thinking he would be happier with a help meet, he married his own mother, Nix. Of course, with our present views, this marriage was a heinous sin, but the ancients who at first had no fixed laws, they didn't consider this union unsuitable, and recounted how Yerbus and Nix, ruled over the chaotic world together. Until there are two beautiful children, ether, in Himera, Light, and Day, acting in concert, dethrone them and seized the supreme power.

Most people will, of course, recognize the tradition of the origin of light and day, planting darkness and chaos, creation of Gaia, in Uranus. Space illumined for the first time by the radiance revealed itself in all its uncouthness. Ether and Hamera carefully examined the confusion. They saw its innumerable possibilities and decided to evolve from it a thing of beauty,

but quite conscious of the magnitude of such an undertaking and feeling that some assistance would be designed, desirable, they summoned Eros, a more or love, their own child, to their aid. By their combined efforts, Pontus, which is the sea, and Gaia, Telasur, Terra is the earth, were created. In the beginning the earth did not present the beautiful appearance that it does now. No trees waved their leafy branches on the hillsides. No flowers bloomed in the back, valleys, no grass grew on the plains. No burns flew through the air. All was silent, bare, and motionless. Aros, the first to proceed these deficiencies, seized his life-giving arrows

and pierced the cold bosom of the earth. Immediately the brown surface, covered with the luxuriant verdure, birds of many colors flitted through the foliage. of the newborn forest trees, animals of all kinds, gambled over the grassy plains, and swift-darting fish swam in the limpid streams. All was now life, joy, in motion. Gaya roused from her apathy, admired all that had already been done for her embellishment, and resolving the crown and complete the work so well-begun. created Uranus or heaven. Her firstborn earth produced of like aensity, a starry heaven,

that he might sheltering compass her around on every side. It's by 7th or 8th century BC poet Hesiod. This version of creation of the world, although but one of many curate, was the one most generally adopted by, generally adopted, But another, also very popular, stated that the first divinities, Erebus and Nix, produced a giant egg. The god of love emerged to create the earth. In dreary, chaotic clothe of Erebus old was a privy deposit. Primeval in the secrecy laid.

A mystical egg that in silence and shade was brooded and hatched, till time came about in love the delightful the delightful in glory flew out Aristophanie and just like there's two genesis is about creating the earth in seven days and the other is of Adam and Eve in the fall from living in the garden unconsciously

to having to be kicked out after being made conscious. After eating a fruit, interestingly enough, could have been a mushroom, could have been a toxic, vision-inducing fruit, blessed. Interestingly, the woman, the female, was the first to eat, self-reflect,

for the better. It's a beautiful thing. So next is Mount Olympus. in the river oceanus. The earth thus created was supposed by the ancients to be a disc in some moderns too,

instead of a sphere as science has. The Greeks fancied that their country occupied a central position in that Mount Olympus, a very high mountain in the north, mind you, the mythological abode

of their gods was placed in the exact center Their earth was divided into two equal in part, the sea, equivalent to our Mediterranean and the Great River Oceanus, in a steady equable by storm, from which the sea, in all the rivers, were supposed to derive their waters. Next, we have the Hyperboreans. The Greeks also imagined that the portion of the earth directly north of their country was inhabited by a fortunate race. of men, the Hyperboreans, who dwelt in continual bliss and enjoyed a never-ending spring-tide. Their homes were said to be inaccessible by land or by sea. They were exempt from the Z's old age and death, and were so virtuous that the gods frequently visited them and even condescended

to share their feasts and games. A people thus favorite. could not fail to be happy, and many were the songs in praise of their sunny land, sunbright deep, where golden gardens grow, where the winds of the north becalmed in sleep, their cockshells never blow. So near the track of the stars are we that oft on night's pale beams, the distant sounds of their harmony come to our ears, like, dreams. The moon too brings her world so nigh that when the nightseer looks to that shadowless orb in the vernal sky, he can number its hills and brooks. To the sun god all our hearts and liars by day by night belong and the breath we draw from his living fires. We give him back in song Isles of the Blacks.

South of Greece, also near the great river Oceanus, dwelt another nation just as happy and virtuous as the Hyperboreans, the Ethiopians. They too often enjoyed the company of gods who shared their innocent pleasures with great delight and far away on the shore of this same marvelous river.

According to some mythologists were the beautiful Isle of the Blessed. were mortals who had led virtuous lives, and had thus found favor in the sight of the gods, were transported without tasting death, and where they enjoyed the eternity of bliss. These islands had sun, moon, and stars of their own, and were never visited by the cold, wintry winds that swept down from the north. The Isles of the Blessed, they say, the Isles of the Blessed, they say, the Isles of the Blest, blessed, peaceful and happy by night and by day, far away in the glorious west. They need not the moon and the land of delight.

They need not the pale, the pale star. The sun is bright and by day and by night. Where the souls of the blessed, they till not the ground, they plow not the wave, they labor not, never, oh never. Here do they shed. Not a sigh do they heave. they are happy, forever, and ever. Aos, Erebus, and Nix were deprived of their power by Ether and Amira,

who did not long enjoy the possession of the scepter, for Uranus and Gaia, more powerful than their progenitors, soon forced them to depart, and began to reign in their stead. They had not dwelt long on the summit of Mount Olympisto, though, before they found themselves the parents of twelve gigantic children, the Titans, whose strength was such that their father, Yernus, greatly feared them. To prevent their ever-making use of it against him, he seized them immediately after the birth, hurled them down into a dark abyss called the Tartarus, and there chained them fast.

Cyclopses, and sentientientia. This chasmless suited, situated far under the earth, and Uranus knew that his six sons, Oceanus, Cyos, Cereus, Hyperion, Iepetus, and Cronus, as well as the six daughters, the Titanides, Titanides, Ilya, Rea, Themis, Thetus, easily escape from its cavernous depth. Thetans did not long remain sole occupants of Tartarus, for one day the brazen doors were again thrown wide open to emit the Cyclops, Brontus, thunder, and stirrups, lightning, and argus, sheet lightning, later born children of Uranus and Gaia, heavens and the earth remembered, who helped the titans to make the darkness hideous, with their incessant clamor for freedom,

In time, their number was increased by the three terrible centimini, or hundred-handed, Gaudis, Brerius, and Gaias, who were sent thither by Uranus to share their fate. Greatly dissatisfied with the treatment her children had received at their father's hands, Gaia remonstrated, but all in vain, Uranus would not grant her request to set the giant. free. And whatever their muffled cries, whenever they reached his ear, he trembled for his own safety. Angry beyond all expression, Gaia swore revenge and descended into Tartarus, where she urged the titans to conspire against their father in attempt to rest the scepter from his grasp. All listened attentively to the words of sedition, but none were courageous enough.

to carry out our plans, except Kronos, the youngest of the Titans, more familiarly known as Saturn or time, who found confinement in the chains but peculiarly galling, and who hated his father for his cruelty. He induced him to lay violent hands upon his sire, and after releasing him from his bonds, gave him a scythe and bade him be a fieft, be a fervous. could cheer, in return victorious. Thus armed and admonished, Cronus set forth, came upon his father, unawares,

defeated him, thanks to his extraordinary weapon, and after binding him fast, took possession of the vacant throne, intending to rule the universe forever. Enraged at the insult, Eurnes cursed his son, and prophesied the day that would come,

when he too would be supplanted by his children, and would suffer just punishment for his rebellion. Rona's paid no heed to his father's implications, but calmly proceeded to release the Titans, his brothers and sisters, who in their joy and gratitude to escape the dismal realm of Tartarus expressed their willingness to be ruled by him. Their satisfaction was complete, however, He chose his own sister, Rhea, Sybil or Ops, and to each of the others some portion of the world to govern and will. To Oceanus and Thetus, for example, he gave charge of the ocean in all the rivers. The Hyperion and Phoebe, he entrusted the direction of the sun in the moon, which the ancients supposed were daily driven across the sky in a brilliant golden chariot. and security now reigned on and around Mount Olympus.

And Cronus, with great satisfaction, congratulated himself, result. His equanimity was disturbed by the announcement that a son was born. Memory of his father's curse, then suddenly returned in his mind, anxious to avert so great a calamity as the loss of his power, he hastened to his wife, determined to devoured to devourable. abower the child, and thus prevent him from causing further annoyance. Hally unsuspicious, Rhea heard him inquire for his son. Gladly, she placed him in his extended arms.

But imagine her surprise and horror. When she beheld her husband, swallow the babe, and another child was born, but only to meet with the same cruel fate. One infant after another disappeared down the capacious throat, of the voracious cronus, a personification of time who creates only to destroy. In vain the bereaved mother besought the life of one little one. The selfish, hard-hearted father would not relent. As her prayers seemed unavailing,

Rea finally resolved to obtain by stratagem the boon her husband denied. moon being gift. And as soon as her youngest son, Jupiter, Jehovah, Zeus, was born, she concealed him. Cronus, unaware of his birth, soon made his appearance, determined to dispose of him in the usual summary manner. For some time, Rea pleaded with him, but at last pretended to yield to his commands. hastily wrapping a large stone and swaddling cloths, she handed it to Cronus, simulating intense grief.

Cronus was evidently not of a very inquiring mind, for he swallowed the hole without investigating the real contents of the shapeless bundle or Jupiter or Jove in depth. Next time, thanks for watching guys. I can't thank you enough for all the support. It's more inspiring than I think many of you might realize. So I just want to say thank you. It's encouraging.

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