Miscellaneous Myths: Artemis and Apollo
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You forgot to pin this
Are they limited edition?
It occurs to me that there’s an awful lot of great art of ancient books that you’ve put into these videos.
Can we have an Ancient Literature Pin Set at some point?
I would love to have a decorative opener for history/mythology sharing as well as a handy reminder and visual for those i’m talking to! (and your Astronomia bear art is the freaking cutest, Red!)
if there was a book about modern day gods and one mortal who was born to hunt gods and artemis and apollo get killed off first i would like to know how that end 😅
love learning all the storys
To be fair, “Hubris: It’s okay when the gods do it” applies to literally every religion and mythology I’m immediately aware of.
It’s because in greek mythology hubris is defined by thinking or declaring yourself better than the gods so the gods can’t really do it.
@Notes From The VoidCounterpoint: Thinking they’re better than Zeus (or Hera, or another god) is a thing we see other gods doing all the time It stands to reason that when there are multiple gods, one god can underestimate another, squarely fitting into that definition of hubris.
I mean, Artemis tried to beat up Hera, and Hera beat her down, in this video. I’d say that’s pretty hubristic.
@Woodledude True, might makes right. Hubris would be overestimating your power. Otherwise, it’s just the truth. Zeus is the most powerful god, but even he was clever enough to avoid the hubris of his predecessors and consumed/absorbed the wife who was supposed to give birth to a son that would overthrow him, and earned a very powerful daughter instead. One that he tends to dote on, no less (maybe due to fear that she might decide to go against him though).
Looking around African Gods in particular (as far as I can tell) are all the most boastful gods I’ve seen. So many myths basically boil down “they were feeling really smug that day” I even found out through One Piece fans that Joy Boy is an actual African god who is uniquely the god of Joy. Where ever he shows up you hear the upbeat sound of his drums long before you see him. The guy is unflinchingly positive and cocky, you’re not shaking that monolithic pillar of self confidence.
I do wonder if Artemis’s whole deal of “terrifying goddess of murder who will kill you if you look at her” is at least partially a way of explaining the concept of “if you go into the woods and don’t know what you’re doing (ie, aren’t a hunter), you will die of Everything and nobody will be able to find your body.” Kinda like every fairy tale with an evil dark forest.
Kinda like all the people still lost in the woods every year, some of them never to be found.
@Antediluvian Romance artemis sits atop mount everest, shooting down the idiots who never bothered learning how to actually climb a mountain
@TheRealEvilkitten3
Funny thing is, Mt. Everest isn’t a technically difficult climb, it’s a pretty straightforward ascent.
K2, the 2nd tallest mountain, is way more difficult
@Ginger McGingintrue but it’s a long climb right?
It does make me chuckle that Artemis basically has 3 modes: badass huntress, loving sister, and short tempered brat who resolves all her problems with MURDER.
Diana or Trivia did indeed personify three concepts: the heavenly moon goddess Luna/Selene, the huntress Diana/Artemis, and the underworld sorceress goddess Trivia/Hecate. So you are not wrong when dealing with the roman version
That’s almost every girl I’ve had the pleasure of being friends with!
Interesting tone for someone in random boar attack range.
@Nobody Atall no matter how safe you may feel, you’re ALWAYS in range of a random boar attack.
Artemis: I turned a guy into a deer just because he looked at me bathing.
Apollo: Please, every person I’ve had eyes for inevitability jumps off a cliff.
Leto: Kids! You’re both just awful.
False
The guy deserved it tbh
Their father would be proud.
@Faunable for committing nothing? Because he looked at a god in a wrong way (literally )
Zeus: I love my children
I really like Artemis and Apollo being cool with each other and hanging out rather than being diametrically opposed and hating each other.
Until Apollo does his ‘consent, never heard of her’ thing, pissing Artemis off.
@brigidtheirish At least he never wins his deadly game of tag.
@SPRITE NADO Considering how many kids he has… or do you mean the game of tag with Artemis?
The idea of Diana being worshipped with three different faces actually makes perfect sense for a moon goddess, considering how the moon constantly changes phases.
Huh… never thought of it like that. Makes sense in hindsight, of course.
If Greek Roman pantheon had continue it could have resulted in her different action’s resulted from or being the cause to lunar cycles
Pretty sure Romans did have Luna as a separate moon goddess originally tho.
Actually her three faces have nothing to do with moon phrases. She was a goddes of Heaven as a moon goddess (Luna), a goddess of Earth as the huntress (Diana) and a goddess of the Underworld as a sorceress (Hecate/Trivia). So her three faces references her domain in three realms.
@Gokbayyeah some Roman writers gave Apollo and Diana the sun and moon domains, but others did not. So not even in Rome they become the sun and moon gods completely. They were never regarded as sun and moon in Greece except Apollo in Delphi, while in Rome it was not as common to relate both deities to the sun and moon (the romans did not care about the sun and moon that much). Their domains as sun and moon is more of a modern than a ancient thing.
Ah man, there’s nothing I love better than a godly pair of homicidal twins.
What more could you want in life?
Who apparently may not even be twins afterall
Hey, their only KINDA homicidal like when they get caught with their pants down (literally or metaphorical) or when their mom has a Karen complaint
Only one’s a girlboss.
Apollo: the extroverted twin, who loves people (literally) and is very outgoing
Artemis: the introvert who runs away when anyone steps in a 10m radius
I feel like I woild have been a worshiper of Artemis back in the day, because I too want to stab anyone who gets too close and is too loud. I also live in the woods.
more like turns them into a bear, blinds them, turns them into a stag to get killed by their own hunting dogs or turns them into a girl so they can join her hunt
I’m sorry, but a disgruntled baby Artemis laying on their back while Leto holds up a shiny Baby Apollo screaming about how great he is, is possibly the funniest thing Red has ever drawn.
Have you forgotten the seal fight
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