Erebus: The Primordial God of Darkness - (Greek Mythology Explained)
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- čas přidán 15. 01. 2019
- Today we take a look at Erebus the primordial god of darkness in Greek mythology.
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Too much light will leave you blind, but in the darkness, the eyes open wider.
Well put.
But it's power is too immense that no one can even able to subdue it and the knowledge that lies there is staggering.
Too much light leaves you blind, but too much darkness will do the exact same. You really need a balance of just the right amount of both to see things clearly.
You can't have the darkness without the light, you have overcome yourself when you have both, god used the evil to win for the good of all man.
yes
He is one of the two deities who never cheated on his spouse. That's something in Greek mythology.
Curious who the other one is
@@TheMissiIe hades
@@erevos217 there are stories about children of Hades
@@Obi-Wan_Kenooobi who? Zagreus and Melinoe were originally...
...Zeus', and even then, all versions agree that they're Persephone's
Mesperyian is from a Tumblr post
In fact, one of the forgotten debates of greek myth is whether Hades is infertile or not - as the literal god of the dead, some find it thematic that he can't get someone pregnant, as opposed to Persephone being a harvest deity and therefore pushing babies out like a machine gun
The two exact flings that he had were Leuke and Minthe - Leuke who got turned into a Poplar when Persephone denied Hades' request to let him romance her, and Minthe who got left alone the moment Hades remembered his wife
And in fact: Hades is one of the very few major deities not mentioned to have any same-sex lovers at all
@@erevos217 Sadly tho Persephone wasnt of that same idea
Erebus is SUCH an underrated God I don’t know why people always forget that he exists in Greek mythology
He's not a god. he's a primordial.
The Primordials are my favorite dynasty of Greek gods, wish there were more stories that involved them.
Yeah me too, currently trying to create a story about them but is finding it too hard to describe them cause there's barely much about them.
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@@ThecrazyChris yeah?
@@LilVeehive When you’re done tell me
I am a primiordial vessel talk to me on Discord Adonis da name
This is very rare for Darkness (Erebus) ain't depicted as evil or demonic. Few cultures have this for most describe darkness as menacing and Devil like.
Because darkness isn't always evil as much as light isn't always good.
It's like from another comment, "Too much light can blind you, but darkness can open your eyes."
The devil is described as a angel of light. Lucifer itself means "light bringer". The devil operates by appearing good and plausible.
There is no such thing as Dark or Light. Merely how the actions are shown by individuals are to be judge. Reminds me of dumbledor being hypocrite about "FOR THE GREATER GOOD" which is ironically comes from the former dark lord.
People judge everything from good to bad. Never looking underneath everything has a meaning and lesson or even other understanding.
Every dark are classified as evil, even chaos but think about this? What happens if there is no chaos.
Just order and nothing else but restraint everywhere, a boring repeat of everyday life, no joy and choices.
Thats why I love Gods and Goddesses that represents Chaos.
@@jessaminesguerra3120 you'll love me then Chaos God !!
The British accent is the best accent to use when talking about Gods of darkness. Reminds me of Fantasy RPG'S.
That's because the British are secretly gods of darkness. I jest.
So true
I'm thinking the British accent is the best accent to use when talking about anything lolz
@@bryanskscion2229 I believe it
@@bryanskscion2229 I'm english, can confirm
Also, coming as no surprise to some of you, Nyx and Erebus were absolutely OBSESSED with each other, to the point where there marriage gave birth to over half the universal pantheon alone. (Who knew the cthonic's made for the most romantics).
As with most primordial deities of Greek mythology, Erebus represents a rather abstract concept, or a facet of the natural world.
Those "gods" *weren't really worshiped* (with temples, animal sacrifices etc.), and don't really participate in mythological stories. They are just mentioned as the origin of other deities, who also personify (somewhat less) abstract concepts.
Rather poetic, IMO :)
they were worshipped by pre hellenic greek! there is still a remnant of pre hellenic myth, for example in hesiod, it said Zeus is afraid of Nyx (wife of erebus)
They were worshiped bro. and they still are. Not as much as back in cleopatras time in Rome, but they still are.
@علي ياسر I don't understand the relevance , you dont need idols to worship someone if thats what you're saying.
Dude get that monotheistic indoctrination out of here, most people are here for information/history and to quench a fascination.
@علي ياسر no one care about your shirk bs.
Because of your religion many of pre islamic arabia artifacts were destroyed.
Hello darkness my old friend
I'v come to speak to you again....
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping...
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains...
Within the sound of silence....
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Nyx is a god I truly admire and Erebus adds to that well by being her lover
Nyx is a goddess
Thanks for not keeping us in the DARK.😂
I've always found it rather sad how little Erebus is discussed in greek mythology. Whenever I attempt to find information on him, all I get is "These are his children" "He was born of Khaos" " He's connected somewhat to the Underworld". He doesn't even have his own myths :(
The only thing I know about him is that he's nyx's lover.
Because Erebus is a personification, a literal part of existence. He isn't the God of darkness, he IS darkness.
The Protogenoi are beings that represent an era before order, when Chaos was still awake (I guess); they cannot be good nor evil, as they uphold the very universe.
The reason why Nyx protected her son, Hypnos, from Zeus is because Hypnos IS sleep, dreams, and all that. If he were to die, a fabric of the reality would die.
Thus disrupting the order.
I have always thought much about Erebus, of investigating him further, and I never found much... Now I see, it was not me, there is really little known about him. Thanks This is one of my favorite channels on CZcams, and must watch!
the name "Nyx" I think refers to a nothing - a cancellation , a void >> as in not 'light' > Night , as opposed to "day" >>> so by that contrast perhaps Erebus can be seen more clearly as personifying , the darkness .. and all things that exist in that 'realm' .. rather than the negation aspect of Nyx > seeing as Nyx is only carrying Erebus's curtain of darkness due to marriage >> and the negation aspect perhaps makes more sense when you see one of the children of them both is the personification of "day" or daylight , which is kind of the 'negation' of darkness **** or maybe I'm completely wrong ? - it's just a theory
Ofc you wont find anything,he is the darkness,nobody sees the details in/of darkness,nobody can tell stories about what they didnt see.He is/can be everywhere,but noone recognize him, like a ninja, or even like Chuck Norris. But i think we can agree that he is the coolest,thats the best part in him,that there is no much story about him,so that uncertainty is really "darkness" like.
I am always fascinated with the darkness as I believe it can exist without light.
As a kid who got interested in reading books about various myths (the internet wasn't used for commercial purposed during my childhood), I am glad gow informative this video about Erebus and Nyx as well as to those deities who linger in the dark or are known to be associates with it.
erebus is like spraypaint being used by NYX
Exactly🌠 Perfectly put, friend🖒
I imagine Erebus as the spirit of the darkness-out-of-bounds: the part between the walls where we cannot see, the unaddressed memory where nothing has been written, the gaps between things which is left undescribed.
He is the "unknown" in the darkness
My first encounter with the mythos surrounding Erebus came from his mention in what is still one of my very favorite poems, "Presences Perfected", by Siegfried Sassoon. I've pasted it below for those who've never read it, enjoy!
I looked on that prophetic land
Where, manifested by their powers,
Presences perfected stand
Whom night and day no more command
With shine and shadow of earthly hours.
I saw them. Numberless they stood
Half-way toward heaven, that men might m ark
The grandeur of their ghostlihood
Burning divinely on the dark.
Names had they none. Through spirit alone
They triumphed, the makers of mankind,
Whose robes like flames were round them blown
By winds which raved from the unknown
Erebus of earth's ancestral mind.
Siegfried Sassoon ~ "Presences Perfected"
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two lost ships of the antarctic explorers came to mind..great video as always. Greek mythology is my favorite
At least Nyx and Erebus have great children...
Thanks for this nice video...
You always bring something good.☺😄
I hear that Skyrim music in the background 👌🏼👍🏼
Love the videos keep up the good work
Dan the Axolotl nope its in skyrim
Erebus and Nyx sound a lot like Sithis and the Night Mother.
Menoitios (Menoetius), god of rash action and violent rage (from the Greek words menos meaning "might", "force", "passion", and oitos meaning "ill-fated" or "doomed") brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus, was blasted by Zeus with a thunderbolt into Erebos (Erebus) and banished there for eternity.
What I like to think, and it’s a part of something I’m writing, is Erebus was the original god of the underworld. He and Nyx created it to act as a retreat when day came and to judge the souls of humans. When the titanomachy came to an end, Hades came to underworld and explained that since he drew the shortest straw he was to rule the underworld. Erebus was weary of this but decided to allow Hades to live in the underworld as long as he (Hades) remains respectful to Erebus and Nyx. That’s what I have at least.
Could you explain the four horsemen and the seven seals if that is alright?
Probably not gonna happen because that's a Christian belief and he does Greek mythology
The 4 horsemen and what their colors mean by Nelson walters on you tube, also the seals.
Nyx and Erebus...ohhh those sweet House of Night memories🖤
Yessss finally we get a new greek one.
*Erebus and hades fighting over who true god of underworld is*
TARTARUS:HELLO IM THE ORIGNAL!!
CHAOS:Are you sure about that?
Tartarus is a place and chaos is a state. They're not really gods.
@@maano2491 Nah is both to tell the truth, I mean he had children ... however as I understand Greek mythology, I consider all the primordial gods more than the entities, which go beyond the titans and the Olympians , the primordial are practically invincible and not purely physical, they cannot die they are the essence itself, instead the titans and the Olympians god no, to say Poseidon at the beginning was not born as "God of the Sea" because first there was Ocean, then after the war Poseidon has become the "God of the Sea"
@@pac710 pretty much the "endless"
@@maano2491 tartarus is both Place and Entity!
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I just keep learning more and more because of this. Thanks for the myth lessons
I love that you finally did a video on Erebus! 😄
I was planning on making him the main antagonist in my Percy Jackson RPG
Your videos bring me so much peace, thank you for all that you do. 🙂
i love learning about the lesser known and talked about primordial deities, so thank you for the video. i would love to see more videos on the original primordial deities, such as gaia and chaos, if that's something you would consider. thank you for teaching us!
Hi, first of all, thank you so much for your channel! You do crazy amount on research and your sources are always very accurate as well as always having a very diplomatic point of view in analyzing mythological figures. I wanted to know if you were thinking of making a video dedicated to Aphrodite? I'm asking not only because she's one of my favourite deities, but also because there are tons of information about her character and she's still very controversial and I would like to hear your take on her. That said, thank you so much again! I always wait for your new videos!
This video is awesome. Erebus looks awesome. Keep up the good work.
Great video, and especially great to hear some stories on the older ones.
Another awesome video! I can't wait to read your book!
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Good video. I also loved the Elder Scrolls music :)
I knew I heard the name from somewhere. Had Erebus in my yu-gi-oh deck since I started playing the game. Always wondered why I just knew he was the incarnate of darkness.
Great stuff 💚
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Thanks for the vid
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Great video! Could you make another video on Aztec deities?
Received my book yesterday and just started it. Should be good.
I love how you put the music of my favourite game in this video :)
Nice to have some more Greek Mythology, I enjoyed it because it's like me, short & sweet 🤣👍 I do like Nyks tho she is an interesting figure 😊
They are all parallel to an Egyptian mythology
Nyx and Erebus are remnants of the old Indo-European religion.
Great video
Thanks for the vid.
Thanks for this.
I really like your channel. Can you make a video on the Greek diety, Ananke; the Goddess of Fate?
Good video! Might I recommend Nidhogg from Norse Mythology as another one, if you haven't done it already?
In Persona 3, nyx is a cosmic entities that became the moon and is the final boss, and erebus is the embodiment of Humanity's collective suppressed desire to die which would try to drag the moon into the earth and destroy all life. Nyx actually encourages you to defeat it and live on for tomorrow.
Different gods
Could u also make 2 videos (separate) on the North Wind god Boras and his daughter Snow goddess Khione
Is that "Secunda 2" I hear in the background? Awesome!
Thank you for the video. Interesting as always! But why are your videos so short? Wouldn't something like at least 30 minutes allow for a more satisfying introduction to a particular god or whatever mythology topic you're talking about?
Never heard of Erebus but he is really interesting thx
Very cool!
Thank you.
Good video and if you find more info on these gods then tell us and tell us more about what the underworld was like before humans and any other gods
The highest volcano on Antarctica is named for Him. Mt. Serena is always steaming and guides scientists back towards their bases.
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Good video
Erebus in ancient Greeks mean total darkness, the darkness of abyss. A greek phrase sais that before dawn[before a new day (Hemera)] total darkness will arrive.
I mostly just know that name from the repeated mention of Mt. Erebus in Lovecraft´s At the Mountains of Madness so it is good to learn a bit about the background of that name-
Honestly dude, this is the coolest fucking channel I’ve come across in a long time!
Erebus is my most favorite primordial god. That and Tartarus.
Very interesting lore.
something about him and his mate, the Night, was somehow used by Lovecraft for the quite unsettling couple: the Magnum Ingnominandum and the Nameless Mist who were the parents of Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath, and direct offspring from Azathoth both!
thanks needed the qwick description
Its been a while since u discuss norse mythology :)
There's a video on the works of Tolkien coming soon that will mention it quite a bit.
@@MythologyFictionExplained nice! Thanks for reacting! btw love ur vids! :)
I find the primordial deities incredibly fascinating: relicts of beliefs long past, they still hint at them and their myths will surely have been less soap operatic than the histories of the Olympians but surely much deeper in content. The juxtapposition of Aphrodite Urania and Olympian Aphrodite is perhaps the most well preserved of these relicts and Plato himself felt the need of explain what even he could no longer understand.
Omg THANK YOUUU
Good teaching tho thanks bro
This guy's so Primordial he doesn't even have an origin story, he IS the origin story! Dude needs a next chapter in his existence, a modern story we can tell of him?
Not sure how much can be done with an entity that has no personality.
@@Shiobana753he has personality, but he like to be in his realm, wich is also the Realm of Nyx.
You should do a video on Janus
it was good❤️❤️😍
The Skyrim music in the background make this video even better.
Thanks, you have just helped me name my newly acquired pair of pet black pine snakes
I've never understood how the greeks seperated aspects like day from tge sun.
That led me down a rabbit hole and at the end of it...just a whole lot of strange stuff.
Anyway with my new paradigm these primordial gods along with countless gods of various faiths have become far to real for me.
And with that, thank you for explaining them in easier bite sized chunks
I guess you could say day is separate from the sun like night is separate from the moon. The moon isn't the source of night so to them the sun shouldn't be the source of day itself.
Please can you discuss about Bakunawa the moon eating dragon!!
Had to so a double take to be sure this was actually a greek god video. Glad to we got another one. Thanks man!
*happily wiggles in persona 3*
Interesting
Thank God this was here cause I have a Greek god project and my Greek god charter is Erebus
It would be cool to have a video about Cronus.
You had me with the Skyrim Music
One if my favorite deities
Yasss I LOVE THIS I HOPE U DO A GAIA VIDEO!
The Primordials don't meddle with mortal's afairs, that's why I like them.
As far as the Greco Roman Pantheon goes that makes them saints
The mystery of the Titans is what makes them so interesting to me...
I know almost nothing of the primordials.
This is really cool
In Blade, the vampire Bible was named the book of Erebus
Oof, when you're attempting to write a story based in Greek Mythology and this is one of the best resources you've found. This man has been EXTREMELY helpful.
Can you talk about Antaeus next?
You have to think if chaos created primordials how powerful was that force truly
Chaos is the literal Void, the nothing that everything came from and everything will eventually return to.
They (Chaos has been regarded as both male and female so) are more-or-less "unconscious," as in, they aren't truly a thing.
The only other myth I can remember that Chaos is mentioned is when Zeus Almighty suspended Hera over their great-grandfather, who is the ONLY force that can permanently kill a god by literally absorbing the divine essence.
Think of them as Azathoth (the Blind Idiot God), basically.
The background soundtrack is from SKYRIM I recognize anywhere, even in the Night of Erebus 😁