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Aglaea

* Artemis, Athena, Dike, Persephone, Aphrodite, Helen, Eris, Enyo, Hebe, Eileithyia, Muses (half-sisters)

## Physical description

### Base color

Grey

**Aglaea** (Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαΐα), also known as **Charis** ("grace") is one of the Graces and the wife of Hephaestus, the god of the forge, in Greek mythology. Aglaea is the daughter of Zeus and Eurynome, an Oceanid nymph.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Aphrodite's Affair

In the *Iliad*, Aglaea is happily married to Hephaestus; but inexplicably, in the *Odyssey* his wife is Aphrodite. Several myths state that after Hephaestus caught Aphrodite cheating on him with Ares, he divorced her, and married Aglaea.

## Physical appearance

Aglaea is a youthful and beautiful grey-colored goddess with braided hair.

## Links

* Miscellaneous Myths: Aphrodite's Affair
Arachne

**Arachne**, (Αράχνη) is a mortal woman good at weaving tapestries.

## Miscellaneous Myths

Arachne thinks she is better at weaving than the goddess Athena. They have a weaving contest. Athena weaves a tapestry describing the Olympians, while Arachne weaves a tapestry on the gods embarrassing themselves. Even though Athena thinks Arachne's work isn't so bad, she is offended by Arachne's tapestry story. She goes and rips the tapestry. Arachne feels guilty and hangs herself, but Athena says she can still live and turns Arachne into the first spider so Arachne can still weave (With webs. Duh.) Other versions say Athena is mad and without another word, she turns Arachne into a spider.
Hel

Norse Goddess of the Dead

**Hel** is the Norse goddess of the underworld and death, and the one of three children of Loki, alongside Jormungandr and Fenrir.

## Legends Summarized

### The Poetic Edda

#### Gylfaginning

Hel makes an appearance in the story of Baldr's death. After the death of Baldr at the hands of Loki, the goddess Frigg asks who among the Aesir will earn "all her love and favor" by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom. The god Hermodr volunteers and sets off upon the eight-legged horse Sleipnir to Hel.

Hermodr arrives in Hel's hall, finds his brother Baldr there, and stays the night. The next morning, Hermodr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Aesir have done upon Baldr's death. Hel says the love people have for Baldr that Hermodr has claimed must be tested. This test being that if all the things in this world, living or dead, mourn for Baldr then he will return to the land of the living. If one refuses, then he will remain in her domain. The latter predicament came to be due to the machinations of Loki and Baldr consequently remained her realm.
Cthulhu

**Cthulhu** was one of the eldritch deities envisioned by H.P. Lovecraft, who notably appeared in the 2018 Halloween Special.

## Halloween Special

### H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu himself does not appear for much later until the narrator learns of the *Emma* crew's discovery of the uncharted island which is described as "a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror — the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh." Exploring the risen land, which is "abnormal, non-Euclidian, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours," the sailors manage to open a "monstrously carven portal," and from

Thurston (or Johansen) writes that "The Thing cannot be described," though the story does call it "the green, sticky spawn of the stars," and refers to its "flabby claws" and "awful squid-head with writhing feelers." Hinting at its scale, the story says, "A mountain walked or stumbled" (this is corroborated by Wilcox's dreams, which "touched wildly on a gigantic thing 'miles high' which walked or lumbered about"). Johansen manages to get back to the yacht; when Cthulhu, hesitantly, enters the water to pursue the ship, Johansen turns the Alert around and rams the creature's head, which bursts with "a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish" — only to immediately begin reforming as Johansen and William Briden (insane, and soon dead) make their escape.

After reading this manuscript, Thurston ends his own narrative on a pessimistic note: "Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men." He assumes that he will soon meet the fate of Angell and Johansen: "I know too much, and the cult still lives." He also thinks that Cthulhu, whilst restoring his broken head, was dragged down again with the sinking city, thus keeping humanity safe until the next time, when the stars are right.
Bonny Janet

**Bonny Janet** is a main character in the episode Tam Lin.

## Overview

Janet is a young woman who was given the woods of Carterhaugh by her father who owned the land. On day, she goes out into the woods looking all fancy to meet the mysterious, handsome Tam Lin who haunts the woods. He appears to her, a bit confused by her presence. Janet then makes it plainly obvious to him that she wants to have sex with him. They do, and Janet gets pregnant. When her father asks her which of his knights is responsible, she says that it wasn't any of them but instead her boyfriend in the woods.

She runs back to Carterhaugh, where she contemplates suicide by plant, when Tam Lin appears again. He tells her that he's set to be sacrificed to Hell as a tithe from the Fae on Halloween, which is today. Janet wants none of that, and the two make a plan to save him. She sneaks out that night with a green cloak to avoid being seen by the Fae, and she pushes Tam Lin off his horse during the Faerie procession. Despite the Queen of the Fae causing Tam Lin to shapeshift, Janet never lets go and successfully turns him back to his human form. The Queen of the Fae then angrily concedes and lets the two go.

## Physical Appearance

Janet is a young woman with long orange hair.
Olimar's Army

Olimar's Army is a group formed by Captain Olimar to combat the rise of The Misprints. It was originally made up of Pikmin, Hocotatians, and Koppaians, but all of the residents of PNF-404 have joined since.

"What, so just because they're a little tougher, a little faster, a little bigger...

You think we'll lose?

Well, we're a whole lot smarter, so trust me.

We can do this."

-Captain Olimar

## Locations

### Inhabitants

Pikmin series characters (all of them, canon and fanon)

PNF-404, also known as Pikitopia, is the main planet of Olimar's Army and the home planet of the Pikmin. It is also one of the first places Olmair's branch of The Misprints attacked. As a response to this devestating attack, Captain Olimar rallied the Pikmin into an army, driving Olmair back off-planet. The native creatures of PNF-404 saw this, and were inspired as well, joining Olimar's Army to help fight against The Misprints. From then on, PNF-404 served as the main base of operations for Olimar's Army, and it still has to this day.

### Koppai

The planet of Koppai was the second to join Olimar's Army. Major figures Alph, Brittany, and Captain Charlie are from Koppai, and were the first Koppaians to join. Since then, the entire planet's population has joined the battle against The Misprints.

### Hocotate

Olimar's home planet of Hocotate was the third to join Olimar's Army. Originally caring only about treasure, the Hocotatians were rallied to join when Olmair's forces attacked, nearly destroying their planet. The first Hocotatian to join (not counting Olimar) was Louie. In battle, the Hocotatians almost match the Red Pikmin in ferocity.

## Major Members

* Captain Olimar
* Louie
* Captain Charlie
* Brittany
* Alph
* Plasm Wraith
* Waterwraith
* The Master Onion
* Sir Bulbington The Third

## Races

* Pikmin
* Koppaians
* Hocotatians
* Bulborbs
* Blowhogs
* Wollywogs
* Slurkers/Blowjellies
* Wraiths
* And basically every other Pikmin race...

## Major Events

### The Battle For PNF-404

The first battle in the war between Olimar's Army and The Misprints, this battle also marks the Army's first victory. Although the battle was long and grueling, Olimar managed to defeat Olmair and launch him and his Pinnikmens off the planet. The residents of PNF-404 believed Olmair to be dead, but have recently discovered that, not only did he survive, he also launched a mass attack on Hocotate. No major figures died in this battle.

### A Star Is Born

Olimar's Army had fought The Misprints near a nebula cradle, and they managed to witness the birth of a star. The caretaker of the star nursery asked them to put it in it's place, and through a long quest, they were able to. Not only that, the star created a new type of Pikmin!
Coeus

Cronus, Crius, Hyperion, Oceanus, Iapetus, Kottos, Gyges, Briareos, Steropes, Arges, Brontes (brothers)
 Rhea, Theia, Themis, Dione, Tethys, Mnemosyne (sisters)

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

**Coeus** is in Greek mythology one of the twelve Titan children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Ouranos. Coeus is married to his sister Phoebe, and is by her the father of the goddesses Leto and Asteria, and thus the grandfather of the gods Apollo, Artemis and Hecate.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Theogony

After Ouranos imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, Gaia forged a sickle and asked her Titan children to help her bring Ouranos down; only Cronus was brave enough to carry on the deed. Later, when Cronus' son Zeus rebelled against the Titans and won, he threw Cronus and his allies into Tartarus, presumably including Coeus.
Bellona

**Bellona** is a Roman goddess of war, like Mars. She has not made any appearance in any video, or mentioned at all. She is sometimes associated with Greek Enyo.

## Appearance

Bellona is depicted with dark red armor and a helmet of the same color with three long tannish plumes. She wears her helmet in her hair in a similar way to Minerva. Her hair is a dark red color though her eyes which take on a slightly brighter appearance. She wields a red-tipped spear and a shield.
Cipactli

Cipactli battles Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl.

**Cipactli** is a primeval sea monster in Aztec mythology, it had crocodile mouths on every joint of its body. It was defeated by Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl during the dawn of time, but only after the beast bit off Tezcatlipoca's foot, after it was defeated, the gods made its body the earth, and to keep it from devouring everything, it must be appeased with blood sacrifices.
Aeneas

Aeneas is the demigod son of Aphrodite.

## The Aeneid

He was chosen to go to the land of his ancestors (Italy) after the greeks won the trojan war and burned Troy down. He made his way to Italy where he encountered many people, gods and creatures. He eventually made it to Italy and was married of to Lavinia. But a suitor of her's rejected the marriage and started a war. Aeneas won and married Lavinia and caused the founding of Rome
Leda

Zeus as a swan chases Leda.

In Greek mythology **Leda** is a queen of Sparta, the wife of King Tyndareus and mother by him of Castor and Clytemnestra. By Zeus she had Helen and Pollux.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Zodiac

Leda ("of Leda and the Swan fame") is mentioned as the mother of the twins Castor and Pollux.

## di-VINE OSP

### di-VINE OSP 2

In this video of collection of vines drawn in Red's style, Leda appears, being harassed by Zeus in his swan form.

## Apperances

di-VINE OSP 2

The Trojan War
King Cithaeron

**King Cithaeron** is a Greek mountain god who appears in the episode Hera Crashes Zeus's Wedding.

## Overview

At a certain instance when Hera was mad at Zeus, enough to be willing to break things off with him, he goes to King Cithaeron to help. He suggests a plan where they play to her jealous nature by spreading rumors that Zeus is getting married to King Cithaeron's granddaughter Plataea. They put on a big wedding parade for the new couple, successfully getting Hera to come. When she got there, she ripped the veil off of Zeus's bride, only to find a wooden statue. She then realized that it was all Zeus's attempt to get her back, and the two reconciled with each other.

## Physical Appearance

King Cithaeron has gray hair, a gray beard, and grey eyes.

## Links

Miscellaneous Myths: Hera Crashes Zeus's Wedding
Heracles

* Demigod
* God

**Heracles** is a demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene. He was married first to Megara, then later Deinaria, his third wife who killed him, and finally Hebe, the goddess of youth.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Medea

It is briefly mentioned that in the different versions of the Argonautica, Heracles is often included as a part of the group. However, he is often ditched early on and almost but never successfully meets up with the crew several times.

## Physical Appearance

As a demigod, Heracles has golden-orange hair and eyes and wears the skin of the Nemian Lion as a cape, which is also golden. As a god, he has a base color of gold.

## Appearances

* Heracles
* Medea

## Links

* Miscellaneous Myths: Heracles
* Miscellaneous Myths: Medea
Echidna

**Echidna** is the wife of Typhon. She is also known as the "mother of all monsters", as she gave birth to most of the Greek mythical creatures.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Typhon

Echidna only makes a total of two appearances in Red's Miscellaneous Myths video regarding Typhon. After seeing Zeus kill and capture most of her children, Gaia mated with Tartarus and produced the mighty and terrible Typhon, whom was tasked of destroying the Olympian gods. But his first course of action was to mate with Echidna, and their union produced terrible monsters for future demigod heroes to fight. Echidna is last seen waving to Typhon as he continues on with his mission.
Hyperion

**Hyperion** (Ancient Greek Ὑπερίων, *Hyperíōn*, lit. "the one above") in Greek mythology is the name of one of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Ouranos' Titan children. He is married to his sister Theia and with her has three children; the sun god Helios, the moon goddess Selene and the dawn goddess Eos.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Theogony

So far Hyperion has only appeared in *The Theogony*, in a group image with his brothers. Although their mother Gaia asked her Titan children to help her overthrow Ouranos, none of the Titans dared to do so but Cronus. After Zeus defeated Cronus and his allies, Hyperion was probably thrown into Tartarus.

## Physical Appearance

Hyperion is yellowish orange-coloured, and his hair is flames, perhaps a reference to the fact that he is the father of the sun.
Izanami

**Izanami** is the Japanese goddess of both creation and death, and the former wife of Izanagi.

## Miscellaneous Myths

On their first marriage ceremony she made the mistake of speaking to Izanagi first, so the ritual had to be repeated. After the second ceremony she gave birth to various deities.

But then she gave birth to Kagutsuchi, the shinto god of fire, and died from the severe burns of the flames. When she perished, she went to Yomi, the Land of the Dead. Izanami ate from the furnace of Hell, and went to petition the deities of the Netherworld to let her go. Before they would leave, she made her husband promise not to look at her.

However, while Izanami was sleeping, he took the comb that bound his long hair and set it alight as a torch. Under the sudden burst of light, he saw the horrid form of the once beautiful and graceful Izanami. She was now a rotting form of flesh with maggots and foul creatures running over her ravaged body. Crying out loud, Izanagi could no longer control his fear and started to run, intending to return to the living and abandon his death-ridden wife. Izanami woke up, shrieking and indignant, and chased after him. She also sent Yakusa-no-ikazuchi-no-kami (Raijin) and shikome (foul women) to hunt for Izanagi and bring him back to Yomi.

Izanagi burst out of the entrance and pushed a boulder in the mouth of the Yomotsuhirasaka to create a separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead, as well as separating Izanagi from Izanami. Izanami screamed from behind this impenetrable barricade and told Izanagi that if he left her she would destroy 1,000 residents of the living every day. He furiously replied he would give life to 1,500 residents. Their marriage, as a result, came to a complete end.
Eos

In Greek mythology, **Eos** (Ancient Greek Ἠώς, *Ēṓs* lit. "dawn") is the goddess and personification of the dawn. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister to the moon goddess Selene and the sun god Helios.

While she hasn't had any major appearances yet, two myths concerning her have been mentioned; her romantic encounter with the giant Orion, and the story of her lover Tithonus who was granted immortality but not eternal youth, and as a result he kept aging.

Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Aurora.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Orion

It's shown that in the *Odyssey* the goddess Artemis killed the hunter Orion, who was Eos' lover. Eos was visibly upset with Artemis.

## Holiday Tales

### Easter!

While Eos doesn't physically appear in this video, it's stated that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European goddess *\*Hausos* is considered to be the starting point of many deities related to the dawn, spring and fertility, Eos (and her Roman equivalent Aurora) among them.

## Trope Talk

### Immortals

Eos' story concerning Tithonus is briefly explained (not narrated, but written) as an example of "Immortality by something that sucks", that is, the sort of immortality where one doesn't die of natural causes and cannot be killed, but still ages naturally. Eos' lover Tithonus was granted immortality but no eternal youth and kept aging until he was turned into a bug, a cicada or a grasshopper.

## Physical appearance

Eos is a winged goddess who wears a long flowing dress and has long hair. She is pink-coloured, perhaps a nod to "the rosy-fingered dawn" from the *Odyssey*.

## Appearances

Easter! (mentioned)

Orion
Thrones

The **Thrones** also known as the Ophanim a class of high-ranking celestial beings in Heaven and creations of God. The Thrones are said to be tasked with moving God's Throne and act as "chariots" for the Cherubim or other high-ranking angels.

They are generally depicted as two wheels interlocking with one another and are covered in eyes upon their rims. Even by Heaven's standards they are bizarre in appearance.
Psyche

**Psyche** is the Greek goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros, the god of love and son of Aphrodite.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Eros and Psyche

She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psyche she must never gaze upon his face.

Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her after she shone the candle light upon his figure and the candle flame itself was entranced by Eros' beauty that it leaped onto the god, singing him in the process. Psyche searched the world for her lost love, as well as meeting other deities like Pan, Demeter and Hera and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks (though she was usually helped by gods including Zeus) which culminated in a journey to the Underworld to get a dose of Persephone's beauty for Aphrodite.

Everything goes according to plan, and Persephone grants Psyche's humble entreaty. As soon as she reenters the light of day, however, Psyche is overcome by a bold curiosity, and cannot resist opening the box in the hope of enhancing her own beauty. She finds nothing inside but an "infernal and Stygian sleep," which sends her into a deep and unmoving torpor. Meanwhile, Eros' wound has healed into a scar, and he escapes his mother's house by flying out of a window. When he finds Psyche, he draws the sleep from her face and place it back in the box, then pricks her with an arrow that does no harm. Psyche was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.

## Physical Appearance

Psyche is extremely beautiful, so much that people worshipped her rather than Aphrodite. As a mortal, she had brown hair, but as a goddess, she's purple-coloured, and has fairy wings.

## Appearances

Eros and Psyche

Hippolytus (cameo)

Aphrodite
Hippolytus (episode)

***Miscellaneous Myths: Hippolytus*** is the name of the fortieth episode of the *Miscellaneous Myths* series. It's focus is Greek mythology, and specifically the myth of Hippolytus, the prime example of the rivalry between the goddesses Aphrodite and Artemis, and the opposing values they represent.

## Summary

Aphrodite and Artemis didn't go along with each other very well; the former represented love and sex and relationship, the latter chastity and badassitude. This is very effectively shown in the myth of Hippolytus, the young son of Theseus, king of Athens, and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.

Hippolytus was a hunter entirely uninterested in girls (or boys) and relationships, instead preferring to spend his time hunting in the countryside, devoted to Artemis the goddess of hunting. The rejection of love and romance angered Aphrodite. In order to punish him, she made Phaedra, Theseus' wife and Hippolytus' step-mother, fall madly in love with him.
Phaedra propositioned Hippolytus (humoristically bringing up Jocasta and Oedipus as an example) but he rejected her disgusted. Phaedra, enraged, went to Theseus and told him that Hippolytus had tried to rape her, or alternatively, that she committed suicide and her note accused Hippolytus of rape.

Whichever the case, Theseus was outraged, and begged his father Poseidon to kill his son because of his crimes (causing a perplexed Poseidon to wonder whether rape wasn't a crime now, but agree nonetheless). Poseidon sent a spooky sea monster to scare off Hippolytus' horse, which dragged him to his death.

In some versions, Artemis, not wishing to let her devotee stay dead like that, brought Hippolytus' body to Asclepius, who brought him back to life. Hippolytus moved over to Latium (in Italy), adopted the name Virbius (as the Romans had a cult devoted to him there) and was perhaps married, which kind of defeats the entire premise of the myth.

## Credits

Red sings her cover of *Mrs. Robinson* by Simon & Garfunkel, and notes that Hippolytus was lucky since at least he wasn't turned into a bear.

## Characters appearing

Aphrodite

Artemis

Psyche (cameo)

Hippolytus

Theseus

Hippolyta

Phaedra

Poseidon

Asclepius

Aricia
Enki and Ninmah

***Miscellaneous Myths: Enki and Ninmah*** is the sixty-third episode of the *Miscellaneous Myths* series by Red. The video covers a Sumerian myth of the creation of mankind, as well as a wager and competition between the two titular gods, Enki and Ninmah, which involves creating humans with various disabilities and finding them appropriate fates.

## Summary

Pretty much every culture has a "creation of mankind" myth, as it's a universal need to know where we came from, how we came to be. However in most mythologies, the creation of humans is easy and fast, and over quickly, usually at the hands of a benevolent deity who sculpted humans. A Sumerian legend, however, goes rather into great detail about how humans were created.

After the creation of Heaven and Earth, gods are busy giving shape to the landscape (like digging canals). Enki, however, the primordial god of water, is too busy napping instead, until he is awoken by his mother, Nammu, who orders him to get to some work, and thus Enki "draws up some blueprints" which Nammu uses to create the first humans out of clay, who are now responsible for digging canals.

The gods, happy with Enki's invention, throw a party to celebrate. Both Enki and his wife Ninmah, goddess of mountains, get heavily drunk. In their hazy state, Ninmah declares that, as a goddess, she can give any fate to humans, good or bad, while Enki bets that whatever she does, he can do something else, and reverse the fate she gave. Ninmah then grabs some clay and creates a man whose hands don't work. Enki places him in the king's court, making him a trusted advisor, with the extra bonus that he cannot steal anything from the king due to his hand situation.

Ninmah then creates a blind man, but Enki makes him skilled in music, and places him in the king's court as well. Next is a man who cannot walk, so Enki makes him a skilled silversmith, and he too gets a place in the king's court. Ninmah's next creation is an infertile man, but Enki makes him fertile by dumping a large amount of magic water onto him. Ninmah then makes an infertile woman, whom Enki makes a skilled weaver and places her in the queen's harem (followed by Red's explanation of the actual meaning of the concept of 'harem' and its corruption by European peoples). This is followed by Ninmah creating an intersex person, whom Enki again places in the king's court in some position of honour.

Now it's Enki's turn, and he creates a man named Umul, the definition of 'hot mess', as he has no functional organs; he cannot even communicate with Ninmah when she tries to talk to him. Ninmah is frustrated, as Umul is neither dead nor alive, but, as she is unable to counter-balance the fate Enki gave Umul, Enki wins their wager, and is praised as the greatest god around, as is his penis.

## Credits

In the credits, Red sings *Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better*, and says that this myth is sometimes treated as a just-so story about the existence of disabled people.

## Characters appearing

Enki

Nammu

Ninmah

Umul

## Trivia

* So far, this is the only video covering Sumerian mythology.
Sif

**Sif** is a Norse goddess and the wife of the storm-god Thor. She is known for her illustrious golden hair and the goddess of agriculture.

## Miscellaneous Myths

There is one account of the goddess becoming a victim of one of Loki's tricks. Sif is known to have had magnificent golden hair, which the wily trickster Loki cut off one day when he found himself in an especially mischievous mood. Thor, enraged, threatened to kill Loki, but Loki convinced the thunder god to spare his life on the condition that he find an even fairer head of hair for Sif. Thor consented, and off Loki went to procure Sif’s new hair. Eventually, Loki succeeds by having the dwarf brothers, Brokk and Sindri, craft hair for Sif that was even more beautiful than before.
Frigg

**Frigg** is a norse goddess, who is the wife of Odin and mother of Baldr.

#### Vafthrudnismol

Frigg makes a handful of appearances in Red's video detailing the Poetic Edda. She was seen among the many gods and goddesses who partied while shirking their duties only to be told by the Norns to get back to work. In the Vafthrudnismol, Frigg believes that Odin challenging Vafthruthnir in a battle of wits is a bad idea given that the giant is incredibly intelligent but Odin disregards her warnings and goes off to challenge him anyway.

#### Grimnismol

Frigg and Odin would also have many wagers with one another in regards to comparing one of their favorite mortals is the best. Odin casually observes how Geirröth has become a powerful king while hers is a nothing now living in a cave with a giantess as a mate. Frigg replies that Geirröth is so cheap and inhospitable he tortures his guests if he feels there are too many mooching off him. Odin challenges her to a wager, saying he will go disguised as a traveler named Grímnir and will no doubt be treated well. Frigg accepts the bet and then sends her handmaiden, Fulla, to warn Geirröth that a wizard is coming to bewitch him and he will know the man because not even the bravest dogs will dare attack him.

#### Gylfaginning

Frigg is also involved in the death of Baldr. Baldr has had some nightmares pertaining to his impending death. Since Frigg knows the fate of all, but cannot see what is coming for Baldr, she becomes upset and so Odin travels to the realm of Hel, raises the spirit of a witch, and asks her. The witch only tells him that Hel has been prepared for Baldr's arrival. Frigg then goes throughout the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology extracting from all things animate and inanimate the promise that they will not harm her son. Afterwards, the gods of Asgard take up the sport of hurling objects at Baldr which, because of their promise to Frigg, bounce harmlessly off the god.

While not shown in the video, it was apparently Frigg who told a disguised Loki that the mistletoe was the only thing she did not make to swear an oath to not harm Baldr. She asks the visitor what the gods are up to in Asgard and is told they are playing at their usual sport throwing things at Baldr, and then the visitor asks if it is true that all things took the oath never to harm the most handsome and kindest of the gods. Frigg, suspecting nothing, tells the woman that she never extracted an oath from the young plant mistletoe because it was so small and harmless. This unfortunately leads to Baldr's death.
Minerva

Minerva curses Medusa

**Minerva** is the Roman goddess wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, and daughter of Jupiter and Metis. Her Greek counterpart is the goddess Athena.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Io

Red explains how the Roman writer Ovid often wrote unflattering myths for several gods, the best example of this being Medusa, turned into a defenseless victim of two cruel gods, Neptune, who violated her, and Minerva, who punished her for this by turning her into a monster.

## Physical Appearance

Minerva is identical to Athena. She is gray-coloured and wears her helmet on her hair.
Tam Lin

**Tam Lin** is the titular character of the folk tale Tam Lin.

## Overview

One day, Tam Lin fell off his horse while riding and straight into the arms of the Queen of the Fae, who takes her to the home of the Fae under the hill. Tam Lin then haunts the woods of Carterhaugh, where any woman who travels through without leaving a ring or cloak as an offering would lose their virginity to him.

Sometime later, he meets Bonny Janet, who goes into the woods to have sex with him. She successfully convinces him, and they do, which causes Janet to become pregnant.

On Halloween, Tam Lin informs Janet that he is set to be sacrificed to Hell as a tithe from the Fae. Not wanting this, the two form a plan to save him. During the Faerie procession, Janet pushes Tam Lin off of his horse. Then the Queen of the Fae starts transforming Tam Lin into a lizard, a snake, a bear, a lion, a chunk of red-hot iron, and a fire. However, Janet doesn't let go, as Tam Lin informed her that he could never do harm to her as the father of her child. When he turns into a fire, however, Janet then drops him into a well, at which point he turns back to his human form. The Queen of the Fae then lets the two of them go.

## Physical Appearance

Tam Lin appears to be a young man. Despite being human, he has a soft, supernatural glow. He also has silver hair and eyes.

## Links

Miscellaneous Myths: Tam Lin

1. ↑ Miscellaneous Myths: Tam Lin (2:12-2:18)
2. ↑ Miscellaneous Myths: Tam Lin (1:05-1:19)
Nezha

* Old
* New
* War form

Nezha is a protection deity in Chinese folk religion. His official Taoist name is "Marshal of the Central Altar". He was then given the title "Third Lotus Prince" after he became a deity.

## Appearance

Nezha is often depicted as a youth, instead of an adult. He is often shown flying in the sky riding on the Wind Fire Wheels, has the Universe Ring around his body (sometimes in his left hand), the Red Armillary Sash around his shoulders and a Fire-tipped Spear in his right hand. Sometimes, he is shown in his "three heads and six arms" form. He has the ability to spit rainbows in some legends.

## Miscellaneous Myths

In *Journey to the West*, Nezha was a general under his father, "Pagoda-wielding Heavenly King" Li Jing. He fought the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, when the latter rebelled against the Jade Emperor. They later became friends. Nezha made some appearances in the story to help the four protagonists defeat powerful demons including his adoptive sister, Lady Earth Flow.
Neptune

**Neptune** or **Neptunus** is the Roman god of the seas. He is the son of Saturnus and Ops, and brother to Jupiter, Pluto, Juno, Ceres and Vesta.

His Greek counterpart is the god Poseidon.

## Classics Summarized

### The Aeneid

His appearance was brief. He was disturbed by Aeolus' hurricane and banishes it. Later, he grants Aeneas safe passage to Italy, as he believes he is the only god allowed to make life hell for a Trojan War hero.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Io

In *Miscellaneous Myths: Io*, Red explains that sometimes the Roman author Ovid in his *Metamorphoses* would write particularly unflattering depictions of the gods, thus the version of Medusa where the cruel gods make her life hell; she is raped by Neptune in Minerva's temple, and then Minerva turns her into a monster.

## Physical Appearance

Neptune is identical to Poseidon, being the same dark teal colour and wearing same armor.

## Appearances

The Aeneid

Io
The Wrath of Demeter

***Miscellaneous Myths: The Wrath of Demeter*** is the seventy-second episode of the *Miscellaneous Myths* series by Red, narrating the story of how the goddess of agriculture Demeter punished the mortal king Erisichthon when he chopped down her sacred grove, in a typical "revenge of mother earth" myth formula, a trope that goes as far back as ancient Greece.

## Introduction

Red begins with talking about how stories centering around mother nature taking revenge against the people who exploit and abuse it are old and universal, with the revenge being both the environment no longer sustaining humans or the earth directly opposing them.

## Summary

In the myth of Erisichthon, Erysichthon (whose name means "earth-tearer") was a king of Thessaly who cut down the trees of the sacred grove of the goddess Demeter. Erysichthon and his team came across the largest tree in the grove, adorned with praying tablets and a warning sign. The men Erysichthon brought were too skittish to cut down the sacred tree, but Erysichthon grabbed an axe and declaring he’d do the same even if it was Demeter herself, he struck the tree, which bled like a being of flesh and cursed Erysichthon. The dryad associated with the tree, a favourite of Demeter, died as well.

The other dryad nymphs who witnessed the event went straight to Demeter, informing her of the sacrilege. Demeter then sent a nymph to the barren lands of Scythia to contact Limos, the goddess of starvation, as Demeter herself was so antithetical to Limos she could not get too close to her. The nymph transferred Demeter’s plan to Limos, who agreed to help.

Later that night, Limos sneaked into Erysichthon’s palace while he slept, and cursed him with eternal hunger. Erysichthon, waking up from a dream where he was a having a rich meal, felt hungry and asked for a table to be prepared for him. But no matter how he ate, he could never satisfy his hunger, and ended up selling his entire fortune in exchange of food. He even sold his daughter, Mestra, who asked for help from Poseidon for having deflowered her, who then gave her the gift of shapeshifting. Erysichthon took advantage of his daughter’s new ability and kept selling her, as she kept escaping with her powers.

But in the long run none of it could help him, and Erysichthon ended up eating his own self, until nothing of him remained. Red concludes that this is probably the anecdote Demeter likes to relate to Hades and Persephone when they visit.

## Credits

In the credits, Red sings *What a Wonderful World* by Louis Armstrong.

## Characters appearing

* Demeter
* Erisichthon
* Hades
* Limos
* Mestra
* Persephone
* Poseidon
Orpheus

**Orpheus** in Greek mythology is the name of a legendary hero and musician, son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. Orpheus is famous for venturing into the Underworld to bring back his dead wife Eurydice, but ultimately failing to succeed.

## Legends Summarized

### Underworld Myths

In the Greek segment of the video, Orpheus' story is told. Orpheus was a talented musician, as the son of the god of music himself, Apollo. What's more, he was utterly in love with his beloved Eurydice, but tragically she died after being bitten by a snake, leaving Orpheus heartbroken, playing sad songs that bummed out everyone. Eventually his father ordered him to go to the Underworld and bring Eurydice back to the world of the living.

Orpheus did go down in the Underworld, and his music was able to bewitch even the ruler-gods, Hades and Persephone. Hades permitted him to take Eurydice with him, as long as he didn't look back at her until they were both out of the Underworld. Orpheus agreed, and though at first things went fine, he grew worried over not hearing her footsteps; alarmed, he turned around to see whether she truly was following him. She was indeed; but that meant she was gone forever.

Orpheus never got over Eurydice's death, and was eventually killed, but the Muses kept his severed head so it could continue singing forever.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Theseus and Pirithous

Orpheus' attempt (and failure) to take Eurydice back is briefly discussed.

### Medea

Orpheus is on board the Argo, as one of the Argonauts that helped Jason retrieve the golden fleece.

## Physical Appearance

Orpheus had orange hair and eyes. In a more detailed painting however, he has black hair and blue eyes.

## Appearances

Underworld Myths

Theseus and Pirithous

Medea
Maia

**Maia** is the Greek goddess of fields and the eldest of the Pleiades. She the mother of Hermes.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Theogony

Maia herself doesn't appear, but it is stated that Zeus had Hermes by her.

### Hermes

In Hermes' deep-dive video, his origins are explored. He was unsurprisingly the son of Zeus by Maia, who lived in a cave to avoid that sort of thing, and yet had Hermes. When she wasn't looking, Hermes escaped the cave to steal some of Apollo's cows. Hermes came back much later, acting all innocent, though she "[wa]sn't buying it", noticing that he smelled of beef. He then explained that it was all part of his plan to get noticed by the Olympians, since he didn't plan on spending his life in a cave.

### Orion

In one version of Orion's story, he relentlessly chased down the Pleiades, until Artemis had Zeus turn them into stars. Zeus, however, turned Orion into a constellation after his demise, so he kept chasing the Pleiades, to their dismay.

## Physical appearance

In the *Hermes* video, Maia appears to be blue-coloured, but in the *Orion* video, the Pleiades are violet-coloured.

## Appearances

* Hermes
* Orion (unnamed)
Vampire Ladies

***The Vampire Ladies*** (sometimes known as ***Dracula's Brides*** by most media) are characters in the book, *Dracula.* They are three vampire women who are servants to Dracula.

## Overview

### Dracula

The three women who reside in Count Dracula's castle and presumably are his servants though the story doesn't reveal their past, only that they're vampires sames as Dracula. When Jonathan Harker wanders into their parlor while exploring Dracula's castle and falls asleep where the women try to feed on him but are stopped by Dracula. This is one of the many prompts to Harker to realize that something is bad about Dracula's castle (notably when a villager's baby is eaten by the ladies) and try to escape.

    After Dracula leaves, Johnathan is left at their mercy though he manages to flee from them and escape the castle.

Abraham Van Helsing and Mina Harker would later encounter them at the end of the story and the former would ultimately kill them.

## Trivia

* Red glosses over most of their role in the story such as that Dracula is the one who initially saves Harker from them because he still needed him for his business transaction. But promised the women he'll give Harker to them when he was finished. As well as Van Helsing and Mina encounter with them near the end of the story where they try to convince Mina to join them (as she was bitten by Dracula earlier and forced to drink his blood, slowly turning her into a vampire only to be warded off by Van Helsing who find their crypt at the next daylight, stake them and cut off their heads to keep Dracula from resurrecting them.
* One of the brides is a blonde with blue eyes which was her description described by Johnathan in the book when the brides first appeared before him.

## Gallery

The brides approach Harker after Dracula leaves the castle.Dracula's brides screech at Harker as he tries to escape the castle.
Muses

The **Muses** are the Greek goddess of the arts and sciences, music and song, the daughters of Zeus and his aunt Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. There are nine of them in total, and are very close to their half-brother Apollo.

## Names

There are nine Muses:

* Calliope, Muse of epic poetry and mother of Orpheus.
* Clio, Muse of history and mother of Hyacinthus.
* Erato, Muse of erotic poetry.
* Euterpe, Muse of music.
* Melpomene, Muse of tragedy.
* Polyhymnia, Muse of hymns.
* Terpsichore, Muse of dancing.
* Thalia, Muse of comedy.
* Urania, Muse of astronomy.

## Legends Summarized

### Underworld Myths

After Orpheus gets decapitated, the Muses keep his head.

## Physical appearances

All nine Muses are identical to each other, though each one has her own colour; light blue, green, yellow, pink, cyan, orange, purple, dark blue and golden.
Thetis

**Thetis** is one of the Nereids, 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris, and the mother of Greek hero Achilles by the mortal king Peleus.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Theogony

Zeus has to specifically avoid mating with Thetis, as she is destined to have a son that's stronger than his father.

## Classics Summarized

### The Iliad

After Agamemnon takes Briseis from him, Achilles withdraws from fighting to sulk in his tent, and furthermore asks his mother to beg Zeus to help the Trojans, so that the Greeks lose. Thetis gladly agrees.

Later, after Patroclus has been killed and Achilles is ready to get on his murder spree, Thetis warns her son that he is fated to die if he fights. Achilles, grieving over Patroclus' death, doesn't care much.

## Appearances

* The Theogony
* The Illiad

## Notes

1. ↑ Thetis (Θέτις) is sometimes confused with her maternal grandmother Tethys (Τηθύς) due to them having similar names. Nevertheless, they're distinct.
Yofuné-Nushi

**Yofuné-Nushi**, or **Yofune-nushi**, was an evil *kami* spirit which took the form of a giant underwater sea serpent. It resided at the bottom of the oceans near the Oki Islands, where it terrorized its inhabitants and demanded an annual sacrifice lest it cast violent storms upon the populace.

It had placed a curse on a wooden statue of Hojo Takatoki, which was kept in an underwater cave until it was eventually slain by Tokoyo.

## Fables and Folktales

### Tokoyo and the Sea Monster

Upon finding out about Yofuné-Nushi while on a search for her father, Tokoyo decides to help the people of the Oki Islands by offering to kill the monster, as she is quite fed up with her current situation. Diving down to the cave, Tokoyo finds the statue of Hojo Takatoki.

Tokoyo decided to take the statue with her by wrapping it around her waist. It was then that Yofuné-Nushi revealed itself to Tokoyo. Despite the *kami's* assumptions, Tokoyo would not be easy prey despite being weighed-down by a statue and several feet underwater.

Almost immediately, Tokoyo nails her knife into its eyes, blinding it. She then repeatedly stabs its heart until it is finally killed. Tokoyo then brings both the statue and Yofuné-Nushi's corpse to shore, where she is celebrated as a hero of the Oki Islands. The statue's curse is also broken, saving Hojo Takatoki from a slow and painful death. He frees Oribe Shima, Tokoyo's father, in gratitude.

## Physical Appearance

Yofuné-Nushi is a *kami* manifested as a large, dragon-like sea serpent with bluish-gray scales, long body, glowing white eyes; long, thin horns on its head; and sharp teeth with large, ivory spikes down the length of its body.
Helen of Troy

**Helen**, often referred to as **Helen of Troy**, was a demigoddess daughter of Zeus by Leda, Queen of Sparta, and wife of Menelaus.

## Legends Summarized

### The Trojan War

The childhood of Helen has several differing accounts, mainly focusing on her heritage. In the *Iliad* and the *Odyssey*, Helen is the daughter of the Spartan king Tyndareus with his wife Leda. In Puseodo-Apollodorus' *Bibliotheca*, this is also true, with the added detail that Helen and her siblings were the result of one night where Leda slept with both Tyndareus and Zeus.

In the *Cypria*, Helen is the adopted daughter of Leda, her real mother being the goddess Nemesis.

*To be added*

## Family Tree

**Calydonian Family Tree**

**Pelops Family Tree**
Andromeda

**Andromeda** is the wife of Perseus, a demigod son of Zeus. She was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Perseus

Andromeda's mother Cassiopeia claimed that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids. Because of this Poseidon sent the sea monster Cetus to devour her. But she was rescued by Perseus, who slew the monster and then later married her.
Ouranos

**Ouranos** was personification of the sky, and the former king of the gods. He was created by Gaia to be her partner. Together, they had a three groups of children: Cyclops (giants with only one eye in the middle of their forehead), Hecatoncheires (giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms) and Titans.

His Roman equivalent is Caelus.

## Miscellaneous Myths

### The Theogony

In the Olympian creation myth, Ouranos was born from Gaia and also became husband. He came every night to cover the Earth and mate with Gaia, producing some of the most powerful offspring of any union between primordials. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-armed giants the Hekatonkheires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes.

But despite the boundless potential within each of his offspring, Ouranos hated the children that Gaia bore him. Ouranos imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused great pain to their mother Gaia. In retribution, she shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and pleaded for her sons to castrate Ouranos. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing to complete the task.

Gaia hid Cronus as Ouranos approached her. When Ouranos was about to lay with Gaia, Cronus ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea. For this fearful deed, Ouranos called his sons "Titans", or "Stretchers". From the blood that spilled from Ouranos onto the Earth came forth the Gigantes, the Erinyes (the avenging Furies), the Meliae (the ash-tree nymphs), and, according to some, the Telchines. And when Ouranos' severed testicles fell into the ocean, it produced sea foam from which Aphrodite emerged.

After Ouranos was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hekatonkheires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Gaia then prophesied that Cronus in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, and so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by devouring his young. Zeus, through deception by his mother Rhea, avoided this fate when she requested both Ouranos and Gaia to hide the infant Zeus from his father.
Deinaria

**Deinaria** is Heracles' third wife and sister to Meleager. Her name means "husband-destroyer."

## Miscellaneous Myths

### Heracles

Deinaria was kidnapped by the Centaur Nessus. Heracles shot and killed him with one of his poison arrows. As he died, Nessus told Deinaria that his blood could be used to make a fidelity potion, so she bottled some of his blood. Some years later, Heracles fell in love with the woman Iole, so Deinaria put some of Nessus' blood on his shirt. When he put it on, the poison from the arrows that was in Nessus' blood began burning Heracles. It couldn't kill him, but the pain was bad enough that Heracles decided to throw himself on a pyre to kill himself, ascending to godhood in the process.