Monsters. They're Us, Man: Crash Course World Mythology #36
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Date: 2022-04-04
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TrippleSixxx
The thing we tend to forget, when looking at myth's, is that previously people didn't have the internet or books to keep the facts going. People that had encountered a dark but significant fact and survived to tell the tale. Could only proceed to share this learning experience through a story. Because everyone remembers a story as it can live on forever than just cold hearted facts, that won't even be evenly understood by everyone. Every story had a sources of truth's, warning, tips and tricks. Compair it to the way we read our children bed time stories. It almost always represents a way of teaching. So it is not to be taken literally.
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The thing we tend to forget, when looking at myth's, is that previously people didn't have the internet or books to keep the facts going. People that had encountered a dark but significant fact and survived to tell the tale. Could only proceed to share this learning experience through a story. Because everyone remembers a story as it can live on forever than just cold hearted facts, that won't even be evenly understood by everyone. Every story had a sources of truth's, warning, tips and tricks. Compair it to the way we read our children bed time stories. It almost always represents a way of teaching. So it is not to be taken literally.
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education
You had it in the first 10 seconds. Monster means to show or reveal. Monsters are things that live without masks.
Whereas all normal people wear a mask to fit in with social norms a monster does what they please without hiding their true nature.
Alternatively monster meant 'warning' specifically in the case of birth defects. Early medicine noticing the warning signs in infant livestock and people that they knew to detect later physical or mental problems.
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You had it in the first 10 seconds. Monster means to show or reveal. Monsters are things that live without masks.
Whereas all normal people wear a mask to fit in with social norms a monster does what they please without hiding their true nature.
Alternatively monster meant 'warning' specifically in the case of birth defects. Early medicine noticing the warning signs in infant livestock and people that they knew to detect later physical or mental problems.
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Nicholas
-Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend themselves. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them. - - Ishiro Honda
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-Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend themselves. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them. - - Ishiro Honda
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crash_course
Wendigos have also been translated into the physical embodiment of greed. A lot of Algonquin tribes use the wendigo to represent greed corruption capitalism and imperialism-- much like the people that came into their homes and forces them off their land for the sake of power. So wendigos are sort of inspired by the white oppressors of Native American tribes and the cultures of these innocent people.
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Wendigos have also been translated into the physical embodiment of greed. A lot of Algonquin tribes use the wendigo to represent greed corruption capitalism and imperialism-- much like the people that came into their homes and forces them off their land for the sake of power. So wendigos are sort of inspired by the white oppressors of Native American tribes and the cultures of these innocent people.
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ashwater
So according to something or other. Wendigo May take the form of the wind. The ethereal nature of mans taboos and fears etc. along with just telling a spooky or meaningful lesson in a captivating way is interesting. Nobody ever says this about the legend when they use it nor do they often employ the detail, but they really should.
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So according to something or other. Wendigo May take the form of the wind. The ethereal nature of mans taboos and fears etc. along with just telling a spooky or meaningful lesson in a captivating way is interesting. Nobody ever says this about the legend when they use it nor do they often employ the detail, but they really should.
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Bo
Way to not actually explain much about monsters. My purpose coming here was the reasone we sea monsters like dragons, cyclops, unicorns. Much of these must be rationally explained through previous civilizations attempt at skeletal reconstruction, but hey lets have a dumb tangent on some dumb myth youre talking about.
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Way to not actually explain much about monsters. My purpose coming here was the reasone we sea monsters like dragons, cyclops, unicorns. Much of these must be rationally explained through previous civilizations attempt at skeletal reconstruction, but hey lets have a dumb tangent on some dumb myth youre talking about.
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Leo
Is a thing evil because it eat humans. Lions eats gazelles does that make that evil. Now I'm not condoning things eating humans because I am one. But hate that it is evil because of what it eat humans. I know he did not mention evil in the video but what ever.
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Is a thing evil because it eat humans. Lions eats gazelles does that make that evil. Now I'm not condoning things eating humans because I am one. But hate that it is evil because of what it eat humans. I know he did not mention evil in the video but what ever.
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Kyle
I think what distinguishes monsters from other mythical creatures is that monsters are perversion of nature while other mythical creatures are exemplars of it. The Wendigo is a perversion of humanity. A unicorn is an exemplar of nature's peace and beauty.
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I think what distinguishes monsters from other mythical creatures is that monsters are perversion of nature while other mythical creatures are exemplars of it. The Wendigo is a perversion of humanity. A unicorn is an exemplar of nature's peace and beauty.
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Menilek
We hate monsters so much because they are reflections of the most hedious and immoral parts of ourselves and psyches. We hate them because we sympathize and rationalize their logic, but can never express it and still remain humane.
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We hate monsters so much because they are reflections of the most hedious and immoral parts of ourselves and psyches. We hate them because we sympathize and rationalize their logic, but can never express it and still remain humane.
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anonymouse
Does anyone on CrashCourse know that Windigo aren-t ONLY founded in Canada but are also found in eastern United States near the great lakes right near the Canadian/US boarder?
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Does anyone on CrashCourse know that Windigo aren-t ONLY founded in Canada but are also found in eastern United States near the great lakes right near the Canadian/US boarder?
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