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Mr. X
August 5, 2022 at 12:01 am
He reminds me of Alan Rickman.
L A Green
August 5, 2022 at 12:04 am
My hair looks just like his when I get out of bed in the morning.
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August 5, 2022 at 12:06 am
Wait: so we are living through Ragnarok right now? 👀
Frantz Garsia
August 5, 2022 at 12:08 am
The Romans did not “trade” tales with the ancient Nordic People. They were somewhat aware of their existence as “tribes”, but they did not, in any records, have any influence on their myths.
OldBeerGangster
August 5, 2022 at 12:08 am
I think the celts/Gauls heard Greek and Roman myths before the Germanic/Norse populations as they were trailing with them long before the Roman invasion. Hence Taranis is more ancien than Thor; Sucellos is also more ancient than Wotan/Odin
Savage
August 5, 2022 at 12:17 am
i warned you bro, i warned you about the sun bro
Ishana
August 5, 2022 at 12:22 am
this was unexpectedly fun …
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August 5, 2022 at 12:22 am
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Justa Youtuber
August 5, 2022 at 12:30 am
His speaking style reminds me a little of Alan Rickman
itstartedinmud
August 5, 2022 at 12:34 am
Re: the thumbnail… Not being cucked.
Caesius
August 5, 2022 at 12:35 am
1:10 I wonder if *Khaotiksouk* (@crimsonsoul21) meant _centaur,_ and not _minotaur?_
Myra Groenewegen
August 5, 2022 at 12:35 am
So interesting to hear his mental process as he lists the labours of Hercules. Myths are made to be remembered, and he understands how that memory logic works and uses it to talk through the full list of labours.
Abi
August 5, 2022 at 12:36 am
I could watch HOURS of Neil Gaiman telling us about myths, this is definitely one of the best videos y’all have done 😍
thesoccerchick87
August 5, 2022 at 12:36 am
I’m assuming the minotaur question was meant to be centaur not minotaur lol
Tyler Green
August 5, 2022 at 12:38 am
Small thing but the Labour of the Lernina Hydra doesn’t go exactly as Neil described it , the heads don’t grow back with two replacing one they just regrow one head and must be burned at the stump to stop regrowing then final immortal head was then buried under a rock. Heracles diverts two rivers in the Labour of the Aegean stables and this is disqualified as he requests payment for it not because he got help
O. S. Ramo
August 5, 2022 at 12:44 am
Eff you Neil gaiman
SourGir1986
August 5, 2022 at 12:54 am
“Odin is probably the most important.”
Me, to my cat just now: “Odin! You’re the most important! Neil Gaiman just said so!”
Odin: “Chirp?”
First Last
August 5, 2022 at 12:56 am
I could listen to him for hours. 🤩
Lady Snores-a-lot
August 5, 2022 at 1:03 am
Here’s where all my knowledge of Destripando La Historia pays off!
Sir Franz Pharmacology
August 5, 2022 at 1:07 am
He enunciates like Severus Snape
Owen Spears
August 5, 2022 at 1:10 am
Gods of the upper Neil
Kendra Layne
August 5, 2022 at 1:11 am
He is my favorite author and listening to his thoughts are awe inspiring
CaptPeaceMaker
August 5, 2022 at 1:19 am
Are the 12 labors of Hercules on the desk in front of him in picture boxes? Looks like 12 there lol still amazing describing all thos info 👍
Emily Stewart
August 5, 2022 at 1:22 am
All cultures have a flood story because humans have a habit of living next to fresh water. Lakes and rivers are bound to occasionally flood.
I am *so* fun at parties.
ByNoOneMoreThanMe
August 5, 2022 at 7:39 pm
This is brilliant.
azgarogly
August 5, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Man! That zooming in and out is annoying.
Adds absolutely nothing to the story, just causes nausea.
Vasilis Tsitsos
August 5, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Well, there is a story about a flood in the end of the ice age, and maybe that story is reflected in everybody ‘s mythology
The Iron Mason
August 5, 2022 at 8:25 pm
Lets talk about the Gaelic gods though. Dagnda, Lou, Cernunnos, Angus, etc.
Ricardo Papp Moretti
August 5, 2022 at 8:46 pm
👏👏👏
Little Shadow
August 5, 2022 at 9:06 pm
Neil Gaiman we love you 💙
Brooke 🥂T[A]P Me!! to Have [𝐒]𝐄𝐗 With 𝐌𝐞
August 5, 2022 at 9:48 pm
I love hearing Neil speak and explain things. He’s such a character
Quinty x
August 5, 2022 at 10:02 pm
he really pronounced Wednesday like that
Aust Nailolo
August 5, 2022 at 10:04 pm
Snape?
sarah brown
August 5, 2022 at 10:07 pm
🎼
Yuki NoShinku
August 5, 2022 at 10:21 pm
yesyesyes finally he gets the recognition he deserves
Gandellion
August 5, 2022 at 10:32 pm
What a cool guy
lynxx
August 5, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Could someone please send Neil Gaiman a comb? Thank you.
OppionatedIndividual
August 5, 2022 at 10:40 pm
I think the Minotaur guy meant a centaur, poor guy
Ethan Peters
August 5, 2022 at 10:54 pm
More please
Kate Thomas
August 5, 2022 at 11:02 pm
Just hearing Neil start going down the kinky rabbit hole was worth everything 😂💙👏
poetry of Zionas
August 5, 2022 at 11:09 pm
technically Hercules is the Roman version of the myth, Heracles is the Greek…
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August 5, 2022 at 11:53 pm
You know it’s gonna be great when he says “unless it’s a furry Minotaur” and then specified that this is going to be great
E. S.
August 6, 2022 at 12:31 am
I love this man!!!
starsystems
August 6, 2022 at 12:51 am
I’ve always loved listening to him.
Cristian
August 6, 2022 at 1:09 am
could you do sadhguru answers questions
Sweeping Time
August 6, 2022 at 1:11 am
Still one of my favourite writers after years and years.
Suikey Shirasu
August 6, 2022 at 1:17 am
oh so that’s what the Hemitheos were. quarter demigods.
Johnson Teo
August 6, 2022 at 1:21 am
Next with Rick Riordan please
Allen Dishman
August 6, 2022 at 1:26 am
13:10
*leans over*
Hail Hydra!
Chizzy Ndukwe N
August 6, 2022 at 6:16 pm
At this point, Neil might just have all the world’s mythologies in his head
Raquel Q
August 6, 2022 at 6:24 pm
I love Neil Gaiman! Stardust is one of my favorite books of all time! ✨✨
André Luiz Ferreira
August 6, 2022 at 6:25 pm
The sentence “The Greeks told their Myths to the Romans” surely makes me laugh. That’s some unexpected thing, for sure.
lemonadecupcakes
August 6, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Why did they make him answer DUMB questions, lol. Good thing he seems to be patient.
Delfina L
August 6, 2022 at 7:12 pm
Aww That is so incredibly awesome
Pat Thetic
August 6, 2022 at 7:31 pm
He’s so goofy, I love him
TextMe +𝟷𝟹𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟾𝟼84𝟽𝟶
August 6, 2022 at 11:26 pm
❤👆👆.
bmsismylife
August 6, 2022 at 7:34 pm
Vikings and Greeks linked Kratos! GOW
δτ
August 6, 2022 at 7:41 pm
Awsome guest, but who writes these summarised Twitter responses?
Some of them seemed to lack a lot of the answer given on video.
Arcturus
August 6, 2022 at 7:50 pm
I read somwhere that a Roman historian compared odin more to pluton
Cristina DeCisneros
August 6, 2022 at 8:11 pm
not even 2 minutes in and he’s talking about furries. lol
Cristina DeCisneros
August 6, 2022 at 8:14 pm
and really you only see the angels in their true form if you are a prophet…
so if you see a winged wheel…you about to be chosen for some shite…lol
Lyra Chen
August 6, 2022 at 9:00 pm
I love the music notation reference at the end
Jonathan Irons
August 6, 2022 at 9:08 pm
I see the young kids at Wired are still enthralled with bad and pointless zoom editing. Such a lovely and knowledgable man and you’ve got to “spice it up”.
LordFluffles
August 6, 2022 at 9:33 pm
I can ride a minotaur like a man? Thanks, that would’ve been my next question!
Piemasteratron
August 6, 2022 at 9:49 pm
Souper interesting. Barely an inconvenience
C Nova
August 6, 2022 at 10:10 pm
Odin being Thors dad is a Christian motif.
Neil is the best🖤
O_o O_o
August 6, 2022 at 10:20 pm
This is nonsense, I wonder how much he got paid
Javier Hormazabal
August 6, 2022 at 10:40 pm
ragnarok its awfully similiar when grandma dies and leaves a terrain behind
Chris LeeWoo
August 6, 2022 at 10:44 pm
The person wanting to ride a minotaur probably meant a centaur?
Anita El ghandor
August 6, 2022 at 10:55 pm
Fascinating 😁
innocent
August 6, 2022 at 11:03 pm
Conversations with Gaiman would start off very interesting and end with him giving me an existential crisis, such good story telling
TextMe +𝟷𝟹𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟾𝟼84𝟽𝟶
August 6, 2022 at 11:22 pm
❤👆👆
victor costa
August 6, 2022 at 11:56 pm
i like the way neil talks he’s so calm
DrIsshan's Free Time
August 7, 2022 at 12:04 am
I still hvent finished his book and audio book of Norse Mythology. Such a good story teller
Joshua A Martin
August 7, 2022 at 12:26 am
women today still yell out OMG
TextMe +𝟷𝟹𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟾𝟼84𝟽𝟶
August 7, 2022 at 12:28 am
❤👆👆..
Roisbel Hernandez
August 7, 2022 at 1:21 am
Ancient greek and norse mythologies are similar because both cultures were Indo-European.
Alexis Agnew
August 7, 2022 at 8:17 pm
At 9:22, my brain goes “Duh! That’s what caused all the commotion. It wasn’t supposed to be left ajar, but it was ajar nonetheless.” 😒😏
#Puns
Overlord
August 7, 2022 at 9:15 pm
First answer is wrong. The Greeks and Vikings had similar myths because they share a common origin, like all Indo-European myth.
Toborn the Great
August 7, 2022 at 9:20 pm
When is Pandora’s box not a box?
Russer Gee
August 7, 2022 at 9:28 pm
The whole Minotaur answer reminds me why this guy is perfect as a Tumblr user
Shawn Knox
August 7, 2022 at 9:30 pm
I think the person meant centaur but said minotaur.
Ben McCann
August 7, 2022 at 9:32 pm
I adore his subtle digs at peoples redundant grammar.
Tim Possible
August 7, 2022 at 9:34 pm
What Neil forgets is that their are many biblical accounts of angels appearing as men. The cherubim and the seraphim were the non human types. Angels and archangels appeared as men. What you WON’T find is angels as women (or babies, that’s a reference to cupid in Roman mythology).
Ravenwolf Foxtrack
August 7, 2022 at 9:36 pm
Loved the sandman stories and neverwhere.. sad Netflix race and gender swapped key characters.
Nonesuch
August 7, 2022 at 9:41 pm
how does he remember all of those names and details!
TextMe +𝟷𝟹𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟾𝟼84𝟽𝟶
August 7, 2022 at 9:45 pm
❤👆👆…
queeravens
August 7, 2022 at 10:05 pm
oh my godd please do a part two with Neil Gaiman! I adore him and his craft and would love to hear him talk about less known mithologies! Like Slavic, Hindi, Scottish, etc. They are greatly underappreciated! Thank you for making this video, it was an absolute joy to listen to.
Conor Lawless
August 7, 2022 at 10:12 pm
It Absolutely was the hide of the nemean lion
Mikkel Sakse
August 7, 2022 at 10:13 pm
Odin actually kind of tricked mímir when trading for wisdom. He plucked out his eye and threw it into the well of wisdom in exchange for a sip of the water. Little did mímir know that Odin would be able to look into the waters for guidance with the eye he traded.
julia sales
August 7, 2022 at 10:35 pm
Well when he said “you could ride a minotaur like a man” I thought abou something Else 👀
To Bean or not to Bean
August 7, 2022 at 10:46 pm
10:19 wow, never thought about that about Pandora’s box. Brilliant
Lillian Gao
August 7, 2022 at 11:19 pm
He blew my mind with that Wednesday/Odin’s Day/Mercury Day connection
Lucylle
August 7, 2022 at 11:33 pm
Zeus wants to get into your pants as much as Neil wants to get int your wallet…
Quentin Anonyme
August 7, 2022 at 11:33 pm
He speaks like he could teach at Hogwarts
Keep Perspective
August 7, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Oh yes, the famous semi hemi Demi semi quaver, I mean god.
British music theory is amazing.
ish
August 7, 2022 at 11:58 pm
No disrespect to Gaiman (I think he is a very talented and intelligent man), but there are many dozens of respected academics with degrees in mythology. They are (a) far more qualified than he is to discuss mythology, and (b) could most definitely do with the publicity provided by this opportunity. Perhaps next time, choose someone with the actual in-depth knowledge over someone famous?
Mi La
August 8, 2022 at 12:08 am
He knows about furries
A Dephinia
August 8, 2022 at 12:10 am
Oh wow the art of the biblical angels immediately sent me back in time to reading Madeline L’Engle’s ‘A Wind in the Door’ as a kid — Proginoskes the ‘cherubim.’ Eyes and wings, opening and closing. I love these answers.
Kevin Rustles
August 8, 2022 at 12:21 am
the angles are 100% DMT entities
Ellen Murphy
August 8, 2022 at 12:53 am
Of course Neil knows the 12 labors of Hercules and in detail. Thank you very much. Learned something. Thanks Neil.
Just_Pierre
August 8, 2022 at 1:01 am
I like how people on here just talk about the content meanwhile idiots on shorts argue on the pronunciation of minotaur
Lady Fortuna
August 8, 2022 at 1:17 am
my dirty mind when he said “you can ride a minotaur like a man though” 😂
Jake Green
August 8, 2022 at 7:41 pm
I love Neil
aditi
August 8, 2022 at 7:57 pm
i love this man
Catsin Q
August 8, 2022 at 8:04 pm
Loki is a little more than gender fluid. He’s species fluid.
Kevin Potts
August 8, 2022 at 8:06 pm
I think it’s hilarious that the guy really wanted to know if you could ride a centaur like a horse but said minotaur.
Sternstunde ASMR
August 8, 2022 at 8:09 pm
The way he speaks reminds me very much of Alan Rickman. Rest in Peace Mr. Rickman.
Sternstunde ASMR
August 8, 2022 at 8:16 pm
As a German, not all Germanic folklore is terrifying. A large amount is but that’s not bad at all. I grew up with those stories and I’m fine. : )
German children are build different. 😂
dandy-lions
August 8, 2022 at 8:34 pm
Ended with a niche music theory joke
lol
August 8, 2022 at 8:37 pm
I loved the sandman! Glad that it was made by Netflix. Please guys hype it to everyone so it gets more views and we can get more seasons
Saffron Sugar
August 8, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Angels like the Seraphim in the Ophanim are definitely described as being brainbreaking to behold.
However, many Angels, it is sad in myth and scripture, appeared in the Image of something much closer to human.
Apparently they can look how they need to look for whatever occasion. So if that’s like a bloke in a white suit or an Eros like winged baby, that wouldn’t be too difficult for them
Nammon Allixe
August 8, 2022 at 9:04 pm
I wish you were my dad
GoblinQueen
August 8, 2022 at 9:08 pm
Loved his (audio) book “Norse mythology”
You could tell he did his research, modernised the storytelling juuuust a tiny bit but definitely kept the tone.
Anne Larouche
August 8, 2022 at 9:17 pm
YOU COULD RIDE A MINOTAUR LIKE A MAN💀💀💀💀
12oshinko
August 8, 2022 at 9:40 pm
Flood myths probably have something to do with civilizations originating by rivers.
leo alcaraz
August 8, 2022 at 9:57 pm
One of my favorite authors of all time
Slayer Seraph
August 8, 2022 at 9:59 pm
Imagine someone challenging you saying:
“I’m a semi hemi demigod – fear me!”
Okami
August 8, 2022 at 10:04 pm
1:29 thank you for elaborating that Mr Gaiman
Michał Dąbrowski
August 8, 2022 at 10:10 pm
Odin is indeed missing an eye.
MCU Thor has been missing an eye for some time too.
IIRC 616 Rune Thor and King Thor were missing an eye for the same reason as Odin.
Suzel Diego Guerra
August 8, 2022 at 10:20 pm
My Lord, he sounds like a young Alan Rickman!
differous01
August 8, 2022 at 11:09 pm
Ragnorok means the ‘Twilight of the gods’, and Odin/ the oral culture to which he belonged died on the world tree, gaining the secret of the runes, in hope of overcoming it. He survives as Mercury survives, being associated with the same planet. So too Thor/Jupiter, Fria/Venus, but, by a Loki trick, we lost Hel and Baldr to Saturn and Sun-day respectively.
Richard Espinoza
August 8, 2022 at 11:26 pm
The best part is NEIL DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ!
persianking44
August 8, 2022 at 11:38 pm
Unless I’m mistaken, Tyr and Zeus both share the same etymological roots, so that’s another possible connection.
The Destroya System
August 8, 2022 at 11:43 pm
I love how they decided he’s the utmost authority on this subject, as if his whole job isn’t making stuff up
Howard / Håvard Ramberg
August 8, 2022 at 11:46 pm
Sandman on Netflix is pure greatness!
G Young
August 8, 2022 at 11:49 pm
I bet Xena would’ve been a demigod. They hint at Aries sleeping with her mom while her dad was at war. Then Aries hits on Xena throughout the show. I know it’s a bastardized version of mythology but I still watched the show.
Deus69xxx1
August 9, 2022 at 1:09 am
Mee-no-taur. King Minos. I’s back then were near always pronounced as ee, such as in cheese.
also, i could probably easily confuse this guy and alan rickman.
zartok1998
August 9, 2022 at 3:48 pm
“the frost Giants come out” good for them. It’s always a tough thing to do and can be scary, but I’m proud of them and accept them for who they are
gamalier andres
August 9, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Ik he’s a busy guy but it would be amazing if he started a youtube channel talking about gods and myths
Calcifer Boheme
August 9, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Semi-hemi-demigods! 😂😂😂
candy max20
August 9, 2022 at 4:49 pm
I never understood the Pandora myth either. If all evils are trapped and they say when they are trapped they cannot affect anyone and by being released they sort of become active, then doesn’t that mean that hope remaining trapped in the box means it is inactive and it cannot affect anyone? But good point, why was hope there with all the other evils of the world?
Tao
August 9, 2022 at 5:02 pm
What is wrong with the shaper trying to insult Neil???
Atrijit Das
August 9, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Hahahaa I love that one person asked why thor missing eye (referring to the marvel movies) but Neil just sincerely thought it was about greek mythology and explained Odin missing an eye (which is also true in the marvel movies)
gamalier andres
August 9, 2022 at 5:21 pm
I expected him to go well Hercules is the Roman version Heracles is the greek one. Disney really did a number on us lol.
meghana
August 9, 2022 at 5:24 pm
He speaks snape
RYZIGG
August 9, 2022 at 5:51 pm
Neil Gaiman: naming all the 12 trails of Hercules
Guy on the keyboard: ye he fought animals and that didn’t he ?
Jay N
August 9, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Have we entered Ragnarök then?
Arthur Souza
August 9, 2022 at 6:37 pm
I think yes.
Xander F
August 9, 2022 at 6:36 pm
@ 2:26 – “a buddy”
Yup, just good friends. That’s all.
Not related by any kind of bodily fluids, whatsoever, no sirrybob.
Den
August 9, 2022 at 7:22 pm
the answer about death in sandman is the most wholesome thing ever. also this whole video is amazing
R T
August 9, 2022 at 8:33 pm
I thought he said “Loki becomes a mayor” and for a moment was going to look up that story. Sadly not true.😔
Shards of Narsil
August 9, 2022 at 8:56 pm
What links Norse and Greek mythology? Season 5 of Hercules the Legendary Journey’s when he goes to Scandinavia.
Matthew Gordon
August 9, 2022 at 9:10 pm
What I needed to hear today: Neil Gaiman discussing minotaurs that are “into pony stuff.” I am dead.
Pedro Garcia
August 9, 2022 at 9:37 pm
Which book is that yellow one under the Norse Mythology book?!?
akasha167
August 9, 2022 at 10:04 pm
Why did the editor of all these videos think it was OK to zoom in and out for no reason ?
CARRIE PARSONS
August 9, 2022 at 10:06 pm
I suspect he hates that bright white background.
Ruaidhrí Ryan
August 9, 2022 at 10:15 pm
Odin and Mercury are not the same God. The Romans did indeed synchronise the two, but they were mistaken. ‘Odin’ or Óđinn, means ‘rage/madness’ which is why Odin is related to war. ‘Mercury’, ftom the Proto-Indo-European ‘merĝ’, which relates to ‘border/boundary’, or ‘trade’, which is why Mercury is related to merchants and messengers. Completely different deities.
Luci de Andre
August 9, 2022 at 10:25 pm
Why would he think the way to ride a Minotaur would be on his shoulders?
There’s two other ways.
One is wholesome, with a baby Minotaur riding papa Minotaur on his back, kinda like a horse.
The other way is more…NSFW. Maybe the head isn’t the only thing of the Minotaur that is bull-like
Elan'
August 9, 2022 at 11:01 pm
3:45 The theory I heard was that before Greece became a unified culture, each area’s archetypal god-king or lightning god had their own wife or consort. And overtime, because of their similar stories, merged into one character. But you had to retcon this or that relationship or child with this new character in this unified Greek culture.
Bingo Bango
August 10, 2022 at 12:15 am
Creator of the sandman a series i liked
Bingo Bango
August 10, 2022 at 12:16 am
I should say like im on vol 6 of the 30th anniversary but i dont have it
Jonathan Mallett *JT*
August 10, 2022 at 12:33 am
Say semi hemi demi God five times fast
A F
August 10, 2022 at 12:38 am
how many different times can we change cameras?
Misa Nikolic
August 10, 2022 at 12:49 am
Why does Neil Gaiman sound suspiciously like a friendly Severus Snape
Key!
August 10, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Odin after getting wisdom: “I shouldn’t have traded an eye.”
Jaume Dolcet
August 10, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Greek and Norse myths are actually descendants of the Proto-Indo-European mythology, so they’re related in a much deeper and older way than the explanation on the video would lead you to believe (kinda disappointed with his answer 😔)
Yaaaboom
August 10, 2022 at 5:22 pm
YES, THIS!
Henna
August 10, 2022 at 5:33 pm
♥️
Eyeseathem
August 10, 2022 at 5:43 pm
As soon as the pandora one came up I was like, “IT’S A JAR!” Thank you Neil Gaiman for knowing things and telling people!
Archer Tarot
August 10, 2022 at 5:56 pm
And also there is a region of the atmosphere that is significantly hotter than the surface so yes it would get hot if you keep going up
kidikayni
August 10, 2022 at 5:59 pm
My fiancé got me into Sandman and the audiobooks where he’s narrating is just the best audiobook I have ever owned.
Dick Jones
August 10, 2022 at 6:00 pm
I like Neil but he is wrong with Loki being gender fluid since Loki consider him self as a man.
akasquirrel87
August 10, 2022 at 6:12 pm
I could listen to Neil Gaiman talk about anything. He is my all time favorite person
phil
August 10, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Him: ride Minotaur like a man
Me : 😏
Camilo
August 10, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Ride a minotaur….like a man???? 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Blu Daizee
August 10, 2022 at 7:02 pm
You could ride a Centuar.
Mugen Spiegal
August 10, 2022 at 7:09 pm
There’s a lot of inaccuracies in his Norse mythology book
David Zuranski
August 10, 2022 at 7:44 pm
I would like Mr. Gaiman to start a Fountain Pen review channel.
Rafro
August 10, 2022 at 8:34 pm
“Name the 12 labors of Hercules” Its ok we’re not seeing that cheat sheet 🤫
Francesca Kyanda
August 10, 2022 at 8:37 pm
Make a part 2 with Rick Riordan! For me, those two are the experts!
David Shovlin
August 10, 2022 at 8:41 pm
“And that’s why you should always trim your nails”
BAM21595
August 10, 2022 at 9:13 pm
Why’d they have to pick questions that sound like they’re written by children?
Heather Schwartz
August 10, 2022 at 10:11 pm
If Hope was gonna be able to help humans then Pandora should have released it instead of closing it up
Thorsten Frank
August 10, 2022 at 10:21 pm
Romans told the Germanic and Norse tribes about their gods? What? And how does this explain the parallels to the Hindu pantheon?
While there´s some truth in here – there´s more to that.
Gaiman should have at least mentioned that they all have a common Indo-European source with the Sintashta culture.
Man man man. I did expect something better.
Luisa Carvalho
August 10, 2022 at 10:55 pm
This was so educational but also smooth? Like, he explains it so simply it’s amazing. Makes me wanna read all his books!
wouldn't you like to know
August 10, 2022 at 11:04 pm
was this the real end of got ?
Free Range Fool
August 10, 2022 at 11:12 pm
This is great! 🤣
David Artman
August 11, 2022 at 12:31 am
@7:27 Because she’s Siouxsie Sioux if anglopunk hadn’t chiseled her to fit the rotten molds. 20yo Souxsie with 40yo (4000yo?) maturity.
Satanás
August 11, 2022 at 1:28 am
I want Neil Gaiman to be my cool uncle
Alexandria
August 11, 2022 at 2:34 pm
“Pandora’s box is not a box. It’s a jar.”….I don’t know why that made me laugh 😆
William
August 11, 2022 at 4:31 pm
Perhaps like the way we make cats a meme and joke that they own us. Egyptians did the same and all the pictures of cats being revered are just ancient memes? 🤔🤔
LordOwenLongstrider
August 11, 2022 at 5:09 pm
The ending of Ragnarok I had heard of was that a young man and woman survived the destruction by hiding in a cavity in the trunk of the World Tree and then went on to repopulate the world, which was supposedly used by the Christians that were trying to convert the Norse to Christianity, explaining that yes, the Norse gods had been real but then Ragnarok already happened and they are all dead, but that young man and woman that hid in the Tree were in fact Adam and Eve.
Lucy Stephanie: Properties & More
August 11, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Ragnarok is = Revelations.
Daniel G.
August 11, 2022 at 5:17 pm
Tks for keep Gaiman in the spotlight, where he should never ever leave
christopher knowles
August 11, 2022 at 5:49 pm
Someone needs to ask Neil “why did Patton Oswalt kill his wife”
Nicholas Chee
August 11, 2022 at 6:01 pm
This is extremely calming to watch.
thewrongstuff1
August 11, 2022 at 7:09 pm
A 4 legged minotaur is called a bull.
Dangerous Kaos
August 11, 2022 at 7:13 pm
Personally, I like how Christianity was worked into mythology here. Clearly, it’s going in that direction. Lovely video.
Photopheros
August 11, 2022 at 7:28 pm
One thing Gaiman didn’t touch on is how there are so many different versions of a single myth or tale, often reflecting the history, traditions, and perspectives of particular times, areas, and peoples. Sometimes these versions were ‘traditional’ (‘This is the way we tell/remember it’, etc.), but the ancients performed and wrote literary reimaginings just like we do today. Performers of the Iliad would often elaborate or add in passages that catered to their listeners, such as expanding on a passage of a local hero. A number of great playwrights, like Sophokles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, loved to do this in their plays, tweaking or even rewriting ‘traditional’ narratives for particular effects on their audience. These could be more conservative (think Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ or Steven’s ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’), or more flexible or interpretive (think Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’).
On another note, if you are interested in the Pandora myth, I highly suggest reading Hesiod’s Works and Days! It’s one of the first accounts of the myth (see lines 42-105), and gives much more detail to the whole affair. Hesiod wrote another text called the Theogony, which deals with the generation of the gods, and is also definitely worth reading!
Janderson Dias
August 11, 2022 at 7:47 pm
So basically we alread are living the ragnarok
lloydgush
August 11, 2022 at 8:43 pm
Loki isn’t genderfluid, he’s a shape shifter, “genderfluid” would be the euphemism of the century.
Maybe odin could be classified, but it’s not clear.
Lith Maethor
August 11, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Death of the Endless is the best depiction of death ever. Even above Discworld’s DEATH. Shame they changed her iconic look for the show…
Nathan Fast
August 11, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Neil: Ragnarok begins with everything going wrong. Brothers fight Brothers, sisters fight sisters, cousins fight cousins…
Me: (Looks around at everything going wrong. Cracks knuckles) I guess I’ll go punch some family now?
Ja mes
August 11, 2022 at 9:24 pm
that jacket is fire
BFKC
August 11, 2022 at 9:29 pm
5:52 I’m equal parts disappointed and like seeing Neil Gaiman being so clearly ignorant. Because it reaffirms a sort of suspected cheesiness. That is not an example of dark, let alone “terrifying” folklore, only if you are unsettled by anything not anime- or Disney-like. It is just a bit of strangeness (mostly for amusement) or what is called a “deliberate lie”. Also, not anythng like that is necessarily “German” or “Germanic”, but also for example “slavic”, norse, or whatever. It is also ironic that an Asian person is saying that, because… Let’s move on.
marxinada
August 11, 2022 at 9:31 pm
This is random but the way he talks totally reminds me if Joseph Quinn! Maybe it‘s a certain accent idk, but I very much enjoy it 🫠
UltraSuperDuperFreak
August 11, 2022 at 9:42 pm
Sometimes i am amazed over how “stupid” some of those question asked are. First of all it would take less then 10 secound to Google search it and get anser instantly. Secoundly they dont even ask correctly. I know my english is not that good, but even i noticed it and know its very wrong. And that guy asking about Minotour proberly meant Centaurs hahaha.
This guy arent even ansered all the question correctly … i bet hes trying hes best … but at times he wonders off the road and never returns to finish the anser entirely before reading next question. Not that the info hes giving is incorrect … it just doesn anser some of the questions entirely/fully. (Of those ask correctly, i can understand why it is hard to anser the wierdly asked one’s)
Aubrey Bryant
August 11, 2022 at 10:38 pm
12:56: Neil is cheating. He has the 12 Labors laid out in front of him and he’s just reading off of it. At 13:09 he’s looking straight at it. You don’t have to be an expert in mythology to be able to do that. 😆
Oscar Knight
August 11, 2022 at 11:21 pm
Gaimam talking about furries gives eneough energy for the rest of the day.
Marae Arizona
August 11, 2022 at 11:52 pm
OMG that ending was hilarious! (yes, musician here…)
Júlia Theodoro
August 12, 2022 at 12:03 am
pls more
Alex K
August 12, 2022 at 12:31 am
LMAO him talking about hope made me a big less hopeful 😂 wtf
edelmar17
August 12, 2022 at 1:02 am
His mannerisms, pattern of speech, and his appearance = If Eddie Munson was alive today.
Sophia
August 12, 2022 at 1:26 am
100% can tell that he is a tumblrina
Odysseus Rex
August 12, 2022 at 11:07 am
1:11 I imagine that crimsonsoul21 *meant* centaur rather than minotaur.
dee tan
August 12, 2022 at 12:03 pm
It was a great video. Neil is a man with great knowledge. However, I cringed when he was asked about Loki’s gender identity and he had to answer Cheerfully transforms to avoid trouble 😂
Hans O'lowe
August 12, 2022 at 12:53 pm
You could have talked a bit about the role of cats in ancient Egypt, if there was a cat god etc.
👍
S.
August 12, 2022 at 1:25 pm
“But the fan base are fans. And they like the source material because it’s the source material they like. So if you do something else, you risk alienating the fans on a monumental scale. It’s not batman if he’s now a news reporter in a yellow trenchcoat with a pet bat”
– Neil Gaiman, before he turned into sellout
Ria V
August 12, 2022 at 1:38 pm
I had read Pandora ‘s box as a child and forgot about it until recently when J-Hope of BTS explained his stage name. Thanks for bringing another perspective on it Dr Gaiman.
Matthew Maxwell
August 12, 2022 at 2:13 pm
Callout to Good Omens!
Michael C.
August 12, 2022 at 2:31 pm
Whoever edited this has a fetish for unnecessary cuts
Laurits Balling
August 12, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Wasn’t it the Jotuns that would arrive on the nagelfahr?
Cheapshot 28
August 12, 2022 at 2:40 pm
More of Gaiman please
GraupeLie
August 12, 2022 at 2:46 pm
I could listen to Neil Gaiman for HOURS!
Lakhshamana
August 12, 2022 at 2:59 pm
6:10 …so, Ancient China after their wars
Olle Lindblad
August 12, 2022 at 4:15 pm
Probably meant a centaur 😛
Gaukhar M.
August 12, 2022 at 7:38 pm
Great! Thank you mr. Gaiman. Now we need Stephen Fry. I got questions to that gentlemen about Greek mythology
Aleena Prasannan
August 12, 2022 at 7:45 pm
I really want to know why Greek mythology and Indian mythology is so very similar. Our culture also has the same planetary association and naming of days in native languages; Sunday to Sun, Monday to moon, Tuesday to Mars, Wednesday to Mercury, Thursday to Jupiter, Friday to Venus and Saturday to Saturn. How and why did these far distant locations have the same association of plants to days even in different languages?
Madison Boutwell
August 12, 2022 at 8:23 pm
Legit forgot this man had a Tumblr until he said fury minotaur
Henny Harket
August 12, 2022 at 9:20 pm
I love this but i just have to say…
Its been a long time Severus
HonooRyu Perrone
August 12, 2022 at 9:38 pm
4:33 Oh no…guys… this sound familiar…
Nunaden
August 12, 2022 at 10:00 pm
It’s not the weather, it’s not the food…
/inches closer/
*It’s the woods.*
Alexander Wiles
August 12, 2022 at 10:04 pm
Neil is perfect
Paul H
August 12, 2022 at 10:04 pm
When I heard him talk about how our stories make our reality, I assumed it was metaphorical speaking or a kind of hyperbole. Over time, I’ve come to realize that our reality is indeed our stories. For example, “While I was driving, a car moved more closely to my car than I liked, so I slowed down a tiny bit to increase the space between our cars.” That’s what actually happened. The story is, “That @$#*&$ CUT ME OFF!” And that’s my reality. This is a weak example really, but the “what is and what happened” is lifeless and meaningless without some story about it – it isn’t anything. Our stories are what give life and meaning to the universe. Since we are just parts of the universe, parts that it turned into us, it stands to reason that the universe needs stories as well, to become fully real. So it turned bits of itself into us, the storytellers. And when I say storytellers I mean ALL of us. Some of us don’t tell our stories to others much if at all, but we’re all creating and telling them to ourselves.
Ty James
August 12, 2022 at 10:22 pm
I could listen to him read me an encyclopedia for 17 hours.
Adam Grinberg
August 12, 2022 at 10:43 pm
I think that guy meant a centaur. Not a minotaur…
Alkis05
August 13, 2022 at 12:32 am
Each year that passes, he looks more and more like Dream
Mimi Sardinia
August 13, 2022 at 12:33 am
Word on his explanation of Zeus. Greek gods were not paragons, they are examples of human traits writ large and used as a warning.
Anthony Villanueva
August 13, 2022 at 12:58 am
Absolutely love Neil Gaiman.
Julia Egly
August 13, 2022 at 9:47 am
he’s absolutely right, our german fairy tales are a bit scary but not to us to be honest. you all know of hansel and gretel i believe, where the witch wants to eat the children or red riding hood, where the wolf eats the grandmother and disguises as her? or the pied piper of hamelin (which is my hometown btw) where a man lures children with his flute…well those are all bed time stories for little children here in germany 😅 we don’t think they’re that scary and the children aren’t afraid either
edit: btw the picture that came with the question about german folklore, the rabbit with wings, is called a “wolpertinger” it’s *bavarian* folklore and it’s appearance often varies in description!☺️
Vertutame
August 13, 2022 at 10:23 am
I find that they change zoom every 5 seconds annoying.
valar
August 13, 2022 at 10:28 am
He talks with precise enunciation and I like that. It is also exactly how I would imagine Neil Gaiman talking.
Anna miau
August 13, 2022 at 11:47 am
It’s Shill Gaiman 😮
Or is it Neil Selloutman?
John Werner
August 13, 2022 at 7:58 pm
Why?
Maciej
August 13, 2022 at 1:14 pm
Those were elementary school level questions. I hope of will ever do a second video, they will give him more interesting questions
Nathan B
August 13, 2022 at 2:47 pm
I could watch/listen this guy talk about this stuff forever
00Animosity00
August 13, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Neil Gaiman gives me Alan Rickman vibes whilst speaking
Shlumtum65
August 13, 2022 at 3:55 pm
He’s not right on the first question. Greek and norse gods are linked because they were both indo European cultures that would have worshipped the same gods at one point.
Elle Lane
August 13, 2022 at 4:38 pm
No. They all had Nephilim experiences passed down through the cultures.
Cesar A Vargas
August 13, 2022 at 4:40 pm
what links viking and greek gods and myth: that they are both fake
Indian Crispy Boii
August 13, 2022 at 4:44 pm
Neil gayman
VMV Engsub
August 13, 2022 at 4:48 pm
Neil Gaiman sounds sleepy yet passionate at the same time. Feels like he’s Morphius himself.
Jesse Rya
August 13, 2022 at 5:04 pm
I kind of feel like the dude that asked if he could ride a Minotaur like a horse meant Centaur. 🤔
John Werner
August 13, 2022 at 7:51 pm
Definitely
Tom H
August 13, 2022 at 6:33 pm
Kind of strange that this guy was brought up as a Scientologist. Both his father and sister are high ranking members of Scientology. Any other celebrity even meets a Scientologist and its all anyone talks about but with Neil Gaiman its just a non thing. He has also actively avoided denouncing Scientology in interviews
Terry
August 13, 2022 at 8:58 pm
That was such an elegantly elaborated way to say, “that’s why you should trim your nails”
Andy
August 13, 2022 at 9:26 pm
8:14 nonsense, you guys are simply projecting your modern ideology onto ancient folklore.
Worm Food
August 13, 2022 at 9:40 pm
Surprised to find out Neil Gaiman speaks like he’s doing a soft Alan Rickman impression
BOM LIFE
August 13, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Ragnarok is coming, if you see how all those things he said are happening now
debrahamz
August 13, 2022 at 10:26 pm
Nahhhh when he said crotchets and quavers I got so excited hahahahaha what a legend
AC3
August 13, 2022 at 11:19 pm
Riding around on a minotaur would be fantastic!
you’d get to see over everyone else in the crowd, and he has handlebars to hang onto.
All you have to do is make sure to give him ear scritches now and then.
Debra Chambers
August 13, 2022 at 11:29 pm
Early civilizations tended to form near bodies of water. That’s another reason for flood myths.
Leidy Johanna Paz
August 14, 2022 at 12:20 am
I loved reading Norse Mythology.
Nicholas Moore
August 14, 2022 at 12:21 am
Loki isn’t “gender fluid”; he literally has the magical power to transform into pretty much anything he wants. That’s not the same as being “gender fluid”, because he’s a non-human, mythological shapeshifter who can literally change his entire form to fit his whim. His entire physical form is fluid.
Nikki Fennel BabySteps Vlog
August 14, 2022 at 12:25 am
Minotaur was half bull, half man… If you want to ride it like a horse must be a CENTAUR…
Augmented Dictator Games
August 14, 2022 at 1:25 am
This man is an absolute treasure.
Finn Ekberg Christiansen
August 14, 2022 at 9:16 am
The Romans never reached Scandinavia (which maybe was unfortunate).
Neion8
August 14, 2022 at 9:21 am
Btw, the real answer to the first question is the proto-indo Europeans; all pre-christian European faiths had a link through their shared history.
Mats JPB
August 14, 2022 at 10:36 am
Semi-hemi-demigods! I love it!
Jan Kukliš
August 14, 2022 at 12:09 pm
Hearing his description of Ragnarok, and seeing what’s happening in the world, I’m just waiting for the frost giants to show up.
Anka_is_out_there
August 14, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Actually, if yoy have a look at the tétradrachmes of ancient Gela wich was founded by Critians, you can see another type of Minotaur: a bull with a wise man’s head. It’s also an archaic way to depict Dionisos. So yep, you can ride the Minotaur if you are brave enoght to.
Bibhav Dhakal
August 14, 2022 at 1:45 pm
Why does he give such a Severus Snape vibe lol
Lee Sanders
August 14, 2022 at 1:47 pm
The answer to the minotaur question is the reason I love Neil
CRAZYRIPPS
August 14, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Can I have neil explain just everything in life to me.
Mr. E
August 14, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Is it me or is it amazing how hinduism always gets ignored intentionally? Wouldnt fit the narrative though given how old hiduism actually is.
Ruan Visagie
August 14, 2022 at 3:48 pm
I think that you were referring to a Centaur not Minotaur
Vaettra
August 14, 2022 at 4:04 pm
I have a question for Gaiman: What is a woman?
Vaettra
August 14, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Riding a Minotaur like you’re riding a man, doesn’t mean you’re riding on his shoulders…
Emma Buckley
August 14, 2022 at 4:07 pm
I recommend to everyone that they watch The Sandman on Netflix. It is stylistic, detailed and thoroughly fantastic.
Sky
August 14, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Why on Netflix? Just pirate it
Jared Hall
August 14, 2022 at 5:23 pm
the clown who mentioned hercules seemed to forget his name was heracles
Dan Johnston
August 14, 2022 at 5:23 pm
The thing I find similar/significant between Greek & Norse Myth
Is Both Have The Three Fates/Norns
Spinning, Measuring & Cutting
Convergent Creative Thought Worldbuilding ??? Coincidence ?? Indo-European Concept Predating BOTH Cultures ??
Mari Fazekas
August 14, 2022 at 6:06 pm
“The kind of death I would like to meet one day” 🫠🥲 giving “I am haunted by humans”
DislikeButton
August 14, 2022 at 6:22 pm
the demigods are the nephilim in the Bible.
Liam White
August 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Some random person: if you’re such a big mythology fan, name the 12 trials of hercules. Absolute Chad Neil Gaiman: proceeds to explain every single trial in order with context for how they all went down.
Takis Prokopis
August 14, 2022 at 7:02 pm
You’re wrong on the demi god question cause it’s two demi gods so 1/2 god and half god having a kid would still be half god.
J C
August 14, 2022 at 7:14 pm
no wait. it gets even better. Bastet (originally lioness then cat) was deep into the perfume industry (a subsidiary of death) and Anubis (originally a jackal although sometimes misidentified as a dog) was, as a god, a charter member of the benevolent embalmer society. Anubis is Bastet’s son (she probably got him the job) (do not ask me how a feline came to birth a canine) (of course the myth about the Cow God Hesat being his mom was a low down attempt by other gods to slander Bastet about her weight when pregnant.) but ultimately he found love in the (morbid, morbid) workplace with fellow embalmer, Anput.
Raua
August 14, 2022 at 9:21 pm
He is such a fun dude and I appreciate him immensely.
The_Godfather 99
August 14, 2022 at 10:56 pm
Woldn‘t Odin be more of a Jupiter figure?
GGG
August 14, 2022 at 11:25 pm
1:24 Actually, during Middle Age many people (Dante Alighieri, for example) believed minotaur was a bull with a human head. Even William Blake painted a more bovine minotaur.
Davoc
August 15, 2022 at 12:28 am
Questions and answers aside, that is an exquisite jacket!
Ivana Kayes
August 15, 2022 at 10:56 am
It sounds like Ragnarok has been happening for a few years now…and it’s only going to get worse.
R M
August 15, 2022 at 12:51 pm
I’m kinda thinking we’re already at the start of Ragnarok. Depressing I know, but Neil kind of described a lot of what’s happening now.
E-Z-Ero
August 15, 2022 at 5:03 pm
This needs to be it’s own show. Neil make a Youtube channel!
Mad Dragon 1973
August 15, 2022 at 7:17 pm
I think they muddled Minotaur with Centaur!
076 NULL
August 15, 2022 at 9:12 pm
So Neil Gaiman is British, that’s glad to know🤣
rodrigo reyes
August 15, 2022 at 9:24 pm
this is the dude that wrote the timothy comic right the verry first harry potter?
Obesus
August 15, 2022 at 9:57 pm
3:36 this is the idea behind the Lovecraft pantheon, the elder gods are so incomprehensible that looking at their true form would induce madness.
ItsFridayYesItIs
August 15, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Neil has earned his spot on the Star trek Enterprise Hologram Expert rostrum
C Alzamora
August 16, 2022 at 12:09 am
I wanna sit with Mr.Gaiman and play Mario cart (not a euphemism).
laura y dimitri
August 16, 2022 at 4:18 am
JUST MARRY ME ALREADY. And Amanda.
laura y dimitri
August 16, 2022 at 4:24 am
i need moreeeee
Mitzi Duran
August 16, 2022 at 4:55 am
I was very sad today. Seeing him gave me a little bit of happiness.
plainforgiven
August 16, 2022 at 5:26 am
A consummate story teller at heart. Glad that I grew alongside his wonder. 💜💜💜
Benjamin Stevens
August 16, 2022 at 6:27 am
I think that person meant Centaur when they said Minotaur. Easy mistake to make, much easier to ride a Centaur obviously, with permission of course. MInotaurs are typically erratic and violent, you would probably die before you mounted and rode one.
ΣỉÁΣỉ
August 16, 2022 at 6:32 am
Guys plzz what is his Twitter’s username
MieHanz
August 16, 2022 at 7:51 am
Here’s the man who wrote a story inside his prelude in one of his book.
Moridin
August 16, 2022 at 8:50 am
where is
Moridin
August 16, 2022 at 8:51 am
react to this bro
Fredk Destree
August 16, 2022 at 10:49 am
As a Greek Mythology fan I would have rather asked to list the 12 labours of Herakles…
Spy Derman
August 16, 2022 at 2:35 pm
I love this man and his immagination!
Dave Cradle
August 16, 2022 at 2:36 pm
The Demi-God answer had me in stitches. 🙂
Axorcia VODS
August 16, 2022 at 3:58 pm
neil i can see the tumblr in you when u started about the furry costume
Gayatri Mahapatro
August 16, 2022 at 4:25 pm
hey, WIRED ,i was wondering if you could make a vid on RRR (telugu movie) as an history video or something? idk it’s a suggestion
Dogstar
August 16, 2022 at 6:21 pm
He hasn’t written anything less than incredible.
Scott Hughes
August 16, 2022 at 6:51 pm
A question I still have. Odin obtained wisdom for his eye. Yet, he still helps bring forth Ragnarok. Why didn’t he have the wisdom to accept it couldn’t be circumvented?
Anime Lover - Nicole
August 16, 2022 at 9:19 pm
omg love neil. fury minataur? that’s genius!!!!
Zero 13
August 17, 2022 at 7:18 am
I suspect someone confused ‘Minotaur’ with ‘Centaur’, which would make the second question more sense.
Joumana Seikaly
August 17, 2022 at 9:34 am
The Egyptians had a god with a cat head, called Bastet.
TBUThrowaway
August 17, 2022 at 10:23 am
Knowing that Neil Gaiman has a tumblr account, and that he’s just as into meme culture as the rest of us on the platform, him knowing about furries is entirely expected.
AaronChristian Soriano
August 17, 2022 at 11:32 am
Why does Neil Gaiman look like Eddie Munson who took Mythology studies for College?
Uncle RJ
August 17, 2022 at 11:46 am
Gaiman: “You probably have to find a furry Minotaur”
Me: “Oh as in a Minotaur with fur?”
Gaiman: “A Minotaur who was actually a furry.”
Me: “O-Oh”
Gaiman: “Would get into a horse costume and get down and you could ride that one”
Me:
Anders Milling
August 17, 2022 at 12:55 pm
I could listen to this man for ages.
J.J Jameson
August 17, 2022 at 1:34 pm
I’ve always liked Neil’s cadence
WandererGrim
August 17, 2022 at 2:03 pm
The world today sounds a bit like the beginning of Ragnarok
Vayu Asura
August 17, 2022 at 2:11 pm
So that’s what’s happening now, a Ragnarok!
Nico Krasnow
August 17, 2022 at 2:25 pm
What a man!
Rekha Eichler
August 17, 2022 at 5:40 pm
Please do a Part 2 about Asian and Ozeanic mythology. The aboriginal dream world is super interesting and Indian mythology is suuuuper weird
Gareth Fergusson
August 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm
I love Caroline, Sandman, American gods… He is amazing… However, some of what your are talking about and saying are myths are well and truly people’s religions… Imagine he said, oh the myth of Jesus christ is based on…. Not going to go down very well hey
Wehaventevenbegun
August 17, 2022 at 6:09 pm
As a teen, i used to think Neil Gaiman looked like Dream…now i realize he looks more like the Netflix version of John Dee
Darragh Mc Auliffe
August 17, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Just casually looks down at the labours of hercules cheat sheet in front of him. lol
Julie
August 17, 2022 at 7:48 pm
the way he read “why Thor missing an eye lol” ended me hahahahaha
Alternate Visions
August 17, 2022 at 8:08 pm
I love how he sounds excited, passionate but also somehow exasperated
James Lewis
August 17, 2022 at 8:23 pm
If anyone narrates my life let it be Neil
katie lea
August 17, 2022 at 9:07 pm
instead of minotaur piggyback ride he goes to a furry lol
Dany V
August 17, 2022 at 9:24 pm
hum it’s not so easy about links about with greek and vikings I don’t say all is not rigt but he forgot indo european myths and so it’s already a big problems
Ethan Boyd
August 17, 2022 at 9:58 pm
why people can’t english bro?
Divertedflight
August 17, 2022 at 10:05 pm
The first question wasn’t answered completely correctly, if not false in what he related. Many European god stories started with the Indo European groups. Some of which moved down south, including the Mediterranean. Stories were modified to locations such as Greece and even India. In all these they also took on some that were already there. Later some of these groups such as the Romans moved north and reencountered northern god stories. Some of which they recognized as being basically the same gods as their own; if with a different local flavour.
Bees a little nerd Bird
August 17, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Neil! Neil Gaiman!!! My Neil Gaiman!!!!! The Neil Gaiman!!!!!!!!!!
PaddysDemon
August 17, 2022 at 10:25 pm
He could of just said greeks and vikings traded with each other for decades there vikings keystones in Greece 🇬🇷
David Woo
August 17, 2022 at 11:15 pm
1:41 Counterpoint: I like where this is going. Thank you, Neil.😳🤣
S W
August 18, 2022 at 1:19 am
Wired, why must you do all the cuts zooming in and out? Neil Gaiman is enthralling enough to listen to without all the jumpy video stuff ruining it! This was awesome but my eyeballs hurt.
Best_Parolanto
August 18, 2022 at 9:27 am
Nobody asks about the three indo-european main god.
Mr Jemandem
August 18, 2022 at 10:00 am
Why is German lore so strange? Becaus ppl could not write and this story’s told them how thy have not to behave in order to face something bad. Not what ever he awncered…
TokyoBlue
August 18, 2022 at 10:31 am
Semi hemi demi gods
Prophet776
August 18, 2022 at 12:24 pm
Most English speakers around the world say Minotaur the second way you said it, EXCEPT Americans. They say Mino-tar, and Cen-tar for Centaur, which is infinitely weirder……. and dumber.
Potidaon
August 18, 2022 at 12:51 pm
It’s probably best to ask mythology questions to an actual folklorist or an expert in religion. For instance, the Egyptians didn’t really worship cats. They favored dogs much more. That’s one of those popular misconceptions that, Neil, no disrespect to him, isn’t necessarily able to address on account of being an enthusiast and not a scholar.
But I understand that this episode with Neil is probably happening because of the Sandman show.
Namu
August 18, 2022 at 1:01 pm
It’s the same with his answer in respect to Loke being “genderfluid”. Neil is great at making money off of retelling old stories, not so great at giving the source material the respect it deserves.
NOTORIOUS CAVEMAN
August 18, 2022 at 1:41 pm
Hehehe gaiman😌
Sandali Mendis
August 18, 2022 at 1:58 pm
I wanna see a conversation between Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry about mythology
Álvaro
August 18, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Greek and Norse mythology are similar because they are they are the result of sinchretism between one religion (the proto-indoeuropean religion) a semi-chamanic religion that worshiped spirits relating to the sky, sun and other phenomena with two different pre-existing religions one, that of the pre-indoeuropean greeks, probably Neolithic Anatolian Farmers, and pre-indoeuropean northern europeans, mostly WHG. Both this religions were ctonic deaity-oriented but were completely different. This common origin but sinchretism with different religions is what explains the great level of similarity but also the big differences. Sorry for the bad English, not my first language.
Rose Quartz
August 18, 2022 at 3:47 pm
I think he’s right about the angels breaking your brain to see them as they are. I do angel readings sometimes and occasionally use a card deck, and almost all of them look like Frankensteined objects.
Sahil Chaudhary
August 18, 2022 at 3:59 pm
This is like one of his tumblr ama posts came to life
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
August 18, 2022 at 4:43 pm
Did you know Ragnarok really started in 536EC? There was the Volcanic winter of 536 that killed a *lot* of people and another volcano in 541 just to top it. After this, much of knowledge had died out with the people that died before it and it is beleived this is the origin of the Fimbulwinter (no sun un three years etc) and the following Ragnarok. I mean, if you don’t have anything to eat, kill your sibling…
ArynChris
August 18, 2022 at 4:56 pm
I absolutely cannot tell if that final answer was serious or joking. xD
Allagí
August 18, 2022 at 6:36 pm
The reason why the great flood story exists in so many versions of mythology (including Christianity, which is mythology if you weren’t aware) is because the earliest forms of civilization grew next to rivers. The Nile, the Euphrates and Tigris, The Indus, The Yangtze and Yellow rivers spawned the very first human civilizations. These civilizations depended on their rivers to survive. When the rivers dried up they starved, when the rivers rose high they drowned. Very easy to understand parables. Simple as that.
Sübhi Sədiyev
August 18, 2022 at 6:39 pm
1:11 That would be centaur
Elayna Terrell
August 18, 2022 at 6:50 pm
I love him so much. I own that book and it’s a very good read!
Freddo Grosso
August 18, 2022 at 7:12 pm
Never thought of “hope” as a punishment. I don’t know what to make of that.
Pat Stone
August 18, 2022 at 7:21 pm
Can anyone say Piers Anthony
Carnival Of Tools
August 18, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Religion is myth
Dennis Monk
August 18, 2022 at 8:41 pm
the minotaur question was confused, he obviously meant a centaur 😆
Bella Cavin
August 18, 2022 at 8:43 pm
Dude honestly. I would follow Loki to the end of Ragnarok.
Dennis Monk
August 18, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Angels don’t technically look like anything. they are pure spirit, no material body. so whatever they look like is what they choose (or God chooses) to represent them as to the person seeing them.
jpdemer5
August 18, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Didn’t realize that Loki got his freak on like that. He’d have been interesting to hang out with, that’s for sure.
Max Farley
August 18, 2022 at 9:39 pm
1:00 I would respectfully add that Norse Mythology and Greco-Roman Mythology are vaguely similar similar because they share a distant common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European Mythology.
Imagine a World Like That
August 18, 2022 at 10:36 pm
Neil Gaiman is such a treasure to the world. He inspires me endlessly, gives us great art, & is just a wonderful person.
sealyoness
August 19, 2022 at 1:09 am
HOW amusing. I sort of like Odin and his Corvid helpers. I can never see a crow couple watching me without looking up at them. They REALLY do get suspicious. But I swear they take notes… be careful what you do around crows! They don’t forget, and might unexpectedly show up with 20-30 relatives outside, waiting for your cat – whom they’ve seldom seen – to die, occasionally with a fly-by ‘photographer’. They’re nosy. And noisy.
Ellen Murphy
August 19, 2022 at 4:31 am
Neil sounds like a patient dad explaining everything for the 1,000th time.
BloodyBay
August 19, 2022 at 6:33 am
*Moli:* “Why is German folklore absolutely terrifying?”
*Neil Gaiman:* “German folklore is terrifying! It’s filled with adults eating children…famine…nightmare…murder and awful things happening…”
*Me, still playing Darklands 30 years later:* “Psst! Mister Gaiman! Tell her about the kobolds, the schratts and the tatzelwurms! Oh, yes…especially the tatzelwurms!”
*Two Tatzelwurms:* * chew up my four German adventurers and shred their armor…again…for the eighth time *
Rabbi Ezekiel Goldberg
August 19, 2022 at 8:25 am
1:14 No, you’re not English, you’re a jew.
Nope ID
August 19, 2022 at 11:16 am
Did Neil Gaiman never hear about Proto-indo-European origins?
Jan Kaptein
August 19, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Noah’s story of the flood is the original one. Nimrod founded Babel wich came way after Noah.
H4hT53
August 19, 2022 at 1:13 pm
Germanic folklore is *nothing* compared to Slavic folklore.
James Lewis
August 19, 2022 at 2:44 pm
Keratos!
Dashie De
August 19, 2022 at 3:18 pm
Well at least we don’t have frost giants
Golan
August 19, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Neil just gave me another perspective and a point to ponder on what ‘hope’ may have really meant on that myth. Pandora’s box (or jar) was made to contain all of the evils and bad things in the world after all.
BearOnTheMoon
August 19, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Ragnarok… Well, that finally explains what’s been happening over in America.
John T. Lyon
August 19, 2022 at 7:59 pm
The Goddess Bastet?
hcblue
August 19, 2022 at 8:25 pm
One minute in and we’re talking about pony kinks and furry Minotaurs. I love him lmao. Also, the whole Mare Loki is interesting… like A+ on the assignment but she didn’t have to take it that far? I guess a genderfluid quing will do whatever a genderfluid quing wants to do and love that for them.
weslerembler1
August 19, 2022 at 10:02 pm
Loki is the god of deception.
Now i dont begrudge Neil for answering as he did to avoid the torrent of ridiculous historical revisionists, but what he said about Loki is absolutely wrong. Loki changing forms had nothing to do with being genderfluid (in the modern sense) but was only a tool, as a god, to deceive and increase his own power. It had absolutely nothing to do with gender identity. We are so incestuosly obsessed with our own modern day ideologies that people will actually ask crazy questions like “what was the gender identity of Jesus?” that we have completely lost the plot.
Whoever asked that mind-boggingly stupid question deserves to live a life of poverty.
of5
August 19, 2022 at 10:45 pm
yeah i would definetly ride a minotaur like a man
Alex Denton
August 20, 2022 at 1:24 am
ah yes people that want to know about myths go to a sellout imbecile instead of proper professors, what a beautiful society.
jimgee2502
August 20, 2022 at 2:16 am
Always wonderful to hear Neil Gaiman’s perspective on myth. But… why the incessant jump cuts? To paraphrase: ” Your editing is bad, and you should feel bad!!”
pawn
August 20, 2022 at 2:24 am
hes my favorite
Zoe May
August 20, 2022 at 2:37 am
Sometimes I wonder, with a notable amount of concern, why Neil Gaiman is on tumblr. It’s too weird, I think. Surely it will be too much.
But no. He’s just also kind of weird. Thank god.
Ell Tee
August 20, 2022 at 4:17 am
Just to be a pedant on question 1: Greek and Scando/Germanic mythologies (likely) share a common Proto-Indo-European origin.
Professional69
August 20, 2022 at 4:43 am
sandman is trash
You Bute
August 20, 2022 at 5:08 am
I want Neil Gaiman, Rick Riordan and Stephen Fry all in one room discussing myths and mythology.
That would be a colab of a century for me.
Phenix 19
August 20, 2022 at 7:40 am
not the best questions
Black Wolf
August 20, 2022 at 8:15 am
Technically the reason Anubis has the head of a jackal is because in Egypt, jackals would eat the dead bodies of people and thus the Egyptians associated jackals with the dead and made the god of the dead have the head of a jackal
AnonEyeMouse
August 20, 2022 at 8:54 am
I though Odin was Jupiter, not Mercury?
M VDL
August 20, 2022 at 10:31 am
Today I learned his entire family is Scientologist.
Adam Thornton Illustration
August 20, 2022 at 11:13 am
Question: why is your hair a mess?
Mr. J
August 20, 2022 at 1:13 pm
What was the term for the son/daughter of two demigods in Percy Jackson books?
DtWolfwood
August 20, 2022 at 3:03 pm
Semi-hemi-demigods is probably my new favorite thing to say lol
devilpupbear09
August 20, 2022 at 3:10 pm
The gods care nothing for them, men should not pray to monsters
Arsenico13
August 20, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Such an awesome video! 😀
coconutcore
August 20, 2022 at 6:36 pm
First answer isn’t quite right. The Norse pantheon is much older than the vikings and the similarities lead back to ancient Indo-Europeans, where the pantheons had a common ancestor.
Not that the religions didn’t influence each other, but the similarities they’re talking about run far deeper and are far older.
badunius
August 20, 2022 at 8:01 pm
Greeks and Vikings are both Indo-Europeans and they just inherit same mythologems. Romans are a minor factor.
badunius
August 20, 2022 at 8:07 pm
3:40 roughly every fifth living person is a descendant of Ghenghis Khan. Imagine that.
J B
August 20, 2022 at 9:42 pm
Me – Is a Furry
Also me – expects mythology
The video – It would have to be a minotaur Furry
Wat? 😆
Subliminal Blip
August 20, 2022 at 9:49 pm
Semi-hemi-demigods….that sounds challenging.
Ghost of Uchiha
August 20, 2022 at 10:31 pm
I would have asked him why he let American Gods turn to sht and why he made The Sandman into an SJW fest.
Corox TheDuck
August 20, 2022 at 11:24 pm
we all know the first question was about the god of war
Duke Togo
August 20, 2022 at 11:39 pm
it is known, even biblically, that angels could appear to be human.
Chalupa Brain
August 21, 2022 at 5:09 am
Loki is “genderfluid as Hel” eh? So his daughter swaps genders on whim too? 🙂
Faye Harrison
August 21, 2022 at 5:27 am
I think they meant centaur! hahaha love your stuff Neil!
DaleAts Overton
August 21, 2022 at 7:22 am
this makes me think about the theory about how everything in the bible & old paintings & teachings were mistakenly about aliens . people were just viewing aliens as Gods , especially since the bible’s tryna tell us aliens look like fuckn UFO’s so technically every UFO sighting would be us seeing angels right ?? you’d think the church’s would go crazy about these sightings & back them as much as possible
DaleAts Overton
August 21, 2022 at 7:29 am
it’s amazing to me that this man has written a comic book . no wonder why the show was so good . i’ve never seen a video of him before this but i’m glad i have now
AWildBard
August 21, 2022 at 7:36 am
I finally know for sure how to pronounce Gaiman.
6:27
Hip Grzyb
August 21, 2022 at 7:51 am
Neil IPutGayEverywhereMan
Joe Wall
August 21, 2022 at 11:00 am
Funny how alot of Greek stories follow killing some great beast like him hercules kills the nemean lion, theseus kills the cretin bull etc.
Brent Robertson
August 21, 2022 at 12:18 pm
I want to know about kratchets and kwavers
turkish.
August 21, 2022 at 12:56 pm
He talks like Alan Rickman 😀
bdavies24
August 21, 2022 at 1:55 pm
What links Greek and Viking myths? A very angry Kratos… :p
Nura Ol’Blast
August 21, 2022 at 2:05 pm
Did the second asker confused Minotaur with centaur?
ivona V
August 21, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Well, that was just delightful!!
TonyJ 42
August 21, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Reverse Minotaur?
Kyo Bear
August 21, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Snape is that you? ❤️
Paulmadafaka02
August 21, 2022 at 6:45 pm
hold up… he created the sandman??
Zach Mcginnis
August 21, 2022 at 7:58 pm
I like how he IMMEDIATELY explained why he says minotaur that way cuz he knows so many Americans have no clue and we just assume everyone says it the same lol
Zach Mcginnis
August 21, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Anyone know if there’s a Neil Gaiman book where the villain is in some sort of abandoned amusement park and either lures or brings victims there to murder and the hero is getting glimpses of what they’re doing and trying to find and stop them?
I remember reading something like that and thought it was Gaiman but I’m not positive
Seymour Disapproves
August 21, 2022 at 8:10 pm
The most shocking piece of this interview, for me, was learning that Neil knows what furries are.
Richard Bradley
August 21, 2022 at 9:18 pm
I don’t think Neil had to answer the twelve labours question. It can be be looked up. I prefer the questions where he can add some nuance. Loved the hemi-semi-demi quavers joke though.
Guy Incognito
August 21, 2022 at 9:43 pm
Why would anyone ask this guy about mythology? He’s not an expert. He has no qualifications.
Prizmos
August 21, 2022 at 10:05 pm
I hope there is another one of these soon! I loved listening to him talk about mythology. The way he explains things is great and he makes the experience fun.
PoofyRandAlThor
August 21, 2022 at 10:31 pm
Yeah I’m not listening to a jewish fiction writer talk about heritage not his own. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
NaN
August 21, 2022 at 11:06 pm
But what are the 12 tasks of Asterix?
Linda F
August 22, 2022 at 12:11 am
I love how Neil is doing all the promo interviews lmao most of the time the actors have to but this is so much better bc he has the inside scoop about the world he created not just character set stories
Arcade Alchemist
August 22, 2022 at 12:57 am
thats a snazzy jacket
Rob' Ramos
August 22, 2022 at 4:00 am
On the Minotaur thing, you COULD find a Tikbalang, one of the horse-headed, manlike creatures of Philippine myth.
Now, of course it depends on the local mythology you’re basing it on. But based on what your casual Pinoy (or Trese at Netflix fan) knows, you need to grab that strand of hair on the head of a Tikbalang or ride one in its horse form to exhaustion.
Because, ordinarily, you just don’t ride a Tikbalang in horse form, haha. That’s asking for trouble. Not even Alexandra Trese would do that, even if the Prince of Tikbalangs would let her because he has the hots for her after their battle.
But if you can “tame” a Tikbalang, not only do you have a powerful bodyguard but you’d have one of the fastest modes of land transportation around.
Lord Telperion
August 22, 2022 at 5:53 am
Roma Invicta! SPQR!
Lord Telperion
August 22, 2022 at 5:57 am
Hail Jupiter Optimus Maximus!
Max lopolo
August 22, 2022 at 6:21 am
“German folklore is filled with horror, what is wrong with people ?”
………. What is wrong with YOU dear lady?!? You live in safety never seen before on planet earth, obtained through a staggering amount of sacrifice, and you give it for granted. That is what is wrong with you.
They used to tell scary, horrible stories to scary children STRAIGHT, as a WARNING, because they are the depiction of REALITY.
Outside the dome of safety that you are no doubt actively trying to dismantle in the name of some shortsighted cause, there be wolves. Even today. ENJOY.
gregoryvn3
August 22, 2022 at 7:58 am
I love this so much. He’s such a character, and is having too much fun with people’s twitter handles.
TheTalantonX
August 22, 2022 at 9:58 am
Neil Gaiman is easily one of my favorite authors, but he’s also slowly become one of my favorite people.
Dean Vennard
August 22, 2022 at 12:55 pm
As a folklorist I’d just like to say this particular man is a bit of an idiot .. the Norse gods and the Greek gods where a separate lot of gods until the two peoples stories came together and we recognised the similarities .. more to the point we don’t know when or how they are similar we theorise on it but we don’t know .. a lot of history is lost and until it’s found we just don’t know but there is some theories that say all these stories are much much older then what we think they are .. if that is the case then it makes more sense
Michael Boyd
August 22, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Worlds greatest author
IWas AGoodWife
August 22, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Thor do be missing an eye after Thor:Ragnarok… it’s his sister’s fault.
Harsha
August 22, 2022 at 1:56 pm
Well, Neil Gaiman is truly a distinguished gentleman!!!
Kwirl Karphys
August 22, 2022 at 2:51 pm
the first half of the ragnarok kind of sounded very familiar
Jupiter Green
August 22, 2022 at 3:21 pm
NEIL!!!!!
Rikki Chadwick
August 22, 2022 at 3:28 pm
Man i could just sit and listen to him talk for hours upon hours. Happily. I feel like a little dry sponge soaking up actually interesting juicy knowledge its wonderful.
Nirmal Asokan
August 22, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Why do so many cultures have a great flood story? Because alot of early civilisations built communities close to rivers and deltas for easy access to water, irrigation. With that there were catastrophic flooding events and that seeped into mythology
ChaosKarlos
August 22, 2022 at 5:03 pm
As much as i love gaiman as a fiction author… some of his answers are pretty shallow and i´d rather have a professor or scientist answer these questions.
rammsteinrulz16
August 22, 2022 at 5:40 pm
Gaiman: well first of all, Pandora’s Box isnt actually a box…
Me: oh dear…
Gaiman: Pandora’s Box is a jar
Me: THANKGOD
Ike Beckman
August 22, 2022 at 6:46 pm
The great flood actually happened I think like 18kya but there was plenty of land left earth was not fully submerged
Zoë Pittenger Kyriacopoulos
August 22, 2022 at 8:12 pm
very funny that you bring up furry Minotaurs before regular centaurs, neil
Vohbo Vohborian
August 22, 2022 at 8:47 pm
I find it very odd that mister Gaiman’s answer of how Norse and Greek mythology are connected is so wildly incorrect that it is difficult to believe he is actually well-versed in this subject matter.
Fidessa Inen
August 22, 2022 at 9:46 pm
what actually does connect them? Just curious
Aitor Tilla
August 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm
What a stupid questions. I was expecting something else.
Aaron Lesse
August 23, 2022 at 6:19 am
I’m definitely adding this video to my YouTube playlist entitled “Mythology and Ancient Lore.”
Nerdcoresteve1
August 23, 2022 at 7:28 am
Monkey why?!! Monkey why!!!
not deja vu
August 23, 2022 at 8:52 am
God of War: Ragnarok can’t wait
NeilStar_1375
August 23, 2022 at 9:54 am
they choose a Morpheus that looks like him…
Wilberforce
August 23, 2022 at 10:10 am
I thought his memory was uncanny until I saw the 4×3 grid on one of the pages 😅
Fabricius
August 23, 2022 at 1:15 pm
i really like neil omg
Jacob Ortega
August 23, 2022 at 1:54 pm
Why is this guy asked about myths and legends? He’s not a historian???
WinginWolf
August 23, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Is that a table of “la loteria” on his desk? Lol what’s it doing there.
WinginWolf
August 23, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Lol, fly too close to the sun. It’s 90 million miles away. a few hundred feet wouldn’t make a difference, plus it gets colder when you go up. To a certain point at least.
That greek story is quite cool but it’s silly.
Deerheart
August 23, 2022 at 11:04 pm
What do you expect? How could they have known otherwise?
Rottin Soldier
August 23, 2022 at 2:39 pm
Interesting how this is all mythology but those same people calling this mythology believe in inter other dimensional being like elves
joey paisano
August 23, 2022 at 3:13 pm
its meenatoor…..not mynotoor. you sound silly
Abdurrahman Hermanto
August 23, 2022 at 3:59 pm
As a non native english speaker, what I thought I heard at first was “Pandora’s box is ajar”.
Svetlin Nikolov
August 23, 2022 at 4:06 pm
were there black people in the norse mythology?
The God Emperor of Mankind
August 23, 2022 at 5:01 pm
Man’s talks like Severus Snape
John Takolander
August 23, 2022 at 5:31 pm
Ragnarok seems to be on the way now!
Settra Surfs
August 23, 2022 at 5:37 pm
> Neil Gaiman
Why not Neil Straightman? SMH
james doig
August 23, 2022 at 6:54 pm
Is it just me or does Neil Gaiman sound like Alan Rickman?
Keiyan Goshin
August 23, 2022 at 7:44 pm
So this is Neil Gaiman. I think I like him. 👍
the undead1
August 23, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Drauger, we’re my faves. But also love all the tales. Rat a tusk the squirrel. Sorry spelling.
MaenINoldo
August 23, 2022 at 9:54 pm
12:50 pet peeves of mine, when talking Greek mythology, it’s Heracles, not Hercules. The name is important. It is part of his relation with Hera, who will be his constant antagonist, tormentor, and undoing.
bamachine
August 23, 2022 at 10:01 pm
I would ask him if he has read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology until it fell apart, like my copy did when I was a young lad.
james miller
August 23, 2022 at 10:23 pm
So is asoiaf just a retelling of Ragnarok?
Jim James
August 23, 2022 at 10:53 pm
Re: Ragnarok
Before the new world can begin, the old one has to collapse
That is where we are now
Edit: fun topic,
61lastchild
August 23, 2022 at 11:04 pm
Gods and myths? Uh…they are one in the same.
Bald Perspective
August 23, 2022 at 11:33 pm
1:31
On the Minotaur ordeal, last year I read a book on Greek mythology released back in the ’60s or ’70s that actually described a Minotaur more like a centaur, including Bull horns on a human head. So, according to that book, you could ride a Minotaur like a horse. That imagery of a conventional Minotaur who is also a furry & dresses up as a horse is exactly the kind of scrumptious nightmare fuel I crave, btw.
mike bar
August 24, 2022 at 4:07 am
Either some of those biblical angels are appearing human or humans have had UFOs for a long time.. 🥴🤤
Or I’m drunk 🍻
mike bar
August 24, 2022 at 4:09 am
Can u explain giants but not the big kind?
Done Whiskey
August 24, 2022 at 5:47 am
Hey Seth, Bastet (B’sst, Baast, Baset, Bast and Ubaste) has a cat’s head.
j s
August 24, 2022 at 8:34 am
Wish someone had asked a Gilgamesh question. That is my guy.
Normie death squad
August 24, 2022 at 12:02 pm
The link between the Greek and Viking pantheon and mythologies has its roots in the proto Indo European settlers of the post ice age world. The most common myths that link alot of mythologies are the death or heroes journey in the afterlife and the link between dogs and the afterlife.
Kosmo Semjaza
August 24, 2022 at 1:13 pm
“Well first of all Pandora’s box isn’t a box. Pandora’s box is ajar.”
Well yeah. How else would all the bad stuff get out?
(Ba-dum-tss)
Iggy the Kidd
August 24, 2022 at 2:43 pm
Neil has such a slow and measured way of speaking when speaking about history, but a much quicker and more excited manner when speaking about mythological characters/creatures
Mariana Faria
August 24, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Loki is then speciesfluid
Pixelbrush Cafe
August 24, 2022 at 5:04 pm
WIRED: You need to lay off on the jump close-up cuts. A little much..hehe!
ap0350
August 24, 2022 at 5:13 pm
I love the idea of finding an angel topper for my Christmas tree, but make it BIBLICAL.
Alex C
August 24, 2022 at 5:59 pm
what a cool guy!
kerry nicholls
August 24, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Exactly, behave like Hades.
Robert H
August 24, 2022 at 6:29 pm
This was super cool! The different mythologies intermixing and such
shiaza combslat
August 24, 2022 at 8:06 pm
gayman
Oba936
August 24, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Ah Neil, always a bliss. Thanks a lot!
Richi
August 24, 2022 at 9:08 pm
If you guys like to hear more of Mr Gainann speaking, listen to to Norse mythology audiobook, he synchronized it himself
Bill DaGrass Hawking
August 25, 2022 at 1:31 am
Is it me or did his description of Germanic folklore sound kind of like fox news
Michael Berthelsen
August 25, 2022 at 6:01 am
Correction: Dead viking warriors do NOT come back on a ship of fingernails. All BUT dead warriors come back on Hel’s ship, the dead warriors fight AGAINST Hel’s armies, on the side of the Gods.
Paul Bateman
August 25, 2022 at 2:03 pm
Check out Clive Barker’s description of the angel Uriel in Weaveworld. It’s quite Biblical.
mushnoroom
August 25, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Biblical Angels!! The source inspo for Evangelion anyone???
Wayne
August 25, 2022 at 5:22 pm
He swapped the Dark Arts for Mythology
Knowledge Lover
August 25, 2022 at 8:15 pm
This guy is good at turning fun into normal
Jianna Sandoval
August 25, 2022 at 9:23 pm
Biggest shock to me is that his last name is “Gaiman” not “Gailman”
Meidian Media
August 25, 2022 at 11:03 pm
I didn’t know that Neil Gaiman is a very friendly man. 😄
Slidaulth
August 26, 2022 at 2:32 am
Is not a Jackal a Canid?
Ranger Houston
August 26, 2022 at 3:15 am
Is it just me or does his description of Ragnarok sound like a nuclear apocalypse a-La fallout?
Joseph Benson
August 26, 2022 at 3:31 am
I like the irony of riding a minotaur pig-a-back.
TrapsterJ
August 26, 2022 at 4:06 am
He talks as if he’s worked in a museum having to lead tours and saying the exact same thing over and over.
Brandon Lowentrout
August 26, 2022 at 4:43 am
I should very much like to know the identity of the dead god who’s bones were fashioned into the helm of Morpheus.
Melissa Pena
August 26, 2022 at 5:33 am
He’s giving Snape vibes
Tanel Kagan
August 26, 2022 at 8:54 am
Interesting… can’t help but think that the person asking about “riding a minotaur” was actually thinking of a centaur.
ygunayer
August 26, 2022 at 11:48 am
I think I can listen to him talk all day long, such an incredible personality!
My Stuff
August 26, 2022 at 11:58 am
I knew all of the answers (Jesus Christ… 🤦♂️) and still enjoyed listening to him. Love American Gods, Sandman & Lucifer!
Max G
August 26, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Wow, the question of the video, by the expert of myths, and he didn’t know that Indo-Europeans have spread their culture and innovations to Europe and India, including the Pantheon. It’s just that Indian Zeus later had been dethroned as the primary god.
G. Dalf LeBlanc
August 26, 2022 at 12:57 pm
Odin is non-binary, they use the seid, female magic.
Gabrielle Adams
August 26, 2022 at 1:17 pm
god I love this man.
So very jealous for his children and neices and nephews who get to hear his wonderful stories. petition for me to be reincarnated as his cat so I can read all the stories over his shoulder and also be a nuisance bc thats one of my passions in life.
Old Goat
August 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm
…and those kids would be quasisemihemidemigods
Thor yL
August 26, 2022 at 2:36 pm
This vid flows way better at 1.25x speed 😂
rainer zufall
August 26, 2022 at 8:50 pm
german folklore were told stories, teaching people, mainly children, stuff with questionable pedagogy (‘volksmärchen’). the Grimm brothers wrote them down and sold the stories later, so they became famouse and ‘kunstmärchen’.
i’d recommend reading siegfried von xanten / sigur of xanten / nibelungenlied. still depressing, but totally different. further, there are many wired local tales, like wood ghosts of the schwarzwald etc
Siska Nanamuk
August 27, 2022 at 12:10 am
I’ve decided that Ragnarok is here now. In this spacetime, based on Neil Gaiman’s description of it, Ragnarok is now.
Morellio Benoir
August 27, 2022 at 1:09 pm
Wow Neil Gaiman is awesome.
CountryMo
August 27, 2022 at 2:13 pm
4:26 he sai Ragnarok but he meant 2022
Aryanderson Sawyer
August 27, 2022 at 2:33 pm
Gênio! 💙
Matthew Fejes
August 27, 2022 at 4:20 pm
Today I learned Pandora’s Box is actually slightly open.
Gavin Fillop
August 27, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Maybe
Luciana Queijeiro
August 27, 2022 at 5:07 pm
he speaks like snape
Luciana Queijeiro
August 27, 2022 at 5:08 pm
a furry minotaur whattttttt kejfsjkfesfs
Tyler Peacock
August 27, 2022 at 5:17 pm
I knew almost everything he answered… and what I couldn’t call to mind, I was being reminded more than I was learning. I’ve apparently been absolutely _steeped_ in mythology.
Jessica Green
August 27, 2022 at 6:15 pm
He is so charming
Maro Cat
August 28, 2022 at 3:13 am
There is also the big thing that ragnarok sounds oddly untypical to norse folklore and given that what survived near all are christian misionaries. Which is good, but also makes ragnarok the oddly christian sounding, like somon wanted to add a christianazing via an apocalypse, an baldr oddly sounds like jesus. Just ragnarok does not sound elonging there, near all sources are chrsitian missionaries, stories got christionized tosuvive a bit.
It doubtful if it even was originally partt of the original mythology
Like loki was never evil, he was a chao gremlin getting himself into trouble, but never “evil” that sound jut odd. Like a late raddition by a christian monk maybe needing a character change. Ok no one really knows, but att who ate near all sources, likly.
Siansonea Orande
August 28, 2022 at 3:24 am
Pandora’s box is ajar…I see what you did there.
Stefan Dingenouts
August 28, 2022 at 8:10 am
I once wrote a poem for my brothers secret santa (well, secret saint nicolas, but…) with a rather clever reference to Icarus. I think. Never found out if it was, as of course I was the only one in the family who knew about Icarus…
kossnfx
August 28, 2022 at 8:12 am
“What is Ragnarok?… Everything goes wrong”- so, it’s Brexit.
K SE
August 28, 2022 at 8:18 am
Pony stuff hahahahaha
K SE
August 28, 2022 at 8:27 am
Gender neutral hahaha
Joel Bedulla
August 28, 2022 at 8:41 am
Why does he talk like that
Queenie Almirez
August 28, 2022 at 3:44 pm
I can listen to him talk about mythology all day
Sther Menezes Fafá
August 28, 2022 at 7:52 pm
I need a part 2!!!!!!!! Pls
predator H2O
August 28, 2022 at 10:32 pm
Actually Loki in the MCU is also a giant and not Thor’s actual brother.
Vikinginger
August 29, 2022 at 12:19 am
Loki was not gender fluid, He was Loki. And if you use Loki as a proof of your unscientific theories, then there is more than one thing wrong with you.
Brianna Mattis
August 29, 2022 at 5:02 am
I want Neil Gaiman to give the eulogy at my funeral…
Constantine Lapiotis
August 29, 2022 at 7:11 am
Americans spell Minotaur closer to the real source, the Greek pronunciation. Mee-no-taur. In Greek it is ΜΙΝΩΤΑΥΡΟΣ (mee-no-tav-ros).
archiveDOTorg @thefashybookworm
August 29, 2022 at 8:11 am
the answer is seapeoples/phoenicians.
Lab Rat
August 29, 2022 at 9:05 am
Anubis has a Wolf head, not a Jackal. Just checked: It’s believed to be based on a Egyptian Golden Wolf.
bigg jiggins
August 29, 2022 at 10:52 am
Yeah but are you a gai man
TrobsEvolution
August 29, 2022 at 1:19 pm
Is it because of the food? How dare he?
Sunil Patel
August 29, 2022 at 1:29 pm
When Neil Gaiman said you can ride a minotaur like a man, my first thought was definitely not riding on his shoulders.
Mack Noriaga
August 29, 2022 at 11:09 pm
All of this is obvious to Europeans. Seriously. We learn this stuff in primary school.
Americans, just google it.
redacted
August 30, 2022 at 12:12 am
I gotta say tho the questions were pretty stupid…
pAnDa_IN VentiOn
August 30, 2022 at 12:15 pm
😒
Timothy Mallon
August 30, 2022 at 1:43 am
Neil absolutely needs his own YouTube channel! This is the best QNA ever on Wired!
Dawa Penjor
August 30, 2022 at 8:08 am
Never understood why so many comic book authors aren’t taken as figures of literature like the way someone like Stephen Fry is.
Jim Bell
August 30, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Quite amazing. Thanks WIRED. Thanks Neil. Jim Bell (Australia)
Henrinator
August 30, 2022 at 3:29 pm
I just noticed that i have read this guys book.
Rafaela Sariego
August 30, 2022 at 5:21 pm
Snape…is this you?
R S
August 30, 2022 at 5:21 pm
Snape…is this you?
Wizkey Jack
August 30, 2022 at 5:40 pm
If you rode a Minotaur’s shoulders you could use his horns as a Slingshot!
johnny dangerously
August 30, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Need more info on crotchits and quavors
Nick Brutanna
August 30, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Yeah, there were other animals, too. There was a hippo goddess, as well, wasn’t there? Makes a kind of sense that significant nile animals would be a part of their pantheon.
psgamer0199
August 30, 2022 at 8:23 pm
As a Greek mythology fan I loved this video. Specially when he answers the 12 labors of Heracles.
I would love to ask this man why is it that Heracles (a mostly famous in GREEK mythology) is talked about by people with his Roman equivalent name Hercules?
Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith
August 30, 2022 at 10:10 pm
So, we’re in the early stages of Ragnarok then …. aren’t we? 😒
kuro
August 31, 2022 at 12:02 am
Thank you Mr. Gaiman i actually learnt a lot!
Very Normal Humans
August 31, 2022 at 1:55 am
Something about Neil Gaiman knowing what a furry is makes me deeply uncomfortable
Sarah Sumpter
August 31, 2022 at 2:57 am
I think they meant the marvel Thor
plebiansociety
August 31, 2022 at 4:01 am
11:55 Humans tended to live near fresh water sources before piping water away and storage was a thing because they like to drink it, makes stuff grow and provides a food source itself. Fresh water sources tend to flood.
stephanie turpen
August 31, 2022 at 4:26 am
I think the person asking about thor eye was asking about the movie not the myth
Earthling
August 31, 2022 at 4:41 am
Mercury and Odin are Not the same god. Is this amateur hour? Odin is closer to Satvrn/Kronos & Jupiter/Zeus. Nothing like Mercury/Hermes.
Andrei Christopher Maximino Moreira
August 31, 2022 at 8:41 am
The musical joke in the end was on point
Nuckle Chutz
August 31, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Ah yes, I am a semi-hemi-demi-god, crotchet twice-removed on my mother’s side.
Help me escape this
August 31, 2022 at 7:58 pm
Why do i feel like the lady meant centaur not minotaur
Korre Music
August 31, 2022 at 9:32 pm
Anubis has an Egyptian golden wolf’s head I believe
Christopher Elliott
August 31, 2022 at 9:42 pm
If Anubis had a cat’s head then he would be Bastet. Simple answer. 😉