American Gods Revealed Pt2: The Mythology of Season 2

Check out my breakdown of the American Gods Season 3 Episode1 https://youtu.be/DBWtLQ14otA and the Mythology behind Gaiman's Coraline! https://youtu.be/fLpqKk0zu8A

Kali is not dancing on her husband Shiva; she is, in fact, associated with the "Adi Para Shakti" (Primordial Cosmic Energy) also known as Durga. Originally, she is the Mahadevi (Goddess of the Goddess), named Parvati, who takes on her furious and angry form as Kali when her child is in danger of being harmed or killed by demons. The story unfolds as follows: when her child is threatened, Parvati becomes frightened and seeks help from other deities. However, they refuse to intervene, advising her to approach Mahadev(Shiva), her husband, for assistance. Despite her plea, Shiva decides not to intervene at that moment. Overwhelmed by anxiety and anger, Parvati transforms into Kali and descends to Earth to protect her child by annihilating the demons. However, in her uncontrollable rage, she continues her rampage, and even the other deities are unable to restrain her. Witnessing the chaos, Shiva, the Mahadev, descends to Earth and lies down in Kali's path. When she steps on him, she realizes her mistake—a grave offense. In that moment of realization, she halts her rampage and calms herself, reverting to her original form, Parvati. She then humbly asks for forgiveness from her husband, acknowledging the disrespect she showed by stepping on him. Additionally, she protrudes her tongues for two purposes: firstly, to frighten the demons, and secondly, as a gesture of remorse when she realizes she has unintentionally stepped on her husband.

Some of he information might have been off or misconstrued in a sense but all religions have discrepancies and misinterpreted aspects, let’s give this guy on this page props for doing an overall amazing job despite the material he had to work with in the first place. Good job!

There is so many misinformation about goddess Kali. She is the destructive aspect of goddess Parvati, wife of lord Shiva. Goddess Parvati transformed into goddess Kali to fight a powerfull demon "rakthbeej". Rakthbeej had unique powers. If anyone was to fight him and even one drop of his blood fell to the ground, then that drop of blood would make an entire new clone of that demon. She killed all his clones while she drank all of their blood and made wore the garland made up of countless demon heads. After killing all the rakthbeej clones, she had become very angry and in anger she tried to kill everyone who came in her path, seeing this lord Shiva the god of destruction laid on her path. Kali unknowingly stepped on him, as Kali was actually Parvati, she felt ashamed after stepping on her husband, so she stuck her tongue out as a symbol of remorse. You guys might be thinking why does hinduism have god of destruction and "god of destruction" should be evil, but i'd like to tell you, this world goes on in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. What is made would eventually be destroyed and that is the rule of nature. So we have three gods namely, brahma, the god of creation; Vishnu, the preserver; shiva, the god of destruction.

Jokes on everyone, this show is just Wednesday's victory in bringing back the old gods to everyone's mind lol

Loki is also the mother of Sleipnir, the horse. Try not to think about it too much.

The djinn didn't steal his clothes, he granted his wish! - He had just arrived in the US recently and was failing miserably as a salesman. The djinn left him his taxi and his driver's ID had magically changed to show the salesman as the owner of the cab. So he gave him a new job that he could succeed at, which is why he's now driving the cab and wearing the djinn's clothes and sunglasses. They certainly did have a one night stand, though.

Ever since I was a kid I was obsessed with mythology or anything to do with the God of different pantheons

I'm Native American and I wanted to correct something. We don't have gods. We have spirits. Both good and bad. We believe in only one god. The creator

I'm ​42 and I grow up reading and loving all different types of mythology. This is a fascinating channel, thanks 👍👍

you completely misunderstood the jinn scene, it wasn't vengeance, the jinn showed the guy tenderness and then granted his "wish" of a new life.

KALI is also NOT just about destruction. She brings life, salvation and protection to her followers

I had a great time on set of this show as a extra ...cant wait to see the parts were I was in... I hope you all enjoy the show....cant wait to start watching it

You forgot to mention the squirrel that gives water to Shadow While he's on the tree. I know you already mentioned who It is, but I love how Gaiman brought him to life into the novel.

I think Mr. World is a personification of Captalism and Globalization, and that's why he is so powerful, because capitalism is the most important belief system in the world.

"giving rise to Mr. wood?"... giggidy

This was AMAZING (Part 1&2). Your narration, clips, and insights have truly piqued my interest in reading and learning more about other culture's mythological characters and gods. Brilliant.

Dude I am just scared about the show doesn't get stopped due to harm of religious sentiment. Seen a lot of good story going down. I hope this masterpiece continues. Good video man.

Personally I think the New Gods are really interesting, the fact they seem to work against each other or subvert each other while attempting to work toward a common goal, kind of like everything in the modern age. My Interpretation of the three known New Gods, are the Personification of the Internet (hence the reason why the young guy has the personality of the comments section here on Youtube), the Personification of the Media (the female many faced deity of the famous, with her altar as the phone and television) and the Personification of the Modern Age (I think they referred to him as Mr World. He seems like a salesman, or big business executive, but also seems to be the equivalent of "Big Brother" a man who sees all via satellites as he tracks Wednesday). That's just my interpretation though

Correction: Loki isn’t Aesir at all. His mother and father were both hrimthursar or frost giants. In the Golden Age of the world, the cosmic races traded hostages in order to keep the peace amongst them. Loki and Gullveig were thursar hostages sent to Asgard. Gullveig traveled back to Jotunheim when her father became sick from not being able to ravage the world of men and Loki was eventually imprisoned in the underworld for his crimes against the Gods and punished as the damned. Also Loki’s daughter isn’t Hel. Snorri’s our only source for this and we just don’t see it anywhere else. Hel is likely another name from Urd, the Goddess of fate, and Loki’s daughter is Leikn, a demon which embodies disease. Also Baldur’s death wasn’t even semi-accidental. Loki simply tricked Hodur into doing his dirty work so that Hodur would be blamed. It’s my belief that Loki killed Baldur out of jealousy, because Baldur represents everything Loki is not. Interestingly, to avenge Baldur, Odin had to father another son who wasn’t Hodur’s full brother. To do this he seduced a woman called Rind using black magic, basically raping her. Black magic is outlawed by the Gods and considered blasphemous and harmful so Odin was cast out of Asgard. He was accepted back only when he refused to side with the thursar or frost giants against the Gods. I think this demonstrates something important the Edda has to say about atonement. Loki did some very bad things but almost every time he made up for them, always in the most flamboyant way, but would turn right around and either repeat his wrongdoings or do something even worse. Meanwhile Odin committed what’s early described as the worst sin imaginable, and even though he stoned for it in what may be the simplest way, he was forgiven because he kept to his word and he never sided with evil again. In fact he will defend against evil come Ragnarök when he’ll lead an army of heroes to fight Loki who will lead an army of the damned against the Gods.