Today, I'm here to answer your questions from twitter and this is mythology support first one assaf mayor asks what links viking and greek gods and myths.

It's a lovely question because there are things that are similar, but what really links them I think is people, the Greeks told their myths to the romans and the romans took over and colonized and then those same romans traveled up and encountered the Germanic tribes and the norse people and traded tales of gods and heroes.

The norse would talk about Odin, the romans would hear was essentially Mercury, which is one reason why our Wetness Day, which is Odin's Day, right in the middle of the week is Mercredi in France, which is Mercury's Day, it's the same god, Crimson Soul.

20 one says if I asked nicely, could I ride a minor tour, like a horse?

I'm english, I say monitor americans, say Minotaur.

It's weird to me, could you ride a monitor like a horse?

Now obviously you could not, you could ride a minor to like a man because you have a man body all the way up to Abel's head.

But that would mean riding around on his shoulders unless you could find a minor detour into sort of, you know, pony stuff or you probably have to find a furry minor tour, like not a furry minor to a minor to who was actually a furry would get into a horse costume and get down and you could ride that.

This is getting too weird.

I'm going to go into a different one.

Seth, prime Urbina and Seth of course is a good Egyptian name asks if Egyptians worshiped cats, then why did Anubis have a dog head?

Here is a picture of Anubis to clarify who we are talking about, technically he doesn't have a dog's head.

I believe he has a jackal's head.

I like this question, this is, this is one of those questions.

If Egyptians worshiped cats, then why didn't you have a dog head is kind of like being asked?

You know, if people descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

The answer is because the Egyptians had lots of gods originally, you had the gods of the upper Nile and the gods of the lower delta and one set of gods were human and one set of gods were animals.

And at the point where Egypt became all one country, the gods sort of incorporated each other and you've got a lot of animal headed humans from ti anna Marie underlying, who says after looking up what biblical angels actually look like, I fully understand why they warn you not to be afraid because wTF is that question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark, you're right.

What do biblical angels look like?

They look like wings and eyes?

They look like wheels, they look like flying saucers, which is kind of weird.

What they don't look like rather disappointingly is Michael Sheen and David Tennant in good omens, I like the idea that they look human like because it would break our brains to see them as they really are.

Mr Darcy asks why is every God in greek mythology related to or use or both use gets everywhere, uses all over the place, which means that an awful lot of people are his descendants one way or another, the nice thing about God's is nobody ever expected you to emulate them.

They are always as much a warning as they are aspirational.

You may want to have Godly powers, but you don't want to behave like that.

You definitely don't want to behave.

Lights use invert edit asks what is Ragnarok essentially, Ragnarok essentially is the last great battle.

Ragnarok essentially begins with everything going wrong.

The weather goes wrong, the climate goes wrong, Winter does not end, there is famine, there is awfulness, People are miserable.

Brother fights brother sister fight sister cousin fights cousin, There is a gigantic awful civil war amongst the people and then it gets worse.

You get the frost giants coming out there, led by sir to a fire god and Loki and his Children and it is a monstrous, enormous giant and pretty much final battle that ends in everybody being dead.

I haven't even mention that all of the dead viking warriors get to come back on an enormous ship, built of the fingernails and toenails of the dead because that's just too weird, but they do and is why you should always trim your nails.

However Ragnarok kind of has a happy ending because after all of the awfulness of Ragnarok and after pretty much everybody has died, the few people who don't die get to sort of look at the ruins of where Asgard was and everything gently starts to grow again and to begin again, molly asks why is all german folklore and mythology absolutely terrifying.

What was wrong with people?

I think it's something to do with the food, frankly, it could be the cold, but it is absolutely true that Germanic folklore is terrifying.

It's it's filled with adults eating Children.

It's filled with famine, it's filled with nightmare, it's filled with murder and awful things happening.

People like horror stories sometimes because it actually makes them feel better.

Next up, Green Boy for 94 has a question in Norse mythology, what are the most known gods?

You know, it's good that you're asking me that question because I wrote Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman and as such, I can tell you that Odin is probably the most important frig.

His wife also well known thor very well known, gets movies made Loki in the movies.

Loki is thor's brother in the mythology.

Loki is owed ins blood brother, not actually related and one of the giants, but not the big kind, those are probably the most known gods.

Water dragon asks why is death so adorable in the Sandman, Death is so adorable in the Sandman because I wanted to create the kind of death I would like to meet.

Well my life is over and I thought I would like to death who is practical, a death who is sensible and a death who is above all kind.

The mythology of Sandman is not world mythology, I should say that the mythology of Sandman is the mythology of a comic that I created, which includes in it seven entities who are not gods who are not worshiped but are essentially more powerful than gods because gods die when they are forgotten that the endless are always there.

And one of those seven, his death voted um 46 says, Isn't Loki already gender fluid in Norse mythology?

Yeah, Loki cheerfully transforms into female form and is very happy doing so, Loki becomes a Mayor at one point to while away a stallion who is just about to finish bringing the stones to build a wall for the gods and if the stallion cannot be stopped, then the gods are going to lose the sun, the moon and the beautiful frayer Loki is told to stop them and Loki in a horse form in mayor form, she lures that stallion away and then turns up about a year later as Loki with an eight legged foal, a little horse which is presented to Odin as Odin is horse, gender fluid as hell.

Absolutely Nathan K 20 asks what is Pandora's box?

Well, first of all, Pandora's box isn't a box, Pandora's box is Ajar.

Zeus leads a war against the titans who basically are Zeus, his parents, the gods win.

They have various people on their side, including a couple of titans and their names are Prometheus and Prometheus and Prometheus is given a gift by the gods and the gift he has given is Pandora and everything's great.

Until one day she out of curiosity or for whatever reason, smashes a jar that she has in which all of the things that are bad, all of the things that make life hard.

The way that the story is sometimes told that remains after all of the evils in the world have flown out into the world is hope.

I've never been quite sure how to interpret that, because you can think of hope as remaining as being this wonderful, pure happy thing or you can think of it as the final cruelty of the guards as they've lost.

They've loosed all of these terrible things upon us.

And then just to make it a little worse, they've given us all hope, Cat X asks why did Icarus have to fly so close to the sun bro?

It wasn't compulsory.

Actually, his dad, Daedalus explained to him that you don't fly close to the sun, They were escaping together using wings that Daedalus had made and the wings were held together with wax, those of us who think that if you go up it's gonna get cold.

It would have been proved wrong in ancient greek mythology because they knew that if you flew upwards you would get too close to the sun and it would melt the wax and if you went too far down over the waves your wings would get wet.

And what actually happened was the wings melted and Icarus, who aspired to go high was drowned.

Sierra Louche asks why thor missing an eye lol, thor not missing an eye.

You're thinking of Odin being thaws Dad only has one eye.

Odin is indeed missing an eye because he traded an eye for wisdom.

Taro masks are says something that's interesting to me is how so many different cultures have great flood myths.

Like why is that?

Probably because over the years there have been an awful lot of floods and also because the great flood story does tend to get retold.

I think one of the earliest versions we have of it is the Babylonian, the Assyrian version that definitely predates Noah, during the hundreds of thousands of years of human history, there were many times when there were floods, huge floods and lots and lots of people died And somebody didn't and there's somebody who didn't got to live and tell the story.

Next question is from Celio, the shaper, Oh you're a Greek mythology, fan name the 12 labors of Hercules and then there is a clown face.

The 12 labors of Hercules killed the Nemean lion.

It is important to remember that the Nemean lion is not the lions that provided the lion's skin that Hercules famously wore.

That was a different lion.

Kill the hydra linear hydra every time you cut off its head it grows two heads where the one that you cut off was Hercules actually got a buddy to come in and quart arise the heads as he cut them off, capture the cerulean hind.

That was a deer is behind the arrow, Manthey inboard.

You're starting to see an animal pattern here and then you get a horsey one which isn't capture horses, it's clean the stables and this is the Aegean stables, the filthier stables in the world and he did that rather brilliantly, I have to say by diverting a river.

Then you've got the stim for alien birds, these birds that would fly down and shipped all over things and were awful and murderous, killed them all.

The Cretan bull got them, then we do get horses again and this time it is actually capturing them.

But these are Diomedes horses and they were man eaters.

You then have him politics belt and or girdle and that one does not end well, he's done fairly well dealing with animals, but Hippolyta is a lady and in order to obtain her girdle.

Hercules has to head off into the land of the amazons, they have a relationship, it does not end well, definitely doesn't end well for Hippolyta who if memory serves kills herself for love of Hercules, which is really rather sad and he gets the belt, you've got the cattle of Gary in and that's the original 10 labors of Hercules and then he gets assigned another two because he got help on two of them.

He has to do the golden apples of the disparities and finally go to hell and bring back cerberus Cabarrus, the three headed dog of the underworld, t halts a man or faults.

A man asks greek mythology question if two demigods bone and they have a kid, Is that kid also a demigod?

No, that would be a hemi demigod.

Obviously if their kids have sex they will be semi Demi demigods and beyond that you get into crochets and quavers and things.

Well, that's all the questions.

I hope you learn something.

I had a lot of fun.

Thank you so much.