Nergal/Erra: The Lord of Destruction, Death, Plague and War (Mesopotamian Mythology Explained) 

Hail the infestation. Praise the bloat. For in the rot there is resurrection.

Spelled it wrong. Nergal get it right

@@shannonandsheila1403 you are mistaken. Look up Nurgle and get it right

Nurgle from warhammer is more nicer

@@jasonsantos3037 in a twist of fate

Chaotic neutral I like to think

Or Corruption, by any other name. Lots of people are into that. Switching stances as they see fit. That has always been so, it's a very popular stance for sure. It is said in ancient mythologies that mankind was modeled after the gods who were themselves; corrupt. And hence, our corrupt nature and gravitation towards that specific trait; with "it", being the only overarching constant characteristic shared between the gods: Corruption.

From my own borderline obsession with all things Mesopotamian in general and Babylonia specifically none of the Gods/Goddesses can be considered good or bad. Just some are not as bad as the others

@@talon7132 Yes, it's widely understood as that being the case. However, and respectfully... From my own inference of that, I gather; that is (in practice) petulant, unreliable, and most crucially: auto-exculpatory behavior. For if those gods were neither good nor bad, it goes against their own creation (humans) as these were created to be their reflection. These gods were the ones who brought forth Chaos across the universe and who took great pride and lust at the sight of blood. They're the ones who for example: (given the mythology) instituted and perpetuated the unending cycle of kill or be killed. This specifically (I posit): if "kill or be killed" is neither good nor bad, it's an automatically self-cancelling equation - a non standard: the absence of standards; an utter contradiction according to what we see in the universe itself - as these gods existed within the universe, not outside of it, and therefore, they were bound to it. For that, standards are needed; the stuff that would support it's structure, ie, what works and what doesn't, ie, what's *good* and what's *bad* becomes a requirement for it all to work...including the gods themselves. Furthermore, we do see these gods having various responsibilities and standards which they often choose not to follow themselves...Chaos comes to mind. And so, to me, this is why I called the concept of the gods neither being good nor bad as being reduced to it's proper well-earned place; a petulant, unreliable, and auto-exculpatory behavioral concept; where the only standard, is having none; where anything goes according to each of their emotional instabilities...as children do. And if human children (being a mirrored reflection of their creator gods) are able to realize what is good and what is bad: then it could easily be concluded that the gods themselves were also aware of when they were being good or being bad. And, we do see the gods taking actions against each other to *execute justice* on one another...which means they were in fact aware of good and bad. ...There's more that I wanted to say about the subject but it just went "poof" from my brain. Oops! 😆🍻 It's almost bedtime, I can feel the tiredness on my chest. C'ya! 🛌

Kali ma and Shiva also fall into this category

Plagues for the plague father

Galactus is the Nergal of Marvel.

Tzeentch doesn't.

@@josephweymon8020 A cultured man, I see...lol

Slaanesh too

Be silent heretic

Commisar points laspistol, "this is for your own good."

It's on its way. Just a few more gods to get my head around :)

@@thelegendsofhistory I hope Marduk, Ninurta, Tammuz, Adad and Ninhursag get tackled.

@@thelegendsofhistory can you do Krishna Shiva Vishnu or Rama from Hinduism. Can you do some Hindu content please and thank you

@@thelegendsofhistory or can you do some Native American, Aztec and Mayan content

I had a D&D character named Tyr. He was eventually dubbed Tyr the Just, because of his lawful neutral alignment. Thats awesome. Mustve just picked it up from somewhere, because Ive never heard of the real Tyr

@@burpostockingsmaybe tyrs trying to make a hero outta you… that or an attorney

The old man of the mountain

Another Hellboy-fan! I think all of the Ogdru Jahad are named after Egyptian and Mesopotamian deities, including Adad, the Akkadian storm god, Nun, the Egyptian abyssal waters, and Amun, the creator god of Thebes. And the Ogdru Hem are the deities of Mesoamerica like Quetzalcoatl.

@@js1423 Hellboy is great! Putting aside the Lovecraft and the Egyptian/Mesopotamia elements, Ogdru Jahad also shares some traits with the seven headed dragon of revelation, apep, and Tiamat.

@@lorddevilfish5868 Yep, and Hellboy fits the storm god-archetype with his large Hammer of a hand (plus he encounters a few storm gods during his travels, Thor in The Bones of Giants and Perun in Darkness Calls, both of whom are also dragon-slayers)

@@js1423 Huh neat observation!

@@lorddevilfish5868 The Bones of Giants will also get a comic adaptation this November!

You listen to Erra? I see you are a man of culture, as well.

Yoooo that band is lit. I never noticed it was a reference to the god. I always just assumed it was an alternate spelling of the word “Era”

@@GhostlyMVP Yeah it’s a reference to the god.

Hades wasn’t even that bad in comparison to Zeus and Poseidon When you think about it, but I’m with you on the variants thing bro.

Yeah man, he wasn't nearly as bad as say, Aries, if you think about it but hey, you got what I was trying to lay down.

@@Son-of-Tyr Yep, the top pantheon usually come in 3’s.

Nergal whole personality mirrors sobek more than Set

I'd say Typhon would be a better fit than Hades in my opinion

I think he made video about Baal and Moloch, but presented them more as demons. Another demon he tackled, Astaroth, a Duke of Hell from the Lesser Key of Solomon, was based on the goddess Astarte.

-In Christianity.