The Man Who Fell in Love with a Statue - Pygmalion and Galatea - Greek Myhology in Comics Art: Guilherme de Souza Color: Mariane Gusmão Script : Bruno Viriato #GreekMythology #Mythology #SeeUinHistory #History #MythologyExplained
Well actually a lot of myths have goddesses acting quite merciful. Even to those who disrespected them. The story of Arachne in the older versions had Arachne changed into a spider as an act of mercy after she killed herself. The story of Medusa originally has Athena changing Medusa into a monster so she could defend herself from men giving her the ability to change any man who looked upon her into stone.
@@djantouahmed7319 yes but that’s not all she is. She is the Goddess of wisdom as well as warfare after all. It was only in later versions that she is portrayed as overly malicious
This is just one version. If you like tragedy, another version says that they were happy for a few weeks until he realized that she started acting like the other women and dumped her
@@greggagui4037 but history channel said it was aliens who posed as Aphrodite and did it. They were from the sun and looked like squids. If HISTORY channel said it it has to be true.
Psychologically, Pygmalion tries to extract his anima (exactly what we do when males have their first crushes) and falls in love with it. Most of us undergo this, when boys like a girl they barely knew but adored so much. They present their anima (which is their idea of a perfect woman) and fall deeply in love, not with the woman, but their idea of the woman.
If the statue was actually as beautiful as claimed, he wouldn’t be a simp because the 🐈 wouldn’t be mediocre. I guess he would be a sisp because it was superb.
In the Disney series Hercules (the cartoon series). In one of the episode young Hercules needed a girl for a dance. He ask Aphrodite to bring the statue to life. Aphrodite fix the statue and even said "thats enough curve for you", when Hercules ask for more curves. Hercules couldn't think of what personality to give to the statue except for "crazy about me". The girl was named Galatea and that episode was so funny. I didn't know there was a specific legend relating to that episode.
i remember that one, he got the idea because one of the teachers made his wife out of clay. also the girl did not really have much personality at the end lol.
@@glowworm2 oh no kidding?, well its good to know that greek mythology has some happy endings and not ones that are either really really despondent or rather bitter sweet., or in some cases satisfying.
In the version that I read (written by Edith Hamilton, IIRC), Pygmalion was a women-hater. He despises them so much that he sought to show the world everything he hated about them through this sculpture. Unfortunately, he ended up creating the most beautiful woman statue and fell in love with it.
I find it super interesting the similarities between this story and the tale of Ilmarinen and the gold and silver bride (Kalevala). Only I like better how Ilmarinen's story ends. Väinämöinen helps him realize the pointlessness in trying to love a fantasy of your own making, and so Ilmarinen reforges the statue into trinkets for others and moves on. It's also a bit reminiscent of the Midas myth now that I think about it
I feel sorry for Galatea. She gets changed into a real woman and is married to the man who couldn't find a wife because no woman was perfect enough for him. He sounds like a nightmare....good luck sister, you're going to need it! LOL
The background music as it neared the end was do great, that it also made me wanna cry tbh. It felt beautiful and warming to see a happy ending in this mythology.
😳...😖 *Guilty* ✋, feeling is mutual with Pygmalion, especialy when I see sculpture by Lysippos. 😌 Ah~~ the Apoxyomenos. BTW, aren't this topic done already a year ago? Also thinking on how Pinocchio be a real human using Snow White resurrection method... *shivers*
@@itshardtobehumble4827 weeb is stands for weeaboo, which is a person that was too obsessed in anime that they think that they're anime characters in real life and speak Japanese for no reasons. You could look at filthy Frank's video about weeaboos to know more.
@@megajeremy90001 quite wrong, this definition more like chuuni or 8 grade class disease. Cmiiw, yeah weeb so obssessed, but we have other word for like like otaku means freak, geek, nerd. What weeb's real mean? Is person or ppl that obssessed with jp culture, so weeb isn't same like anime otaku (yeah we have game otaku n music otaku too). Weeb loves to say positive thing about jp and always bring it to others as topic when they have convo, they mad if ppl say negative things bout it. Weeb mean like ppl that worship Japan, sometimes more than their own self. When otaku simp for what their like, weeb is simp and worship to japan itself.
Talented artist creates the most perfect woman. Humbly prostrates himself before the Goddess of Love. His prayer touches her and she grants life to his statue. One their children founds a city in the Goddess's name. Comment section filled with enough dead jokes to make Hades roll his eyes.
@@HIMMBelljuvo True, but let's remember that Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Ares, and Hermes as well as guys like Achilles and other Greek heroes in the Trojan war would be considered rapists on how they handled women.
In the version that I read (written by Edith Hamilton, IIRC), Pygmalion was a women-hater. He despises them so much that he sought to show the world everything he hated about them through this sculpture. Unfortunately, he ended up creating the most beautiful woman statue and fell in love with it.
The story is way more tragic than this🤣 And people in the comments saying how does a greek mythologie have a happy ending. In fact it doesn't. She actually ended up cheating on him i know because I read the book
In ancient Greece the ultimate life purpose was to die for your country in war and not to just live a long peaceful life (see Leonidas). That's why their mythology and ancient theatre scripts had almost all of their main characters endure tragedy and painful deaths. Only then their life had reached culmination. Of course this story had a happy ending, i guess they wanted to throw one of those every now and then
That was the Spartan belief. Athenian belief was primarily to live a rational, democratic life while serving the country( not necessarily martydom but taking part in politics, being an informed citizen etc) Moreover, most greek heroes who died in tragic myths didnt die for country. Orpheus for eg. Was killed by furies.
