Hey there, I'm Mike Rugnetta and this is Crashcourse Mythology, today we're going to start looking at pantheons.

Pantheons are families of gods, and those families are complicated.

Really complicated.

They have amazing feasts, but honestly, can you imagine Thanksgiving with these people?

I mean Thoth, you had a mistress and a wife and also somehow gave birth to yourself.

How is that not awkward?

The pantheons we are going to examine are families of deities from cultures that are usually considered polytheistic, meaning that they worshipped more than one god.

In most mythological traditions, the gods are seen as immortal, and according to David Leeming, "they are personified projections of the human mythmaker's dreams of overcoming the inevitable effects of the physical laws that require death and disintegration."

Yeah.

We went dark pretty quick.