Name: Dragons and Storm Gods: Why good dragons turned bad
Uploaded: 2022-09-03T14:00:10+00:00
Duration: 23 min 15 s
Description: Storm Gods and Dragons is a story about how good dragons turned bad, and how the rise of the Storm God meant the end of Dragons. We talk about Tiamat, Vritra, Jörmungandr, Thor, Indra, YHWH, and many

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Storm Gods and Dragons is a story about how good dragons turned bad, and how the rise of the Storm God meant the end of Dragons. We talk about Tiamat, Vritra, Jörmungandr, Thor, Indra, YHWH, and many other figures that help us see how these myths evolved.

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*References:*
Ayali-Darsham, Noga. The Storm-God and the Sea. Trans. Liat Keren. Oriental Religions in Antiquity. 2020.
Larrington, Carolyne. Poetic Edda. Oxford University Press. 2014
Stanhope, Ben. (Mis)interpreting Genesis: How the Creation Museum Misunderstands the Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Bible. 2020

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
2:20 The Birth of the Storm Gods
4:48 Good dragons turn bad
6:33 Storm Gods vs Dragons
8:30 A Near Eastern motif
10:23 The Indo-European motifs
12:36 The Rise of the Storm God
13:28 Was Thor really a Storm God?
15:12 The rise of the Warrior
16:40 The Proto Indo-European Storm God's evolution
20:14 The Vedic Storm God, not Indo-European?
21:49 The common enemy