Best YouTube videos on Religion, Myth & Belief
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
What is Old Norse Religion?
A scholarly walk through the actual Norse belief system, Yggdrasil and the nine realms, creation and Ragnarök, the rituals of blót and seiðr, with an honest look at how much we really know. (Published 18 Aug 2023)
Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
British Museum curator Irving Finkel tells the detective story of a 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablet describing a great flood and a round ark, and what it reveals about the Mesopotamian roots of the Noah story. (Published 20 Jul 2016)
The Forgotten Gods of our Oldest Known Religion
A reconstruction of humanity's oldest known pantheon, how the very first gods were imagined, and how those beliefs rippled down into the religions that followed. (Published 24 May 2025)
Why Greece Needed Mythology: Zeus, King of the Gods (Episode 1)
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook unpack where the Greek gods came from, why Homer and Hesiod told Zeus's story so differently, and whether ordinary Greeks actually believed their myths. (Published 23 Sep 2025)