Reading Diary Week 7 - Japanese Mythology
- 日本！
- Izanagi and Izanami
- The man has to speak first? Interesting….
- Fire and Water, brothers - that could be fun to write on
- Yay, katabasis!
- Miraculous Mirror
- she weaves destruction, okay
- They tricked her out with her own image, haha
- Eight-Forked Serpent of Koshi
- Of course, who wouldn’t want their daughter to marry a god?
- The Adventures of Comb-Hime, that’d be a fun kids book
- Heaven-Descended
- Why do men always lose their head over pretty women? Jeez
- Hope Ninigi does better
- Hah, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- Stupid fire-test, should use a thing called trust next time
- Fortunate Fish-Hook
- When are brothers not rivals in mythology?
- How is Ho-wori breathing?
- At least she didn’t leave an eyeball for her kid to eat (1)
- Oh look, the pilgrimage from Korea is told, neat
- Rescue of the Princess
- I think “manfully” is my new favorite verb
- I may write on Yamato just to use some of these awesome descriptions
- Oh God, I could write it My Immortal style (2)
- These descriptions are seriously the best
- He keeps ‘clamouring lustilly’ and I WILL write this My Immortal style
- Oh God, he’s so vain (he probably thinks this song is about him)
- This is getting a bit like that time Thor disguised himself as Freyja
- “My sweet hussy?” - I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in a while
- Grotto of Love
- Gods have the best pickup lines
- Yamato is totally Enoby - crap now I gotta write this
- Does he remind anybody else of Prince Charming (Not Sincere)? (3)
- Golden Apple
- Is someone going to steal the apple from him like in Gilgamesh?
- Looks more like the isle of the lotus-eaters
- Demon Boar
- Of course lots of heroes fight boars, those things mean business - there’s a reason people thought Adonis was an IDIOT (4)
- …… the weak spot, is the tail….. um, okay then
- I know you’ve got manly issues and all, but I think slaying a monster while it sleeps is a great plan - just sayin’
- Grass-Cleaving Sword
- All fear the Mighty Deer
- Totally thanks to Tacibana, girl needs more cred
- Sacred Sword
- I’m gonna start calling Tacibana Madame Butterfly
- …. she’s gonna strangle him with her hair? Sweet
- Gee Yamato, you’re really dumb
- Surprise Goddess!
- Surprise Bamboo!
- Surprise Puppies!
- Surprise Lake!
- Dragon
- Oh look, he finally gets it.
- Don’t go after her idiot
- Bout time you realized Tacibana was awesome
- See? She rocks
- Oh no, NEVER challenge the gods
- See? Bad idea, and now your wife’s dead. Great going.
- Faery Robe
- Well, he’s a smart fisherman, at least
- Thought it was going to go like lots of Selkie tales, where she has to live as his wife for years and years. This ending is much better
- Jewel of Heart’s Desire
- He makes a really good point
- She takes over? Awesome
- You totally pown everybody, then lose the jewel to a mermaid? Really?
- Quest of the Jewel
- Would anybody succeed if it wasn’t for the women?
- Oh yeah, she gets a scroll of nobility once she’s dead, and moves on as if it meant nothing to him. Bastard.
- M. Butterfly totally applies here (the play, not an abbreviation for the opera)
- Urashima
- Why would I want prose when there’s the poetry right here?
- Oh no, not another box you can’t open - that never works!
- I’m still in awe at the verbs this unit uses
- See? Told you - never open the box
Notes:
1 - I read a crazy Japanese Folktale for a class once where a man is told he can't watch while his wife gives birth. He doesn't listen (of course) and it turns out his wife is a dragon. She gives a ball to the baby and then (because they can't be together now) flies off. Years later the kid has sucked the ball to nothing and refuses to stop fussing, so the man visits his dragon-wife and asks for help. She promptly plucks out her other eye and gives it to him for the baby to eat. Weird-as-crap tale, and of course I can't find it now to link for y'all. Sorry.
2 - This is widely known as the worst fanfiction in the history of the universe. Seriously, it SUCKS. Poor spelling, worse plot, and a mary-sue written by an author who just doesn't get why people hate it. Manwithoutabody does a dramatic reading of it which rocks, so if you want a laugh go listen.
3 - From Into the Woods: near the end of Act II Prince Charming looks at Cinderella when she accuses him (rightfully) of infidelity and he states, "I was raised to be charming, not sincere."
4 - Adonis was pretty but not very bright. He was so stupid he decided to go boar hunting on his own - those things are evil and mean and will kill you, and so he died from a tusk to the groin.
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