Reading Notes: Japanese Mythology Part A

 It's nice to get a start at the very beginning. Now I don't have to worry about any backstory that could come in to play later. I also like this idea of having a god devoted to a single thing. It makes it easier to keep track of them and more or less defines their personality, which is great for storytelling. Stories could always use some irony, and that comes in double with the death of Izanami. She gets stripped of her immortality and cast down to Earth, then she dies in child birth while giving birth to two opposing sons. I like the phrase "abode of eternal gloom," and think I might use it somehow. The rest of this is going to be great, I'm assuming, because it's just going to be a bunch of overpowered siblings duking it out. So this serpent wants this girl to marry and offers to slay a beast to earn her from her parents. As soon as they agree, he decides the best course of action is to turn the girl into a comb. Because who can fight a monster when your hair is a mess, am I right? The gods have meetings of over 800 of them. There's this thing called the collective action principle which states that, as the number of people in a group increases, the odds of them all agreeing on what to do decreases. I see that problem being substantial here.




 A depiction of Izanagi and Izanami. Link

Bibliography: The Romance of Old Link

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