What is your favorite myth/fable?

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According to Chinese mythology, the Dragon’s Gate is located at the top of a waterfall cascading from a legendary mountain.   Many carp swim upstream against the river’s strong current, but few are capable or brave enough for the final leap over the waterfall.  If a carp successfully makes the jump, it is transformed into a powerful dragon.  A Chinese dragon’s large, conspicuous scales indicate its origin from a carp. The image of a carp jumping over Dragon’s Gate is an old and enduring Chinese cultural symbol for courage, perseverance, and accomplishment. 

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Nuppeppo is a yōkai that is genderless and estimated to be up to 1.5m in height. It is described to have a flabby appearance and its appearance is accompanied by a pungent body odor. It appears as a blob of flesh with a hint of a face in the folds of fat. It is also described as having fingers and toes that are vaguely defined lumps.

The Nuppeppō is passive and unaggressive. The body odor is said to rival that smell of rotting flesh. Other theories claim that the Nuppeppō is actually decaying flesh. There is a rumor that states that those who eat the flesh of a Nuppeppō shall have eternal youth.

The Nuppeppō aimlessly wanders deserted streets of villages, towns and cities, often at night towards the year-end, or graveyards or abandoned temples. It is normally solitary, but there are sightings of them in groups. Fingers and toes may be attributed as features amidst of fold of the skin.

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Fable 2

that was a damn fun game that brought out the worst in me.


 
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Well if we're talking creatures then it'd have to be werewolves for me.


 
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become Mythic..
I like how one of your myths/fables is the one that is what Magikarp is based off of.


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The angel agreed to trade a set of white wings for the head of another demon. Overjoyed, the demon killed one of his own and plucked the head right off its still-warm body.

The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
I dunno. But im really curious about these Yokais because there seems to be many of them and theyre all different.


 
 
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I have a few favourites, ones with nice simple morals/concepts behind them <.<

The Fox and the Stork, The Fox and the Grapes and Mao-Dun.

If you know aesops then the first two are probably easy to remember but I'll do a brief outline of them.

Fox and Stork
Fox invites the Stork for dinner and serves soup on a thin plate, the stork cannot eat the soup because of it's bill. The stork retaliates with an invitation to dinner for the fox, the fox is then presented with a soup served in a long thin jar - The fox cannot reach down into the jar to eat the soup but the stork can.

Do unto others, Do bad things and Karma will bitch slap you, One bad turn begets another.

Fox and the Grapes
Fox is walking along and spies some grapes hanging from a tall vine, he tries and tries to leap and eat the grapes but he is unable to. He walks away cursing the grapes stating how sour they must be.

If there is something you cannot have, but want, it's easy to become embittered towards it and to hate it out of spite.

Mao-Dun
A chinese parable I guess is the word that sums up balance, paradoxes and yin/yang pretty nicely.

A blacksmith is advertising his wares in the market and proclaiming his Spear (Mao) can pierce any armour. He then states that his Shield (Dun) will stop any blow. An onlooker asks what would happen if you attacked the shield with the spear, the blacksmith cannot answer.

There are a few ways to look at this
-Don't make claims that unravel when held next to one another, it makes you look like either a liar or a fool.
-There is no absolute, you cannot have something that is unstoppable and something that is immovable. At the same time, neither of those things can exist without the other and so neither exists in the first place. You cannot know something is immovable unless nothing can move it and that would require something unstoppable to go up against it.
-Then there is the yin/yang bit which the link explains quite nicely (Far better than I could) so I'll just copy and paste it here.

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1.    Everything has an opposite.
2.    Yin and Yang make a whole.
3.    Embracing both polarities means peace and neutrality.
4.    There is no absolute Yin or Yang. There is always Yang existing in Yin, and Yin always existing in Yang.
5.    There is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong.
6.    Because of the interaction between Yin and Yang, everything in the universe is always in a state of change, so be patient.
7.    Create through being; accomplish without doing.
8.    Dance with the tides, but always be aware of where we are and who we are, so we will not be unconsciously driven by one of the polarities.
9.    This is a great gift while being in embodiment: to experience the polarities and paradox. So be grateful.
10.    Everything is important; nothing is important.

I'm not fully sold on that^, but it's a nice way to have the concept explained either way.


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Oedipus Rex.


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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
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The angel agreed to trade a set of white wings for the head of another demon. Overjoyed, the demon killed one of his own and plucked the head right off its still-warm body.

The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
OH, Väinämöinen.
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''a god, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. His name comes from the Finnish word väinä, meaning stream pool. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice.''

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The first extant mention of Väinämöinen in literature is from a list of Tavastian gods by Mikael Agricola in 1551. He and other writers described Väinämöinen as the god of chants, songs and poetry. In many stories Väinämöinen was the central figure at the birth of the world. The Finnish national epic, Kalevala tells of his birth in the creation story in its opening sections. This myth displays elements of creation from chaos and from a cosmic egg, as well as earth diver creation.

At first there were only primal waters and Sky. But Sky also had a daughter named Ilmatar. One day, seeking a resting place, Ilmatar descended to the waters. There she swam and floated for 700 years until she noticed a beautiful bird also searching for a resting place. Ilmatar raised her knee towards the bird so it could land, which it did. The bird then laid six eggs made of gold and one made of iron. As the bird incubated her eggs Ilmatar's knee grew warmer and warmer until finally she was burned by the heat and reacted by jerking her leg. This motion dislodged the eggs, which then fell and shattered in the waters. Land was formed from the lower part of one of the eggshells while sky formed from the top. The egg whites turned into the moon and stars, and the yolk became the sun.

Ilmatar spent another few hundred years floating in the waters, admiring the results of these broken eggs until she could not resist the urge growing inside her to continue creation. Her foot prints became pools for fish and simply by pointing she created contours in the land. In this way she made all that is. Then one day she gave birth to Väinämöinen, the first man, whose father was the sea. Väinämöinen swam off until he found land, but the land was barren so he asked the Great Bear in the sky for help. A boy carrying seeds was sent down to him, and this boy spread flora across the land.


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OH, Väinämöinen.
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''a god, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. His name comes from the Finnish word väinä, meaning stream pool. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice.''

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The first extant mention of Väinämöinen in literature is from a list of Tavastian gods by Mikael Agricola in 1551. He and other writers described Väinämöinen as the god of chants, songs and poetry. In many stories Väinämöinen was the central figure at the birth of the world. The Finnish national epic, Kalevala tells of his birth in the creation story in its opening sections. This myth displays elements of creation from chaos and from a cosmic egg, as well as earth diver creation.

At first there were only primal waters and Sky. But Sky also had a daughter named Ilmatar. One day, seeking a resting place, Ilmatar descended to the waters. There she swam and floated for 700 years until she noticed a beautiful bird also searching for a resting place. Ilmatar raised her knee towards the bird so it could land, which it did. The bird then laid six eggs made of gold and one made of iron. As the bird incubated her eggs Ilmatar's knee grew warmer and warmer until finally she was burned by the heat and reacted by jerking her leg. This motion dislodged the eggs, which then fell and shattered in the waters. Land was formed from the lower part of one of the eggshells while sky formed from the top. The egg whites turned into the moon and stars, and the yolk became the sun.

Ilmatar spent another few hundred years floating in the waters, admiring the results of these broken eggs until she could not resist the urge growing inside her to continue creation. Her foot prints became pools for fish and simply by pointing she created contours in the land. In this way she made all that is. Then one day she gave birth to Väinämöinen, the first man, whose father was the sea. Väinämöinen swam off until he found land, but the land was barren so he asked the Great Bear in the sky for help. A boy carrying seeds was sent down to him, and this boy spread flora across the land.

Fucking awesome. I like how Finland's mythology differs from other Scandinavian mythology.


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So there was this dude who the gods hired to build some shit
They said they would be pay him if he completed the task in three days

But he and his super strong horse were jacked up and tore through the building faster than I tear through dat ass

So Loki went down to stop him so the gods wouldn't have to pay and shit

To do this, he tried to distract the horse by transforming into a sexy mare

Only, the horse ended up raping him and he got pregnant

I think the kid that resulted from that killed Thor and Odin or something


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Everything is important; nothing is important.

There is no absolute, you cannot have something that is unstoppable and something that is immovable. At the same time, neither of those things can exist without the other and so neither exists in the first place.




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So there was this dude who the gods hired to build some shit
They said they would be pay him if he completed the task in three days

But he and his super strong horse were jacked up and tore through the building faster than I tear through dat ass

So Loki went down to stop him so the gods wouldn't have to pay and shit

To do this, he tried to distract the horse by transforming into a sexy mare

Only, the horse ended up raping him and he got pregnant

I think the kid that resulted from that killed Thor and Odin or something


I i i thought you were just saying that,  b but it's true ( ._.)

http://bettermyths.com/loki-takes-it-just-a-little-too-far/ modern retelling



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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
So there was this dude who the gods hired to build some shit
They said they would be pay him if he completed the task in three days

But he and his super strong horse were jacked up and tore through the building faster than I tear through dat ass

So Loki went down to stop him so the gods wouldn't have to pay and shit

To do this, he tried to distract the horse by transforming into a sexy mare

Only, the horse ended up raping him and he got pregnant

I think the kid that resulted from that killed Thor and Odin or something

You managed to blend accuracy with hilarity in a way I've never seen done so well before.








But anyway I like most Scandinavian myths. My dad had a book on the Norse pantheon and assorted stories that I read a lot when I was younger.
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Goodness gracious, great balls of lightning!
"In the beginning the lord said 'Let there be booty' and it was good"

- Genesis 1:1


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does this stuff even work?
The Egyptian myth of Apep trying to consume Ra when he sailed the underworld. Ra was just like,"lol good try kiddo. get rekt, gg."





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Probably the Ancient Near East flood myth, famously seen in the story of Noah's Ark and The Epic of Gilgamesh. It's just incredible how such a similar story is present in hundreds of different cultures, many in isolation.


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

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I like the story of how Giant's Causeway was formed:
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Finn McCool, an Irish Giant who was the smartest in the lands, was looking across to Scotland when he sees a giant over there. Being an arrogant fellow, he shouts across the waters to challenge him to a fight, but the giant doesn't reply. He shouts again, louder but he still ignores Finn. This enrages Finn, for how could someone ignore him?

He gets so mad that he starts grabbing chunks of the ground by his feet and packing it into hexagons, slamming them into the sea to construct a bridge to Scotland and the giant. He walks across and begins climbing a ledge to reach the giant and challenge him, but as he reaches the top he sees the giant sitting down, facing away from him.

This giant is fucking huge, at least 3-4 times bigger than Finn, so he freaks out and runs back across his bridge to his home. As he sprints across, he hears the giant following behind him. He bursts into his house and explains the situation to his wife. She concocts a plan to save him from being beat the shit out of, by telling him to lie down on the floor and put a tablecloth around his neck.

Just as he does this, the Scottish giant knocks on the door. Finn's wife answers, and the giant asks for Finn McCool to answer his challenge. Finn's wife explains that unfortunately Finn is out, but he'll be back soon, and in the mean time can wait inside. The giant accepts and walks in, noticing Finn with the tablecloth.

"That's my baby" Finn's wife explains. "He's just like his father, big and strong"
Finn plays along, gurgling, and probably shitting himself at the sight of the giant staring at him. The giant begins to re-think Finn's challenge. "If this is his baby, what size must HE be?"

As Finn's wife offers a drink to the giant while he waits, he makes excuses and hurredly leaves Finn's house. His jog becomes a full-on sprint by the time he reaches Finn's bridge and as he thunders down it, it collapses leaving only the parts on the coasts of Ireland and Scotland. In the giant's hurry he looses his shoe at the start of the bridge and Finn, again arrogant at his "victory",  shouts over as the giant runs away, hurling boulders at him.
So all that explains the hexagonal rocks at Scotland and Ireland, and the shoe-shaped rock at Giant's Causeway.

Also, The salmon of knowledge is a good little story about why fish are good for your brain before science explained it properly, but it's far too late to write it now.