favorite mythological beast, and why
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i've had lots of scary scary, giant squid dreams. i want to have dangerous ocean adventures with giant squids.xfer said:
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The cthonic offspring of Uranus and Gaia: The giants going by the name of Hecatonchires (from Hecaton - a hundred and chires - arms ) - Latin name Centimani. Ancient half-man half-serpent monstrosities the ancient greeks payed homage to more than worshipped, as the rulers of the earth at the times before man. The Titans were the third set of children Gaia and Uranus produced, and Cyclopes were the second.
Their father, disgusted with their horrific multitude of arms and heads, threw them in the depths of the abyssal Tartarus. Gaia asked the Titans to go and help her three outcast children but only Cronus agreed to help. Cronus hid behind the bed of Uranus and Gaia, and as they were starting to get to work, he attacked and castrated his father (!), throwing his dismembered member (oh oh, pleonasm!) in the sea. From there, Aphrodite was born. But that dirty Cronus - now ruler- then threw the Hecatochires back into Tartarus, until much later Zeus (having killed his own father, Cronus) rescued them to fight against the rest of the Titans. After that whole messy deal that was the Titanswar, sorta resolved, the Hecatonchires were then made the ever-watchful guardians for Tartarus. Also considered sea-deities. Here's a funny account: http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=HECATONCHIRES
A third generation greek black metal band seriously need to start making a concept album about all this.
Their father, disgusted with their horrific multitude of arms and heads, threw them in the depths of the abyssal Tartarus. Gaia asked the Titans to go and help her three outcast children but only Cronus agreed to help. Cronus hid behind the bed of Uranus and Gaia, and as they were starting to get to work, he attacked and castrated his father (!), throwing his dismembered member (oh oh, pleonasm!) in the sea. From there, Aphrodite was born. But that dirty Cronus - now ruler- then threw the Hecatochires back into Tartarus, until much later Zeus (having killed his own father, Cronus) rescued them to fight against the rest of the Titans. After that whole messy deal that was the Titanswar, sorta resolved, the Hecatonchires were then made the ever-watchful guardians for Tartarus. Also considered sea-deities. Here's a funny account: http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=HECATONCHIRES
A third generation greek black metal band seriously need to start making a concept album about all this.
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japanese kappa.
it's this crazy biped creature with green skin. it sort of looks like a shell-less turtle that walks on two legs. sometimes it has a bird-like beak. it's most noticible characteristic though, is this dent/depression at the top of its head, encircled with (green) hair. the kappa must always always keep a bit of water in the head depression of else it loses all its powers.
anyway, it lives in most bodies of water - sea, ponds, and lakes, and if you're not careful, it will GRAB your foot and then drag you underwater. then it waits til you're nice and rotting before it sucks your intestines out of your anus. i'm not even joking. that's what it does. used to scare the shit out of me when i was little and my mother told me about it. (she also told me that during thunderstorms, i should cover my bellybutton, or else a japanese oni/ogre would swoop out of the thunderclouds, rip out my navel, dip it in soysauce and then eat it.
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it's this crazy biped creature with green skin. it sort of looks like a shell-less turtle that walks on two legs. sometimes it has a bird-like beak. it's most noticible characteristic though, is this dent/depression at the top of its head, encircled with (green) hair. the kappa must always always keep a bit of water in the head depression of else it loses all its powers.
anyway, it lives in most bodies of water - sea, ponds, and lakes, and if you're not careful, it will GRAB your foot and then drag you underwater. then it waits til you're nice and rotting before it sucks your intestines out of your anus. i'm not even joking. that's what it does. used to scare the shit out of me when i was little and my mother told me about it. (she also told me that during thunderstorms, i should cover my bellybutton, or else a japanese oni/ogre would swoop out of the thunderclouds, rip out my navel, dip it in soysauce and then eat it.
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oh, there are ways to defeat and/or trick the kappa though. one thing a lot of jap mothers do is take a cucumber (kappas can't resist cucumbers!) and then write their children's name on it. then they throw it into the aforementionely discussed bodies of water.
the other way is to challenge it to a sumo wrestling contest. they love sumo wrestling. at the beginning of a match, you traditionally bow to your opponent. a sign of respect is to bow lower than the other person. anyhow, you bow really really low to the kappa before the wrestling match. it then attempts to bow back at you and all the water pooled in the head-depression falls out.
the other way is to challenge it to a sumo wrestling contest. they love sumo wrestling. at the beginning of a match, you traditionally bow to your opponent. a sign of respect is to bow lower than the other person. anyhow, you bow really really low to the kappa before the wrestling match. it then attempts to bow back at you and all the water pooled in the head-depression falls out.
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rokurokubi is also awesome.
i guess the story is... if you go to sleep thirsty, you'll turn into a rokurokubi - that is, your neck will elongate and then roam around the house looking for something to drink. it sometimes prefers to drink oil from oil lamps.
you know if you're a rokurokubi if you wake up with red marks all around the circumference of your neck.
there are also versions though, where rokurokubis are actual non-human demonic things that use human bodies as hosts regardless of whether you go to sleep thirsty or not. with these people, you have to cut their heads off and then burn the bodies.
i guess the story is... if you go to sleep thirsty, you'll turn into a rokurokubi - that is, your neck will elongate and then roam around the house looking for something to drink. it sometimes prefers to drink oil from oil lamps.
you know if you're a rokurokubi if you wake up with red marks all around the circumference of your neck.
there are also versions though, where rokurokubis are actual non-human demonic things that use human bodies as hosts regardless of whether you go to sleep thirsty or not. with these people, you have to cut their heads off and then burn the bodies.
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