Fables and Folktales: The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon
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2022-05-06に共有
(The actual myth is mercifully detached from current events, but the intro context inadvertently dips into The Spice Zone. Life comes at you fast in the 2020s).
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コメント (21)
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Kudos to that guy for immediately seeing through a disguise that would take anime protagonists several SEASONS to notice
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Sun Maiden: "My first boyfriend became the Moon." Sokka: "That's rough buddy."
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Now, I was familiar with Baba Yaga and I already considered her as one of mythology's scariest witches, but you're telling me Siberian witches have metal teeth?! To chew through mountains!?
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"This demographic covers at least 9 language families" Note how she didn't say 9 languages. She said language families. By my estimates, that is a metric fuck-load of languages.
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Brother: “He’s just not the hugest fan of being kidnapped about it” Every woman in Greek Mythology: “first time?”
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If he was left-handed he would have reached out for Sun Bae's hand with his left hand instead of his right. He still would have died, but she would have been able to revive him properly. The moral of the story is that it's better to be left-handed.
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Other cultures: "The moon is a beautiful maiden, pristine and untouched!" Russian Natives, for some reason: "A GUY WAS ORPHANED THEN RIPPED IN HALF BY A WITCH WHO'D EATEN HIS SISTER"
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i love it when stories like this just randomly jump from 10 to 100 mph in 5 seconds. the transition from "cute story about love and boundaries" to "trying to escape from a witch wearing the skin of your dead sister" is so sudden and makes me wonder if it switched authors halfway through
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Sun and moon dynamics: nothing is more classic. Side note: SOMEONE HEARD 'UNIQUE CULTURE' AND SAID 'SAVE IT'
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This story is really sad, not only the guy is an orphan. He also lost his sister to a witch and got ripped into two, to make it worst he now lives as a half-moon for the rest of his life. I mean, woah. That’s already a lot anyone can handle Edit: Woah! So many likes? Thank you guys so much😍
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Love when in myths/fairytales the way you escape from the Bad Guy is just "toss magic shit at them and hope it helps"
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In many stories the sun maiden would have given the boy important magical advice for him to ignore, thus making his eventual fate at least partially justified. In this story, something shitty just happens to him through no fault of his own, and although he makes all the right choices, he still ends up torn in half. Maybe it's not coincidental that this story comes from a culture that was used to being eaten away at by a force outside their control.
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“It just goes to show you: Something.” It’s the strong morals and complex analyses we come to this channel for.
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That chase scene was actually legitimately scary, woman ate a tunnel through a Goddamn mountain. Sun Goddess banishing the brother for dying is ... interesting.
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I feel like there's part of this story that is missing, like was the other half just eaten by the witch? Her having the heart seems like an important detail, especially with the shapeshifting and rock eating.
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This quickly went from sounding like a hero's journey sort of story to psychological horror lovecraftian stuff to tragedy really fast. Almost gave me whiplash.
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"It just goes to show you... something." That seems to be a lot of folktales. "Here's how this thing came into being. Moral of the story? Shit sucks, that's your moral, Haffnier, now go clean the village spoon."
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Jesus christ the whole shit that happened with sister being brutally eaten was not something I didn't see coming.. Or the brother being torn in half turned into the crescent moon. These stories are METAL!
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Lesson of the day: If your super magical radiant maiden friend is trying to save you from an all devouring witch, REACH HER WITH YOUR LEFT HAND
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3:15 seeing those arms made me think "oh wow the sun having arms like that feels like it should be in an eldritch horror story or something, weird" but after watching the whole thing, I guess it kind of was. Neat.
