Re: OT: White Goddess
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 10:02 |
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En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
> I think I choked badly at the point where he cites a Japanese myth
> about
> poetry involving the sun-*god* and moon-*goddess.* I sat there
> thinking,
> Is this a version of Japanese myth that never makes it into the
> myth-books? Or did Amaterasu undergo a sex-change while I wasn't
> looking?
>
Amaterasu is a goddess?! Then it gives a very different reading to the name of
one of the kings of the Five Stars Story: king Amaterasu (yes, king, not queen),
a man with androgyneous beauty. BTW, do you know the manga Five Stars Story?
I've only read about it but it sounds so great I really want to get it. Alas,
it's not that easy in France...
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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