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[zombiegirlfriend2007]

[jinjilion]

Sleep well, good hunter

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[porcelain-dollbones]

no, this is pretty much baseless supposition. the idea that you can trace any mythological idea back to a common root is a largely discredited one that doesn't hold up to a lot of scrutiny. at minimum one would want to uncover some pretty hefty archaeological evidence to make claims about such direct transmission over many, many thousands of years!

[porcelain-dollbones]

no, this is pretty much baseless supposition. this idea largely comes from publications by adrienne mayor, whose work is frankly very poor and particularly unreliable when it turns to chinese history, a field in which she has no grounding. i've never seen the theory advanced by chinese scholars. 'lóng bones' as used in medicine have not even historically been sourced primarily from reptile fossils. i would be wary of basically any "just-so" story of this type that attempts to draw a definite physical root to mythology, especially without actual direct evidence of the same

[porcelain-dollbones]

actually it's reasonable to say in many instances that the lóng and the dragon have essentially opposite symbolic value. the famous medieval dragon is often associated with flame, venom, corruption and the devil, while the lóng is most typically associated with water, fertility (particularly via rain) and the emperor. of course both are expansive mythologies with great variance but it's illustrative of just how much they are not the same thing

[unnamedsunflower]

[hagiomoto]

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[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

this is really not the post to be trying to make a joke out of chinese words, especially when the joke relies on pronouncing them incorrectly

[porcelain-dollbones]

i need to get back in the sorceress mindset

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[porcelain-dollbones]

no, this is pretty much baseless supposition. the idea that you can trace any mythological idea back to a common root is a largely discredited one that doesn't hold up to a lot of scrutiny. at minimum one would want to uncover some pretty hefty archaeological evidence to make claims about such direct transmission over many, many thousands of years!

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[lalatongzi]

Ive beem saying this too. Add yaoguai is not demons to the list too.

[porcelain-dollbones]

nebet is screen obsessed in general, it's really funny. she is always desperate to get on my phone and she will stare at shows playing on my computer for ages. ipad baby

[porcelain-dollbones]

Give Me Your Phone

[porcelain-dollbones]

no.

[sapphocottagecore]

[porcelain-dollbones]

you can tell i've had a lot of bigger posts lately because of how much i'm complaining about tumblr users

[porcelain-dollbones]

i think it should be considered something of a faux pas to leave comments on others' posts purely to show off something that you know, especially when they assuredly know it themselves already

[porcelain-dollbones]

the crazy thing is you'll make a joke about 'mammal fans' and 'the small mammal lobby' and then a bunch of people with genuinely deranged pro-mammal anti-reptile opinions will show up

[7pleiades7]

Ruth (1853) by Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791 – 1882), oil on canvas, 137 cm × 100 cm (54 in × 39 in), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna