Oct 12, 2024
Fun pop pattern for this furisode showing mischievous crows among colorful dots, paired with dark green hakama pants.
OP describes the crows as yatagarasu (mythical three-legged crow), can you count the birdies' legs?
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Fun pop pattern for this furisode showing mischievous crows among colorful dots, paired with dark green hakama pants.
OP describes the crows as yatagarasu (mythical three-legged crow), can you count the birdies' legs?
The Three-Legged Sun Crow
The three-legged crow or raven is a god in many mythologies of East Asia including China, Japan, and Korea. It is believed to inhabit and represent the sun. The sun crow may also represent rebirth, guidance, and good fortune.
Media: watercolor (background sketch using .03 Copic felt-tip pen and pencil)
JTTW Chapter 59 Thoughts
Chapter 59 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!
In the German translation this starting poem is just a little different in the details and I like that it mentions the three-legged golden crow. They show up in Fabulous Beasts as well including a scene where the archer Hou Yi shoots down the nine suns, which thinking about that story in the context of the suns being birds it makes so much sense.
Woodcutters seem to just be the most chill guys in all of Journey to the West. They are always nice and helpful and do not bat an eye at Sun Wukong’s appearance whatsoever.
That does make me curious as to why the people of that village think of Princess Iron-Fan as a he. Or was it perhaps just a misunderstanding on Sun Wukong’s part? While in this translation the old man also called her by he, perhaps the original Chinese used a gender-neutral pronoun and that’s where the confusion stems from.
Hmmm, how could she possibly get to see her son again… Oh, I do not know, but maybe request for Sun Wukong to ask Guanyin to let her see him sometime? Sun Wukong even suggests it himself. It is really not that complicated or difficult, Guanyin is kind and she would probably be fine with it. Make it a boarding school type of thing where Hong Hai’er gets to see his relatives on set holidays or something of the like.
I do feel this whole conflict could have been handled by just talking it out. Like Princess Iron-Fan did not say she would not lend him her fan outright, just that she cannot give it away that easily. Sun Wukong could have just asked her to come along to extinguish the mountain herself.
Ah, there is the misogyny rearing its head again. We went through such a fine arc with the Kingdom of Women already, one would think they would tone it down after that.
Careful now if she fans him too often he will just come back from the opposite direction!
Oh it would have been funny if Princess Iron-Fan had not budged after being hit in the lower abdomen along the lines of ‘I have given birth before, you think that little bit of pain will make me cave?’ and only react to the chest pain.
Is Zhu Bajie suggesting going around the mountain? Finally they address this! Though the explanation why they cannot just go around the obstacle only works in the context of all of this being an allegory, if taken at face value it makes no real sense.
Follow up fanarts of @tunafishprincess‘s Spirited Away dragon AU. This time with a Wolf and Dragon version of Dadmight.
The crow(verse)
Today I changed the wallpaper on my PC.
Slide view: "Raven".
This all-black bird
I am in awe.
Above all, they are smart (high encephalization index).
You can drink water by turning the faucet!
The sharp beak
Comparable to birds of prey.
And the symbol of the Sun: Yatagarasu.
It's a sacred bird.
Now, wallpaper...
Let's enjoy the brave appearance of the crow for a while.
Note: Yatagarasu: The three-legged crow living in the Sun. Japanese mythology.
鴉（カラス）
今日はＰＣの壁紙を変更した。
スライド・ビュー：「鴉」。
この全身黒い鳥には
畏敬の念が私にある。
なにより頭が良い（脳化指数が高い）。
蛇口を捻って水が飲める！
鋭いクチバシは
猛禽類にも匹敵する。
そして太陽の象徴：八咫烏（ヤタガラス）。
神聖な鳥であるわけだ。
さて、壁紙・・・
しばし鴉の勇姿を楽しもう。
(2018.09.29)
Sun Crow by Rebecca Yee
The three-legged crow is a creature found in various mythologies and arts of East Asia. It is believed by East Asian cultures to inhabit and represent the sun.
According to folklore, there were originally ten sun crows which settled in 10 separate suns. They perched on a red mulberry tree called the Fusang. Each day one of the sun crows would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage. As soon as one sun crow returned, another one would set forth in its journey crossing the sky. Folklore also held that, at around 2170 BC, all ten sun crows came out on the same day, causing the world to burn.
The three-legged crow is a creature found in art and mythology throughout East Asia. It has appeared on Neolithic pottery, ancient Anatolian coins and Chinese totems, as well as in many contemporary settings.
The most common depiction of the three-legged crow is as the sun crow, or golden crow. Known by various names, including sanzuwu in China and Yatagarasu in Japan, it is often depicted as red rather than black, and is seen as a symbol of power and, in some cultures, divine intervention.
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Monster master list.
Suggest a spook.
Inktober Day One - Yatagriffin
So, story time. I have picked five lists that I wouldn’t mind drawing for Inktober, wrote them down, and then marked out things I didn’t necessarily want to do or include on a day. Max mark off was two prompts so today’s is a mixture of Extra Limbs, Demon, and Sun. With inspiration from the griffin post going around, here’s Yatagarasu, the three-legged crow of the sun turned into a griffin. Whether that constitutes demon, well, not really, but /shrug
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