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🌊✨🙏AMABIE (アマビエ)🖌️🤒🙌
In Kyōto and many parts of Japan the pandemic revived a half forgotten deity, dusting her down & repackaging her for a new generation.
'Amabie' (アマビエ) has gone from being the savior of small, rural communities, to icon of the COVID-19 age.
#Japan
In Kyōto and many parts of Japan the pandemic revived a half forgotten deity, dusting her down & repackaging her for a new generation.
'Amabie' (アマビエ) has gone from being the savior of small, rural communities, to icon of the COVID-19 age.
#Japan
WHAT IS AMABIE?
Occupying the grey area between 'yōkai' (妖怪) and 'kami' (神), Amabie (アマビエ) was a 3-legged, mermaid-like creature said to protect against disease.
As the pandemic unfolded, her image was once again seized upon and popularized as a protective charm🙏
#Japan
Occupying the grey area between 'yōkai' (妖怪) and 'kami' (神), Amabie (アマビエ) was a 3-legged, mermaid-like creature said to protect against disease.
As the pandemic unfolded, her image was once again seized upon and popularized as a protective charm🙏
#Japan
The most famous sighting of Amabie (perhaps the only sighting) was in Higo Province (肥後国 Kumamoto), mid-May 1846.
An official went to investigate a mysterious glowing by the coast and was confronted by a long-haired, beak-mouthed, 3-legged, scaly being from the deep sea.
#妖怪
An official went to investigate a mysterious glowing by the coast and was confronted by a long-haired, beak-mouthed, 3-legged, scaly being from the deep sea.
#妖怪
Hitoshi Ariga: "my daughter said 'daddy, you should draw an amabie to help defeat COVID-19', so I drew a tough amabie: the antiviral medicine reploid, ANTIVIRUS ARMORVIEL"🇯🇵
(the amabie's a yokai—legends say that sharing drawings of amabie will heal ppl in times of disease)
(the amabie's a yokai—legends say that sharing drawings of amabie will heal ppl in times of disease)
Ayano Koshiro: "my child mentioned that I hadn't drawn an amabie, so here's an amabie & a corona drawn in the style of the IBM-PC version of Wizardry... but, drawn like this, they're both enemies"🇯🇵
for reference, this is the traditional depiction of an amabie, with this particular image dating to 1846
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