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Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods. 3 seasons currently out!
May 5, 2023 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
Hey. Let's talk modern occultism in Japan, because anime absolutely does not do it justice. Short 🧵 for #FaustianFriday

August, 1945. Emperor Hirohito announces the surrender of Japan to the Japanese people via radio, also stating he was not divine. Why? Japanese troops at the surr... The misconception given to the US military by anthropologists and scholars was the Japanese people believed the Emperor was divine, due to his descent from the kami Amaterasu, effectively the goddess of heaven.

Problem is, that wasn't true, no one in Japan thought that. And yet. Jimmu, a descendant of Amat...
Jan 22, 2023 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
For this #FolkloreSunday and in honor of the victims in Monterey Park, I'm going to retell the story of the East Asian Zodiac, how it ended up in the order it did, and why cats are not included.

Long, long, ago, in times ancient, when tigers still smoked, there was no zodiac. Emma Kumer's depiction of the Wheel of the Zodiac, showing t The Jade Enperor, ruler of Heaven and head of the host of the Celestial Bureaucracy, called forth the animals.

"To celebrate the New Year, I am holding a banquet at my palace. But make with haste, for whomsoever shall pass the Heavenly Rank shall receive a prize. An unknown artist for BBC's depiction of the animals gathere
Jul 18, 2022 • 33 tweets • 13 min read
In lieu of multiple posts today I'm going to do one on today's theme. When I've mentioned this story before, people have always asked how it ends, and I'm not sure I've ever said, so today, I'm going to tell that tale: 耳なし芳一

A 🧵 #MythologyMonday In medieval Japan there was a type of performer called a biwa hōshi, lute priests. Traditionally blind, these wandering minstrels kept alive the legend of Heike, tales of the Genpei War (1180-85), a bloody civil war that displaced the Emperor from power.

Hōichi was a biwa hōshi.