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Lesser Known Mytholo[chat]
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Everyone in the world knows Medusa, Anansi, and Paul Bunyan. Post a lesser-known subject from mythology that no one's heard about.
Have you heard of the Kelpies from Scotland? They either appear as horses or women who live in water and trick their prey into wading in a lake.
Have you heard of the Kelpies from Scotland? They either appear as horses or women who live in water and trick their prey into wading in a lake.
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Brutally eaten by geth, poor little guy never even had a chance
also WATCH SUMO
His name is pronounced “Wooster”
Hershel of Ostropol!
I mean, he's a real person and so not *really* mythology, but he's definitely become a legend and is used in parables.
As an example of one of his stories
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For those guys, there's a different sorta Bodhissatva. Typically coming as a pair, they're looming statues outside the doors of the temple, holding up their hands in the traditional Buddhist symbol of, "Don't start nothing won't be nothin'"
While the Buddha sits and stares off into space in contemplation, the Nio guardians are absolutely yolked and ready to throw down, staring down furiously at you as you cross into the temple. They can be actually genuinely offputting, they're usually a bit bigger than life, like 7-8 feet tall, but with pretty realistic proportions, and it really kinda leaves your lizard brain uneasy that there's apparently a couple of very large angry men who both want to beat the shit out of you.
Ima go with the hat man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person
Started seeing these out of the blue having never heard of them before in my early 20s after Afghanistan for a period of a few years.
Ahura Mazda vs Angra Mainyu, best 2 of 3 falls, winner gets creation
~ Buckaroo Banzai
This is the second reboot of the timeline, after the events of MK11 where Liu Kang becomes the "Fire God Liu Kang" defeats the Titan and keeper of time Kronika and resets the world to his design.
And more info on the kameo system, is it like old school MvC and assists only, or something more team related?
~ Buckaroo Banzai
edit lol SC6 released in 2018 still $60 who do they think developed it, Nintendo?
the last 3 SC games didnt do very well
Shame, the Libra of Souls wrinkle and the way they did the chronology of the story timeline in the classic mode made 6 my favorite since 2.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
hundred-year-old hopping umbrella ghost: pretty cool, popular in anime.
To avoid trapping a human soul, they would bury a dog first, which became a grim, watching over the graveyard and guarding against evil spirits
So don't worry if you see a ghostly black dog with red eyes in a graveyard, it's a Good Boy
Sure, in Yorkshire they're portents of death, but that doesn't mean they caused it
smoking pipes so big they cause the fog along the coast
some of them are wizards
good stuff
I have survived.
Very tired, and possibly doing round 2 on Saturday 🫠
The girl I was very nervous about meeting ended up being a total cutie who was very much on the same wavelength I am, and she made the first move so yay, awkwardness obviated.
But yes, lots of things in various places, much fun was had, also fancy booze and stuff
*eyes narrow*
Didn't wake up until 11:30pm
It's now 3am, I'm wide awake, and remembering why I don't take naps
Getting mad about a F&F movie is like complaining about your local Burger King not being very good. You’re right. It’s not. That’s not why we’re there.
streaming fucking sucks
I think the F&F movies are awesome for people who like vroom vroom but the thing is I don't care about vroom vroom at all.
Like last summer I went to lake that my friends live on and they insisted I take a jet-ski that does 65mph out for a spin.
I did 65 from one end of the lake to another a couple of times and brought it back in and they were all "That's super exciting, right!?" and I lied and said "Haha yeah that was crazy!" but in reality? I got nothing out of it.
I would have rather been back at the dock listening to tunes and wading around with a drink in hand.
This is a big part of the writer's strike
The residuals formula for receiving payment for stuff you worked on has a built in assumption that content is syndicated and available to be taken up and shown on other networks (with a corresponding payment stream to residual recipients) - that is, there's a trade off between up front payment vs sharing in an ongoing revenue stream
But in the streaming era stuff just gets taken down and never made available elsewhere, so stops being an revenue source, which from the perspective of a person entitled to residuals is effectively a pay cut
Näcken
I think this is really some form of spirit but it takes the shape of a nude man who sits and plays violin by a stream. Fairly sure this was something you didn't want to fuck around with.
Skogsrå
This was a big fear of mine when I was a child. It is a woman/girl, nude because why not. Probably adjacent to a siren type of thing. Beautiful and humanoid but when viewed from behind she has a hole like a hollowed out rotten log. Some kind of anthropomorphized forest spirit.
To be fair, this is most of Scandinavian folklore.