When Japan Demanded American Mythology
After Commodore Perry forced Japan to open its doors to the wider world and stop its centuries old policy of isolationism Edo Period Japan was hungry for American culture and Mythology, as they were in awe of this powerful country. They received it in the form of some simultaneously fascinating and hilarious depictions of the Founding Fathers including George Washington Punching a Tiger, fighting Asura (A Dharmic God) and being presided over by the goddess of America (Columbia). While Ben Franklin is depicted as a stoic warrior capable of holding and firing a cannon with his bare hands. While John Addams is a super human warrior whose mother is eaten by a snake, Addams than seeks out a Mountain Fairy and with the aid of the Fairy's giant Eagle defeats the giant Snake and avenges his mother. In a strange turn of events many in Japan actually still take these depictions as historic fact. With Washington even a "Kami" at the Hawaiian Shinto Temple.
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After Commodore Perry forced Japan to open its doors to the wider world and stop its centuries old policy of isolationism Edo Period Japan was hungry for American culture and Mythology, as they were in awe of this powerful country. They received it in the form of some simultaneously fascinating and hilarious depictions of the Founding Fathers including George Washington Punching a Tiger, fighting Asura (A Dharmic God) and being presided over by the goddess of America (Columbia). While Ben Franklin is depicted as a stoic warrior capable of holding and firing a cannon with his bare hands. While John Addams is a super human warrior whose mother is eaten by a snake, Addams than seeks out a Mountain Fairy and with the aid of the Fairy's giant Eagle defeats the giant Snake and avenges his mother. In a strange turn of events many in Japan actually still take these depictions as historic fact. With Washington even a "Kami" at the Hawaiian Shinto Temple.
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NUG AND YEB : The spawn of Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of The Woods with a Thousand Young, and Yog - Sothoth, The Key and The Gate, Nug and Yeb are worshipped prolifically throughout the world due to their yin and yang symbology. By implication Yeb is masculine and Nug, the mother of Cthulhu Himself, is feminine, though They may both be androgynous. Both closely resemble Yeb's mother, Shub - Niggurath, in appearance. (The Bible of CTHULHU page 54).
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The Four Disgracers (Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus, and Icarus) By Hendrick Goltzius 1588
Ixion: The First Kinslayer and Attempted Wooer of Hera.
Phaeton: Son of Helios who led his fathers Chariot on a disasterous ride creating deserts and the "Burnt Race".
Tantalus: A King who fed his son to the gods and was punished severely.
Icarus: The Son of the Great Inventor Daedalus who after being given wings flew too close to the sun and fell to his death.
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Ixion: The First Kinslayer and Attempted Wooer of Hera.
Phaeton: Son of Helios who led his fathers Chariot on a disasterous ride creating deserts and the "Burnt Race".
Tantalus: A King who fed his son to the gods and was punished severely.
Icarus: The Son of the Great Inventor Daedalus who after being given wings flew too close to the sun and fell to his death.
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HORUS
Horus, the falcon-headed god, is a familiar ancient Egyptian god. He has become one of the most commonly used symbols of Egypt, seen on Egyptian airplanes, and on hotels and restaurants throughout the land. Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis, the divine child of the holy family triad.Horus, Egyptian Hor, Har, Her, or Heru, in ancient Egyptian religion, a god in the form of a falcon whose right eye was the sun or morning star, representing power and quintessence, and whose left eye was the moon or evening star, representing healing. His eyes were said to be the sun and the moon. However, he soon became strongly associated with the sun (and the sun god Ra as Ra-Horakhty (“Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons”) while Thoth was associated with the moon.
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Horus, the falcon-headed god, is a familiar ancient Egyptian god. He has become one of the most commonly used symbols of Egypt, seen on Egyptian airplanes, and on hotels and restaurants throughout the land. Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis, the divine child of the holy family triad.Horus, Egyptian Hor, Har, Her, or Heru, in ancient Egyptian religion, a god in the form of a falcon whose right eye was the sun or morning star, representing power and quintessence, and whose left eye was the moon or evening star, representing healing. His eyes were said to be the sun and the moon. However, he soon became strongly associated with the sun (and the sun god Ra as Ra-Horakhty (“Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons”) while Thoth was associated with the moon.
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Statue of Perseus Killing Medusa, 1903, Laurent Marqueste, NY Carlsberg Glyptotek Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nyog' Sothep
Alias; The nameless mist, The Magnum Innominandum
The Nameless Mist is an Outer God. It is the progenitor of several other cosmic entities, including the Outer God Yog-Sothoth. It is older than everything except Azathoth (its creator) and Unnamed Darkness as well as Nyarlathotep (its siblings).
Its powers include possible omnipresence, reality warping, acausality, spacetime manipulation, immortality, and incorporeality.
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Alias; The nameless mist, The Magnum Innominandum
The Nameless Mist is an Outer God. It is the progenitor of several other cosmic entities, including the Outer God Yog-Sothoth. It is older than everything except Azathoth (its creator) and Unnamed Darkness as well as Nyarlathotep (its siblings).
Its powers include possible omnipresence, reality warping, acausality, spacetime manipulation, immortality, and incorporeality.
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