Legends have it in ancient Japan…
…on auspicious nights every month a hundred supernatural spirits of folklore come out at night to parade through the streets …
…this is the Hyakki Yagyou, led by the powerful Nurarihyon…
Tonight is one of those nights…
…and we are those hundred spirits that will be on parade to haunt the enemies of freedom...
....where we go one...WE GO ALL!
Welcome once again to Saturday Night Hyaaki Yagyou hosted by your one and only man of culture, u/Nurarihyon_no_MAGA
This is a weekly thread dedicated to sharing some forgotten folklore of the Americas and comparing it to other folklore around the world.
u/Narg made the perfect summary for why I am making these weekly threads:
The problem with society, here and in most places in the world, isn't just corruption or tyranny or Satanism or whatnot, but an unbalanced focus -- too much rational, logical, mechanical, nuance-blind, empathy-poor, context-poor left brain attention versus the more organic, spiritual, three-dimensional, connected, context-rich right-brain attention. In life, we need both forms of attention, but balance is needed and the left hemisphere's form of attention must never become dominant in a culture (or one's life). Getting familiar with other cultures can help with that.
Also remember what Q said before about culture: https://qalerts.app/?n=2174
Post your cultural connections in the comments below
Your nightly Misfit Toys will arrive later on tonight after u/ashlanddog fetches them from the island, in the meantime, have some appetizer Wins of the Day:
Fauci and the MSM desperately trying to debunk that the vaccines are useless against COVID
Mr. Beast donates thousands of shoes to African children, Half the Internet looses their minds AGAIN
Disney CEO Bob Iger finally realizes the price gouging of Disneyland is hurting the company
The January 6 narrative is failing faster than the Uniparty can keep it alive
TODAY’S SUBJECT: The Algonqui(a)n peoples, and their many cultural contributions to pop culture:
https://native-americans.com/algonquian-tribes-and-their-names/
http://www.native-languages.org/algonquin-legends.htm
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/algonquin-people/
The Algonquins have some interesting mythological monsters: The Thunderbird, the legend that inspired the TV show, Email App, and car name https://mythology.net/mythical-creatures/thunderbird/
The Harry Potter and MLP:FIM fans might recognize the Pukwudgies http://www.native-languages.org/pukwudgie.htm
The Wendigo is by far the most ubiquitous Algonquian myth to appear in mass media http://www.native-languages.org/windigo.htm
Spez: I cut and pasted my reply to fit under the right post…
I admit I don’t check the Island very often, but I will always sail here on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings. Didn’t know this was a thing. We should all be aware of other cultures. I feel there are very similar stories to be told. I’ve always wondered how when our Lord God scattered people to the four winds, how they learned the lessons of Jesus Christ. And what if they called him a different name? So much to discover and if you don’t try to understand someone else’s interpretation of their own cultural “higher power” your may miss some of the connectedness we all share as human beings.
Yes! My feeling is that Jesus' ministry was focused on exactly that: we are all connected, all family, and "love one another" -- the new commandment Jesus brought to us (John 13:34 - 35) -- is the most important of the commandments. Heaven would never be a place of hatred, cruelty, or other unlove, would it?
And you're right (again): that lesson is in healthy religions and teachings throughout history; Jesus didn't mean people had to "believe in Him" as a particular deity, imo (not the most popular belief, I know), but rather he wanted us to believe his TEACHINGS, including especially about love and compassion. That's why I don't believe ppl who never heard of Jesus "are going to Hell" -- that would be cruel and bizarre -- but rather that without love in our hearts, we are already LIVING in Hell.
You just said everything in my heart of beliefs ;-)
That was supposed to be a a smile! (Not a wink) :-/
To go further, now that I dare express this personal feeling: I also can’t fathom that the King (God) “Higher Power” that I experience, only has one personal representative on this earth, when God, “Higher Power” scattered us after Babylon.
I was raised Southern Baptist, but also could never understand how his love, My Father, couldn’t love everyone who was not privileged to know Christ’s name and be saved through him, there aren’t enough “Missionaries” through time to have saved all those people who didn’t know Christ’s name.
So what then?
Here's one to ponder:
WHERE is HEAVEN? It's always seemed odd to me that Luke 17:21 doesn't seem to be the answer for that to most people. It's a direct quotation from Jesus, after all.
and while we're at it, these: