If you look carefully it's surprising just where lesser-known mythological figures like this tend to pop up in places you wouldn't expect them.
I mean on top of the very broad idea of the immortal bird of prosperity being also a pretty ubiquitous concept in our folklore the world over, there sure is something about a whacking great bird with pretty colours being associated with the human fixation toward death and rebirth. No wonder it fits right in with Pokémon's distinctly shinto-buddhist-leaning view of myth as a narrative feature.
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Re: Right. Ho-oh. Or Ho-o. Whichever.
Date: 2022-06-30 12:57 pm (UTC)I mean on top of the very broad idea of the immortal bird of prosperity being also a pretty ubiquitous concept in our folklore the world over, there sure is something about a whacking great bird with pretty colours being associated with the human fixation toward death and rebirth. No wonder it fits right in with Pokémon's distinctly shinto-buddhist-leaning view of myth as a narrative feature.