Sunday, February 12, 2017

Reading Notes: Japaneses Mythology, Part B

Labors of Yamato
So he leaves his wife- a wonderful devoted woman- because he was board, to go find this mermaid- who he has only seen once and is apparently obsessed with. Then he meets this goddess, who he falls instantly in love with, and begs her to let him love her. So she sends him to go retrieve a golden apple as a sign of his devotion. So, he leaves to get the apple, rides on a stork, kills a wild boar, and somehow manages to get sword along the way. Oh and before he got the sword his former wife, the princess he lift, had somehow saved him, by setting herself on fire and running though a field towards him. Dispite this show of loyalty, he still ends up abandoning her for his search for this mysterious mermaid, only he finds her this time. After killing a dragon that was guarding her cave- a dragon who was her father- and then they go to sleep. When he wakes up she is gone along with all of his belongings. He is unable to return to his faithful wife, because he is lost.

I just kinda want to write a story about him from the mermaids perspective as she comments on how gull able he is. Commentary on how much of his life he wasted looking for something unattainable when he already had someone better.

Me, the entire time I as reading about Yamato
Source
Bibliography- The Romance of Old Japan by E.W. Champney and F. Champney: Online Source

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