Message-ID: <20011202141718.29543.qmail@web11104.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 06:17:18 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Welch Subject: Re: megami ML matome okuri To: megami@ml.usagi.org In-Reply-To: <003c01c17b1d$294f1080$3604110a@tokyotower> Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk --- Jani Mäkitalo wrote: > > From: "KC" > > > i just had this wild idea that Belldandy is Indian > (no, not the native > > Americians, but the India ones). my > justifications are that Indian > > women have some sort of marking(s) on their face, > esp at their > > forehead. also, if u ppl will dig up ur first few > mangas, the look of > > her clothings are quite Indian-like. this does > over throw the very > > basic foundation of our belief that the goddess > are Greek... > > Yes, but both their names and mythological > background (and neither > really counts :) makes them more like Scandinavian. > Being from > Scandinavia myself, I will firmly stand by this > (mistaken) belief. > There! ^_^ In the early manga (or OAV?), didn't one of the nameless masses at Nekomi speculate that Belldandy was from India? > (But being goddesses, they're not from Earth at all. And, in the AMG at least (hard to say about mythology), not from this universe, either. Brian W.