Message-Id: <200205010100.g41105t13045@ghuznee.mcs.vuw.ac.nz> From: Sam the man To: megami@ml.usagi.org Subject: Re: Kami_sama Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:00:05 +1200 References: <20020430213144.53617.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk > Attempts to draw conclusions about the AMS world from parallels to > Norse myth tend to fall over when carried too far, because > Fujishima-sensei has used it more as a source of names and images, > than carrying over a whole structure of interrelated concepts and > myths. Do do-do do-do! *gets jiggy wit' it* > I visualize him as trying to start out with the initial concept and > saying, "Well there's this little guy in college: and suddenly he has > this fantastic girlfriend: everybody thinks she's a gaijin, but she's > really a goddess..." Yup, I totally agree. _Specifically_ the ambiguity of the term "goddess/megami". There are so many connotations to the term that he could run nearly _anywhere_ with them; if he wants something, he only need pillage a tenuously similar goddess role-model in a mythology from anywhere in the world (a recent ML example being fairies from Celtic myth). > Although, one might argue that in the course of the story line the > role of "bad girl" has been handed around a bit: early on, Belldandy > was a bit of a scandal herself, but that seems to have worn off. Bell to Urd to Mara to Peorth to... ? (Chihiro possibly comes into this as well). Sam the man