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To : Peter,
Jurai is a place of it's own in outer space.If Jurai is Heaven.How can 
Tenchi's grand dad,a god or deity, can age when in earth.In Chinese 
mythology,you can find aged deities because they were old age when become 
deities.
 
It is rare to know a Westerner has interest in Chinese Mythology.By mixing 
and comparing Chinese Mythology with Tenchi Muyo is wrong when without 
verifying  with Kyosuke Fujishima.
 
I can say Tenchi is Luke Skywalker due to using light saber sword.Ryoko as 
Han Solo.Aeka as C3 Pio with Sashami as R2 D2.Tenchi's Grand Dad as O B One 
Kenobi while Mihoshi as Princess Leia while Kyone as BuBa Fet.
 
 Peter Gray <jaganath_609@yahoo.com> wrote:The backstory background I am 
proposing (modesty
 
inserted under duress) for Tenchi Muyo is, I admit,
little more than the best educated guess I can come up
with. The background for this is the Archer Yi myth I
put on the list last weekend. For a couple of reasons:

It gives a plausible summation of the scattered
Chinese Taoist and/or Japanese Zen references in the
OVA.

And it gives a motivation for Washu Habuki's actions.
Or should I say Washu-Habuki or Washu/Habuki.

Some of the following is pure speculation, and I will
indicate it where it lies. The rest of it is educated
guesswork based upon research and repeating patterns
within the creators' work (Tenchi Muyo, Photon, Dual
and maybe even a little Masquerade). For civility's
sake I'll call this a fanfic outline, and operate
under the blanket of theory instead of fact.

"It all started a very long time ago, in a time of the
universe long before the advent of the contemporary
empires of the Tenchi Muyo storyline. It was a
primordial time, not far removed from the beginning of
time and space. In those days people were much closer
to the Gods, for the intelligent races were still
within their cradle. In those days one emperor/empress
ruled over them by the authority of the Gods, and
presided over a people still half-formed, for they
were ignorant of what lay beyond their safe
boundaries.

Before she was Washu/Habuki, she was a normal human
girl named Habuki (names are speculative. No need to
correct me). Emphasis upon normal. She was one of two
twin girls born in this time to a vapid, manipulative
and neglectful woman. A ruthless social climbing
tramp. There was no father (at least that I know of).
Habuki and her sister Masaki would not have been very
remarkable, were it not for their mother. I won't
assign her motivation, but she made her kids lives
hell. But telling from Washu's later character she was
a self-centered egomaniac, and prone to playing mental
games and manipulative histrionics on her children.
Masaki seems to have taken all of this in stride, but
her sister did not have adequate psychological
defenses against this torment. A more introverted
child than her sister, Habuki seems to have created a
dense layer of egocentric armor against her mothers
torment that led to them butting heads.

At some point in her childhood, Habuki was abandoned
by her mother to the care of others. She was the
unpleasant child, a painful nuisance less pleasant and
pretty than Masaki. And she was chucked away like
garbage, separated from her beloved sister, and given
up for dead. But instead of defeating her will, it
seems to have created vengefulness. 

In the Chinese Book of Changes, the Sun is one of four
cardinals on the compass of metamorphosis. It
represents the East and Spring, the bringing of light
and the revelation of life after Winter's languor. But
it is represented in a strange way. There are eight
points on the compass, each of them represented by a
trigram, three lines that are solid or broken in
various combinations. A solid line represents the
bright aspect of Yang; a broken line represents the
cold aspect of Yin. The sun is two solid lines
surrounding a broken line. Intense heat and light
circling impenetrable darkness. And that is how the
sun actually is in the real world. Crushing pressure
causes hydrogen atoms to lose their electrons,
preventing interaction with photons created by the
fusion processes at the core of the star, so that the
interior is pitch black. When these photons finally
reach the exterior and the sun's magnetic field, they
create the brilliant incandescence that is the life of
our world. 

It's an interesting paradox. Crushing blackness giving
rise to blinding light. In the yin and yang terms it
is balance of an unstable kind. And it describes
Habuki aptly. A child filled with utmost terror, first
of her mother and her unstable lifestyle, and then
finally of being left alone. A darkness of anxiety and
fear, an implosion of silent suffering. But to keep
from collapsing on herself completely, Habuki had to
create outward pressure; she had to be stronger than
normally possible. She had to be egocentric and
maniacally driven to a fever pitch of intensity to
survive her demons. She was somewhat like this anyway,
in a healthy manner, but she went beyond, pushing her
fear down so far that it would seem she was
invincible.

She became a brilliant student capable of doing
seemingly superhuman feats of intellectual
undertaking. She outshone her rivals and peers in
academics, so much so that she came to the attention
of the highest authorities, the goddesses that ruled
the natural forces in this world. The middle sister,
Tsunami, took an especially keen interest in this
prodigy. At her request the human ruler of the land
passed the girl along to the Water God, to become her
protege so she could learn knowledge still not
revealed to the rest of humanity. She would grow up to
be a heroine, a one person fire brigade to respond to
unforseen emergencies. And this is how Habuki became
like Yi, a warrior-intellectual in service to the
Choushin. 

But great danger lay within....."

Next Installment: "Queen of Blackbirds."

I'll get to your e-mail tomorrow, I haven't had time
to reply.



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