Tales of the Parodyverse >> View Post
·
Post By
Anime Jason 
Owner

Location: Here
Member Since: Sun Sep 12, 2004
Posts: 2,834
In Reply To
HH

Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 08:46:00 am EDT (Viewed 394 times)
Reply Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 05:32:33 am EDT (Viewed 2 times)




    Quote:
    Very possibly. All of this predates my time on the board. I think only Vizh is still alive from those days to tell this tale.


Noted.



    Quote:

      Quote:


        Quote:
        Of course, Lo-Chi and her Shangri-La people were influencial on the Tibetan culture, which has always been different from and often inimical to the Chinese culture.

      Quote:

        Quote:
        The cultures are frighteningly similar when you get into myths and stories, though.



    Quote:
    I don't know enough about them to really comment, but I think there's probably a difference in the pre-Buddhist animalist stuff.


From what little I know, it's interesting to note that both the Chinese and Tibetans have ancient stories about demons who come from beneath the Earth's surface. Of course that may just have to do with the fact that both countries have lots of scary-looking caves, and earthquakes (the Japanese have similar stories, too).

The languages are hard to make connections between, though, sometimes because there are similarities and even words/syllables that are the same. But other times those words mean something entirely different.







anime.mangacool.net (10.0.255.1)
using Apple Safari 5.0.2 on MacOS X (0 points)
On Topic™ © 2003-2024 Powermad Software
Copyright © 2003-2024 by Powermad Software