Food and World

In the world there are some similar story. I'll talk you about one of them.
In Japan, there are story which don't eat "YOMI"'s foods. It is called "YOMOTSU-HE-GUI", means eat foods which are cooked at underworld. If eat it, the one will die. And we can see similar in Greek myths; Persephone was wanted back to ground, but she ate Hades's pomegranate, she couldn't get back completely. It is seen in Fairy Tail, too. It says if people who strayed into fairy's world want to get back one's home, he or she must not eat there's foods.
Why eating foods of another world cause to belong to that world? Because food is three major desire? I don't know why, but I think it is very interesting.

Death, living and paradise

In this world, there are a lot of life as same as death. What is death? If people died, they would where to go? From long time ago, people think about death. Some wants never-die with afraid death, others yearn for death with regard it as mother.
Do you know the word " memento mori"?It means think about death or don't forget death. The thought came in especially the Middle Ages. Almost all of the picture have symbol of death. People have thought death to think and know what the life is. They think their life with say "memento mori", that is don't forget that we will die some day. In mythology, there are some story about death and life. In Japan, IZANAGI has pursued his wife, IZANAMI, to NENO-KUNI, the hell, but he was scared his died wife and escaped from her. There is a mythology like this story in Greece. Orpheus, is minstrel, had pursued his wife, Eurydike to Hades,that is hell, and looked back and couldn't get her back. In Islam, there are angel who likes the Death. It named Azrael, the angel who tells people the death.
Death is difficult theme as much as life. People have thought about it for long long time and they don't get the answer.




Life is fact of moment, death is fact of everlasting. by Nyozekan Hasegawa.

About Gods

In Japan, there are so many Gods called "Yaoyorozu". Since a long time ago, Japanese believe that there are Gods around them: in earth, woods, things, air and all of existence. As time past, Japanese accept foreign culture. They defeated by Buddhism. Then people started to believe that Gods are spurious appearance: that's substance is Buddas like Amida-Nyorai. But after some age, there was another theory: Buddas are spurious appearance, and Gods are substance. Why Japanese believe these theory? I think it because they are similar in their own nature. And we can look which similar it in Europe. Gods Greek and Roman are often confused, for example , Minerva is confused with Athena. It means people in around the world have same or similar image for supirior existence, I think.

The Dragons(2)

In Japan, we have a lot of words about dragon. "Nobori-Ryu" means dragon who go up to sky, "Haku-Ryu" means dragon who is messenger of God called "Tentei", "Han-Ryu" means dragon who coiled itself up and doesn't ascension yet, "Sen-Ryu" means dragon who lurk in pond or deep, "Mizuchi-Ryu" means who doesn't change into dragon. There are many words another these.

Why Japanese has a lot of words about dragon? Because it make root in Japan or Japanese life, I think. (In deed, in Alaska, there are so many of words about snow. Their life is bound up with snow.) In China, dragons have attribution of water. When people had drought, they prayed to dragon to cause rain. Japanese image of dragon is same as China. They were agricultural people. So their life was bound up with water. It means dragon who symbolize water is important existence. So it is good existence for Chinese and Japanese.