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[Community Challenge 25] Reimagined Historical Moments with Mythical Creatures (lemmy.world)
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Reimagined Historical Moments with Mythical Creatures, the example I provided was is of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summiting Mount Everest for the first time.

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Find a moment in history and replace some or all of the characters with mythical creatures.

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[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure they'd shit their space suits lol

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

my entry is disqualified. Godzilla is a fictional and not a mythical creature.

some may argue that all mythology is fictional, that doesn't mythicize all that's fictional.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I had no idea. I took mythical and fictional for the most part as synonyms as long as it could be found in a fantasy realm and I would have considered Godzilla in that category. While the western culture may not consider Godzilla to be mythical I imagine the eastern culture might.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

that's what i thought, that Godzilla was a yokai.

according to Wikipedia land of Godzilla is not sure either 🤷

On the other hand, the yōkai introduced through mass media are not limited to only those that come from classical sources like folklore, and just as in the Edo period, new fictional yōkai continue to be invented, such as scary school stories and other urban legends like kuchisake-onna and Hanako-san, giving birth to new yōkai. From 1975 onwards, starting with the popularity of kuchisake-onna, these urban legends began to be referred to in mass media as "modern yōkai". This terminology was also used in recent publications dealing with urban legends, and the researcher on yōkai, Bintarō Yamaguchi [ja], used this especially frequently.

During the 1970s, many books were published that introduced yōkai through encyclopedias, illustrated reference books, and dictionaries as a part of children's horror books, but along with the yōkai that come from classics like folklore, Kaidan, and essays, it has been pointed out by modern research that there are some mixed in that do not come from classics, but were newly created. Some well-known examples of these are the gashadokuro and the jubokko. For example, Arifumi Sato is known to be a creator of modern yōkai, and Shigeru Mizuki, a manga artist of yōkai, in writings concerning research about yōkai, pointed out that newly created yōkai do exist, and Mizuki himself, through GeGeGe no Kitaro, created about 30 new yōkai.

There has been much criticism that this mixing of classical yōkai with newly created yōkai is making light of tradition and legends. However, since there have already been those from the Edo period like Sekien Toriyama who created many new yōkai, there is also the opinion that it is unreasonable to criticize modern creations without doing the same for classical creations too. Furthermore, there is a favorable view that says that introducing various yōkai characters through these books nurtured creativity and emotional development of young readers of the time.

edit after further reading: Godzilla is a copyrighted fictional creature. It's as mythical as Mickey Mouse or King Kong :/

this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
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