🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧さんのイラストまとめ

In Japanese myth, when the sun goddess Amaterasu retreats into a cave, depriving the world of sunlight, the other deities work together to coax her out. The goddess Ama-no-Uzume dances seductively, luring her out & distracting her while the others close the cave. #MythologyMonday

In Babylonian & Sumerian myth, the primordial ocean goddess Tiamat took the form of a sea serpent & gave birth to the first generation of deities. When she was slain, her divided body parts formed the heavens & earth. Her tail became the Milky Way. #FolkloreThursday

The term "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the Irish legends of Stingy Jack, a conniving drunk who cheats death time & again. When he eventually dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can take him, so he wanders between worlds, using a hollow turnip as a lantern. #WyrdWednesday

The griffin—a mythical creature with the back half of a lion & the front half of an eagle—may have originated in the Levant around the 2nd millennium BCE. Griffins were portrayed guarding treasures hidden in gold mines & using the gold to line their nests. #MythologyMonday

A palis is a vampiric creature of Middle Eastern lore that lives in deserts. It drains people's blood by licking their feet while they sleep. But it's repelled by salt, & can easily be tricked if two people sleep end-to-end with the soles of their feet together. #FolkloreThursday

In the 7th-century Persian tale "Layla & Majnun," the poet Qays falls so madly in love with the lovely Layla that their tribe dubs him Majnun ("possessed" or "mad"). Layla's father forbids them to marry, so Qays flees & wanders the desert the rest of his days. #FairyTaleTuesday

Central Asian lore has tales of the Vegetable Lambs of Tartary: sheep that grow from plants. They stay connected to the plant by stems resembling umbilical cords & can only graze as far as the cords allow. Once all nearby plants have been eaten, the sheep die. #FolkloreThursday

Banu Goshap, heroine of the Sistani Cycle, challenged three potential suitors to a jousting match & defeated them all. When a general tried to abduct her, she cut him in half. When her father made her marry, she tied up her husband on the wedding night. #FolkloreThursday

The metal band KISS made their solo Marvel comic debut in 1977, with a 40-page book of their own adventure plus photos of the band. Vials of the band members' blood, drawn by a nurse during one of their tours, was mixed into the red ink used to print the comic. #WyrdWednesday