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Some say this is the earliest science fiction story as Princess Kaguya comes to Earth from the Moon to escape a celestial war and is later apparently returned to her extraterrestrial family on the moon in a round flying machine similar to a flying saucer.
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🎨by #StudioGhibli

'The Tale of Princess Kaguya' is a Studio Ghibli animated film based on the Japanese folktale of the bamboo cutter, an anonymous literary work from 1592. Kaguya is found by an old couple in a bamboo stalk & it is later discovered that she came from the moon.
#MythologyMonday
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'Seiobo Having a Swing' - full image.
#ukiyoe

In both China and Japan the goose is linked with the moon. It was common for the family of a bride to give a goose as a gift to the groom.
#SuperstitionSat #birds #ukiyoe
Art: 'White-fronted Goose' & 'White Fronted Goose & Full Moon' - Ohara Koson.

Gashadokuro are giant rattling skeletons wandering in the dead of night, often on old battlegrounds. Their teeth chatter & bones rattle. If you unluckily encounter one they'll likely crush you or bite off your head.
#FaustianFriday #yokai
🎨Matthew Meyer, https://t.co/xobtRY1SJl

In the Japanese variant of the myth, there were 10 ravens who flew from a mulberry tree to bring light to the world in the form of 10 suns. The archer Yi shot 9 of the birds/suns down to avoid the excess light burning up the world.
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🎨Sun card from Chinese Tarot, Jui Guoliang

Arianrhod is a Welsh goddess of the moon and stars. Her name means ‘silver wheel.’ She is believed to carry souls to the afterlife to await rebirth. Her palace is 'Caer Arianrhod,' a title also used in Welsh for the constellation Corona Borealis.
#FolkloreThursday
🎨Anne Stokes

'The Damsel of the Holy Grail' - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
#FairyTaleTuesday #preraphaelite

'The Death of King Arthur' - James Archer, 1860.
#FairyTaleTuesday

'A White Cat Playing with a String' - Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1863.
#Caturday #ukiyoe #cat #Japan