Japanese mythology

China.

Chinese, Japanese.

Yeah.

I don't know about Egyptian mythology so much, but even in the Bible, there's dragons mentioned.

Yeah.

Like in my last episode we did where we talked about the Japanese spirits, where they're not necessarily bad, but they're also not good.

Not good.

Yeah.

Again, opens up higher topics to understand that there are levels of science and paranormal activity that even go back into our past that we still need to try and understand.

But if you think about the vastness of space and the different types of creatures that might exist, it's interesting to note that many ancient cultures the African nomo, Japanese Dogon, excuse me, the African Dogon, the Japanese nomo, the gods of Sumerians, Enki, a lot of these are depicted as gods that came up out of the water or depicted as a fish.

And it's interesting to think about that, you know, in the vastness of space and temperature differences and such, if If there are gods that came here in the past and decided to land or hide in the ocean, maybe they still have setups there today, biospheres and things that are under our oceans.

If you think about the temperature differences, if you come from a watery planet and you then come to a planet that's full of water to replicate your conditions, the vastness and difference for water is not very large.

[laughs] In Ancient Mesopotamia, Nanna, also known as Sin, was a Sumerian and later Babylonian god of the moon, and was specifically associated with the full moon and wisdom.

And in Japanese mythology, Tsukuyomi is a Shinto moon god born from the right eye of the creator deity Izanagi.

He is the counterpart to Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, who was born from Izanagi's left eye.

Ooh, what a mouthful.

If you accidentally point at a snake, let's say you think you're pointing at a stick, and it really is a snake, you can prevent your finger from rotting by biting it.

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