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pokemon myths

Golduck surprisingly looks like Kappa, a Japanese water monster.
Kappa craves for human blood and often attacks people on boats.
If you read Harry Potter, you know.
 
Not to act the stereotype, but Misdreavus is based on the Irish legend of the banshee. According to the myth, if you're ever out at night and you hear the shriek of the banshee - a ghostly white woman, sometimes pushing a small cart - you're going to die very soon. The word, as near as I can tell, seems to come from bán sí, or white she, although in Gaelic grammer the sí should come first... I'm clearly wrong then.

They toned it all down for the game's western release :)
 
Here is the myth of snorlax:

Snorlax looks like he is a lazy pokemon but the myth is:

Back hundreds of years ago many snorlax were caught by egyptian pharos to move teh boulders and make the pyramids of ancient egypt and they were fed the wild animals of egypt at were never known about.

This myth is once said to be true but only by ancient sciptures of pokemon.
 
FireFighter095ReBorn said:
Here is the myth of snorlax:

Snorlax looks like he is a lazy pokemon but the myth is:

Back hundreds of years ago many snorlax were caught by egyptian pharos to move teh boulders and make the pyramids of ancient egypt and they were fed the wild animals of egypt at were never known about.

This myth is once said to be true but only by ancient sciptures of pokemon.
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Let's stick to "real" myths, otherwise we'd have the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Stantler.
 
In defence of ReBorn, Mew Master did say to make some up if anyone felt like it, though I won't be...

Farfetch'd, if I remember rightly, is based off a Russian phrase: "Here comes a duck bearing a leek!" It means to stop wishing for improbable things to happen. If you were lost and starving, you might wish for this meal on legs to wander by, but it's unlikely.

Incidently, about Misdreavus, earlier today I remembered that a female garda is called a bangarda, so that mustn't mean "white". Can't explain the -shee, though :/
 
PokePop said:
Let's stick to "real" myths, otherwise we'd have the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Stantler.
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I was gonna make a fake myth but was worried about the problems it would cause but when i read on how mew master allowed some fake myths i just went for it.
 
Skarmory reminded my of the Cockatrice, a bird that could petrify living creatures with its bite (Long stretch, but hey). Then I looked it up.
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cockatrice (n)

A serpent hatched from a [rooster]'s egg and having the power to kill by its glance.
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Now I'm thinking Arbok. Again, a stretch, but...
[edit: auto-censor being a bit over protective. Pop]
 
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Lugia is based on Ryujin, the Shinto god of the sea (umi no kami); Ho-oh is based on the Japanese phoenix.

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lunatone_solrock said:
Ho-oh, Phoenix?
Moltres seems more like it.
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Well, considering that hoo (also romanized as hou-ou) means "phoenix" in Japanese, I think drawing that conclusion is pretty safe...

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Well, what's the story of the Japanese Phoenix?
Does it have a separate origin, or is it based on the Greek story?
 
They are different, but I don't remember the whole story off the top of my head.. (I'd post the site I got the info from but I'm at a school comp =/ )
 
PokePop said:
Well, what's the story of the Japanese Phoenix?
Does it have a separate origin, or is it based on the Greek story?
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http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/ho-oo-phoenix.shtml
In Japan, as earlier in China, the mythical Ho-oo (Asian Phoenix) was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, and fidelity. It is one of the four celestial guardians of the four directions (south).

According to legend (mostly from China), the Ho-oo appears very rarely, and only to mark the beginning of a new era -- the birth of a virtuous ruler, for example. In other traditions, the Ho-oo appears only in peaceful and prosperous times (nesting, it is said, in paulownia trees), and hides itself when there is trouble. As the herald of a new age, the Ho-Oo decends from heaven to earth to do good deeds, and then it returns to its celestial abode to await a new era. [Interesting, for those of you who watch the anime, if you recall the episode where Team Rocket steals the crystal bells from the pagoda...or remember that Ash saw a Ho-oh when he set out on his journey way back when...:) ] It is both a symbol of peace (when it appears) and a symbol of disharmony (when it disappears). In China, early artifacts show the Phoenix (female) as intimately associated with the Dragon (male) -- the two are portrayed either as mortal enemies or as blissful lovers. When shown together, the two symbolize both conflict and wedded bliss, and are a common design motif even today in many parts of Asia {snip}

The Asian Phoenix should not be confused with the Phoenix found in Egypt and Greece -- that is a bird of completely different feathers and traditions. The Arabian-Western Phoenix, if you recall, is a solidary creature -- only one of its kind. When it dies, it dies in flames, and from the ashes is born the next phoenix.​
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