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EDIT: Er, I believe this was meant for the People of Colour forum - somehow I got mixed up and posted it in Politics and Current Events. If a moderator could please relocate it, it would be much appreciated. Sorry!
It's looking like I'm going to be writing a story based on a conlanging experiment, and I've been inspired by elements of Japanese mythology:
1. The powers of Kitsune since as I want fox spirits also (and I love foxes, such beautiful creatures), including taking the form of women or possessing women (although I'm probably going to extend it to both men and women). In fact, there is a religion that revolves around the fox spirits, and the central prophet/god was born of a relationship between a fox spirit and a man (which would involve the fox spirit fleeing once the man found out what she really was - from my research on Kitsune). I certainly won't be calling them Kitsune, as the name of my fox spirits will be based on the prophet/god character's name (which is not from any real world language, Asian or otherwise).
2. This same prophet/god - when he was a mortal - didn't give birth to any spirits, but his wife was sent to the underworld just as Izanami was in the Japanese creation myth. This will also involve his wife partaking in the pleasures there, being trapped and becoming a walking corpse, with him potentially closing off at least one entrance to the underworld (or his wife's personal underworld).
I'm not sure what race the main culture will be yet, although the prophet/god character lives for an extremely long time as a mortal and may travel a very long distance. I'm thinking he was of Asian-descent (or my world's equivalent), that many cultures have stories of him, and he ended up saving a white culture (which goes on to worshipping him and the fox spirits, forming a religion, and is also aware of his origins from another part of the world). Of course, it is subject to change quite easily (I still haven't truly made my mind up).
So, anything for me to worry about here at all? Any advice?
It's looking like I'm going to be writing a story based on a conlanging experiment, and I've been inspired by elements of Japanese mythology:
1. The powers of Kitsune since as I want fox spirits also (and I love foxes, such beautiful creatures), including taking the form of women or possessing women (although I'm probably going to extend it to both men and women). In fact, there is a religion that revolves around the fox spirits, and the central prophet/god was born of a relationship between a fox spirit and a man (which would involve the fox spirit fleeing once the man found out what she really was - from my research on Kitsune). I certainly won't be calling them Kitsune, as the name of my fox spirits will be based on the prophet/god character's name (which is not from any real world language, Asian or otherwise).
2. This same prophet/god - when he was a mortal - didn't give birth to any spirits, but his wife was sent to the underworld just as Izanami was in the Japanese creation myth. This will also involve his wife partaking in the pleasures there, being trapped and becoming a walking corpse, with him potentially closing off at least one entrance to the underworld (or his wife's personal underworld).
I'm not sure what race the main culture will be yet, although the prophet/god character lives for an extremely long time as a mortal and may travel a very long distance. I'm thinking he was of Asian-descent (or my world's equivalent), that many cultures have stories of him, and he ended up saving a white culture (which goes on to worshipping him and the fox spirits, forming a religion, and is also aware of his origins from another part of the world). Of course, it is subject to change quite easily (I still haven't truly made my mind up).
So, anything for me to worry about here at all? Any advice?
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