Heh - interesting roots, 'bake' and 'monstare'. Rather changed in their uses, no?
Something that reading/watching InuYasha and related commentary on the series made me think, is that the Japanese spirits/'demons' seem to bear a lot more in common with the Celtic fae than with anything that's been run through either a Semitic or Christianised filter. Both groups of non-humans seem to be far less black&white and more mischevious than blatantly malevolent towards humans for the most part. After all, don't the Seelie and Unseelie Courts usually wrangle with each other for the most part, drawing in humans only occasionally or accidentally?
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on 2006-05-15 06:52 pm (UTC)Something that reading/watching InuYasha and related commentary on the series made me think, is that the Japanese spirits/'demons' seem to bear a lot more in common with the Celtic fae than with anything that's been run through either a Semitic or Christianised filter. Both groups of non-humans seem to be far less black&white and more mischevious than blatantly malevolent towards humans for the most part. After all, don't the Seelie and Unseelie Courts usually wrangle with each other for the most part, drawing in humans only occasionally or accidentally?