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I'm researching - for fun and no profit - tales of the world's doom across many cultures.

So what's the low-down on the actual, non-SNK-fied legend of the Orochi hakkeshu?

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I'm researching - for fun and no profit - tales of the world's doom across many cultures.

So what's the low-down on the actual, non-SNK-fied legend of the Orochi hakkeshu?

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Well, this is the quick version, but...it's NOT influenced by anime or games because I don't remember how it goes in either that I've seen.
Susanoo is one of the most important "gods" (if you can call them that) in Japanese mythology. The story sort of starts when he and his sister, Amaterasu created these other gods. Susanoo was really happy, so he started acting wild...doing things like destroying in rice fields, filling up irrigation canals and defecating in temples. Anyway, the last straw was when he threw a dead horse into this room where these goddesses were weaving. Someone ended up dead and it embarassed his sister so much that she locked herself into a cave.
It's a long story, but after they lured her out, the gods punished Susanoo by cutting off his nails, beard and moustache...then he was thrown out of heaven. He fell into Izumo, where he met a couple who was crying. The Orochi, an 8 headed serpent, had eaten 7 of their daughters (one every year) and was about to eat their last one. To solve the problem, Susanoo turned the girl into a comb, put her in his hair and got 8 bowls of sake. He lured the orochi with the sake, and when it drank it and fell asleep, he cut it apart. From its tail, he drew the Kusanagi blade, which he later gace to his sister...and even later became a symbol of imperial power in Japan. After that adventure, I believe he lived in Izumo...erm...until he later lived in Hell, but that's another story.

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Well, this is the quick version, but...it's NOT influenced by anime or games because I don't remember how it goes in either that I've seen.
Susanoo is one of the most important "gods" (if you can call them that) in Japanese mythology. The story sort of starts when he and his sister, Amaterasu created these other gods. Susanoo was really happy, so he started acting wild...doing things like destroying in rice fields, filling up irrigation canals and defecating in temples. Anyway, the last straw was when he threw a dead horse into this room where these goddesses were weaving. Someone ended up dead and it embarassed his sister so much that she locked herself into a cave.
It's a long story, but after they lured her out, the gods punished Susanoo by cutting off his nails, beard and moustache...then he was thrown out of heaven. He fell into Izumo, where he met a couple who was crying. The Orochi, an 8 headed serpent, had eaten 7 of their daughters (one every year) and was about to eat their last one. To solve the problem, Susanoo turned the girl into a comb, put her in his hair and got 8 bowls of sake. He lured the orochi with the sake, and when it drank it and fell asleep, he cut it apart. From its tail, he drew the Kusanagi blade, which he later gace to his sister...and even later became a symbol of imperial power in Japan. After that adventure, I believe he lived in Izumo...erm...until he later lived in Hell, but that's another story.

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Well, this is the quick version, but...it's NOT influenced by anime or games because I don't remember how it goes in either that I've seen.
Susanoo is one of the most important "gods" (if you can call them that) in Japanese mythology. The story sort of starts when he and his sister, Amaterasu created these other gods. Susanoo was really happy, so he started acting wild...doing things like destroying in rice fields, filling up irrigation canals and defecating in temples. Anyway, the last straw was when he threw a dead horse into this room where these goddesses were weaving. Someone ended up dead and it embarassed his sister so much that she locked herself into a cave.
It's a long story, but after they lured her out, the gods punished Susanoo by cutting off his nails, beard and moustache...then he was thrown out of heaven. He fell into Izumo, where he met a couple who was crying. The Orochi, an 8 headed serpent, had eaten 7 of their daughters (one every year) and was about to eat their last one. To solve the problem, Susanoo turned the girl into a comb, put her in his hair and got 8 bowls of sake. He lured the orochi with the sake, and when it drank it and fell asleep, he cut it apart. From its tail, he drew the Kusanagi blade, which he later gace to his sister...and even later became a symbol of imperial power in Japan. After that adventure, I believe he lived in Izumo...erm...until he later lived in Hell, but that's another story.


Beasto? or......

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"They who came up for judgment but were not judged have turned into sticks and filled the earth. The Master has departed and the earth has become a grave of rotten sticks ..."