2019 Japanese anime movie "Children of the Sea" (original title: 海獣の子供, which translates roughly as "Children of Sea Monsters") is set in a fictitious island in the Okinawa region of Japan. The movie directed by Ayumu Watanabe puts a lot of effort into creating the...
"Hundreds of tsunami stones stand along the coast of Japan, stark warnings and reminders of the devastating impact of the country’s all too frequent tidal waves. The oldest were erected more than 600 years ago; some have been washed away by ever more powerful waves."...
UNESCO World Heritage site in Ayutthaya (Thailand) province - inundated with floodwaters on October 10, 2011. More than 250 Thais have died after two months of heavy rainfall have inundated large swathes of the country and hit provinces on the northern outskirts of...
Tōrō nagashi ( 灯籠流し or 灯篭流し) is a Japanese ritual usually performed as part of the Festival of the Dead - O-bon (お盆) or Bon - in summer but also in connection to various other important events. In the ceremony people set lit paper...
In his beautifully written account of the 2011 tsunami in Tohoku, northern Japan, and it's aftermath, Richard L. Parry also describes the role of the cult of ancestory in grievance for those who died in the tsunami. Vacant home addresses for example play a recurring...
It might be time for a clarification. Since flood myths play quite a big role in cristian creationist ideology and since there is a lot of material online on the subject hosted on creatonist propaganda websites, I feel I need to distance myself from the creationist...
The bronze statue in the center depicts Mazu or Matsu, the chinese sea goddess, who is particularly popular in Taiwan and Chinese communities outside of mainland China. This monument is at Chengshan Peak (成山头 Chéngshāntóu), in the harbur city Weihai on the Chinese...
Manimekhala is a budddhist goddess regarded in Southeast Asia as guardian of the Seas.
Pak Permadi, an Indonesian expert for paranormalevents from Java made the following statement at a seminar at Jogjakarta University in 1995: »If people are not happy with their treatment by those in power but cannot defend themselves, their anger, which expresses...
The legends around the mermaid goddess Kidul - also Ratu Kidul - are mostly linked to the 16th century Javanese Mataram Sultanate. However, anthropological studies suggest that the myth of the Queen of Java's Southern Seas probably originated from older...