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Jul 21, 2010 22:10

Hundreds of years ago, there was a young farmer and his wife. After two years of living together, tending to animals and raising crops, they decided they wanted to have a child in their lives. It took them a very long time to conceive, and were overjoyed when the village doctor informed them that the wife was pregnant. In the months that followed, ( Read more... )

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flailingbento July 22 2010, 03:59:25 UTC

In the version I learned, the flowers were a gift of luck from a benevolent dragon god. There was a small kingdom that had been suffering through a hundred-year drought. The crops were long dead and the supplies were gone, and no amount of praying would bring the rain back. Its king, Hanami, was in despair at the suffering of his people. So he went on a journey to find the dragon god and beg him to send the rain, because clearly he had simply forgotten about their little kingdom and needed to be reminded ( ... )

tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 04:02:32 UTC

...I like your version a lot better, Kimi, though why do these things always have someone dying?

flailingbento July 22 2010, 04:05:54 UTC

...I don't know. I suppose because something sad has to happen for it to have a happy ending?

tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 04:07:03 UTC

Well that's not right. Why do people have to die for other people to be happy?

flailingbento July 22 2010, 04:16:03 UTC

That's how it usually goes in myths, doesn't it? Someone always has to give something up. You're supposed to learn from them.

tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 04:17:16 UTC

It's not right.

flailingbento July 22 2010, 04:20:38 UTC

Well, they're just myths, right? Either way, we get to enjoy the flowers!

orphism July 22 2010, 04:42:30 UTC

I rather like that one. Thank you for sharing.

I'm from Trewe, and mine is the one I heard from my relatives.

flailingbento July 22 2010, 04:47:55 UTC

Yours was beautiful, too. I liked the constellations at the end.

why_halo_there July 23 2010, 22:13:15 UTC

But wait! If the king gave the dragon his soul, then what happened to the king?

flailingbento July 24 2010, 03:04:23 UTC

He died. In another version, his soul joined the stars, and once someone told me that his soul was what became the flower rain; but in the one I heard, he just died, because his soul was the payment for his people's lives.

It's a pretty sad story, isn't it? I never thought about that when I heard it growing up.

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