/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Wouldn't it make more sense for an earth goddess to be associated with toads, not frogs?

[Anonymous No.]

it's all the same shit?

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>>5975420
frogs spend most of their lives in the water

toads live on land

therefore toads = earth

[Anonymous No.]

You will never visit the Moriya shrine.

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>>5975439

[Unnamed Book-reading Youkai !hlzAxuj9HY No.]

A yellow toad hopped up to me a few hours ago. It gave me a reproachful look and hopped away. I feel like I've done something that's offended Lady Suwako ;__;

[Anonymous No.]

No because deities get their portfolios in packages. Common ones include fertility/agriculture/earth, sun/justice/light, snakes/underworld/death etc.

Frogs, which are near bodies of water (and therefore fertile ground) are associated with fertility and agriculture, so frog deities become deities of the earth. See Heqet for a real life example.

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I dunno what snakes have to do with the sky, but Kanako is a vastly superior goddess in every way.

[Suika !WODiPzWX8U No.]

>>5975471

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>>5975471
How come her legs look so bony? She's not anorexic.

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>>5975471
Serpents and the sky? Well, what about Jörmungandr?

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>>5975508
Surely you mean Quetzalcoatl.

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>>5975529
yah cuz Jörmungandr lives under the ocean

[Anonymous No.]

There's been a little frog living in my grass lately. Whenever I see him when I'm watering, I switch the nozzle to mist and give him a soaking for Suwako.

[Anonymous No.]

Toads have warts and are gross and no fun at all so yeah.

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Frogs were here toads are pussys.

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>>5975414
who cares?

[Anonymous No.]

Whenever I pick up a frog or toad they pee on me. Would Suwako do this as well?

[Anonymous No.]

There's a small pond by my window and a bunch of frogs gather there to croak the night away almost every night. They get so loud sometimes that I can hear them over the music in my headphones, which is annoying, but I like to think they're all praying to Suwako.

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I remember a school trip to the seaside I went to back in 4th grade, the hotel we stayed at was pretty cheap, and one night, as I was going back to my room with my friends, we found the entire corridor literally filled with frogs. I still have no idea how they got there. We let a few in our room and fed them insects and stuff. The girls' screaming when they found out about them was priceless. Good times.

I wish those friends of mine were still around these days.

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>>5975568
Well, aborigines actually squeeze water-holding frogs and drink their pee in dry season. Maybe you should try it with Suwako.

[Anonymous No.]

The Japanese language does not make a distinction between "frog" and "toad" like English does.

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>>5975621
That's dumb. They are separate species.

Maybe its so humid in Japan that their toads look just like frogs or something...

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>>5975636
Not to be a stickler, but they're in a completely different family(Order is still the same though) as "toad" and "frog" aren't species.

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>>5975636

Japanese language isn't as developed as English. They used to not even make a fucking distinction between blue and green; that's downright primitive.

Don't feel bad though, few languages compare to ours; vocabulary-wise English has more words than any other dialect.

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>>5975648
See? We even have a distinction between "family" and "species".

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I'm sure that's someone's fetish.

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>>5975797
>not everyone who dies, gets hit by a drunken car.

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>>5975508
yep, quetzalcoatl

[Anonymous No.]

Deleting the image but keeping the thread alive is no good, newmod-san.

[Anonymous No.]

What is Suwako's taxonomy?

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>>5975661
Actually english is very stupid color wise. What we call green is actually blue half the time. midori = green as in grass. aoi = blue as in the sky. I dont see how this is less advanced.

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>>5975621
蛙 (カエル) = frog
蟇蛙 (ヒキガエル) or 蟇 (カマ)= toad

??

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>>5975851
Sexy.

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>>5975847

When do we ever call blue things green? We also have words for in between colors like teal. I'm sure japanese does too but i doubt it compares to the english vocabulary for colors.

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>>5975882
Blue-green maybe teal. There's no clear distinction but in most other cultures greens is closer to greenery - leaves, grass etc in english green expands over into blue (as most other cultures see it).

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>>5975864

It's considered just another species of frog. Which it is by the way. Frog/toad is an arbitrary distinction.

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>>5975954
Oh yeah? Call a frog a "toad" and see if he likes it.

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>>5975661
That's cause we usually have several words that mean the same fucking thing. England was conquered so many fucking times and each time the grammar was made more stupid and we got more and more words from foreign languages. Over 40% of our vocabulary comes from French and according to the french we use all those words completely wrong.

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>>5975851
Well, the frog on the background during her fight doesn't seem to have webbed feet, so she probably isn't an active swimmer. It's got short digits and I can't see toe pads (maybe it just has small ones, I'm no expert on frogs), so probably not a tree frog either. I'm going to say "screw it" and say she's genus Rana, since Rana is where taxonomists throw frogs in when they don't know what they are. There are a few webless species in there, anyhow.

It's also blue, but frogs have color morphs so it doesn't help all that much. On the plus side, I captured Suwa War while trying to get a good view of that frog.

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