Reading Notes: Japan, Reading A
Izanagi and Izanami
This was a very interesting and creative genesis story about some of the gods that brought all of the other gods into existence for a version of Japanese mythology. I have actually heard about Izanagi and Izanami from and anime named naruto so the entire time that I was reading this I was looking at connections between the two and while at first I really couldn't see any the more time that I took to look at the text the more similarities that I could see. The sharingan in naruto which is a broken ability manifested in the eyes of a specific clan that come with great power but at great personal pain and with the drawback of potential blindness. The Sharingan will actually grow and will eventually reach the mangekyou after personally killing someone who is really close to you. While that didn't really relate too much to the story and I believe that that came from a different mythology story from Japanese mythology one of the abilities that the mangekyou sharingan is called Izanagi and Izanami we are introduced to Izanagi first much like in the myth and while Izanami is the god of the heavens the power that it gave in the show is that you would be able to rewrite what happened so that anything positive would stay but anything negative would be as if it never existed and so it is of great personal benefit to be used. The drawback of such a power is blindness in the eye that is used to do the Izanagi. Later in the show, the Izanami is introduced and it is actually the only thing that can possibly counter the Izanagi it traps someone into a loop until they can see the error of their ways and they will change to what the caster intended to be a force of good. It is stated that the Izanami is the ultimate show of Love which matches the goddess Izanami who was seen as the goddess of love.
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