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* Pandora's box was actually a jar. The idea of a box comes down to a [[LostInTranslation mistranslation]] of the original text by Erasmus, who mistook the Greek word for "jar" (pithos) for the word for box (pixys).
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* Pandora's box was actually a jar. The idea of a box comes down to a [[LostInTranslation mistranslation]] of the original text by Erasmus, who mistook the Greek word for "jar" (pithos) for the word for box (pixys). Additionally, the idea that Pandora was tricked into opening the jar, or opened it out of curiosity, is a later addition: in Hesiod's original telling of the myth, she has no motivation for doing it, and the context implies it was simply ForTheEvulz.
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* Bahamut wasn't a dragon in the original mythology. It wasn't even anything ''close'' -- although exactly what it was varies according to the source you check[[note]]some stated that it was a fish, others a serpent. A lesser-known creature associated with Bahamut is a ox called Kujata, which some scholars postulated to be a corruption of "Leviathan". Since Bahamut is obviously derived from "Behemoth", those scholars theorized that there might be a mix-up between the two creatures' names in Arabian storytelling, since the Bible contains the opposite descriptions, i.e. Behemoth is an ox while Leviathan is a serpent.[[/note]], none of them are anything similar to "dragon". Unlike Tiamat, the blame for this one can be laid solely at the feet of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' -- they just took a name they thought sounded cool and attached it to their dragon god. In 4E, it is written, "of course, in these more enlightened times, we know Bahamut is not really a dragon," and that "Platinum Dragon" is merely an honorific title. They don't say what Bahamut, in fact, ''is''.
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* Bahamut wasn't a dragon in the original mythology. It wasn't even anything ''close'' -- although exactly what it was varies according to the source you check[[note]]some stated that it was a fish, others a serpent. A lesser-known creature associated with Bahamut is a ox called Kujata, which some scholars postulated to be a corruption of "Leviathan". Since Bahamut is obviously derived from "Behemoth", those scholars theorized that there might be a mix-up between the two creatures' names in Arabian storytelling, since the Bible contains the opposite descriptions, i.e. Behemoth is an ox while Leviathan is a serpent.[[/note]], none of them are anything similar to "dragon". Unlike Tiamat, the blame for this one can be laid solely at the feet of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' -- they just took a name they thought sounded cool and attached it to their dragon god. In 4E, it is written, "of course, in these more enlightened times, we know Bahamut is not really a dragon," and that "Platinum Dragon" is merely an honorific title. They don't say what Bahamut, in fact, ''is''. Future editions seem to have gone back to him being a dragon.
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* Many {{Youkai}} are believed by both Japanese and foreigners to have originated from ancient myths passed down from thousands of years ago. In reality, like the shinigami, a good chunk of them first appeared during the Edo period, when storytellers began making up their own Youkai to entertain audiences or writers started recording their own inventions down. The {{Karakasa}} is one such example and perhaps the most notable one. And while the kuchisake-onna may have been mentioned before then, the modern interpretation is based on the story of a real mentally ill woman from the 1970s who had a Glasgow grin and surgical mask, and stalked children before being fatally hit by a car.
* While [[DemBones skeleton monsters]] have appeared in Japanese art and folklore dating back centuries, the famous Gashadokuro, a giant skeleton formed from the restless spirits of villagers wiped out by wartime famine, was created by a horror novelist in the 1960s, and so is technically younger than Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!
* While [[DemBones skeleton monsters]] have appeared in Japanese art and folklore dating back centuries, the famous Gashadokuro, a giant skeleton formed from the restless spirits of villagers wiped out by wartime famine, was created by a horror novelist in the 1960s, and so is technically younger than Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!
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* Many {{Youkai}} are believed by both Japanese and foreigners to have originated from ancient myths passed down from thousands of years ago. In reality, like the shinigami, a good chunk of them first appeared during the Edo period, when storytellers began making up their own Youkai to entertain audiences or writers started recording their own inventions down. The {{Karakasa}} is one such example and perhaps the most notable one. And while the kuchisake-onna may have been mentioned before then, the modern interpretation is based on the story of a real mentally ill woman from the 1970s who had a Glasgow grin and surgical mask, and stalked children before being fatally hit by a car.
*\* While [[DemBones skeleton monsters]] have appeared in Japanese art and folklore dating back centuries, the famous Gashadokuro, a giant skeleton formed from the restless spirits of villagers wiped out by wartime famine, was created by a horror novelist in the 1960s, and so is technically younger than Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!
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