The Kappa

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The Kappa are mythological creatures folklore as the Japanese who live in lakes, rivers and wetlands. Although it appears that there is some evidence that kappa-like creatures have been spotted and recorded scientifically.

The kappa usually represented as small humanoids frog the size of a child. The face looks like turtle and it is often drawn with a shell on the back. They use their limbs in the shape of fins to move and swim at great speed.

But the most interesting of the kappas is that it has a sort of bald on top of their heads are filled with water. It is a cavity in the head full of water and surrounded by hair. According to legend, the kappas are very powerful, and all of its energy comes from the water they have in their heads. If you come to the surface, and evaporation or any other phenomenon of water lost their heads lost their powers and may even die.

The kappas are usually the bad guy in Japanese folktales. In the comics are often very strong fart looking girls on the sly while changing, stealing vegetables in the gardens, abduct children and women. In fact one of the favorite foods of the kappas are human children, a delicacy that can not resist. According to various interpretations, the kappas absorb the energy of their victims by sucking their blood, eating the liver or gut. To scare the kappas, you can use fire, though there are many villages in Japan that use fireworks each year to scare away evil spirits, including kappa.

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Izanagi and Izanami

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Every place has its legends and myths give meaning to their everyday life, giving you that the things that can not be explained so easily. Izanagi and Izanami descended one day to the surface of the earth, first building a celestial column and around the palace. Then they began to rotate in opposite directions around the column to be, but Izanami spoke words of love to her brother first, as they turned around. After the brothers together and, begat a son: Hiruko, excessively weak, it was abandoned to the waters on a raft, then had a daughter who does not satisfy them, so the island became the Awa, same as it is on the coast of Osaka.

Little pleased with those first two children, went to heaven to consult the gods, who said that the births had been destructive, because Izanami had spoken before the male. Back on land, repeated the ceremony correctly, being Izanagi the first to say words of love, had fourteen children who formed the eight major islands and six children in Japan. Also gave life to the ten divinities

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