Monday, December 28, 2015

HOW TO FACE YOUR KAPPA

Takagi Toranosuke/ "Capturing a kappa
underwater in the Tamura River"
Image courtesy Wiki Commons






















WHEN A MUDDY SEA FACING


Bow deeply; feed your
kappa cucumber;
harvest goodwill


©2015 Kappa Fable: A Mythopoetic Turning
stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
#OHJ Daily words: cucumber and goodwill



notes

For the mythic image of the kappa in Japanese, Buddhist and Shinto tradition and how to gain the water spirit's good will, see 
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/kappa.shtml 

For the mythic image on developing attentiveness or psychic awareness see The Buddhist Tale of The Monkey King and the Kappa or Water Spirit or Water Demon http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/bt1_22.htm

For more folklore on encounters with kappa see http://horrorpedia.com/2014/06/08/kappa-folklore/

For the Javanese tale of "The Golden Cucumber" (Timun Emas) visit  https://vimeo.com/17880115