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| 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
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