[LMB] (Chat) Foxes!
Damien Sullivan
phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed Jul 19 08:18:16 BST 2006
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:00:00PM +0800, Alex Y. Kwan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 19/07/06, Mark Allums <mallums at tyler.net> wrote:
> >Didn't Miyazaki do Raccoons? Weren't foxes involved at some point? I
> >guess it's time I watched that one again.
>
> Fox spirits feature prominently In both Chinese and Japanese mythology
> (I suspect in other East Asian countries as well?). Raccoons...not so
> much in Chinese mythology.
But badgers though, in China and Japan. Well, if I trust my
Gaiman-Carey comics. :)
Pandas? Red pandas seem to be the Chinese raccoons anyway, or at least
the suspected relatives.
-xx- Damien X-)
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