Yes, Siddhartha was born in India and spread his religion there, but after that it was largely chased out of India, spreading far and wide in places like Afghanistan, Nepal, Mustang, Tibet, China, Malaysia, Korea, and a backwoods island called Japan. The place of Buddhism in the whole mix is.complicated. The fact that the Ramayana pretty much reads like a comic book and the best parts of Japanese myth involve monstrous raccoon with magical scrotums, you can probably appreciate why on the surface at least, people like the idea of playing with Asian religion and mythology.Īlso, Kill Six Billion Demons is an awesome webcomic! You can understand why people flocked to Theosophy, and seventeen-year-olds the world over look for some alternative to their parents' flavor of Christianity and settle on the one with cool imagery and no tenets more immediately offensive than vegetarianism. It's not that Westerners can't make Christianity bizarre and complicated, but compared to the elaborate, interlocking, and sometimes awesomely syncrenistic religions in Asia.ah, well. Japanese belief systems in the world of the Cthulhu MythosĪsian religion, mythology, and folklore have fascinated Europeans for centuries. Scroll One, Section Three: A Dark Retrospective
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