Nikubami Honegishimi - Vol. 6 Ch. 19.1 - Mountain Mermaids of the Serpentine Straight Road (Former)

[MangaDex]

 

[MsW0lf]

It feels good to get back to some good old fashioned supernatural sleuthing from our original pair. And this case feels extra eerie from the get go! Those “mermaids” look super creepy, literally and figuratively!

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

"Mermaids?! Hell yeah I love me some sexy mermaids"
[reads the chapter]
"....well, beggars can't be choosers."[unzips]

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[friendly]

Huuuuh. So we have kind of a mountain versus sea thing going on, mind, our gals major childhood trauma with that doll and the ocean and all....

Stream mermaids is fun though. Streams, rivers, little ponds.... you get places that look so nonthreatening and then you just. Die there. I think sometimes about this narrow little river in... i want to say england thats like. 30 feet deep

 

[chiliehead]

Treacherous creeks and the like inspire legends, but what if the reason for the ocean theme is that this area was ocean in before some tectonic plate shifts or something and still carries water ghosts. And it's really a thing that just follows the narrative, this water...

 

[Fugutron]

So it a teke teke or a Hantu Tetek?
https://jinn.fandom.com/wiki/Hantu_Tetek

 

[CatLife]

So it a teke teke or a Hantu Tetek?
https://jinn.fandom.com/wiki/Hantu_Tetek

Hārītī (Sanskrit), also known as Chinese: 鬼子母(神); pinyin: Guǐzǐmǔ(shén), Japanese: 鬼子母神, romanized: Kishimojin, is a female rākṣasī or yakṣinī (nature spirit) in Buddhism. She appears as a character in all Buddhist traditions and she is revered as a fierce Dharma Protector and a fertility goddess in Mahayana Buddhism. Hārītī appears in various Mahayana sutras, including in the Lotus Sutra, where she vows to protect those who uphold the sutra. She is also mentioned as a protector in the Candragarbhasūtra.

In East Asian Buddhism, she is respected as a dharmapala. In Chinese Buddhism, she is typically considered as one of the Twenty-Four Protective Deities. In Japanese Buddhist traditions such as Shingon and Nichiren, she is revered as a deity of fertility and easy childbirth. Meanwhile in the Vajrayana tradition of Nepalese Buddhism she is also revered as a protection goddess. In the Mahayana tradition, she is associated with fertility, the protection of children, easy delivery and happy child rearing. She is also known to scare irresponsible parents and unruly children. In some Asian folk traditions, her darker side as causing terror to children is sometimes emphasized

 

[Gem-Bug]

Yay for an English release!

Pg 16: The "Yamabiko bed & breakfast" is named after the mountain Yokai, who's name is also "used to describe the phenomenon of a delayed echo in mountains and valleys, and is thought to be the spirit answering."

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.