en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter READ THE STORY FIRST THEN CONTINUE BELOW. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語 Taketori Monogatari?), also known as Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫 Kaguya Hime?, 赫映姫 or 輝夜姫), is a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter/Princess Kaguya is a story about Kaguya (Divine Female Soul) and her entrance to the Physical Plane and her experience through the Physical Plane and then the reunification with the Divine God Consciousness Orion and her departure back to the Ethereal Plane. #1 One day, while walking in the bamboo forest, an old, childless bamboo cutter called Taketori no Okina (竹取翁?, the Old Man who Harvests Bamboo) came across a mysterious, shining stalk of bamboo. After cutting it open, he found inside it an infant the size of his thumb. He rejoiced to find such a beautiful girl and took her home. = The Soul born into the Physical Plane (Earth). The Bamboo is prevalent in many Eastern Creation myths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#In_mythology In Philippine mythology, one of the more famous creation accounts tells of the first man, Malakás (Strong), and the first woman, Maganda (Beautiful), each emerged from one half of a split bamboo stem on an island formed after the battle between Sky and Ocean. In Malaysia, a similar story includes a man who dreams of a beautiful woman while sleeping under a bamboo plant; he wakes up and breaks the bamboo stem, discovering the woman inside. The Japanese folktale Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari) tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. Hawaiian bamboo (ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kāne. Filipino Creation Myth: pitt.edu/~dash/creation-phil.html ....So Captan gave Maguayan a seed, and he planted it on the land, which, as you will remember, was part of Licalibutans huge body. Soon a bamboo tree grew up, and from the hollow of one of its branches a man and a woman came out. The mans name was Sicalac, and the woman was called Sicabay. They were the parents of the human race. Another Filipino Creation Myth (Malakas & Maganda): bakitwhy/articles/ancient-philippine-creation-myth-malakas-and-maganda Now at this same time the Land Breeze and the Sea Breeze were married, and they had a child which they named Bamboo. One day, when Bamboo was floating against the sea, it struck the feet of the Kite. Shocked, hurt, and angered that anything should strike it, the bird furiously pecked at the bamboo until it split in half. Out of one section came a golden-bronze colored man, named Malakas (Strong One) and from the other half came a similarly hued woman, named Maganda (Beautiful One). Andamanese Creation Myth: sacred-texts/asia/tai/tai04.htm The first man was J̌utpu. He was born inside the joint of a big bamboo, just like a bird in an egg. The bamboo split and he came out. A Malaysian Legend also speaks of a man who falls into a deep sleep on a bamboo plant and dreams of a beautiful woman....When he wakes up, he break the bamboo stem and discovers the woman inside the bamboo stalks. ...So we can see that the Bamboo symbolism is representative of the Pillar symbolism, which are also prevalent in many mythologies concerning Creation. The Bamboo and the Pillar symbolizes the connection between the Ethereal Plane and the Physical Plane....They represent the bridge or transition between the Physical and Ethereal Plane, similar to the Bifröst in Norse mythology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st For more info regarding the significant prevalence Pillar/Bamboo symbolism read the excerpt below. The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world PILLAR, columna cerului, center of the world, world tree), in religion or mythology, is the world center or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses A POINT OF CONNECTION between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms. Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all. The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the worlds point of beginning. The image is mostly viewed as feminine, as it relates to the center of the earth (perhaps like an umbilical providing nourishment). It may have the form of a natural object (a mountain, a TREE, a vine, a STALK, a COLUMN of smoke or fire) or a product of human manufacture (a staff, a tower, a ladder, a staircase, a maypole, a cross, a steeple, a rope, a totem POLE, a PILLAR, a spire). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi #2 He rejoiced to find such a beautiful girl and took her home. He and his wife raised her as their own child and named her Kaguya-hime (かぐや姫 accurately, Nayotake-no-Kaguya-hime princess of flexible bamboos scattering light). Thereafter, Taketori no Okina found that whenever he cut down a stalk of bamboo, inside would be a small nugget of gold. Soon he became rich. Kaguya-hime grew from a small baby into a woman of ordinary size and extraordinary beauty. At first, Taketori no Okina tried to keep her away from outsiders, but over time the news of her beauty spread.
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