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The 'women turn into serpents' thing immediately reminded me of the story of Kiyohime. She fell in love with a monk, who pretended to return her affections and then dumped her. She then turned into a snake and pursued him, and even when he took refuge in a Buddhist temple, she still managed to kill him by ringing the bell he was hiding inside and melting it with fire.
You’ll end up in the one where you gotta dig up bamboo with a string- how dare you not.. uhh, continue your bloodline? Your ancestors are waiting for an heir and you’ve STOLEN that! 👌😫👌 _HELL_ *_straight to HELL_*
Yeah it's amazing how ready they are for every sin. Like some superstore of hells Step up, step up we've got a hell for everyone. A hell for someone who thinks about grocery shopping while visiting a Buddhist temple? We've got it. A hell for people who do not pet dogs when they pass then? Yep we've got them. A hell for people who play their music though their speakers in public? Yep we've got a special place for them.
i hate how they put all the blame on women. Like if my husband cheated on me and I got upset about it I'd turn into a snake and be in hell. That is crazy
The women being associated with snakes, honestly reminds me of how in the middle east, lilith went from describing owls to becoming a demoness, who was once adam's ex wife. Entomology is crazy interesting sometimes.
There was a time where she was once thought to be the serpent that tempted Eve though that's not a popular depiction nowadays. Speaking of popularity, isn't it weird that Japanese Buddhists unintentionally predicted the future where Lilith becomes extremely popular in Japan? I'm not even kidding, between Evangelion, Darkstalkers, One Piece, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh (there are quite a few cards named after her such as the recent Aromalilith cards and Despian Luluwalilith), Monster Girl Encyclopedia, and more recent examples like The Demon Girl Next Door, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance, and Granblue Fantasy Relink, she's everywhere in Japanese pop culture. Maybe the rampant misogyny of Japan inevitably attracted her like she's the Feminist equivalent of the Scarlet King? Hilariously, it seems that her popularity in Japanese pop culture is now leaking into South Korean pop culture between Goddess of Victory Nikke and Stellar Blade. Though that might also be because South Korea has had problems with sexism in recent times, and I've noticed a pattern where every time we have a country that has a history of misogyny, she eventually becomes popular in those countries.
Lilith was initially a Mesopotamian wind demon who eventually got conflated with Lamashtu the baby killer, and that later influenced the Lilith of the Hebrew Bible.
@@MrGksarathy I'm pretty sure she (her Mesopotamian name was Lilitu) was always a baby killer in Mesopotamian mythology, the only difference is that she drank the blood of babies but that was only a side aspect of her. It's more likely that she was conflated with Lamashtu and was basically flanderised to being primarily a baby eating bogeywoman. Interestingly, Lilith is technically fulfilling her original role as a disease-bearing storm spirit by spreading to multiple cultures and becoming massively popular especially now with the internet. In other words, she fulfills her original purpose by literally going viral.
Yes, and its completley wrong according to buddhism. Gender is an illusion- this is what the green Tara said. Also Siddartha Gautama said, women can reach enlightment.
@@briskettacos Thats completley wrong. Siddartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, because he was the first who reached the highest form of enlightment (there are different stages). He said that women can reach enlightment. Then, in tibetan buddhism is the green Tara one of the most important figures. She was a nepalese woman before. A monk said to her, you are so good, its such a pity that you are a woman, otherwise you would reach enlightment. She said, the body is just an illusion. As a woman, she reached full enlightment and did swear to only get reborn in female form. She is a Buddha (=Tara), but also Bodhisattva, standing for active compassion, protection, enlightment. Famous for helping extremly fast. There are also other Taras, but the green and the white Tara are most famous.
Notice how the burden of jealousy is placed entirely on women and then sigh in exasperation. Lots of Buddhist ideas are really appealing to me as a whole, but the weird misogyny seems to be a feature, not a bug. Also, if some dudebro samurai acted on his jealousy in an acceptably masculine way, did he avoid this hell?
Buddhism in Japan is different from Buddhism in Thailand. They are both Buddhism but it is very different just like how different religion who believe in god almighty have different branch. Honestly Theravada buddhism is the Buddhism where you want to ascend by being kind and sacrificing earthly desire.
@@heavenseeker2320 Hate to burst your bubble, but the weird misogyny stems all the way back from the earliest days of Indian Buddhism. Also, Theravada is boring as hell.
@@MrGksarathyNot really. While misogynistic elements are all over the world, most important Indian Buddhist Masters criticised such people. Infact, Asvaghosa in his Saundarananda dedicates a chapter to mock the critiques of women such people promoted
Speaking of women and snakes, that reminds me of the grossest story I've put up here so far where a young woman is. . . *Ahem* assaulted, by a snake and gives birth to a bunch of abominations. It's a really messed up story. But then, despite me loving it, a lot of ancient Japan was messed up.
Yeah, women were linked to snakes in many cultures. I guess that is because they never had real power and were, thus forced to beg, manipulate, seduce and wind like eels. And men didn't quite understand that the position they had reduced women to in society was the reason for that. Talking about confusing cause and effect and falling into the hole you dug.. Despite drastic changes in Western societies (which aren't all as good as they seem at first glance) not that much has changed. At least not for the better.
Women:um.... awesome ohhhhh yeahhhhhh am a bad girl mmm😩😩😩 Monk: I'm going to have to find you a big strong man that can discipline you and get you onto the road of enlightenment 🗿🚬
Friend: "You know your husband has been cheating on you right?!" Me: "Yeah." Friend:"You're not mad?!" Me: "Nah, it's all good. I don't want to go to hell." Friend:👀
Lot's pf "Joke's on you I'm into that shit" in this hell... Also makes me think of of the Hannya demon, another possible supernatural fate for jelaous women. I used to wear a Hannya talisman for protection. The fastening to the necklace broke, but then I hung it on the wall, to protect my home instead.
In a way probably, or at the least unclean since it was thought many disabilities were punishment for a past life or something earlier in the same life
Thank you for another awesome video! Every day I’m getting closer and closer to subscribing to the Japanese snack boxes 😂😂 also I must say those old hell paintings are so creative I love it lol
This is confusing. These men went to prostitutes all the time. How is that not cheating? Did prostitutes not count? I get that they wanted for wives to not interfere with whatever he wanted to do- but how is sleeping with a prostitute not going to get a man into the cheating man hell?
@@karoshi2two mothers in law, but don't forget twice the ammount of time spend shopping for clothes etc. In stores without seats, twice the nagging, twice the ammount of stories about what Janice said etc.
Cherry Blossoms are my favorite flower. The name Sakura is a good name for a daughter because the name Sakura is a name that literally means: Cherry Blossom
Funnily enough, dragons in asian culture are closely related to snakes. In china, snakes ascending into dragon(hood?) are/is called Tengshe (螣蛇). So, jealous women are dragons in the making :P
Reminds me of the story of Adam and Eve in the Holy Bible, where the snake in the Garden Of Eden peer pressures Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. Then again, Lilith was Adam’s first wife in the Old Testament.
Please note that buddhism does not compare women to serpent , please let me know in which buddhist script it is given in or in which buddhist story it is given in
I feel like your characterizing that section of the Lotus Sutra a little incorrectly 🗿 The whole point is it's a daughter of a Naga King who ascends to becoming a great bodhisattva in record time. One of the people in the assembly even say it's impossible because she's a woman to do so in that life but then she shows him up and enlightens right on the spot. What the chapters saying is enlightenment is not closed to anyone even women. It was challenging a sexist trope not reaffirming one in that instance 🗿🚬
The one thing they kind of got right was that women’s bodies tend to change. Throughout our cycles, we may become bloated and anemic, other times our stomachs will go down and we may look smaller. Hormones never let us look or feel the same for long.
It’s shocking that Buddhism has managed to last for thousands of years bc if these writings are anything to go by you’d think the clergy members would be passing away from misogyny-induced stress every time they so much as see the female end of a seatbelt
