the mystical divinity of unashamed felinity

When I finally became quiet, I heard my own voice - Johanna Lumme , 2016.

Finnish, b. 1990  -

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People in 1879: Ha! Ha! The song is called "With Catlike Tread" and yet it is very loud!

Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

“Sneaker and ankle drawing techniques”

New art from the official Avatar Legends TTRPG Core Book:

Avatar Kyoshi

Avatar Roku and Fang the dragon

Avatar Aang

Katara of the Southern Water Tribe

Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe

Toph Beifong

Fire Lord Zuko

Iroh

Avatar Korra and spirits