What's with the SEED?

hobbywhelmed · Post by **hobbywhelmed** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:01 pm

Ok, I've seen it in live-action Japanese films, and tons of anime. That seed thing, shaped like half a yin-yang symbol. I've seen it in characters' jewelry, implanted into characters, and forming the cyst/ovum of giant tentacled cross-dimensional monsters. It glows at important moments, it purifies, it contaminates, it metamorphisizes.

It seems to have some connection that predates Buddhism - something with Shinto? Or the old Japanese nature gods and goddesses?

Searches haven't turned up much. Anyone here have any details to share?

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:08 pm

Ya know, I've had this same question and never really bothered to look
it up. Is there a specific name for it? If so, I'm sure Wikipedia might help.

I'm glad you asked this question. I've always been curious about it. Hope
someone here knows something about it.

RX78GP02AGUNDAM · Post by **RX78GP02AGUNDAM** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:21 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama ?

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:22 pm

As it happens, my husband and I were pondering this same question last year when a new establishment came to our town.

We decided that the "seed" must in some way be related to the mythology of food.

(Blue Seed Hamburgers, anyone?)

(sorry, but I have been SO waiting for a chance to use this someday!!!

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wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:00 pm

RX78GP02AGUNDAM wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama ?

That looks to be correct, thanks Xeno!

Glad this subject came up Baakay, otherwise we might've missed an
awesome joke!

hobbywhelmed · Post by **hobbywhelmed** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:10 pm

Well, Wikipedia was quite an interesting trip! Is it still all "unvetted" information, though? (Took a trip through the old kami of Japan. Interesting entries that *sound* learn-ed.

Lol on the Hamburger sign! Be sure to check your torso after eating there, in case you've been taken over! (Because as we all know, in the Japanese emotional universe, even the purest of heart can be subverted against their wills.)

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:13 pm

wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:
RX78GP02AGUNDAM wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama ?
That looks to be correct, thanks Xeno!

Glad this subject came up Baakay, otherwise we might've missed an
awesome joke!

Sad, isn't it?

But we seriously both looked at that at the same time and said exactly the same thing. This just proves that sick minds do, in fact, flock together. Or something like that.

In fact, I *have* actually always wondered what these represented, so having this come up was really helpful! I want that one in the picture...

*****

.... soul, huh?
Blue Seed... The Soul of the Hamburger...

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:42 pm

Baakay wrote:Blue Seed... The Soul of the Hamburger...

Hey, that's quite catchy!

Have you eaten there yet? I'm very curious to know how tasty those
Blue Seed burgers are!

Here, let me assist with this. I'm a pro, doncha know.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:10 am

hobbywhelmed wrote:Well, Wikipedia was quite an interesting trip! Is it still all "unvetted" information, though?

Missed this in my state of advanced hilarity last night. To the best of my knowledge it is still unvetted ---

-- except in the sense that there are thousands of wonderfully geeky experts out there just itching for the chance to pounce upon anyone else's "error".

In that sense it's probably better vetted than the average journal article that gets read by 2-4 "experts" (read: people the editor knows and can bribe into reading...

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