#penglai

[iko66]

Penglai, Shandong province, China

[art-of-the-sea]

"[...] - the stars; it's so dark, because the moon is gone. There are no Suns left to shine in the night sky."

[dorothygale123]

So, I'm pretty sure I said I'd get around to Penglai at some point or another, and today is the day!

This place was mentioned in New Gods: Yang Jian near the start of the movie and is portrayed as the city of the gods, similar to Asgard or Olympus in Norse and Greek mythology. It even seems to be in the sky, which would align more with the Court of Heaven than Penglai.

Penglai was actually one of 5 magic islands that roamed around the eastern ocean on the backs of giant turtles. These islands were paradises and home to immortals. Legend has it that one of those immortals was out fishing one day and somehow managed to hook an island turtle and tangle up another. How he accidentally snared two massive, ISLAND-SIZED TURTLES I'll never know, but it was bad news for the people LIVING on that island. However, in some legends one of the turtles (named Ao) was killed by Nuwa when she repaired the sky. I like to think that the fishing line killed one and Nuwa killed the other

Either way, two of the turtles end up dead and the populations of immortals on them get displaced. They all move to the remaining three islands: Fanglu, Yingzhou, and Penglai. Of the three, Penglai is the most famous.

Honestly I think that lion turtles from Avatar: The Last Airbender are more similar to the mythological Penglai than the city of the same name in Yang Jian. I would be genuinely surprised to hear that the creative team took no inspiration from this myth when creating lion turtles.

That being said, I'm in no way disparaging Light Chaser Studios and the team behind New Gods: Yang Jian for how they portrayed this location in their film. It looks gorgeous. (Though it would have been awesome if it were on a massive flying turtle)

Sh*tpost Masterlist

[mynarco]

but here's the eeper

[ashdistic]

The Tao of Tommorow.

[bl0tches]

Cursed Dream

[redfirefox-55]

Home at last

[prismsoup]

[avercwh]

四季閣

[a-tuitui]

My wish

[kabukizushi]

Dear Yi…

I wish you would step away from your work more often to come visit. I hope you are taking care of yourself at least.

I sent you and your work friends some peaches and wine from our peach tree. Happy new year! ~Love, Heng

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WOW this thing took me 20 hours and 20 minutes, but it’s finally done!

I hope everyone likes my submission to the official Nine Sols art contest! 🤧 I really wanted to participate even though I’m still a total beginner lol

Good luck to everyone else planning on participating! 🫶

[feza-creations]

Tomorrow 🍂🌾

[pretzel-y]

My art submission for the penglai new year contest!

[kayfacedraws]

my submission for the nine sols art contest! i think it would b cool if the pavilion had a fireworks setting 🎆

[nuktia]

echoes

[ksen-noodles]

Tao of Tomorrow

An old version of a Nine Sols fanart contest entry! There are two different phrasings of the theme, so I went with the ruleset one!

There's also Penglai New Year but i don't really feel comfortable projecting Russian customs onto characters clearly from a different culture))

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