As you know, I didn’t write a myth last week. It was that sort of a week. The sort where you work, oh, fifteen days in a row, mostly longer than eight hours in a given day, and feel the burn of exhaustion. But it seems people liked the retelling of the Viscountess, which is always nice to hear.
Still, that’s a question we’re missing in the lexicon, so it makes some sense that this week we would in fact answer two questions. And as it turns out, there are three — count them three — questions that directly correlate to one another.
The first of these questions comes from Filipe Cadete, who asks us:
Pigeons. How come those flying disease vectors and overall polluters are fed by thousands of people all over the world?
The answer, of course, is “ninjas.”
But that leads us to a question by long time reader, friend, and Superguy-gadabout-town LurkerWithout, who asks us:
Ninjas. Why the hell them and not one of the other pseudo-religious/mystic cults of killers?
And the answer to that is, as you can imagine, is “Manannán mac Lir,” sea god and psychopomp of Manx mythology.
Oh, this surprises you?
Well, we’ll elaborate on all of this soon enough. Because we still have a third question that was asked, in direct response to LurkerWithout, this time by Joel Wilcox:
In addition to Lurker’s comment: Why pirates vs. ninjas?
See, now we’re getting into details and that means that really, we should just be starting the myth already and not being all stressed out about the whys and wherefores. And that brings us, inexorably, to:
Manannán mac Lir and the Isle of Ninjas.
