BlackHeart Biohazards

tanuki-kimono:

Magatama beads collection, great chart put together by author Hasihaniii. Those beads are probably familiar to all Tears of the Kindom players or Inuyasha fans 😉

Those comma shaped beads where used in prehistoric Japan, from Jômon to Yayoi and Kofun periods.

Nobody knows exactly what they were supposed to represent (a fang? a fetus? the moon? something else entirely?). We’re simply certain that overtime, they became ritual objects – important enough that one is part of the 3 sacred treasures of Imperial Japan.

I wont translate the chart as it mainly details the shapes, periods, and locations where those artefacts where found 🙂 It’s great to see all the different shapes different places/eras came up with. I am especially partial to the weirdly-adorable-animal-looking Komochimagatama 子持勾玉!