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descendants

On-Yomi: コン

Elements:

descendants, sun, day, compare, spoon, sitting on the ground, spoon2, sitting on the ground2

Heisig story:

By comparing apes with anthropoids, we not only discover the latter have descended from those progenitors educated in the higher branches, but that the very idea of seeing everything descended from everything else, one way or another, means that there is "nothing new UNDER the sun."

Koohii stories:

1) [samuize] 21-2-2007(241): Grandparent spends all DAY COMPARING photos of their DESCENDANTS.

2) [Francois] 10-3-2008(114): Japanese people have compared themselves as being descendants of the sun. (Amaterasu, the sun godesss). Sun, comparing = descendants.

3) [Danieru] 16-1-2008(48): Ask a Japanese person what this kanji means, and they will surely spout 昆布 (konbu, seaweed)　and 昆虫 (konchu, insect) - but beyond that they will likely be mystified. Here's my best crack at it: imagine a grandfather watching his DESCENDENTS (grandkids) playing outside under the sun, silently comparing them, considering which of them will grow up and make him proud. Suddenly, grandma calls them in for a snack of 昆布 and for a re-application of repellent to keep the 昆虫 away.

4) [dihutenosa] 30-8-2007(46): My official rebuttal to racism: We're all descendants of the sun - there's no reason to compare us.

5) [anthropic] 25-6-2008(32): We're all descendants of chimps, get over it, don't spend all day (#12 日) trying to compare (#447 比) various religious fairytales.

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