ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the striking thing about Japanese mythology that is in fact its cohesion, its underlying harmony and unity, which finds its most beautiful form of expression in the Kojiki. While the complex of the sniveller illustrates attraction for those who are too close, the theme of Melusina. Although the kishuryuritan occupies a prominent position in Japanese literature as a result of the frequent occurrence and the richness of the theme, the mythological roots attributed to it are often somewhat doubtful. It was in fact in this same style, that the authors of the Heian period sought to construct the framework for their narratives. The Hagoromo story which serves as a context for the Taketori monogatari on the one hand, the narratives based on the Urashima model on the other. Finally the male and female versions of the supernatural marriage are all linked by the theme of transformation.
