Day 6: Describe your least favorite story/myth that involves your deity. Why is it your least favorite? (Is it because it shows a different aspect of your deity that you don’t see often?) Try to turn that negative into a positive, and use this as a learning experience.
I am going to use this prompt as a chance to get mad about the attempted mixing of the Bucca and the folk devil - and the fact that all good or positive stories of the Bucca have been swept away and lost over time so there are only folk-devil stories left.
There are so many of the syncronised-Bucca/Folk Devil figure being aggressive, cruel or violent that it's outright frustrating because it's only ever used in a morality play attitude rather than...about the main thing of the Bucca that is aggressive and wild and out of control which is Their aspect as a weather deity.
A positive of the synchronisation is that there is still SOMETHING left of the Bucca rather than being wiped out of existence.
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