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East of West is a genuinely fantastic book and I especially love the Endless Nation a lot, but this just kills me. It& #39;s the most frustrating thing in the world.
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Narsimha is the leader of the Endless Nation, the united nation of all the Native Americans, sometimes called Indians.
Narsimha is named after an Indian myth of a god that turned into a mix of a man and lion.
The catch? Not that kind of Indian.
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Narsimha is named after an Indian myth of a god that turned into a mix of a man and lion.
The catch? Not that kind of Indian.
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Narasimha is a distinctly Hindu myth. The name comes from the Sanskrit words Nara - meaning man - and Simha - meaning lion. The myth is part of the central mythology of Hinduism, about the 10 reincarnations of the god Vishnu.
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There& #39;s a fairly obvious reason this happened - Hickman looked up "Indian myths" and found the name Narsimha and thought it sounded awesome. Because it is awesome! But he didn& #39;t do the most basic verification of checking where the myth originated from.
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I love Jonathan Hickman& #39;s writing a lot. I just finished East of West and thought it was fantastic. But this is something that just really rubbed me wrong, and is part of a much larger trend that& #39;s immensely frustrating to me.
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Indians seldom get any representation in comics. Aside from those published in India, there& #39;s incredibly few comics by Indian creators. Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Aditya Bidikar, and other newer talents are a fantastic change from that status quo, but are very much the exception.
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