• @[email protected]
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    449 months ago

    Since ancient times in Japan, the heart symbol has been called Inome (猪目), meaning the eye of a wild boar, and it has the meaning of warding off evil spirits. The decorations are used to decorate Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, castles, and weapons.[6][7] The oldest examples of this pattern are seen in some of the Japanese original tsuba (sword guard) of the style called toran gata tsuba (lit., inverted egg shaped tsuba) that were attached to swords from the sixth to seventh centuries, and part of the tsuba was hollowed out in the shape of a heart symbol.[8][9]

  • Rosco
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    259 months ago

    Probably used by a magical girl to decapitate samurais or demons or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      389 months ago

      Apparently so, although it seems to have a separate history and meaning from other historical uses. From Wikipedia:

      Since ancient times in Japan, the heart symbol has been called Inome (猪目), meaning the eye of a wild boar, and it has the meaning of warding off evil spirits. The decorations are used to decorate Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, castles, and weapons.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_symbol

  • @lowleveldata
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    129 months ago

    Let’s be honest here. Boys would want that too.

      • 📛Maven
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        119 months ago

        The body spray is Axe. And both spellings are accepted for the tool, with axe being the common spelling and ax being the american, so it’s not a matter of correct or not.

  • Mr Fish
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    69 months ago

    I guess Gimli meant something different with “you have my axe”