choukoto:

silverbulletsama:

So @choukoto tagged me in this post on twitter [x] …………….

The ARIMASPOI (Arimaspians) were a tribe of one-eyed men who lived at the foot of the Rhipaion (Rhipaean) Mountains in northern Skythia. 

Luckily, I am at my parents’ house this weekend [where I keep 90% of my books] and so I immediately jumped to grab Herodotus’s The Histories - a book I bought because it was a requirement in one of my CVSP courses [Civilizations]. Thanks to the references on this website [x], I immediately tracked down the excerpts and highlighted the relevant sections:

I wish I found it earlier; a lot earlier. What initially began as a mere act of teasing (which I was the victim of a friend’s troll attack), was turned into a serious matter right after I got the literature script. A part of the German epic “Duke Ernst” (c. 1180) was probably inspired by the Greek mythology of Arimaspians itself.

“The duke arrives in the land of the rational and courtly Arimaspi. […] The land of the one-eyed Arimaspi becomes home for Ernst to a period of six years. […]”

So there is a highkey chance that Sensei chose Arima’s name on purpose.

A short text extraction can be found on my Twitter account. (Thank you very much for mentioning me, Nicole. 🙏💞)