Talk:Raijin

message: Don't you think this image should be inserted in the article as well?--Omernos 17:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The other image is copyrighted, so, yes, this image is much better. -- Amcaja 00:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the statue of "RAIJIN" (雷神) guarding the gate "大猷院二天門" of Rinnō-ji (:ja:輪王寺, :de:Rinnō-ji), Nikko, Japan . 　Rinnō-ji's official web site is , .--Miya 15:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Photograph 

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Weak support - if this goes through, the information in the discussion section below should be added to the main page. Many of the uses of the term on the main page deal with the actual Raiden usage rather than the general god of lightning meaning. Dekimasu 09:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message:  - This passage was in the first section; Miya seems to have commented it out. - Tangotango 10:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article 

message: Now that the article has been removed, it really needs to be rewritten. A lot of the references seem to be mistaken and/or cruft, and there is still very little discussion of Raijin himself or any observances related to him. The fanboys/girls may not like their references taken out, but this article needs to be more on-topic. Dekimasu 04:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite proposal

message: .~ moe 10:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  added a link to the mortal kombat character 

message: From Wikipedia_talk:Trivia:
That should be required reading for anyone participating in this debate. What's said there about Marduk could apply to just about any other article about a deity or other mythological figure: 
:*Osiris: "In the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hedwig's song "Origin of Love" mentions Osiris"; 
:*Apollo: "The original classic 1978 Battlestar Galactia series. The main character of the show was called Apollo. Who was an ace Viper pilot (space fighter planes seen throughout the series) and the Captain and strike leader of Galactica's Blue Squadron."
:*Quetzalcoatl: "In the computer game Rise of Legends, there is a playable race called Cuotl. There are also air units in this race's army called 'Quetzals'."
:Etc, etc, etc, by way of Kokopelli, Ozymandias, Sigurd, King Arthur... (the list goes on). Adopting the Marduk solution (wiping it all off and depositing it on Marduk in popular culture) as general practice would enable such articles to give a much better impression (seriousness, rigor, perspective) than they do at the moment. Bolivian Unicyclist 12:24, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a tenable solution. But, then, this is an encyclopedia, not an indiscriminate collection of information. I think editors are perfectly within their rights to delete random trivia factoids on sight. And I'd caution against avoiding "popular culture" sections altogether; these can be nice additions to articles, provided they are well written, academically sound, and analytical rather than exhaustive. I'm currently reading a book on Jeki la Njambè (sadly, we have no article yet), an oral epic of the Duala people of Cameroon, and the author devotes quite a few pages to interpretations in Cameroonian popular culture. So I guess I'm trying to say: If you've got something intelligent to say about Fujin in popular culture, say it. If all you have is the fact that a character in Final Fantasy VIII is named Fujin, keep it to yourself or put it in the Fujin (Final Fantasy character) article. But ghettoizing these sections to X in popular culture is akin to sweeping the dust under the rug. — Amcaja 13:04, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Decimate the popular culture section

message: Hm... I was under the impression Tenjin was a deity of scholarhood and learning, and the English article (which seems to more or less follow the Japanese one) confirms this as Tenjin's present "occupation". But he was once apparently indeed a deity of natural disasters, and storms and lightning would probably fit into that category as well. I'm not convinced Tenjin could be described as "another god of thunder" - this would seem to imply that he is today an alternative to Raijin, which I don't think he is. Maybe we could reword that "another god of thunder" part? What do you think? TomorrowTime 19:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenjin 

message: The myths section seems to be vandalized, so a rewrite is needed.  If anyone can come up with something that expresses the myths and fixes the errors/vandalism that would be great.  Also, sources are a must! NegiSpringfieldof4ch (talk) 01:21, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Myths section 

message: Japanese Wikipedia does not imply "Raijin" is the name of a specific deity, while Britannica Kokusai, MyPaedia, Sekai Daihyakka, and Nipponica all quite explicitly treat "raijin" as a generic term for thunder deities like Sugawara no Michizane and Thor. Some more citations of sources that explicitly support the content of this article should be found, or the article totally rewritten. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 13:05, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific deity? Or "thunder gods in Japan"?