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Serial mistranslation, is there anything it can't do?

- In the #Odyssey, #Nausicaa is a Phaeacian princess who, prompted by Athena, acts with courage and hospitality to the shipwrecked and naked Odysseus.

- In #Victorian England, Nausicaa is elevated to a chaste, compassionate, domestic, dutiful, modest, and nurturing paragon of virtues. Unlike the dangerous beauty of Helen of Troy, Nausicaa is seen as a reliable supporting character for some male protagonist.

- Bernard #Evslin’s "Gods, Demigods and Demons" (1975) leans into this, but must have fallen asleep at some point. Nausicaa is portrayed as an eccentric, free-spirited Phaeacian princess who rejects traditional suitors to live a life devoted to nature, music, and imagination. Nausicaa gets 3 pages. Zeus only 1.

- Hayao #Miyazaki's "Nausciäa of the Valley of the Wind" is a fearless, nature-communing warrior for peace and co-existence, in part because of Bernard Evslin work misleading Miyazaki into thinking Nausicaa was widely recognized and known for her love of nature.