Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 40/39 "Lalah's Dilemma" (エルメスのララ) and 41/40 "A Cosmic Glow" (光る宇宙), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Hermes - why might Lalah’s mobile armor be named for the Greek god, and why did the translators decide to call the エルメス Elmeth instead, J-type missiles, and some of the odd place names and vocabulary from these episodes.

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- Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contain the story of Hermes defeating Argus Panoptes and freeing Io.

- Wiki page about Io.

- General information about Hermes.

- Books and articles that discuss Hermes in the context of Jungian psychology:

Merritt, Dennis L., Ph.D. Jung and the Greening of Psychology and Education. Oregon Friends of C. G. Jung Newsletter, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Oct. 1996-Jan. 1997, pp. 9, 12, 13. http://www.dennismerrittjungiananalyst.com/Jung_and_Greening.htm

Miller, Jeffrey C. The Transcendent Function. State University of New York Press, 2004.

McNeely, Deldon Anne. Mercury Rising: Women, Evil, and the Trickster Gods. Fisher King Press, 2011.

- About Mercury's/Hermes' hat, the Petasos.

- Searchable Japanese trademark database (where we looked up "エルメス").

- Wiki pages on torpedoes generally, the PGM-19 Jupiter, the JL-1, the Jericho missile, the J-600T (Thunderbolt), the Mark 6 exploder, the Mark 15 torpedo, the Type 93 torpedo, and the Kaiten manned torpedoes.

- Breakdown of different Japanese torpedoes.

- Quora discussion about the Type 93.

- Several articles about the mighty Type 93.

- And one book:

Burke, Torpedoes and their Impact on Naval Warfare, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, 2017, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1033484.pdf

- Definition and etymology of "mahal" from

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