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Ice Dragon Film Awards

The Ice Dragon Film Awards is an awards ceremony presented annually by the Motion Picture Academy of Korea for cinematic excellence. It is one of the oldest continuous and most prestigious film award ceremonies in South Korea, being likened to the Academy Awards.

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Cyan

Cyan is a queer futuristic dystopian story written and published in 2013 by Filipino author Paul Lim. The story is set in a far-right Christofascist regime set in the remnants of the Philippine archipelago following a devastating global war. The government is run by politicians influenced by a Restorationist cult, who have virtually stripped the individual rights of citizens, enacted widespread destruction of arts and culture, and most notably, have mass slaughtered members of marginalized groups such as indigenous tribes, religious minorities, activists, and LGBTQ+ people. The main protagonist is Ben, a 20-year-old restaurant waiter who conceals his history of short-lived affairs with other closeted men. When he impulsively decides to rescue a mysterious man who turns out to be a rebel looking for a hideout, he is met with a dilemma on whether to continue living his ordinary life or take the risk of following his heart.

Through Thick Drains

Through Thick Drains is a 1958 drama romance novel written by Lee Hong-sil and published by Seoul-based publishing house Ichajok Corporation. The story's protagonist is Shin Yun-ha, an 18-year-old girl whose impoverished family lives at a slum in the outskirts of post-Korean War Seoul. Despite her parents' disapproval of falling in love with anyone against their values, she begins to take interest in Bong Cho-han, a troublemaker boy from a lower middle class family, who she regularly spots hiding at the entrance of a nearby drainage tunnel. Through Thick Drains was a moderate success when it was first released, but its commercially successful 1970 film adaptation thrusted the story into public consciousness.

Spirituality in the Ziyueism Universe

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Yukhunhwism is a polytheistic indigenous folk religion that was recorded to have been practiced within the vicinity of the Philippine islands, as well as portions of Indochina and Melanesia as early as the 11th century until the advent of Western imperialism, when the faith and other animist belief systems were persecuted and largely censored. While Yukhunhwism remains relatively undocumented and unknown to much of the world, there is still a number of quiet practitioners remaining within rural mountain and island communities. Primary elements including belief in an optimistic afterlife, veneration of supernatural entities, employment of protective healing and magic, and the recognition of the cosmos as a dynamic force of nature shaping the energy that emanates across the universe.

Beliefs

Morals.

Yukhunhwism is a religion that focuses on the concept of harmonic co-existence and responsible freedom, in which an individual liberates oneself from unsatisfying hedonistic desires and fighting against the wickedness of social or metaphysical oppressors. Its foundational values include: (1) the interconnectedness of living beings and their nature, which entail valuing respect towards one's environment; (2) the acknowledgment of truth as dynamic, and thus focusing on faith as an individual, flexible practice rather than rigid dogmas; (3) spiritual rehabilitation, diplomacy, and reconciliation over harsh ideas of eternal damnation, and (4) valuing peace while also knowing how to defend one's identity and liberties from foreign agents of violence.

Entities.

According to one of the few anthropological papers published in 1984, Yukhunhwism, like many other Filipino folk religions, believed that all things, living or non-living, are represented by their own respective deities, named the Zyatokon. Similar to the concept of "patron saint", they serve protection to various elements of the universe, whether it be nature and space (e.g. flowers, landforms, astrological bodies), objects (e.g. mirrors, instruments, furniture, feasts), social acts or emotions (e.g. pleasure, friendship, empathy, imagination), or crafts (e.g. doctors, artisans, witches).

Other supernatural entities include the Ek'laira, a group of seven sister fairies consisting of Karinah, Yenna, Estella, Amiha, Ikkah, Tala, and Mariki. They play the role as the highest guardian angels of the universe, who occasionally come down to the land of the living to perform miracles and contain negative energy from spreading beyond the empirical walls of human civilization. One semi-recovered oral evidence claims that their magical, soft voices sometimes manifest in the sounds of the wind and may bring fortune upon those who hear it. Another set of mythical creatures is the princes Keleztio and Junieper; Keletio symbolizes emotion and passion, while Junieper represents intuition and intelligence. They are seen as lovers and soulmates that reflect each other, according to folklore.

Soul.

Practitioners of Yukhunhwism believe that humans have dual souls that complement each other. The first half is the "Soul of Life", which is responsible for the person's daily existence and is tied to the physical body for its lifetime, and the second half being the "Soul of Freedom", which may temporarily depart from the body during phases of hibernation or unconsciousness. When a person is deceased, both souls ascend to the afterlife, but the Soul of Life reconciles with its family in the land of the afterlife, while the Soul of Freedom may choose to detach and reincarnate in a newborn.

Gender.

Yukhunhwism did not believe in the existence of rigid gender roles, in comparison to other cultures and societies. Many healers and village leaders were recorded to have been cisgender women, feminine men, and other androgynous figures. Queer relationships were historically recognized as ordinary civil unions in Yukhunhwian villages. Majority of Zatokuns and mythical beings in the religion are also described to not fall under the gender constructs of society, classified under non-binary identities.

Afterlife.

A central teaching of Yukhunhwism, is a belief in an optimistic afterlife, where the vast majority of living beings become ghosts after passing away and work their way towards Yukeirynzia, the final and permanent abode. Yukeirynzia is a heavenly utopian paradise, described in 1983 by a psychic as a "snowglobe-esque domed dreamland that comprises of multiple planetary bodies (cyrbles) with their own bewitching, fantasy characteristics, akin to a galactic federation." A semi-recovered scroll of poetry about Yukeirynzia speaks of "exuberant, cutting-edge megalopolises, idyllic island destinations, and advanced technologies, from mobius-shaped spaceships to underwater arcological habitats.", with other verses describing "communities teeming with diverse beings, from nymphs, songbirds, and lycanthropes to the enigmatic creatures in the form of fairies, florafaes, and lunicorns." It is a land of eternal bliss, pleasure, and safety from the rest of the universe, co-existing in a land with no hierarchies and despair.

Yukeirynzia serves as only the highest and upper tier of the afterlife realm, which also consists of three lower tiers named as Hutokono, Hywango, and Hamoyaw. These places are described to be peaceful, almost phantasmic spaces of purgatory and self-reflection, where the soul undergoes a gradual stage of cleansing before ascending to their ultimate ending as a purified being, whether it be choosing to permanently settle in Yukeirynzia or reincarnate as a new living being.

Items.

Similar to witchcraft, Yukhunhwism reportedly engaged in the usage of magic and spells. The usage of herbs, spices, and palm leaves, some of which has been integrated into "alternative medicine" in Philippine society, was the primary form of healing and medication for mountain villages that practiced Yukhunhwism.

Rituals.

Early accounts of Yukhunhwism of a voyager from Luzon Island indicated that practitioners had once openly engaged in vibrant festivals, that included an eight-day festival celebrating rainfall and harvest, in addition to spring bathing as a form of baptism and admission into the religion. It is believed to still be practiced to this day.