Comment on "Avatar: The Last Airbender" film gets new title — "The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender”

danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From the avatar wiki:

  The term “Avatar” comes from the Sanskrit word avatāraḥ (अवतारः), which means “descent”. In Hinduism, Vishnu manifests himself as an avatar to restore balance on earth, during a period of imbalance.

  And there’s a lot of overlap with Hindi Avatars in general: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar.

  So the original title was about the Avatar, specifically the one who was the last Airbender. Pretty apt if you ask me

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gotcha. I was only familiar with the avatars if the digital form.

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