Talk:Dragon's Triangle/@comment-71.92.149.76-20151215034236/@comment-83.191.101.7-20160306160903

Well, it's an actual myth. Yamatai, or the Kingdom of Wa (as it was called by China), and Himiko (Pimiko) are part of Japan's mythology. The description given by the Chinese, however, points clearly at the Japanese islands.

Of course that description has plenty of embelishments. Himiko allegedly had only one man near her, her brother. Everybody else attending her was a woman. When she died her brother took over and everything fell into chaos, until he was removed and her daughter took over. There is no evidence that such a society ever existed and we know the events from Yayoi into Jômon and finally into Yamato very well.

Interestingly the Yayoi people, aka what the Chinese called the Yamatai and the kingdom of Wa, genetically originate from south of the Yangtze. Oddly enough, the Japanese language and Chinese have zero relations. So there is a genetic link, but nothing in language.