Meta-y question

[sylph_fics]

Okay, I know I have at least a few international people on my flist. This question is actually for all y'all, or anyone else that wants to weigh if you've got something to add.

I love DC comics (or at least, I love the DCU [current editorial and I aren't talking]), but some days the gaps in how the mythos is set up gets really exasperating, and I'd like some help figuring out how to fill in a particular set of those gaps.

Over in the 'Uncle Sam' corner of the DCU, we've got Uncle Sam and Columbia (at least currently. Billy Yank and whoever 'Bea was then, and Johnny Reb and Dixie... they went back to sleep a while back). The UK, they've got Britannia and have for a real long time (Canada too? Or do y'all Canadians have your own? for that matter, Australia?). France has Marianne, even if supposedly she's very weak. Russia has the Bear -- and Mother Russia, come on, DC, get it right, would you? Italy should have Italia (Roma Mater in a new guise), not that we saw that.

But, um. There's rather a lot more countries than that. So any of you from places not the USofA... What would yours be? (ETA for clarity: What would your national personification be? I can hunt wiki for DC heroes of various nations, I don't trust it for a second to get national mythologies right.)

Or, even if you are US based, anyone know enough other national mythologies to lend me a hand?

Comments

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

*smiles sheepishly* Well, I'm actually named for ours, sort of. In Ireland, there is a kind of poem called an 'Aisling', where the spirit of Eire appears to the poet as a fairy woman. An Aisling is a kind of patriotic vision, and Ireland is personified in it as Eire, the fairy woman. This kind of poem was pretty popular in the early twentieth century in particular, when the independance movement was in full swing, and the mood could be mournful, regretful or stridently hopeful, depending on when exactly you're catching the poet in question. Eire is beautiful, wise and longsuffering, with a hint of mischief.

*blinks* What do you know? Those Irish lessons actually came in handy!

[ilyena_sylph]

+grins+ Awesome! Thanks, honey!

[amarin-rose.livejournal.com]

Wow. And here I thought aisling was Gaelic for bullshit or similar. :P

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

*grins* The direct translation would be 'dream/vision', so ... close enough, actually.