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Yang Chen’s Statue at the Eastern Air Temple

Look, they restored her. With some little changes.

Unalaq, what have you unleashed?


Some interesting things to notice:

Let’s start with that the spirit Tonraq angers looks vastly different than the angry spirits we encounter in the SWT. The one angered by the flooding of the forest have more definition, more detail. The ones we see in the SWT are less detailed, more shadowy. 

Secondly, if the spirits are angry that the spirit-portal is blocked, why are they trying to stop Korra from opening it? Shouldn’t they encourage/help her? Especially if that is the statue of the first Avatar, and they are connected to her. 

Now it gets really interesting: The markings on the totem pole? match the facial markings of the angry spirits, implying a connection between the statue and the angry spirits.

Further, the helix around the statue matches the ones Unalaq conjures. 

For me all of this begs the questions of whether that statue is benevolent, miss-used or evil and if those are actually spirits, or something else? 

And if Unalaq conjured/summoned those angry spirits, why does he want Korra to open the spirit-portal? 

And is thing going to get as debunked as my Energybending theory?

This makes sense when you think about it: Toph sleeps with her feet off the ground XD A:TLA Annotated! Now on Twitter! View high resolution

This makes sense when you think about it: Toph sleeps with her feet off the ground XD

A:TLA Annotated! Now on Twitter!

The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos “ At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to... View high resolution

The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos

At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to the Longmen Grottoes in Henan province, continuing the Air Nomads — Buddhist Monks parallel. 

The Longmen Grottoes  龙门石窟 (Dragon’s Gate Grottoes) are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae”, as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas.

Also: Another dragon joke.

The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to... View high resolution

The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos

At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to the Longmen Grottoes in Henan province, continuing the Air Nomads – Buddhist Monks parallel. 

The Longmen Grottoes  龙门石窟 (Dragon’s Gate Grottoes) are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae", as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas.

Also: Another dragon joke.