This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 14 - Amuro Flies Again (アムロ再び), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Garuda, Sudori, Audhumla, and Asshimar.

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- Wikipedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Britannica pages for Garuda.

- One of the Garuda stories.

- Explanation of the Garuda Upanishad.

- List of things named for Garuda, including the Garud Commando Force, the Garuda Contingent, INS Garuda, and Electronic Attack Squadron 134 (aka "Garudas").

- Wikipedia page for Siduri, the divine alewife from the Gilgamesh myth. And this is the version of the Epic of Gilgamesh we consulted:

The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. by Andrew George, Penguin Books, UK (1999).

- Sudri on Wikipedia.

- Midgard in the Encyclopedia Britannica (mentions the four dwarves).

- Audhumla licking at Buri, from a 1700s manuscript.

- My Norse Digital Image Repository (for other images of figures mentioned in the story).

- Audhumla on Wikipedia.

- Useful book:

Facts on File, Inc., Norse Mythology A to Z, Infobase Publishing (2009).

- Online copy of the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson's collection of Norse myths.

- Online copy of the Poetic Edda, a later-discovered but earlier-composed set of Norse myths that expands on what was in the Prose Edda.

- The Norse Creation myth as told by an expert on the old Norse language.

- The Thai company called Asimar, and the Dungeons & Dragons Aasimar.

- Definitions of あっ/Aa!, しまった/shimatta, and 閉まる/shimaru.

- Stock photo of one version of the ninja costume we talked about last season.

- Wikipedia page on sōhei (warrior monks), and photos of the zukin (hood, kerchief, head covering) that they sometimes wore.

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