"Haha, yeah, I feel like we're analysing at a forensic level at this point. (I wonder how it reads to Chinese people -- whether these connections are any more obvious in the original Chinese or with more cultural context...)"

Lolol, true, but it's so satisfying to find these bits of "Ohhh!!" every once in a while. :D And yeah, I've been wondering about that too! Like, this is more character-centric than mythological, but it doesn't mean that specific wording or something like that couldn't be clearer either in a different language or with more context, yeah.