I have a doubt about this sentence that i found in a book : 太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよりな部屋が現れる


I am reading a japanese book in order to learn kanji and i found this sentence
:

太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよりな部屋が現れる

In case if you are wondering about context, a character has just opened a door
in a dark basement. As far as i understood he discovered a room and darkness
dissapear or something like that. My problem is first part of sentence :
太古から続く闇が降り落ちる... (it says something about darkness falling down but what is
confunsing me is first part "since ancient times 太古から" because it does not
makes sense in that context)

If someone can help me to understand, that would be nice :D




> (0) 太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよ **り** な部屋が現れる

Even if "よりな" is a typo of "ような", the following sentence does not make sense,
because the room must appear bright after opening the door in a dark basement.

> (1) 太古から続く闇が降り落ちる **ような** 部屋が現れる

I don't know what kind of a typo is there, but the context must be that a room
appears after the darkness is cleared, where the darkness was very dark which
lasted for a long time from ancient times.

If you know a set phrase **振り落とす** which means _to shake off something_ , like
"邪気{じゃき}を振り落とす _to drive out / shake off evel spirits_ ", "木｛き｝の実｛み｝を振り落とす _to
shake nuts from/off a tree_ " or "バスから振り落とされる _to be thrown off / spilled from
a bus_ ", you can use the set phrase in the given sentence (0), like "闇を振り落とす
_to shake off the darkness_ " or "闇が振り落とされる / 闇が振り落ちる _the darkness is shaken
off_ ".

Then I boldly interpreted the original sentence before a typo as follows.

> (2) 太古から続く闇が降り落ち **たような** 部屋が現れる

I think (3) is more natural as Japanese than (2) with almost the same meaning.

> (3) 太古から続く闇を降り落 **としたような** 部屋が現れる

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mG1mL.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mG1mL.jpg)

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# EDIT

> Why the author used the expression "太古から続く闇 _the darkness that has been
> continuing since ancient times_ " ?

The author, I think, wanted to express that it was not a darkness of an
ordinary darkness, for example the darkness for half a day when it becomes
after the sunset, but it was a darkness that had lasted for tens or hundreds
of thousands of years. To put it another way, it was a darkness that did not
turn bright easily. I think the relationship between "darkness" and "since
ancient times" is a kind of a metaphorical effect that the author intended.

In general, the longer the time to put the material to be dyed in dyeing
solution is, the more difficult the dyed dye will disappear.

So as in the case of dyeing, I think that the author thought figuratively that
the darkness did not become brighter easily when the darkness lasted for a
long time.  
There is no example of "降り落ちる _falling down_ " even if I looked it up in the
corpus named "少納言｛しょうなごん｝" that many Japanese examples are stored.

In fact, judging from my experience, I understand the meaning of "～が降り落ちる" as
Japanese, but I think it is not used much. There is an expression "～が降り注{そそ}ぐ"
which is more commonly used having somewhat the same meaning as "～が降り落ちる". By
the way, "～が降り注ぐ" has 32 sentence examples in the corpus.

Examining the Internet, I could find examples of "雪{ゆき}が降り落ちる _Snow falls_ ",
"雨{あめ}が降り落ちる _It rains_ " and "木{こ}の葉｛は｝が降り落ちる _Tree leaves fall_." As you
know "snow", "tree leaves" and "rain" are all small pieces, not masses. So, it
is quite difficult to understand the concept of "闇 _darkness_ " as a piece or
a part of something like the leaves, raindrops or snowflakes.

As a result of the above examination, if the error-free sentence which the
questioner cited is "太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよりな部屋が現れる", and the context or situation
understood is like "A character has just opened a door in a dark basement and
discovered a room and darkness disappeared or something like that", it is
reasonable to interpret the sentence as follows.

  1. Originally, there is a typo in the sentence in the book.
  2. The sentence without the typo is having the meaning like "A room appears that looks like after shaking off the darkness in pieces having continued since ancient times."
  3. The author thought figuratively that the darkness would not become brighter easily when the darkness has lasted for a long time since ancient times.
  4. Since the expression in Japanese for "to shake off something" or "something is shaken off", the author accidentally made a mistake, because it is an expression that they usually do not use so much.
  5. The given sentence becomes having a confused spelling of characters difficult to understand as the author's mistake and a typo overlapped.




> (0) 太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよ **り** な部屋が現れる

Even if "よりな" is a typo of "ような", the following sentence does not make sense,
because the room must appear bright after opening the door in a dark basement.

> (1) 太古から続く闇が降り落ちる **ような** 部屋が現れる

I don't know what kind of a typo is there, but the context must be that a room
appears after the darkness is cleared, where the darkness was very dark which
lasted for a long time from ancient times.

If you know a set phrase **振り落とす** which means _to shake off something_ , like
"邪気{じゃき}を振り落とす _to drive out / shake off evel spirits_ ", "木｛き｝の実｛み｝を振り落とす _to
shake nuts from/off a tree_ " or "バスから振り落とされる _to be thrown off / spilled from
a bus_ ", you can use the set phrase in the given sentence (0), like "闇を振り落とす
_to shake off the darkness_ " or "闇が振り落とされる / 闇が振り落ちる _the darkness is shaken
off_ ".

Then I boldly interpreted the original sentence before a typo as follows.

> (2) 太古から続く闇が降り落ち **たような** 部屋が現れる

I think (3) is more natural as Japanese than (2) with almost the same meaning.

> (3) 太古から続く闇を降り落 **としたような** 部屋が現れる

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mG1mL.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mG1mL.jpg)

* * *

# EDIT

> Why the author used the expression "太古から続く闇 _the darkness that has been
> continuing since ancient times_ " ?

The author, I think, wanted to express that it was not a darkness of an
ordinary darkness, for example the darkness for half a day when it becomes
after the sunset, but it was a darkness that had lasted for tens or hundreds
of thousands of years. To put it another way, it was a darkness that did not
turn bright easily. I think the relationship between "darkness" and "since
ancient times" is a kind of a metaphorical effect that the author intended.

In general, the longer the time to put the material to be dyed in dyeing
solution is, the more difficult the dyed dye will disappear.

So as in the case of dyeing, I think that the author thought figuratively that
the darkness did not become brighter easily when the darkness lasted for a
long time.  
There is no example of "降り落ちる _falling down_ " even if I looked it up in the
corpus named "少納言｛しょうなごん｝" that many Japanese examples are stored.

In fact, judging from my experience, I understand the meaning of "～が降り落ちる" as
Japanese, but I think it is not used much. There is an expression "～が降り注{そそ}ぐ"
which is more commonly used having somewhat the same meaning as "～が降り落ちる". By
the way, "～が降り注ぐ" has 32 sentence examples in the corpus.

Examining the Internet, I could find examples of "雪{ゆき}が降り落ちる _Snow falls_ ",
"雨{あめ}が降り落ちる _It rains_ " and "木{こ}の葉｛は｝が降り落ちる _Tree leaves fall_." As you
know "snow", "tree leaves" and "rain" are all small pieces, not masses. So, it
is quite difficult to understand the concept of "闇 _darkness_ " as a piece or
a part of something like the leaves, raindrops or snowflakes.

As a result of the above examination, if the error-free sentence which the
questioner cited is "太古から続く闇が降り落ちるよりな部屋が現れる", and the context or situation
understood is like "A character has just opened a door in a dark basement and
discovered a room and darkness disappeared or something like that", it is
reasonable to interpret the sentence as follows.

  1. Originally, there is a typo in the sentence in the book.
  2. The sentence without the typo is having the meaning like "A room appears that looks like after shaking off the darkness in pieces having continued since ancient times."
  3. The author thought figuratively that the darkness would not become brighter easily when the darkness has lasted for a long time since ancient times.
  4. Since the expression in Japanese for "to shake off something" or "something is shaken off", the author accidentally made a mistake, because it is an expression that they usually do not use so much.
  5. The given sentence becomes having a confused spelling of characters difficult to understand as the author's mistake and a typo overlapped.

