/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>48327358
If you don't like Kanako-sama when she looks like a snake or a mountain you don't deserve her when she looks like a lovely lady!

>>47704318
I'm not a Shinto priest, but...if you wanted to be very technical about it maybe nothing. Kegare and tsumikegare are a bit different anyway. Kegera is this mix of literal dirtiness and kind of metaphysical infectious bad vibes and misfortune. This must be cleaned out for the sake of everyone but particularly if one wishes to aproach the kami.

Tsumikegare is...weird. It's kegare that results from tsumi. There are two types of tsumi: amatsutsumi, tsumi of heavens, and kunitsutsumi, tsumi of earth. Tsumi of heavens is things that interfere with rice agriculture plus scattering around shit and "skinning an animal backwards". These are taken from the legends where Susanoo does all these things and upsets Amaterasu Oomikami so much that she goes to hide in cave and plunges the world in to darkness. It makes sense that something that would screw over a community would be considered something extra bad.

Kunitsutsumi is where things get weird. It's a really miscellancelous list of things like having warts or tumors, incest, zoophilia, killing other people's livestock, "damage from high-flying birds" and "having white skin" among other things. Apparently these days not even the most read Shinto scholars know what the last two mean. The white skin thing was never a race thing for what's it worth. These are things which some are wilfully done, but others like getting bitten by certain insects are out of your control.

Interestingly enough "insulting the kami" is on neither list, but I would assume it would have landed you in trouble and been interpreted as being some kind of an amatsutsumi. After all, the skinning animals thing and scattering shit thing were something Susanoo did to interfere with rituals that Amaterasu Oomikami was doing.

At the very least, some of the posts were metaphorical scattering of shit.

Something that is probably of interest to many here stumbled upon my YouTube feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWYm_fK1REc
It's a new short documentary about Shugendo!

There's a lot of interesting stuff there, including the idea that the conch horns repeat mantras that repel hostile spirits, that the Shugenja are taking up the hardships of their communities and bring them fortune by going through the ordeals, there's this almost tantric idea of living both a worldly and spiritual life and apparently as long as you know some Japanese you are welcome to train with them.

>>47649750
Ok, so, having brushed up the basics a bit...
I would actually like to hear what Shugendo is about from someone who practices/practiced it. I've read and seen documentaries about it, but I would apreciate the inside view.
I'd also like to hear about their experiences with the practice, what's it like, how's it made them feel and so on. A third thing I'm curious about is their view on why the Tengu came to be associated with Shugendo.

Thanks a lot in advance.
>>47667787
>>47670185
Are you gonna get Remilia'd? It's unfortunate you're getting poked by a phantom finger.
I've never heard of jasmine having psychoactive properties.
>>47669223
Thanks a lot. No worries about being late either. I think I can see the relevance, but alas, figuring out one's true nature is always a challenge...but I get the gist of it. Sounds like I need to be flexible and present in the current moment.

And yeah, this is a very dense thread, might end up becoming the densest of the threads so far.
>>47669537
Numbers-san? It's actually for posts, see >>47666092
(Picture related, Great Beast)
>>47670539
I meant mainly spiritually but yeah I suppose body language is part of the whole too haha. No doubt it will take a good while to build up the trust and relationship.

Your improvised method of contacting Aya-san sounds honestly wonderful. It's a bit shame you had that mess-up with the moon, but maybe it's not so bad as you think. Perhaps doing something next where you share the offering with her - ie. you also take part in the meat and alcohol - could be the next step?

Is Aya-san someone you feel a strong connection to in general? How exactly did the decision to contact her come about?

I love her.

Imagine almost letting Kanako's thread slip into the archives...