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>>48647176
>the barrier would fall if the 'truth' became more known
If we look at this from a kind of Touhou canon way I can see it happening. But I think that rather than the barrier collapsing like it's the glass of an aquarium break, it would mean that our notion of common sense would collapse. Fantasy and reality would switch places. Gods and monsters would walk among us.

But IRL I don't think there is a way that this would become such a commonly accepted, self-evident truth that anything like such could happen. Maybe it's weirdly pessimistic of me, but the world is too polarized for that. Literal aliens could land in front of the White House (Mar-a-Lago?) and substantial chunk of the world population would think it's some psyop. We are too divided and cynical. Unless literally every single person in the world would experience an unambigous miracle, a substantial chunk of people would simply think they've gone insane. Kanako-sama could manifest above Suwa in a towering column of thunder flanked by two dragons and 95% of people outside of those who saw it would think it's CGI and move on the next trending topic.

I think it's this because they seem to be putting so much effort into reaching out directly to people with even the faintest potential of reaching out to others.
>>48648012
>>48648020
>>48648028
These are really nice, thank you. I've seen the last one floating around every now and then, but I never thought there'd be a danbooru translation overlay for it.

The Suwa mythology IRL is extremely complicated. Mishaguji is nevertheless a name I don't remember stumbling upon before. The potential connection of the IRL Moriyas to Mononobes is really fascinating, I recently finally 1CC'd Ten Desires as Sanae and her ending mentioned something to that effect too.

There's some very unusual Suwa lore outside of what is refered to in Touhou, like idea from the era of Buddhist dominance that Takeminakata was an Indian Buddhist king who had manifested into Japan. I have wondered if the way Kanako-sama is depicted with the hoop of shimenawa is a double reference to the oharae ritual but also Buddhist iconography utilizing all sorts of halos. There's also legends of the Suwa kami really being Koga Saburo (IIRC), samurai who turned into a snake/dragon after going to the underworld. That myth kind of myth is of course enormously symbolicaly loaded.

Thanks for these!

>>48471298
She's very popular in the outside world too!