sl on Nostr: check this out too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama particularly, this, in ...
check this out too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
particularly, this, in light of some of the stuff adapted from buddhism like the unification of thought, word, and deed, imo sheds light on shinto's kami and shugendo's preoccupation with the mountain terrain as a symbolic map of higher dimensions. there's a commonality in a lot of the indigenous japanese stuff where there is no boundary between imagination and the physical world.
particularly, this, in light of some of the stuff adapted from buddhism like the unification of thought, word, and deed, imo sheds light on shinto's kami and shugendo's preoccupation with the mountain terrain as a symbolic map of higher dimensions. there's a commonality in a lot of the indigenous japanese stuff where there is no boundary between imagination and the physical world.