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Re: ****faith trigger*** » obsidian

Posted by sigismund on December 17, 2010, at 15:14:55

In reply to Re: ****faith trigger***, posted by obsidian on December 4, 2010, at 21:44:24

I always go to the religious observances in the countries I visit, although doubts immediately arise about whether I wish to extend that interest to the Anglosphere.
Anyway, we went to one here. We rode our bikes to a bar and had some hot sake and then to this place along a walkway covered with trees someway down from the temple or shrine, I don't know which. It didn't sound like Buddhism to me. More like a fertility ritual to guarantee the harvest. The young god is to be awakened by young girls, and while I prefer my young gods to be more polymorhous perverse, still I found the idea of the young god being woken by girls very attractive. We waited till midnight when it started and eventually you could see the flames and later could see that they were from these burning aromatic branches that dragged along the ground leaving a trail of red hot cinders, keeping out the evil spirits. Then we heard a moaning and something higher, a kind of woodland noise I felt, and people dressed in white with partially covered faces passed in front of s making this strange ghostly noise, and after that people with some kind of flutes which in the tone they made reflected the cry of the deer and other woodland animals. And then the crowd of thousands fell in behind them reverently as if in church, not drunkenly as it would be in Australia. And at the appointed place they went through the freezing air to watch the actual ceremnony, but we went home. Enough of the Christian remained in me to say of this 'Pure superstition'.

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