It's Matara Monday

Okina haters, you are retarded and have bad taste

So soon?

Happy Monday!

Okina reigns supreme

>>49472161
Hidden star gods are just so great!

>>49472178
They really are!

I love you, Matara-sama!

>>49471337 (OP)
I want to carry Okina around

>>49471337 (OP)
What is the appeal of yukari (orange)? Genuine question.

>>49474134
She's real and extremely powerful.

You're welcome.

>>49474334
>>49474347
Twisted form of worship...

>>49474238
Does she have any appeal to non-schizos?

>>49477021
We're not "schizo" but there are people who enjoy her for more libidinal than spiritual reasons.
Exhibit A:
>>49474347
Exhibit B:
https://x.com/rewinderontan/status/1927410100404125860

>>49477021
She is perhaps the most memed Touhou character in Futaba, even to this day.
Wish she'd take off like that in the western sphere but it's barely a thing.

>>49479043
This anon does not speak for me. I am, in fact, a schizo.

>>49474347
I've been staring at this pic for 5 hours now.

>>49480140
Is this some kind of slur reclamation thing?
>>49483863
You should try prostrating yourself before her for a change.

Okinockers

Okina-sama.

I love you, Matara-sama!

>>49490609
Let's all love Matara-sama!

>>49483863
5 hours?
What's so appealing, anon?
It's just some narcissistic hag larping as a cripple...

>>49491257
Rude.

>>49491257
The fact that Amaterasu Omikami can move around without burning everything in her path doesn't make her any less of a sun goddess. Similarly, Okina-sama can embody disability and walk if she chooses to do so.

>>49497339
That impairment thing is one of the Buddhist things too, I think.

Okina PLAPtara

>>49497811
Really now?

>>49500360
True followers of Okina know that she wish to be venerated through ritualistic sex.

>>49500379
My research into whether the Matarajin sex rituals were real or not has been inconclusive. It's possible it was slander to defame the popular Matarajin worship, which had escaped the confines of institutional Buddhism.

In all honestly though, there are tantric sexual aspects to some forms Vajrayana Buddhism. Vajrayana influenced Tendai Buddhism, and Matarajin was a Tendai deity. But I don't know if that was actually practiced within Tendai. The sex ritual stuff didn't really sit into the Chinese-Japanese mindset from what I know, and has been more of Indo-Tibetan thing.

Ritual sex has very little to do with "plap" anyway. It's an attempt at a Sacred Energy eXchange, using sexual energies to reach out to divinity or enlightenment or turning them into other kinds of energies. Experiencing a normal orgasm which I believe is the aim of "plap" is a failure state in this process.

I understand the desire to experience the Sacred Energy eXchange with Okina-sama, but it's not gonna go how you think it will go and it's not gonna be like what you think it will be like. It's better to develop more manageable ways to reach out to her.

>>49500397
By showing himself through Okina, Matarajin know what he was getting into. Whether tantric sexual practice actually happened in Tendai ritual don't really matter as it is now part of the greater Matarajin's myth and sexuality is one of the aspect of him that shine through his Okina avatar. Of course, Okina as a character is more than her sexual appeal, but you can't deny that side of her.

>>49500397
>>49500438
I didn't really look at your okina pic before making my post and I somehow chose of the same image as you in my collection of over 2000 images of Okina. I can't call synchronicity on this one for obvious reason, but clearly, we both had the same understanding of Okina while creating our post.

Okina is simply one of Matarajin’s many faces. Worshipping her seriously should be a prerequisite for saying you like her.

Okina-sama loves you.

>>49508461
Even me???

>>49513089
Especially you, Anon.

okinaaaaa

>>49503948
So true anon.

Who will win?

>>49523935
Well, you know which I am compelled to answer...

*inhale*
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGG!!!!!

Why are all the sages gay?

>>49526907
We humans only live around 100 years and by the age of 50 some men are already bored of girls. Now imagine if you could live for more than 1000 years...

>>49525486
You're screwed, Kratos.

Musing...

>>49526907
That's just a Gensokyan pastime. It has nothing to do with personal preferences.

Take a seat, Anon.

It won't be long anymore, Okina-sama.

>>49546322
Best of luck!

Will you love her no matter what?

>>49550430
I don't know if it is the kind of love you are thinking about, but yes.

>>49543595
On your lap?

>>49550430
I want to pick up and snuggle this Okina

Okina-sama!

Okina-sama.

Okina-sama...only few more days...

Have a good Friday!

>>49551721
...If you dare.

>>49563339
We must imagine Okina-sama happy!

I wonder if it's true, what some say, that Tokugawa Ieyasu was your biggest fan in the olden times and that's why he wanted to be buried in Nikko...

Hey hey!

Nikko! I wonder if I will feel your presence still lingering there...

>>49567423
I don't know, i've heard Lady Matara is actually a pervert! She's gonna touch my butt!

Wow, Nikko is beatiful, I understand why you wanted to settle here...

>See it! Hear it! Speak of it!

Thoughts on ponytail Okina-sama?

>>49477021
>Does she have any appeal to non-schizos?
She's actively scheming around and involving herself with major players in the series so you can pretend that she will make something actually happen even though we all know that nothing will ever happen in this series.
She's a bit like Kanako in that regard in that they ostensibly want to upset the status quo and actually have a drive and goals to their character.
>>49523935
Flandre once she gets bored and decides that beating up hags would be more entertaining.
Though really, I don't think Okina would really try to make use of Flandre much. She's not very controllable and all you can really do with her is point her at a powerful enemy and hope for the best.
If anything, Okina would be far more interested in manipulating the more malleable Cirno who she clearly still wants as her next servant.

>>49589838
Marriage

>>49593937
Something something having the body of a mountain, the soul of a star...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKd13ELO-fQ

what the hell is she doing

>>49600773
That has to be someone larping as Okina-sama. She would never ever!

It is okay to manipulate the seasons sometimes.

>>49589838
Shouldn't it be one of those topknots?
>>49597023
Yeah, you get it.
>>49600773
Obscene.
>>49608343
It seems a typhoon is gonna hit Japan soon, I wonder if that is Okina-sama's doing...

>>49612792
So true!!!

>>49589930
As one of the Sages is'nt Okina more interested in perserving/protecting gensokyo? it is fun to think of her, Kasen and Yukari all having wanted to make Gensokyo but for somewhat different reasons.

>>49620712

3 trillion years of misfortune to every /jp/sie if this thread dies early!

So what's the deal with Okina's wheelchair
Does she or does she not need it? I know she supposed to represent the disabled but it never feels consistent
Maybe she has a weak constitution or something

>>49627064
It's not all love and light...

>>49630750
Thankfully, there tends to be more love and light than the opposite.

>>49633603
Wow, that's a really nice picture.

Did you get your own Okina Matara fumo?

>>49642361
Yeah I preordered it a long time ago.

>>49471337 (OP)
Okina loves Jackalman

>>49644224
Same here. But I'll have to wait quite a while for the actual shipping...

Her!

>>49656139
She!

>>49589838
There's not enough of it!

Okani-sama...

Okina-mama

"Without her tabard, she would look like a normal girl..."

>>49674769
Looks 10 times better than normal, almost entirely fixes her.

God of smugness

>>49674769
Okina-sama without her tabard is like an angel without wings.

>>49471337 (OP)

I don't think you guys fully understand how cool Matarajin is. You can pay the entrance fee and go to a temple treasure hall museum and see all kinds of things that would have been inaccessible to the public only a relatively short while ago. But you can't pay to see Matarajin. To be able to see Matarajin is an experience you can't buy with a plane ticket and money. I think it's genuinely really cool, that there are still mysterious things in this world like that.

Did she deserve the divorce?

>>49697834
Divorce? From mainstream Japanese Buddhist beliefs? No, of course not. All the rumors about the unsavory nature of the rituals, that was all slander or misunderstanding, I'm sure of it.

I wonder what are the karmic consequences for ZUN because he helped Matarajin to reincarnate?

>>49703625
I wanted to pitybump this thread but this post almost stopped me. Almost.
Tell me what you like about Okina, the Touhou character, divorced from the schizo shit.

>>49704281
Unfortunately what I like about Okina (the Touhou character) is pretty difficult to divorce from the "schizo shit". Her (what you would call) background lore is such a big part of the appeal.

Even if Matarajin wasn't real, the lore would be really fascinating and be basicaly tailor made for Touhou's whole passing into fantasy thing. The idea of there being a deity who was widely worshipped, who was of extremely ambiguous nature, and then became scorned and largely forgotten is a very interesting one.

The way ZUN touhou-fied the lore is really great. Land of the Backdoor is such a great, weird concept. Okina (the touhou character) being the creator of Gensokyo is a great play on how Matarajin was sometime seen as a wrathful manifestation of Amitabha Buddha, who is revered for creating the paradisical Western Pure Land. Having the two servants Matarajin has in that famous piece of art as her servants who are fought together is great, as are how their abilities are depicted. I also really like Okina's (the touhou character's) powers are related to the seasons and how she can unlock the potential via "backdoor", they are very fun interpretations of some lore related to the Big Dipper.

Unfortunately further discussion about the backdoor, unlocking the potential, Mai and Satono controlling life and mental energies, the four seasons etc. gets in very "schizo" territory and would be very long, involving all kinds of ancient Chinese beliefs about life energies, acupuncture points and the role of the heavens/stars in controlling all of this and the role of the Big Dipper...

But even before I knew all of that, the way she is depicted in Touhou, she has a very powerful and appealing presence. I really like the vibrant orange and green color scheme, orange is one of my favorite colors. I love her outfit, I love stars and the large Big Dipper on her tabard is great. She has one of the best hats in the series. Her boots are nice. I like the throne she sits on, the auroral flames surrounding her, I even like the drum she has, how mirrors are associated with deities in Japan and that type of drum with Noh...but that's getting back to the "shizo shit" again, now isn't it? Even the way she just looks is connected to such immensively deep history.

She's refined, elegant, beautiful, powerful, mighty and she knows it and acts like it. What's not to love?

>>49706437
>She has one of the best hats in the series.
Okinas's hat isn't all that special. ZUN just reused one of Remilia's hat designs and changed its color.

>>49706437
The schizo shit is you thinking the videogame character is real and trying to speak to you.
I suppose me not liking her comes down to us having different tastes.
I think the land of the backdoor further complicates the already nonsensical metaphysics of Touhou. To me, the idea of "passing into fantasy" makes Gensokyo feel more crowded than it should, and makes the tales that get represented in the series feel less special. I think tabards look bad. Worst of all, she was not foreshadowed at all before, which makes her stand out like a sore thumb. That, combined with the whole "she's REALLY POWERFUL and IMPORTANT and WAS BEHIND IT ALL THE WHOLE TIME" makes her almost seem like an OC.
That being said, she has some redeeming qualities. Her connections to mythology are cool(although I think she'd benefit from straying away from them more). The parallel with Amida is interesting and I haven't thought of it before, but I'm not sure to what degree it is intentional. Like, you'd expect the other sages to also have some connection to a different cosmic buddha.
Her color scheme is alright, and I haven't noticed it before. Her hat is good too, though I wouldn't call it "one of the best".
I'd be interested to hear why you see her as elegant. I don't really see her as anything, maybe I'd like her more if her personality was explained more.
>>49709538
Sageing is a bit rude, don't you think?

Does anybody know if okina sama has any mythological connections to eastern dragons by chance?

>>49709768
>Sageing
Force of habit, sorry. Sometimes I don't even remember doing it.

>>49709538
I'm afraid the actual inspiration for Okina's hat is much older than Remilia's alternate design.

>>49710060
Okina's hat doesn't look like either of those, but it doesn't look like Remilia's either.

>>49709768
>you'd expect the other sages to also have some connection to a different cosmic buddha
But anon, in the end we are all manifestations of Dainichi Nyorai, Mahavairocana, the Cosmic Sun Buddha.

>>49716927
I am THAT important?!

>>49720020
We all are.

>>49474347
How often have you guys climaxed to these images?
16+ here

>>49722127
Do you remember how many pieces of bread you've eaten?

>>49722127
I see someone is very dedicated to twisted forms of worship.

Okina-sama.

>>49471337 (OP)
Can it be Matara Monday forever?

She literally me.

>>49735712
As above, so below.

Slow days...

>>49753924
Okina-sama.

Would Okina enjoy conversing about René Guénon's The esoterism of Dante, Saint Hildegard von Bingen's Liber divinorum operum or the I Ching?