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5/3/2025, 9:55:25 AM
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Yeah, challenging some primordial kami of civilization on her home turf is a very risky idea.
The ambigous portrayal of Keiki-sama plays very well on how Haniyasuhime-kami and her siblings are portrayed in Japanese mythology. They are these kind of kami of things essential to human civilization. They're born after the kami of fire gets slain by his father for causing his mother to die in childbirth. Haniyasuhime and her siblings not evil in themselves, but there's this element of death and destruction that underpins their whole existence.
Japanese soil is very volcanic, and they used to just burn down large swaths of forest to clear out land for agriculture. The very existence of the land itself is because of destructive forces, and so is human civilization there.
She raises too many uncomfortable questions with no simple answers that are beyond ZUN's caliber as a thinker or writer.
Yeah, challenging some primordial kami of civilization on her home turf is a very risky idea.
The ambigous portrayal of Keiki-sama plays very well on how Haniyasuhime-kami and her siblings are portrayed in Japanese mythology. They are these kind of kami of things essential to human civilization. They're born after the kami of fire gets slain by his father for causing his mother to die in childbirth. Haniyasuhime and her siblings not evil in themselves, but there's this element of death and destruction that underpins their whole existence.
Japanese soil is very volcanic, and they used to just burn down large swaths of forest to clear out land for agriculture. The very existence of the land itself is because of destructive forces, and so is human civilization there.
She raises too many uncomfortable questions with no simple answers that are beyond ZUN's caliber as a thinker or writer.
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