>>40504490
>Inari isn’t a she. There’s no gender.
Sounds very familiar. Though that god is pretty gender-fluid.
>Inari isn’t imported from China.
I find that hard to believe. Japan was heavily influenced by Imperial China through trade, monks, scholars, and dignitaries sent. Even their writing is based on the Chinese system. Therefore, it's closer to a Greek-Roman situation.
>Inari Buddhist offshoots.
Buddhism didn't arrive to Japan until the 6th century A.D. Chinese folklore would've been influencing Japan for centuries as the period of isolation wouldn't come until the Tokugawa Shogunate. It's why people here have no problem accepting Daji is Tamano-no-mae. But her story was written in the 1300s when its talking about events nearly two thousand years ago in their time.
>Japan does not see this
Japan doesn't see a lot of things.
>Chinese Goddess
They also won't tell you that the legend of the Kitsune came from Chinese traders talking about the Huil-jing. It's very easy to make the connection that someone asked "oh who's the god of these fox spirits" and "Yeah it's Húxiān" and the game of telephone begins.
>any sexual stuff
Ahh that prudishness, Inari is a fertility goddess. She's also a patron of prostitutes. If I remember, there is a practice where a woman rubs the tails of the fox statue in order to help them get pregnant.
>You just keep making up shit.
So what? Is there there a Pope that speaks on behalf of Inari and is totally infallible?
>Kitsune are male
He has conviction, I'll give him that. Maybe he'll roll a nat 20 and convince the Emperor with a promise of victory in the belief of all-male kitsune.
>There’s no point making up fake modern versions
There's no point in digging up outdated versions of gods either.
>>40504503
Perhaps, the Buddhists were right, Timmy gave up her evil ways. Fits the story of the femme-fatale transforming into a goody two-shoes saint. Of course, none of you believe that, so question must be ask again. What has Timmy won?
