Au tour de Tomoe Gozen…
"How joyful is the moment of your sacrifice!
Thrilling is the moment right before the blade touches your body.
When the blood is poured, we know we’re saved anew.
Your children, destined to die for us, perpetrate the same cycle, again and again and again and again."Tomoe Gozen 巴 御前
The shamanic origins of most religions tend to be (purposely) forgotten as a society grows and needs to impose social conventions. There is something unsettling in those shamanic traditions that do not serve the anthropocentric goal of imposing dominance over nature.
Yamashiro is a place where things are closer to what they were originally, before the Nara period when the miko priestess was reduced to a simple shrine maiden from their original role as the media conveying the voice of the gods.
