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Dare I even use it, but the Southern United States have a GDP than any European country. Texas and Florida alone have a higher GDP than any of them. Stuff is just made in the south. Like a week ago we learned Alabama is more productive than Canada too. >text doesn’t turn green

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The introduction to my upcoming essay on Nichiren-shugi, or “Nichirenism”: The tale of Izanami no Mikoto and Izanagi no Mikoto is one of the most widely known in ancient Japanese mythology. As the story goes, the pair of deities created the Japanese archipelago with a jeweled spear before birthing many more gods. Izanami no Mikoto was burned while giving birth to the god of wildfire, Hi no Kagutsuchi, and fell into the land of Yomi, the underworld. When her brother descended to search for her, he found her still-animated corpse giving birth to foul demons and storm gods. He fled, only to be pursued by his sibling and a horde of her demon daughters, and the two quarreled upon reaching the exit to the underworld. The Nihon Shoki recounts these events as follows: "While the Ugly Females of Yomi were preparing to cross this river, Izanagi no Mikoto had already reached the Even Pass of Yomi. So he took a thousand-men-pull-rock, and having blocked up the path with it, stood face to face with Izanami no Mikoto, and at last pronounced the formula of divorce. Upon this, Izanami no Mikoto said: 'My dear Lord and husband, if thou sayest so, I will strangle to death the people of the country which thou dost govern, a thousand in one day.' Then Izanagi no Mikoto replied, saying, 'My beloved younger sister, if thou sayest so, I will in one day cause to be born fifteen hundred.' Then he said, 'Come no further'..." However, the Nihon Shoki records several variations of such stories. A lesser known one records their conversation at the Pass of Yomi, which in this alternate version is less scornful and more contemplative, as happening through an intermediary. It states: "… when he came to contend with his younger sister at the Even Pass of Yomi, Izanagi no Mikoto said, 'It was weak of me at first to sorrow and mourn on account of a relation.' Then said the Road-wardens of Yomi, 'We have a message for thee, as follows: "I and thou have produced countries. Why should we seek to produce more? I shall stay in this land, and will not depart along with thee"'..." While the above passage seems to indicate a bitter resignation to the cruel winds of fate, and thus a severing of the relationship between the two deities, it is followed by this mysterious line: “At this time Kukuri-hime no Kami said something which Izanagi no Mikoto heard and approved, and she then vanished away.” This is often interpreted as this suddenly-appearing deity, Kukurihime no Kami, at least partially reconciling the relationship between Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto; though the golden words through which she accomplished this feat have been lost to the sands of time. Kukurihime no Kami is one of the deities worshipped at Hakusan Shrines throughout Japan, which trace their origin back to the local beliefs around Hakusan (Mt. Haku), a set of three mountains located in current-day Ishikawa Prefecture. “Local farmers believed that Hakusan was a mountain inhabited by ‘water kami’ (suijin), dragon kami (ryujin), and the spirits of the dead,” writes Kokugakuin University regarding the nascent form of Hakusan faith. “Fishermen of the Japan Sea worshipped Hakusan as a kami of fishing and seafaring.” After the introduction of esoteric Buddhism in the Heian period, Hakusan faith became intertwined with it via Shugendo, a form of syncretic mountain worship. This influence can be observed in documents like the “Shirayama no ki,” which recorded details of the Hakusan belief system. Kokugakuin University continues: "The Shirayama no ki… states that the indigenous 'land master kami' (jinushigami) gave his land to Hakusan Gongen, and moved to Mount Bessan. This story is thought to reflect the expanded power of people who worshipped the newly Buddhist-styled Hakusan Gongen… The Shirayama no ki was copied 1439 but the original manuscript is believed to date back to the Heian Period. According to this text, Mount Gozenpō, where Kukurihime no kami is enshrined, was referred to by the name Zenjō (meditation), the kami was called Hakusan Myōri Daibosatsu, the 'original Buddhist deity' (honjibutu) of Kukurihime no kami was the Eleven-faced Kannon (Ekadasamukha Avalokitesvara)..." An interesting detail here is Kukurihime’s “original Buddhist deity,” named as Eleven-faced Kannon. This is a prominent example of the “Honji Suijaku” framework, which worked to recontextualize domestic Japanese deities as enlightened Buddhist beings, granting them a Buddha or bodhisattva as a “honji,” or “original ground,” from which they could be considered an emanation (or “suijaku,” meaning “trace”). The term “gongen” in the passage above is used for a mountain deity who acts as a local manifestation of an enlightened being; a Kami who is also a Buddha. In this case, the “gongen” is made up of three different emanations (a recurring theme in Shugendo-related beliefs), the primary one being Kukurihime no Kami, who is here called “Hakusan Myori Daibosatsu,” which can be roughly translated to “The Hakusan Great Auspicious Bodhisattva.” But her “original” form, as indicated above, would be the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Frameworks like Honji Suijaku illustrate how the “play of Buddhas” described in earlier essays was not limited to the realm of man. Instead, the enlightened Buddhas and bodhisattvas had been working to guide both man and kami alike since the age of the gods, thus the worship of figures like Kukurihime no Kami became intimately connected with Japanese Buddhist tradition. Through such a lens, it was not just Kukurihime no Kami the mountain goddess who reconciled Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, but an enlightened emanation of Avalokitesvara. To be continued…

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