kermecat
@kermecat.bsky.social
student of Religious Studies, researching Japanese New Religious Movements. interested in Buddhism, Shinto, Daoism, Confucianism, Japan, East Asia, Anthropology, Ethnography. 日本語を勉強しています
The lack of 4 feathered wings amd canine features is what bothers me the most.
It's like someone ordered Satanic Panic on Temu.
It's like someone ordered Satanic Panic on Temu.
August 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The lack of 4 feathered wings amd canine features is what bothers me the most.
It's like someone ordered Satanic Panic on Temu.
It's like someone ordered Satanic Panic on Temu.
I am very irritated that this viral image of "Pazuzu" is AI-generated and looks *nothing* like historical depictions of Pazuzu, who has "claws or talons, two separate pairs of wings, the tail of a scorpion, a penis with the head of a snake, and a canine mouth".
August 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I am very irritated that this viral image of "Pazuzu" is AI-generated and looks *nothing* like historical depictions of Pazuzu, who has "claws or talons, two separate pairs of wings, the tail of a scorpion, a penis with the head of a snake, and a canine mouth".
Perhaps you'd be interested in this museum exhibition?
May 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Perhaps you'd be interested in this museum exhibition?
Not an expert but I think it could be argued that 'youths' were assigned male not at birth but at 15 years old.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not an expert but I think it could be argued that 'youths' were assigned male not at birth but at 15 years old.
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When were y'all going to tell me about magic castanets in the Nichiren tradition?
March 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
When were y'all going to tell me about magic castanets in the Nichiren tradition?
does anyone know if Ephesians 1:18-19 is used in any exorcism or deliverance prayers? It's recited by a character in Blue Exorcist against a giant squid demon. They also refer to this piece of scripture as eishou 詠唱, a chant(?).
February 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
does anyone know if Ephesians 1:18-19 is used in any exorcism or deliverance prayers? It's recited by a character in Blue Exorcist against a giant squid demon. They also refer to this piece of scripture as eishou 詠唱, a chant(?).
from "Buddhism in Chinese History" by Arthur F. Wright, 1959, p. 56.
February 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
from "Buddhism in Chinese History" by Arthur F. Wright, 1959, p. 56.
The "iconography refers not only to Erasmus’s commentary on the Gospel of Saint Luke but, in the diagram of the horoscope of Christ which he includes, the De astorum iudiciis, an edition of a work by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, published in Basel in 1554."
December 15, 2024 at 3:05 PM
The "iconography refers not only to Erasmus’s commentary on the Gospel of Saint Luke but, in the diagram of the horoscope of Christ which he includes, the De astorum iudiciis, an edition of a work by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, published in Basel in 1554."
I'm reminded of this book
December 13, 2024 at 5:12 AM
I'm reminded of this book
How do we know Amida's vessel is not a duck paddle boat?
November 28, 2024 at 2:07 AM
How do we know Amida's vessel is not a duck paddle boat?
Unfortunately I don't know. I'm following the translation of Alfred Kee, who I think is Chinese Australian, from this book:
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Unfortunately I don't know. I'm following the translation of Alfred Kee, who I think is Chinese Australian, from this book:
I'm learning about the Book of Changes and Wen Wang Gua divination, and I made/edited a few charts. Perhaps others will find them useful.
The first image shows Six Auspicious Beasts (六神獣), with four of them from the Kitora Tomb (キトラ古墳). Each Beast is assigned to a line of the hexagram.
The first image shows Six Auspicious Beasts (六神獣), with four of them from the Kitora Tomb (キトラ古墳). Each Beast is assigned to a line of the hexagram.
November 20, 2024 at 1:20 PM
I'm learning about the Book of Changes and Wen Wang Gua divination, and I made/edited a few charts. Perhaps others will find them useful.
The first image shows Six Auspicious Beasts (六神獣), with four of them from the Kitora Tomb (キトラ古墳). Each Beast is assigned to a line of the hexagram.
The first image shows Six Auspicious Beasts (六神獣), with four of them from the Kitora Tomb (キトラ古墳). Each Beast is assigned to a line of the hexagram.
I'm looking it up now and this very specific style (from VIII - XIII century) exists in central europe in general, not only in the Czech Republic. One theory says it's an influence of the Byzantine Empire through their missionary activities in the region.
August 14, 2023 at 8:46 PM
I'm looking it up now and this very specific style (from VIII - XIII century) exists in central europe in general, not only in the Czech Republic. One theory says it's an influence of the Byzantine Empire through their missionary activities in the region.
reading this passage in school (at 15 years old) was absolutely foundational for me in understanding the entire system of national education and national history/culture as disseminated by the state. Witold Gombrowicz "Ferdydurke"
July 23, 2023 at 4:35 PM
reading this passage in school (at 15 years old) was absolutely foundational for me in understanding the entire system of national education and national history/culture as disseminated by the state. Witold Gombrowicz "Ferdydurke"
Wendi L. Adamek in "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (2021) translates a fragment of The Candragarbha-sūtra which was carved on a wall in Baoshan in the Dazhusheng 大住聖 cave.
![At that time the World-Honored One said to Candragarbha Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva, “Understand, Pure Gentleman, that as long as I am in the world the śrāvakas’ (disciples’) maintenance of moral discipline is complete, their generosity is complete, their hearing of [the Dharma] is complete, their meditation is complete, their wisdom is complete, their liberation is complete,
their direct knowledge of liberation is complete, and my True Dharma is blazing in the world. As for the gods and humans, they are also able to manifest the universal True Dharma. In the five hundred years after my parinirvāṇa (final nirvāṇa) all the monks will still, through my Dharma, be firm in liberation. In the next five hundred years, in my True Dharma the practice of meditation and samādhi (chanding sanmei 禪定三昧) will remain firm. In the next five hundred years, chanting and erudition will remain firm. In the next five hundred years, in my Dharma the building of many stūpas and temples will remain firm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nckv3mccrwfruxrjnkndxpjk/bafkreig3lu3v7ujbks67dhjutoygjs3ezigg66e2cglgwvrgfs7e66rpiu@jpeg)
July 23, 2023 at 2:05 PM
Wendi L. Adamek in "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (2021) translates a fragment of The Candragarbha-sūtra which was carved on a wall in Baoshan in the Dazhusheng 大住聖 cave.
Thank you so so much. You are a life saver. I'm researching millenarianism in a Japanese New Religious movement called Sūkyō Mahikari 崇教眞光 and I'm reading a book written by their current spiritual leader, Okada Kōō 岡田 光央. And on page 72:
July 23, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Thank you so so much. You are a life saver. I'm researching millenarianism in a Japanese New Religious movement called Sūkyō Mahikari 崇教眞光 and I'm reading a book written by their current spiritual leader, Okada Kōō 岡田 光央. And on page 72:
I can't find an english translation of Candragarbha sutra 月藏分經 and I really really need these few lines. Would any kind soul out there check my translation? 🥺
July 22, 2023 at 9:50 PM
I can't find an english translation of Candragarbha sutra 月藏分經 and I really really need these few lines. Would any kind soul out there check my translation? 🥺
“The Buddha statue was made from stone probably quarried from the region just south of modern Istanbul (Turkey) and it must have been sculpted locally at Berenike [Egypt] and dedicated to the temple by one or more rich merchants from India”
July 6, 2023 at 6:52 PM
“The Buddha statue was made from stone probably quarried from the region just south of modern Istanbul (Turkey) and it must have been sculpted locally at Berenike [Egypt] and dedicated to the temple by one or more rich merchants from India”
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) "Picture of a Real, Wild Tiger Drawn from Life"
July 5, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) "Picture of a Real, Wild Tiger Drawn from Life"
Unfortunately the only non-European language I can type in is Japanese. and indeed, qwerty is the intermediate. But not on smartphones! the system reminds me of how we used to type on old Nokia phones - 3 or 4 letters per 1 button.
July 5, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Unfortunately the only non-European language I can type in is Japanese. and indeed, qwerty is the intermediate. But not on smartphones! the system reminds me of how we used to type on old Nokia phones - 3 or 4 letters per 1 button.
I'll see your horny posting, and I raise you this! The magnificent Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf!
July 3, 2023 at 11:35 PM
I'll see your horny posting, and I raise you this! The magnificent Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf!
North-east is called "the demon gate" kimon 鬼門, the direction from where the demons come. To deny them entry you can make a "dent" in the house/fence (which makes sense to me), you can place a shrine there (basic apotropaic logic), or you can put white stones. why stones??
July 2, 2023 at 10:07 PM
North-east is called "the demon gate" kimon 鬼門, the direction from where the demons come. To deny them entry you can make a "dent" in the house/fence (which makes sense to me), you can place a shrine there (basic apotropaic logic), or you can put white stones. why stones??