"Messenger of the True God"

The script

In the original script of the Kunitsu-Gami play, Soh is referred to as the Messenger of the True God.

sigh...the translation...

This is a bootleg translation...yet isn't it a strange thing?

The word used is 真神. Makami/Magami. An archaic form of wolf. 

Yes, Okami. Could it be...?

So not 'true god' but rather...Great God?

Did Amaterasu interfere?
Is it a way to hint at it being Amaterasu? Or another God? A white wolf one?

Is Soh's costume here not just an Okami thing but also meant to hint at this wolf deity the original Soh served?

Japanese Wolf

The kanji for Goddess (大神) can be read as Mikami or O-Kami both meaning ‘great deity’ (though Mikami usually refers to female deities)

 Lovely little article.

This theory mentions it might be a god like the one in Princess Mononoke. They also gave me the confidence to look more closely at this 'true god'.

A wolf god...perhaps it's a hint at Amaterasu, or perhaps 'Soh' is serving this forgotten deity. 

Amaterasu is said to have worn men's armor, or military armor, when meeting her brother at one point. 

Now, wouldn't it make sense for her messenger to be dressed as Soh? If said Messenger must go out and battle evil? Even more so if the Messenger and the one who sent her are one in the same, as hinted by masks.

I've also heard she's very fond of her shrine maidens. Or maidens in general...but I don't have evidence of this. I just read it once. Disregard it.

Here's a very interesting write-up on Amaterasu as a 'masculine' goddess.

More on Amaterasu hints in Kunitsu-Gami.

Cursed Soh's colors being rainbow-like colors...and rainbows are pure light passing through something like glass(mirror) and refracting. A mirror is made of glass but instead of reflecting, the light was refracted?Soh emerges from a place that looks like a kaleidoscope, just like the Unknown Land. But a kaleidoscope is a reflection...

Let's move onto evidence for the opposite: evidence that it might be the Mountain Goddess, the original one and not the ones the Maidens become when they become Spirit Stones. 

There had been numerous other aliases referring to Japanese wolf, and the name ōkami (wolf) is derived from the Old Japanese öpö-kamï, meaning either "great-spirit" where wild animals were associated with the mountain spirit Yama-no-kami in the Shinto religion, or "big dog",or "big bite" (ōkami or ōkame),[ and "big mouth"; Ōkuchi-no-Makami (Japanese) was an old and deified alias for Japanese wolf where it was both worshipped and feared, and it meant "a true god with big-mouth"... (x)

So it might actually be hinting at the Mountain Goddess as well, as she can also use a wolf as a symbol. It's worth noting wild animals and domesticated animals adore Soh and Yoshiro.

But another important thing to note here...the play is a prequel.

This is the very first appearance of 'Soh' who is considered nameless. This isn't our Soh.

It's the very first Messenger, who was sent by the True God. Not by the Mountain Goddess, which used a different kani in the game. It must be intentional then. It has to be a different God.

Our Soh is called Soh because she is an ancestor of the Maiden.

The very first Soh was no one's ancestor.

So, who sent her?

Could it be Soh was sent by the true Mountain Goddess and a distinction between her and the Maiden as the goddess is being made here? Because we know once she becomes a Spirit Stone, the Maiden, as the 'Goddess', sends her spirit as Soh to guide the next Maiden.

Could it be...that the very first Messenger was the Mountain Goddess's spirit?

If the cycle is repeating, and it's why we play as the same Soh and Yoshiro the entire 8 cycles, then the Spirit Stone in the beginning is the Mountain Goddess and Soh is the spirit of her. 

Then Soh is not 'ancestor' but 'esteemed one'.

In the play, Soh is said to take her hand and dance the Kagura with her. During the Kagura, she becomes the Goddess. Could this be implying Soh is the Goddess and during this moment is when Yoshiro becomes the vessel for her?

It also says they 'resume dancing the Kagura'. Was Soh always with her?

Problem is...the kanji. As I said, why use a different one? The Mountain Goddess they made a pact with would use the same kanji as this true god if she were the one being referred to.

That forgotten deity and her colors...and the colors of Cursed Soh...

Another problem is that it's not one cycle being repeated either. Canonically, NG+, with the True Ending, is Cycle 8. The Seethe get stronger as humanity's defilement worsens. It's why the Seethe overtake the summit and the ritual is forced to commence earlier.

The ritual of impurity, where Yoshiro walks the Path, is something that happens every generation. It's a celebratory event. (The script says strange things...like their lifespan being only 7 days? I think the translation on Google is just bad.)

Onto the script of the play that was used.

So, it's the Mountain Goddess

Now, wasn't that anti-climatic? 

I wrote this post as I was doing research so the discoveries are made as I write. But I ended up googling the kanji used for Mountain Goddess and saw some interesting things...