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Why does Yoshiro becoming incapacitated affect Soh's physical form?
By physical form, it's referring Soh's ability to fight and interact with the world(in a limited way).
Soh has no physical body and the villagers cannot see Soh. Though they can 'feel' her or sense when she's close by whenever they're in the Spirit World.
Yoshiro and Soh are roles given by the Goddess.
A Maiden becomes Yoshiro and a Maiden who walked the Path becomes the Messenger, Soh.
The Maiden is also called the 'Spirit Stone Maiden'.
Because that's what she is. The next spirit stone but also an already existing one. It's simply a role that is filled by a girl chosen as the Maiden.
Soh's spirit stone is absorbed by Nanamagari and therefore Yoshiro becomes her new spirit stone because it's part of the role of the Maiden.
The Maiden is a Spirit Stone meant to house the Messenger Soh regardless of who is playing Soh.
Once Yoshiro began to walk the Path, Soh's spirit stone was dissolved, taken by the Seethe. This is when Soh becomes tethered to her. Or is she tethered to Yoshiro when Yoshiro is chosen as the Maiden?
Once you see these as roles and not individuals, it becomes a lot more clear.
The Maiden is also the acting Goddess. Or rather, this generation's Goddess.
As the Messenger of the Goddess, Yoshiro becoming afflicted affects Soh because Soh receives her power from the Goddess.
To support 'Yoshiro is the Goddess'...
When we face Cursed Soh, Yoshiro has the ability to hinder Cursed Soh's powers. I'm assuming it's because she's the Goddess of this generation. How else can she do that?
So yes, Cursed Soh is the defiled Goddess in this context because Soh was the previous Goddess and Cursed Soh is her defiled body. Yoshiro's physical appearance at this stage looks like Cursed Soh.
I was writing a post about Cursed Soh and began to really think about how Yoshiro and Soh are linked if they are not the same person. So I then had a lot of thoughts about this theory.
Is Yoshiro, our Maiden, always the spirit stone? Every cycle? It can't be because she's praying to a spirit stone in the beginning. She can't be praying to her own former body so it must be our Soh's. Especially since Cursed Soh emerges from Soh's spirit stone.
At the end of NG, Yoshiro takes the mask off Soh. A mask that belongs to the Goddess and Soh is then dismissed from her duty. We can then assume Yoshiro becomes the next Soh, the next Messenger of the next Goddess. She, as the Goddess, sends herself to look after the next Maiden.
In another post, I said 'The sender and sent are one'.
Which is true. Soh is the previous 'Goddess' that is sent by the Goddess(herself) to guide the Maiden, the next Goddess, on the Path.
How did the Path begin? A Maiden dedicated herself to the Goddess to stop the Seethe and was given powers? Or was she possessed by the Goddess?
Are Maidens actually possessed by the Mountain Goddess? Is she attempting to return?
Are they the Goddess moving through different bodies? Soh is able to tether herself to Yoshiro as if it she were her own spirit stone. These roles are intimately linked but the ones who fill them must also be linked, probably by blood. Or by soul?
Every generation, she is defiled again...
