The gold 'tears trail' is similar to the gold lining on Yoshiro.
The colors inside her are the colors of the barrier we fight Cursed Soh.
So, is it safe to stay we fight the battle against Cursed Soh inside the spirit stone body?
And that the 'spirit stone' is meant to contain the defilement, like a barrier?
There's also the Japanese name:祇去. Kamusari. ( かむさり)
(Google translated it as 'kami gone' It meas the death of a God, according to the Kojiki but the kanji used in the Kojiki is 神避)
祇: Kunitsukami. Read as かむ. Kamu.
'去' can be read as the ashes of a Buddha, and we have seen that the Maiden is alike to a Buddha.
Soh's mazo talismans are also titled in reference to Buddhism: Deva, Bodhisattva, Nyorai.
They resemble Nanamagari and those figures on the sides of the Torii Gates:
The kanji used for this talisman aligns with the title of the game. But why 'forgotten' when she's actually 'dead'?
The stories of the Seethe mention monks a few times so Buddhism is likely existing alongside Shinto? We are in the Heian period after all.
During the Heian period (794-1185), a form of Buddhism usually called Tantric Buddhism in India, but Esoteric Buddhism in Japan became widely popular. The Shingon (True Word or Mantra) sect, founded by Kukai (774-835), was one of two Esoteric sects to spread at this time.Shingon was associated with a unique style of meditation that involved mandalas (artistic representations of various Buddhas and bodhisattvas or of the world as seen by those enlightened beings), mudras (symbolic hand positions associated with each Buddha and bodhisattva in the mandalas), and mantras (sacred Sanskrit verses associated with these figures). (source)
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| mandala on the maiden's belly in artwork. we can see them in Cursed Soh's arena too |
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| Mudra. She also performs a set of mudras in the beginning + the talisman 'Cursed Mudra' |
かむ can also be read as 'chew', and when combined with 'bones', does it imply the Seethe chewed on this Spirit Stone?
(the rice might be relevant too since Inari is a kami associated with rice)In the fight with Nanamagari, I called Shadow Soh the liquidated Spirit Stone, but when she goes to the shrine, the spirit stone is already there.
But it's not there when we fight Nanamagari and look into the shrine.
So I don't really know if the stone appears because Cursed Soh wants it to and it was originally absorbed by Nanamagari, or if only the power of the Goddess was absorbed from the stone and the stone was left.
Forgotten God has both spirit stone and bland stone that resembles the stone of Cursed Soh, which has no 'spirit stone' appearance like we see in Yoshiro and this talisman.
So the reason it's a talisman is likely the spirit stone in it!
I talked before abut this mazo talisman here: Soh's Spirit Form + another hint that she was a former Yoshiro + a Forgotten Goddess