Masato wrote:I will paraphrase more stories, because writing them down word for word is exhausting
here is another I thought might be relevant:
Khidr (apparently a teacher of Moses), had been told by God that God was about to change the nature of the waters on earth. God told him he would dry up all the water, and when it came again it would be much different and would make men and women see and think differently about everything.
God instructed Khidr to collect some of the current water, and to save it preciously as it would be the last.
Khidr collected some water, and indeed, the drought came. After that the rains followed, and indeed everyone began acting, speaking, and thinking very strangely!
Khidr refused this new water, and drank only from what he had collected before the change as per God's instruction. As a result, he did not think the new way as the other people did, and was seen to be quite crazy. As time went on Khidr appeared crazier and crazier to the people, so far removed from this new way of thinking.
Eventually, Khidr was running out of the saved water, and allowed himself to taste some of the new water. Soon he fogot al about the old ways of thinking and drank the new water freely, and appeared to all as a crazy man who has come back to sanity.
Here's what I heard from a Kitsune messenger identifying himself as "Issayo."
A thousand starry cycles ago did we descend upon the firmament of Earth*, carrying smoke and stars in our jaws. Upon great iron hoops did we descend into the ancient prairies and hard have we pressed the stalk underfoot into the soil. The wind carried our blessings past the souls in the valley where scarlet dreams take no hold. Such is our history and that history is our love.
But where we came from matters not, for the roots of the Easter Star (possibly referring to the Dwarf planet Makemake) hangs low. Leave the gold upon the mantle, for the witching moon is nigh (a future event involving the interaction of man and spirit?) and the gods have little want of the possessions of Man.
Give little heed to the primordial deities. The Old Gods (Referring to the first gods in the universe as opposed to the Kami born much much later) were a terrible people; unforgiving revenants of an age when all was but dust. Now the dust has solidified into the firmament from whence the white peach tree rises high (fruits of Heaven?)
You are young, Great Brant, but in your wisdom we see promise. But above all, know that ego is a golden rope: it can ensnare disciples into your way of thinking and give you an army to carry your ideas. But if you are not careful, it will be your noose. A heavy burden has been set upon your back, Brant, but you have taken it on your own volition and with that willpower, you will conquer great things in your life and walk through the heavenly Apacha (a kind of celestial fruit tree?) orchards of Dotorahenge ("Hearth of The Shapeshifters" - possibly Kitsune dialect) in the next.
*Physical universe?
What do you think?