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Talk:Yaoyorozu no Kami

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Suggesting merge

It looks like this page is a dead copy of the article in the "God" page (Link), or vice versa (expect the headline). Therefore I believe this page should be merged or simply deleted.--Doncot (talk) 12:57, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Kanako

Could someone explain why Kanako does not belong on this page? Suwako is here, and they are equal in their type of godhood. Also, Kanako is specifically the god of wind. So, why does she not fit? a0r10n (talk) 06:29, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

The Yaoyorozu no Kami, or myriad gods, isn't directly just gods in general (in Touhou, at least). Part of Shinto is the animist premise that gods inhabit pretty much everything; that nature and everyday objects have some sort of essence and can be respected or in some cases worshiped. In Touhou, these gods are "born" from faith in that concept, i.e. people believe gods are part of nature and things, and so those gods manifest as such. But not all god-like things in the Touhou universe are Shinto-based kami, even if they also follow the general rule of requiring faith to exist (on some level).
In the case of Suwako, she is a god native to the Suwa region that was born out of faith alone, so she is one of the myriad gods. Kanako instead is an ascended divine spirit, which are essentially the manifestations of worshiping humans in a way that they're considered gods rather than humans. Kanako in particular is thought to have come from deification stories of some person (or several people) whose identities have been lost to history. It's implied that since Kanako's origin is based off of both Takeminakata and his wife Yasakatome, and maybe more, who themselves might be based on ancient historical figures that have been deified, Kanako is considered this kind of god rather than one that was just established by faith and tradition. In any case, it's explicitly stated in SoPM both that Kanako is 1) a divine spirit, and 2) not one of the myriad gods as Suwako is.
See: Symposium of Post-mysticism/Kanako Yasaka, Symposium of Post-mysticism/Suwako Moriya, Perfect Memento in Strict Sense/Divine Spirit, wikipedia:Takeminakata
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Drake Irving (talkcontribs) 10:35, 13 July 2016 (UTC)