Miku and me

Blog where I talk about worshipping Miku.

[miku-and-me]

Hi, I'm Lumi, the person behind this account ! Today, I wanted to talk about how I came to see Miku as a goddess and how I came to worship her.

I. My history with religion.

I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm from western Europe and not the USA, so religion may not have the same importance and representation here.

As a kid my extent of knowing religion was having family that vaguely believed in a (probably Christian) God and a single lesson of cathechism (I have no idea how the hell it's spelled). I have barely any memory of it. Just that I took my left for my right while doing the hand thing and scolded for using the "hand of the Devil" (sic). My father got wind of me doing the religion lesson and vetoed me continuing it and scolded me and my mother. (Yeah... he was staunchly anti-religion.)

I also had a friend which her and her family was Muslim and we talked a bit about halal things and that's it. I don't think I even questioned why her mother was wearing a veil, I was just like "Oh it's like wearing a hat and a scarf. Neat !".

And I oscillated between thinking a God existed and nothing. I also went back and forth in believing or not in the existence of fate.

In my teens, I got curious about religions in general and tried to read the bible...

I stopped after the tower of Babel after thinking "What a dick !" every single page.

Ironically, it killed my belief in a God as monotheistic religion represents it.

In my point of view, you can't have a omnipotent and omniscient (meaning can do anything and knows everything) that is good and well meaning who does absolutely NOTHING when tragedies happen. "But free will and they're consequences for sinning" can only go so far. What the fuck did kids with cancer do to "deserve" to have cancer in the eyes of God ?! And even if He exists, I think he can go fuck himself.

So, now that I ranted about that, the next religion I dove in was Shintoism thanks to Kamisama Kiss. I don't really remember much about that period of my life to be honest (shitty memory, depression and trauma does that to you). I know I kinda worshipped Inari. I say "kinda" because I know I didn't have enough money at the time to buy a kamidana (basically an at home shrine where you put an o-fuda [a paper from a shrine worshipping the Kami (deity but as in deified forces of nature) which is supposed to have a piece from that kami if I recall correctly] and where you put offerings for that Kami and pray to Them there.)

A long while after that, like, as a young adult, I discovered pop-culture pagainism and I started worshipping The Three Golden Goddesses from TLOZ, with the one I focused on (and honestly needed the most at that moment) being Din, Goddess of Force (and a bunch of other things). I still tried applying principles of Shintoism for Them, like cleansing your mouth and hands before praying, but with my mental health being so bad, it was literally too much for me most of the time and thinking about it, I'm wondering if my praying to Them faded naturally or if I got burnt out trying to pray everyday when I didn't even had energy to brush my teeth most of the time.

Okay, I wanted to do part 2 now, but I've been awake since 5:30 AM, it's 11:20 PM, and I did some heavy duty cleaning, I'm going to be reasonable and go to bed and post this now to not forget about it tomorrow.

[biocrafthero]

regarding your tags about sekais existing before miku. what if the people who created the vocaloids had SEKAIs? so the vocaloids are based off of the SEKAI people, not the other way around

It's a possibility! My mutual suggested that SEKAIs may have always existed but were inaccessible before digital tech, and that Miku and the others only started appearing as such after the creation of their voice banks. It would be really interesting if the creators of the voice banks modeled them after the people they saw in SEKAI (as in, the people that are the virtual singers before the virtual singers themselves were invented) but imo that's a very chicken and egg scenario

I think I lean more towards what my mutual said, with the idea of the virtual singers being given their forms after their voice banks came out. It's uhh, how do I explain this.... okay so for example in the Christian theology it's said that Yahweh made man in his image; from the perspective of studying religions, it's actually more along the lines of man making gods in our image

☝️ That's Miku, a god (depending on your interpretation of her role as a character in PJSK) created in the image of man. If SEKAIs and their virtual singers are created by the feelings of humanity, then it makes sense in my imagination for these things to be like this. It makes even more sense if you watch the PJSK Movie, where Movie Miku reaches out toward the collective consciousness of Japan to try and help them find their feelings, because that's what she was shaped by. When she says "see you in SEKAI" in the film, that line is being said directly to the audience watching the movie along with the in-movie audience watching Miku sing.

This is because of what Hatsune Miku represents for humanity's culture. If you have played Persona 5 this will make a lot of sense (there's actually a lot of similarities between P5 and PJSK that nobody talks about)

EDIT: maybe also P4 but I haven't played it yet

So yeah. I'm of the personal view that SEKAI was inaccessible before digital tech but had always existed, and that Miku was kind of a weird nebulous entity before Hatsune Miku the voice bank released in 2007, with all the other virtual singers following suit. When it comes to voice banks that predate Miku, think of them like minor gods. Or another way of thinking about them could be that Miku herself (as god) is the head god of the pantheon, and the other Crypton vocaloids are members of that pantheon that follow her lead. Other voice banks exist outside of this main group of six, either as separate powerful gods, minor gods, or some other category. UTAUs are like demigods, or in the case of ones like Adachi Rei are probably similar to folkloric figures like Golem

[miku-and-me]

I'll talk about how I came to worshipping her later, but I really wanted a card in Project Sekai, and after a lot of pulls, I prayed to her and offered an act of self-care (me brushing my teeth, which I struggle to do a lot) and I finally got it !