due the lack of details, their purposes and all, i couldn't form a precise opinion about yakshini, her worshiper or the goat, which led me to consider their case another local folklore and nothing more, maybe influenced by hallucinogens (either because it enhances the connection to another life, or because their minds are simply playing tricks through the entities' images they themselves created), as happens in durgesh. like shangri-la, it's real in the game, but still a myth in kyrat, so any assumption would remain just an assumption. thanks to that post of yours, however, i find myself quite inclined towards this whole cultural potential she has. i'll use the version of pagan as rakshasa as an example: despite half real, created for a mode, his thangka implies what he is, a monster, and the rakshasas appear as his defenders. in canon, ajay takes on the role of kalinag defeating those demons. in canon, rakshasas invaded shangri-la, a mystical land, and destroyed it, just as pagan invaded kyrat, a land created in the real life by the goddess kyra for those who believe, and destroyed it. later, ajay touches a thangka and suddenly speaks hindi before dreaming? fighting? as kalinag. my point is, if we can see a parallel there, what prevents us from elaborating further? that does make sense if we are to consider the beliefs, the coexistence of worlds. it isn't irrational to say that there is connectivity between things. we find in hinduism how the physical and the spiritual aspect compose our complex, the current and previous lives. all possibilities are considerable even more so when we have the basis of a real culture and an incomplete fiction all mixed, since the practices and history of the deities in kyrat are shallow
yakshini concept fits this line of thinking and adds a cool suspense, powerful energy. the research you did using real references, the same ones that inspired the kyrati religion, and relating them to noore is the most interesting to me. an villager said that noore's the feminine form of yalung, then of course she can be this dark mistress from another world for those who believe! kyrat is a sacred, rich country, after all. now, i think the mind of that faithful follower is far from its pure sense. it's as if an unknown force joined with the strong will of a human body, spreading pure signs of his travel. the same thing that led kalinag back then to find shangri-la, the same thing that led ajay as well, the same thing that makes yuma believe in a kyrati superstition. the only difference between them is their goal in this world. that's why there are good energies and bad energies, gods and demons, the karma thing… i'm separating things in two, aren't i. well, according to kalinag, "demons had invaded shangri-la, not of this earth"; a rakshasa figure was chosen to represent pagan; the lost letters from that soldier are his only connection to this world, he said; and enlightenment, that is always mentioned by the people. maybe their own moksha? anyway, there's so much to be explored about people's senses. that group of soldiers at the offering: while they work for noore, they managed to go beyond the mundane through this connection, they end up seeing yakshini, serving her as if she existed among them. it seems that these souls lure wicked people, and they blindly serve them. while sabal prays to banashur and cleanses his soul, yakshini, in the other hand, is picking people using noore's figure from this reality. they can fear kali, who murder evil people, but unconsciously has noore in this life doing her own justice, persuading them until they're destroyed. also, the villagers call the hunters, who charm animals, ghosts, ancient souls, and i wonder if they're related to both, something about lost children and their matriarch. i've noticed, too, though everything happens in noore's territory, neither she nor any governor prohibits these sacrifices, only religious practices to gods who bring blessings to good people… convince me that they aren't demons from another life
