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does anyone still teach how to calculate directional taboos through Onmyōdō like in the Heian period. I want the experience of not being able to travel in a certain compass direction due to a divine presence

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Kyuu kyuu nyo ritsu ryou 急急如意令 is a real thing that onmyouji says. To my understanding, in the onmyoudou practice, this is not a spell on itself. It’s used at the end of the incantation, almost like saying “Amen” at the end of a prayer.

The origin of this is some sort of post-script in ancient Chinese official memos that means “Do the above immediately”. So when the onmyouji says it, it's something along the lines of “may the spell I just recited take effect at once”.

What is actually a spell is, for example rokkon shoujou 六根清浄 (cleanse the six roots of senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste, and thought).

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So it's a long-standing bit of Touhou lore that a shikigami is a computer. They follow orders, they act up occasionally, they're really good at math. Likewise, it's long-standing that Ran Yakumo is such a powerful shikigami that she has her own shikigami, Chen. So she's a computer with her own computer.

My question is, how do you extend the metaphor that far? Is Chen best modeled as a subsidiary part of Ran, like a math coprocessor or a graphics chip? Or is she more like an old Palm Pilot, or a side-loading e-reader or media player: separate but depending on the parent computer to load data or programs?

Or is Chen more like a microcontroller hooked up to perform real-time tasks or provide more general purpose I/O? Guys, is Chen an Arduino?

(Shikigami are, by the by, a real feature of Japanese occult lore. They're the tools of the diviners and sorcerers known as the onmyoujin: summoned/created servants, often bound into paper manikins or animals. You might compare them to the tulpa of Theosophy (from Tibetan Buddhism) or the egregore of Western magical practice.)

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So the “amen and awoman” thing got me thinking, the formula that onmyōdō ends its invocations with, kyūkyū nyo ritsuryō (急急如意令), literally meaning “quickly accord with the law”, is the Japanese pronunciation of a Classical Chinese phrase once used in Tang Dynasty government edicts.

The interesting thing is 如 sounds like the Chinese for “woman”, that’s why it has the 女 radical (generally 口 + something else, in one hanzi, means “sounds like the other part”). So you could have a complete idiot onmyōji who, wanting to be inclusive, says “急急如𠲸意令” (probably kyūkyū nyodan ritsuryō; 𠲸 is such an obscure hanzi I can’t find how it’s pronounced, let alone what it means, in either Chinese or Japanese dictionaries, and it hasn’t got a Wiktionary entry).

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