..Suwako's there too, I guess.
And still a virgin!
>>50057110Finally autumn, huh? What a breath of fresh air. Here's to Kanako-sama.
I was just thinking of making a thread for her but you beat me to it. Oh well.
>>50057129because no one wants her! it would be sad, if it wasn't so funny!
>>50057550Kanako could lose her virginity at any time! The only reason she doesn't is because she doesn't want to give herself up unless it's a serious relationship, and no guy has stuck around long enough for it to get that far...
>>50057568the only husband she's ever had is currently limbless and trapped by lunarians! kanako didn't have sex even once while he was free! she's such a loser she can't even free her own husband! sad!
>>50057583...why are the moonies such massive fucking psychos?
>>50057583How's the husband doing now ?
>>50057668He's having trouble getting a leg up in his situation but I'm sure someone will lend him a hand.
>>50057110Always nice to see more of these two, Sanae gets so much uptime in comparison. The green girl is a drug that needs to be administered at regular intervals with a constant, available supply, whereas Kanako-sama's threads are like a good vintage. This is not a sneaky comment on her age.
Contemplating the sunrise with Kanako-sama
>>50059616What about Suwako-sama's threads?
>>50059694too eroit can't be helped
>>50059694You know what? I really couldn't say... I only remember vaguely feeling good when seeing them on the catalogue. Chalk it up to me avoiding threads of characters I haven't fought, and the time between threads.
You kno I always found the Mishaguji thing confusingKanako is associated with snake, and the Mishaguji look like giant, white snakes but I guess they aren't snakes.So Kanako is represented by a white serpent, while Suwako a green frog, but Suwako is the one who's really holding the Mishaguji's (who aren't snakes) reins?idk
>>50060074Mishaguji are ancient curse gods that are native to the land of Suwa. Their resemblance to snakes is a coincidence, you can basically consider them a third party seperate from the rest of the Moriya crew. Essentially, they had an understanding with their fellow native god Suwako, where as they held no allegiance towards the invasive Kanako.
>>50057550Suwako is doing Chrisposting for Kanako, pestering anons. Just like Yuiman for Ariya or Sumireko for Renko. It is really comedic.>>50057568That's an Ariya style, cope out. Kanako can't handle a man or even worse... An anon!
>>50060074The IRL Mishaguji lore goes something like this:In times that predated the arrival of the Yamato mythology, people in Suwa believed that something called Mishaguji dwelt in the heavens. It was apparently more of a "thing" than a deity, a kind of life force or energy. Some have found analogies with the Polynesian concept of mana, and in other places of Japan the kami are sometimes thought to descend from the skies in similar manner. Once in a year, if proper rituals were conducted, it was thought that the Mishaguji would descend down from the skies in massive amount and "communicate" have sex with a spirit serpent called Sosou. After this, the Sosou would "swell in size and become enormous" get pregnant, dig tunnels under Suwa and enrich the land and make it fertile. Over time Mishaguji, who was apparently thought to be invisible, came to be represented as it's more visible manifestation, the giant Sosou snake. As centuries passed, the Yamato conquered Suwa and first introduced their mythology, and later Buddhism. The associations between Sosou and Mishaguji changed, people started to conflate the two to a degree where Mishaguji became represented as snakes. These depictions can be to this day be found in things like the Mishaguji stones in Suwa, which often have snakes or spirals carved to them. As life was hard in Nagano, and Japanese culture generally doesn't have a clear good/evil duality going on, it was thought that the Mishaguji would cause famines and curses if they were not treated properly. The Yamato likely had an interest in highlighting the "curse god" aspect of Mishaguji to drive their own agenda. There's nothing particularly curse-heavy about old depictions of Mishaguji, as all deities and deity-like forces were thought to curse people if mistreated. In Japan, snakes are generally speaking considered a very common manifestation of the various kami. Because of that, elements of other snake kami and dragon myths started to be weaved into Suwa mythology. These include the legend of Hashi Saburo turning into a serpent while visiting underworld and Takeminataka no Mikoto turning into a serpent or dragon after his arms and legs were cut off. Other serpent-associated deities which were associated with the Suwa mythology were the Ugajin and Benzaiten. Both of these figures receded to the background after Buddhism and Shinto were forcibly separated.Suwako being a frog comes from lore associated with Ugajin, a really complex and convoluted entity blending Japanese, Chinese and Buddhism traditions. In the case of the Suwa, the Ugajin was associated with the kami who subdued the local monstrous frog or toad deity, Moreya. The frog deity was seen to represent various bad qualities like greed and ignorance, and by subduing the Moreya deity, these qualities were transformed into more enlightened ones. This is a mix of Yamato hagiography and Buddhist missionary work. In parallel, there was of course the tale of Takeminataka no Kami, sometimes seen as a serpent, sometimes as a human, subdying the Moreya deity. So it's kind of like two versions of the same story, one from a Buddhist POV and one from Imperial lineage POV. Suwako-sama represents the various indigenous beliefs of Suwa, and Kanako-sama represents the various Yamato-introduced beliefs. However, over centuries these have become completely intermingled, and it's very hard even for historians to pick out the exactly development of local mythologies. The Suwa Grand shrine long since developed it's own distinctive identity, and what was once introduced by the imperial core has abandoned it. The last lingering remnants of this is the Jinja Honcho association of shrines, and Suwa Taisha is not part of it. Suwa faith has truly become a completely hybridized thing of it's own. That's why Suwako-sama and Kanako-sama are so intertwined. The snake controls the frog, but the frog controls the snake. The official front is of Yamato mythology, but behind it are local beliefs.
Page 7? Not off to a great start, anon...
>>50062878Most of these character threads are ultimately slow image drips that get bounced every six to twenty-four hours by a single dedicated waifufag.Either that or they quickly die.
My 50 years of research indicates me that these threads are a sham.
>>50062878Just hard to say much after the effortpost above, it's a thing of beauty.
>>50062890I know but I can't help it.>>5006291950 years ago you were not even in your dad's ballsack yet. >>50062930I try my best. I have been reading a lot about medieval Japanese religion and snakes lately.
I now declare that Kanako's thread will die a painful premature death.
>>50062956>I know but I can't help it.No judgement, I'm the primary poster keeping another snake girl's thread alive through discussion droughts.
I notice that most Kanako art tends to give her big feet
Strong.
Bully the economics nerd!
>>50057110Kanako would be the first to state that Yuiman is the cutest, though.
>>50060234thanks for the read anon that was really informative, kinda fell down a rabbit hole researching adjacent stuff too.Was this from research or is there a useful reading list on this kind of stuff?
>>50071881It's research pieced together from various sources, but I can give you some I remember. The first point is honestly to read the Suwa lore related Wikipedia articles if you haven't, they are actually decent starting point.Here's an article in Japanese about the Shika no Kuni documentary, Mishaguji and Sosou: https://web-mu.jp/history/52397/I think it's good to get context for Japanese religion in general if you want to study these things. If you want an intro book, Abe Naobumi's & Michael Brasse's Gods of Japan is a very compact introduction to Japanese religion and takes the common "Shinto mythology is Yamato ancestor veneration" view. It's a decent enough source for that POV. Mimusubi, Living with Kami and Grooving with Kami are blogs in English from Shinto-adjanced people. Mimusubi is the guy who is Jinja Honcho's English translator, and basicaly presents their line of thinking. The other two are by Shinto priestesses. Reading them can help to open up the worldview, I remember Mimusubi has some downloadable PDF which went in depth about how the kami have different sides. Two books I recommend with some reservations are Kami no Michi which is very good but writen in kinda bad English and the Essence of Shinto which is written by a dude who is some kind of antisemitic conspiracy theorist (some here will just see it as a bonus) and his lineage might be kinda fake. With the latter, I have been able to substantiate most of the information presented from other sources, and the author complaining about lack of faith in modern Shinto is so Kanakopilled. Carmen Blacker's The Catalpa Bow highlights Japanese spiritual practices and beliefs outside of the core mythology. While it had little to no Suwa-specific stuff, there is a fair bit about the role of snakes in Japanese culture. Snake woman deity is apparently a pretty common cultural trope there. It also sets up the context in how *magical* Japan was up to the 1960s, ZUNs parents probably knew people who took part in exorcisms or mountain ascetism or spirit mediumship - or took part in these things themselves. If you want to go to a rabbit hole and can stomach his insanely heady mix of continental philosophy and esoteric buddhism, I recommend Bernard Faure's Gods of Medieval Japan. Volume 2 has the Suwa stuff, but without the context set in Volume 1 it's gonna come off really confusing. It might still be confusing, reading one Faure book feels like reading 20 normal ones. Japanese mythology is this crazy weave of deities swapping names and appearances, sometimes even having things like two antagonistic deities swapping identities. And still, it all somehow comes together around certain archetypes. Might as well as throw Thomas P. Kasulis' Shinto: The Way Home.
Page 9...really now?
I wonder what it's like to sleep under a kotatsu... but at the same time, I'm glad I don't know: if I did, I might not be able to sleep anywhere else again.
I have enrolled this snake to stare at you.
>>50079162and i've hired this yamabiko to stare at her back.
>>50079162I wonder how quickly I can make her blush
Is Kanako muscular or fat?
>>50080748
>>50082014What the fuck KanAIko
>>50063495I always notice Kanako's feet.
>>50063495More to kiss
Kanako-sama step on me!
The 4 hour old Sanae thread already has more posts than Kanako's thread.Do you think the Moriya Shrine is like that too? Everybody comes to see the young and beautiful living god, most of the masses probably don't even know whose shrine it is.
>>50082213there are several distractions
>>50082225If Suwako steals all the shotas and Sanae steals all the men, what's left for Kanako?
>>50082213Sanae is the priestess of the shrine, her job is to preach the good word of Moriya and be the spokesperson. She's doing her job, and directing prayer to the almighty Kanako-sama.Suwako's job is to sit back and do the actual work.Kanako's job is to sit and look pretty. This is where prayers are answered.
>>50082014>2023Someone should make one of these but with modern LLMs
>>50082014Twisted form of worship.
>>50057110Pyonta is the cutest goddess
>>50087426>goddesspyonta is a female cap?!?
>>50087426excuse you, pyonta is a MAN
How am I supposed to worship, let alone respect, two gods that jobbed to some evil spirit? They might as well be eye candy.
Every time you let this thread reach page 10 I'm going to bump with the real cutest goddess
>>50096439fine by me
>>50096439Oh anon, the frog and the snake are inseparable.
Kanako-sama.
>>50089794I'll be real with you guys, if I was a Moriya Shrine patron and I found out my shrine's gods couldn't handle a single evil spirit, I'd reconsider my faith. What good are gods that can't even handle one edgelord ghost?
Awaken the ancient power of snake.
>>50111393Awaken the ancient ppbbthphbh... channel the ppbpbbhthbph... become... the ppbpth.
>>50111644Poor Sanny...
>>50111644You mock the snake at your own expense. >>50116495Micro-Kanako.
kero~
I had a dream where someone showed me a picture of her in a snow storm and told me "this is for special situations only".
>>50126455it was a warning.
>>50128070I'm listening.
the millennium maiden!
Back in the medieval days, Benzaiten used to be worshipped at the upper shrine of Suwa Grand Shrine. I feel like some of that rubbed off onto Kanako-sama and how she is depicted.
>page 9You're not gonna be awakening the ancient power of snake at this rate, anon.
Anon...
>>50146467The thread is too slow because you're not answering the real questions:Has the Moriya Shrine addressed its apparent vulnerability to "a single angry ghost coming into the shrine and wrecking all of their collective shits?"If I were to donate to the Moriya Shrine, would Kanako be able to provide me with any sort of protection against youkai or evil spirits?If I allowed a youkai to kill me and became an evil spirit, I could probably easily solo Kanako?
>cutehags who groom little girls and kidnap them away into faraway lands are creepy, not cute
>>50134966Underrated chest.
>>50120005We already have one of those.
A few of them, actually.
>>50141703Is that the elusive coon-do-leany I keep hearing rumours of?
>>50146705Yeah she's sleeping at the base of your spine right now.
I miss Suwa.
Imagine being suddenly teleported into Gensokyou and randomly stumbling upon Kanako, and in classic Kanako-fashion she goes with her "worship me or else I will curse because I am le big bad stronk curse goddess" and instead of praying, you pull down your pants and start masturbating while making direct eye contact, pointing your dick directly at her face as you cum, then telling her "consider youself worshipped, whore" then leave the now paralized Kanako standing there with most perplexed look ever. Imagine.
>>50168898Twisted form of worship...
>>50169315I'll twist my cock in your ass.
>>50168898Considering that she attempted to murder Marisa for the crime of "visiting the Moriya Shrine at the wrong time", and by attempted to murder I mean flung several pillars, each weighing dozens of tons, at her...Well I'm sure you'll be fine.
demigurge thread
>>50168898I'd ask if I can worship her feet
>>50169478Marisa is an annoying thief, so it makes sense she would receive that treatment; Anon is just a normal man. I am sure Kanako will remember the day a human disrespected her and worshipped her simultaneously.
>>50169349Hmmm...homosexual.>>50169577No.
>>50169968I get the feeling you'd probably get that treatment the moment you whipped out your dick.On the flip side there's a small possibility you'll end up a vengeful spirit, which apparently means you can just do whatever you want to Kanako.
>>50172821>On the flip side there's a small possibility you'll end up a vengeful spirit, which apparently means you can just do whatever you want to Kanako.Fair. Time to fill my heart with hate and resentment so I become a vengeful spirit. My seed will be inside Kanako one way or another.
>>50175130Oh anon, don't you know that when dealing with goddesses, it's the goddesses energy that penetrates the man.
Shameful.
>>50169478I'm kinda glad I didn't read this shit.
>>50179110It's probably for the best.
>>50179102>Kanako(69)heh
>>50179123-I am a powerful divine spirit, worship me mort-ACK-gets defeated by a random vengeful spiritShit tier writing, ZUN is a hack. If this is how it actually is, then the hentai version of Gensokyou is closer to canon than ever; you could hypnotize her with a string and a coin, then have her ride your dick day and night.
>>50169315That's not even as positive as twisted worship. Just hex him.
>>50179214Not just Kanako, Suwako and Marisa were also defeated, and the spirit just kind of runs off with Sanae's body (presumably abandoned in some ditch in the Buddhist graveyard, considering that's where we see her next victim).When people say it reads like a bad fan fiction they aren't lying, the only thing separating it from the dozens of shitty revenge shit fan fictions out there is the fact that nobody dies somehow.
>>50179443Technically Mizuchi did die, though not during the incident
>>50179080>it's the goddesses energy that penetrates the manSo, Kanako is a futa and will "punish" me by cumming inside me for the rest of my life? Sign me the fuck up, time to engage in the most wicked form of worship.
>>50179941Yes, yes, if you really want it to be like that. Now learn to properly relax your root chakra.
Kanako-sama...
Just masturbated to Kanako again. Consider ypurself worshipped for the day grandma.
