@sarahdoingthing but anyway, hanging tree churns into brief mainstream prominence for some damn reason--movie or article, don't remember--
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@sarahdoingthing other egregores are shamanic/divine--whimsical, unbindable, cryptic -
@sarahdoingthing (huge underappreciated spiritual technology triumph of chinese civilization was to bind all the little gods to heaven) -
@St_Rev How did they accomplish it? -
@sarahdoingthing Extending the cultural triumph of the Han to the spirit world, I think. Enshrined the Yellow Emperor. -
@sarahdoingthing ie answer is supercomplex and probably requires understanding the entire cultural tradition--beyond human grasp -
@sarahdoingthing (Lovecraftian/Landian connection there--the King in Yellow, the Yellow Emperor--egregores are real, unknowable, gigantic) -
@St_Rev I wonder if it makes sense to say they have their own agency - being treated as if you have agency seems to make it kind of true -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing This is very nearly the premise of Max Gladstone's fantasy series, in which wizards and lawyers are the same thing. -
@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing This is a major aspect of the Daoist priesthood--combination lawyer/ghostbuster for dealing w/spirits -
@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing Confucians for the rites of human society, Daoists for the rites of the spirit world. -
@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing Like Mr. Vampire where the Daoists bind vampires by *literally* tacking scrolls to their foreheads.
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