novel-bin Chapter 33
Chapter 33
A new shrine has opened on the outskirts of Tokyo.
In September, someone took a blurry photo with a flip phone while passing through the countryside, and posted it on the Internet, leaving a short essay.
/ What a magnificent and solemn shrine, I don’t know which god is enshrined. /
One after another, some people left messages under his essays.
/Because the work passed by there, it is indeed a very impressive shrine, but unfortunately, it seems that it has not been built yet, and outsiders are not allowed to enter and visit. /
/When I went out for a picnic with my family, I saw it from a distance across the lake, and I was immediately struck by the quiet and solemn feeling of the shrine. I couldn’t help but search the Internet when I got home. I didn’t expect it to be so early Photos have been posted before. /
/ I saw the torii in front of the approach and the shinian rope tied at the entrance, as if the entire mountain forest was included within the scope of the shrine. /
/It is said that it is a private shrine, which is not open to the public and outsiders are prohibited from entering. /
/What a pity. /
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/ This shrine is now complete.Because I happened to be doing viewfinder work nearby, I flew a drone into the sky to take a set of photos. [Share pictures][Share pictures]/
/!The area covered is really amazing, it looks almost the same as Fushimi Inari Shrine! /
/Thousands of torii gates on the approach make people goosebumps. The long red road that spreads all the way to the top of the mountain looks particularly conspicuous in the middle of the surrounding forest. clean it. /
/The building beside the lake is the main hall where the gods live. Standing there alone and lonely, people can't help but feel a sense of awe that they don't want to be disturbed. /
/ All the buildings that should be in the shrine seem to be visible in this picture, from the torii gate, the approach, the water house, the shrine hall to the Kagura hall and the dance hall, and these two buildings that I circled in red It should be the Treasure Hall and the Mikoshi Hall, wow, it really has everything. [share pictures]/
/It's strange, but the most common granting offices and social affairs offices are invisible. /
/Because it is a private shrine and does not accept worshipers, it is probably because there is no need to grant gods to worshipers. /
/Social affairs office is there, because the color is not bright enough, it is far away and relatively low, and most of it is covered by trees, so I can’t see it clearly, I circled it. [share pictures]/
/ That is not a social affairs office, it should be the place where the priests and maidens who serve the gods live. You see, this is a closed mansion style and is not open to the public. /
/ There is not even a conferring office or a social affairs office. It should be that it has never planned to make money from open viewing when it was first established. /
/ It is pure god-respecting heart, because of this, I yearn for this shrine even more. /
/The person who sponsored the establishment of this shrine must be a pious person. /
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/ Turned to a blog from a long time ago!I don't know if anyone is still watching, but I'm so excited, I will lose sleep all night if I don't vent it!
I really hit the big luck so I chose to climb the mountain today to watch the sunrise. I set off at 03:30 in the morning and arrived near this shrine at four o'clock. I planned to start climbing after a little preparation, but in Just before dawn in the pitch-black darkness, I suddenly saw some star-like bright lights in the distance, lit up one after another, and the orange flames spread for several kilometers in the pure darkness.
Shocked by that scene, I forgot my plan to climb the mountain. I just thought it would be a pity if no one recorded this scene. Because it was originally intended to be used to record the sunrise of the day, I specially brought a camera and a tripod out. Just ready to use it!
Because I was reluctant to edit even 1 minute, so I simply uploaded the entire recorded video to the Internet and released it. Please be sure to watch the end completely, and it will cleanse your soul! [share video link]/
The video without any soundtrack is opened, and the first thing people feel is silence.
At four o'clock in the morning, the night was dark, and in the mountains and forests on the outskirts, there were only the sounds of insects and grass blades, like gentle white noise, echoing in my ears.
On the long, winding, bottom-up mountain road, there is a team carrying old-fashioned lamps with warm fire, surrounded by solemn and luxurious shrines with curtains on all sides, silently and firmly going up. walking.
In that picture, the leader of the team gradually approaching is wearing a solemn and complicated black formal kimono, with strange patterns like spells drawn on it with gold thread, stepping on heavy wooden clogs, and holding six sides painted The panchi lamp with gorgeous patterns is slowly rotating, and there is an empty white mask on its face, with only dark and weird holes dug out in the facial features.
He turned his eyes and glanced at the screen lightly. His pupils reflected a little red light that flickered when the camera was running in the dark mountain forest. His eyes were cold and sharp, piercing like a sword to everyone watching this video, even through the screen. , making people suddenly feel a biting cold.
Apparently, the leader had spotted the camera that was filming.
But he didn't seem to want to interrupt the ceremony because of this, he quickly turned his head away, walked over calmly as if he didn't see anything, and the team following him also followed the leader, and no one cast eyes in this direction anymore , each of them, wearing a mask that looked pale and strange, walked past quietly holding a lamp like a ghost.
It doesn't look like a devout believer who worships a god, but a cultist who fanatically follows an evil god.
Looking from a distance, the warm and bright God-inviting team becomes creepier the closer you get. The white masks and heavy black suits are obviously a huge team of more than a hundred people, but they are as silent as a hundred ghosts from hell. , From the beginning to the end, there was no sound at all.
It wasn't until the high-lifted shrine appeared in the picture that a little bright color appeared in front of people's eyes.
The bright red mikoshi is decorated with gold foil patterns, the top cover is made of gold ornaments, and bead curtains made of jade hang down on all sides, shaking and colliding with a crisp sound, through the scattered jade bead curtains, you can blur Suddenly, I saw a shadowy figure sitting inside the shrine illuminated by the dim yellow light.
Wearing a long undergarment inside, wearing a white scarlet hakama, and a gorgeous pine and crane pattern Chihaya on the outside, and holding a painting fan, it is a traditional shrine maiden costume. It seems to be the Mugou Kamito who is in charge of inviting the gods.
It's just that the figure looks quite young, only about 110 centimeters tall, like a child.
What is unusual is that the Miko sitting in the mikoshi did not tie her long hair with white sandalwood paper, but had raven-black and smooth long hair hanging loose, with a hair band on her forehead, leaving a gap on each side. A lock of long hair was tied with four golden bells, and there were crisp bells jingling in the slight shaking.
In the silent atmosphere where everyone walked forward without looking sideways, the god child who was surrounded by everyone cast a curious glance at the camera through the bead curtain, revealing a white face.
As expected, it was a child's face. For the ceremony, gold powder was used to lightly smear a long mark at the end of the eyes, and red grease was also used on the lips to add a little color, but it still couldn't conceal the innocence on his body. And the immature childish temperament, those dark and clear pupils only have the transparency like spring water, lightly passed the camera with red light spots, and then followed the movement of the mikoto, and looked away. .
In the dull night, amidst all the silence, only a touch of color, a crisp sound, and a bit of fresh breath of life when the Son of God passed by, liberated people from the solemn ceremony that dared not take a breath.
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The blog, which originally only had a few comments, suddenly became popular because of this 10-minute long video recording, and the comments below were eagerly scrolling.
/ Where is this shrine? ! /
/Which god is this enshrined in?Never seen such a ceremony? /
/Is this another kind of god-inviting ceremony? /
/ If the shrine has just been built, it should be a ceremony to invite the gods to live in the new hall, right? /
/ I was still complaining about the photographer's "mind being washed" at the beginning. The first half is obviously only depressing and creepy, but after seeing the young and innocent son of God at the end, I really feel squeezed on my heart All of my negative emotions were instantly cleared away! /
/ Is it a private shrine?Is there really no possibility of an open house? /
/ The desire to see this Son of God is really strong. /
/Why do you wear that scary mask?It looks like a cultist, and the Son of God who is clearly enshrined is bright and warm. /
/ Being able to shoot such a video and record such a ceremony is definitely a miracle! /
/Only this son of God appears in the video, and everyone else is wearing black clothes and masks. Does it mean that there is only one god son enshrining this god? /
/I went to check the weather forecast on the day the video was shot. The sunrise time is about [-]:[-]. If you count the time of walking up the mountain, walking through the approach, and passing through the thousand torii gates, it is almost just right to arrive at the main hall of the shrine. It's sunrise time! /
/Looking at the background of the video, it seems to be the western suburbs of Tokyo! /
/I heard that someone had already driven over and said that they would upload photos and descriptions in real time to show people who care about this shrine. /
All comments stop abruptly after this one.
The comments scrolling down under the blog began to disappear one by one in reverse after a while, and all the people who clicked on this blog again could only see one error message after another.
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Only the next day, even the author who shot the video was checked into his residence, and the person who spied on the other world hidden under the daily life was finally taken away from the memory card that stored the video, even without the certificate , In order to prove my own memory, it was useless to search for the shrine in the western suburbs of Tokyo. The majestic and magnificent shrine that only existed for a short time evaporated out of thin air like a dream, as if it was hidden into ordinary people overnight. Another space that cannot be entered.
The photographer who returned in vain can only gradually forget this unusual experience with the passage of time. Even when he recalls this shrine and this ceremony after a few years, he will only feel that this is his own. Just a wild dream.
Only a very small number of people who are in high positions and have mastered the power of the country know that there really is a shrine in the mountains and forests in the western suburbs of Tokyo. The only child of God - living in symbiosis with the gods.