For example, we take the "basin", symbolizing pure water...
and throw a bunch of impure stuff into it.Like these paper dolls?Our shrine hasn't had its summer purification yet, right?Summer purificationA ceremony held around the end of June, halfway through the year. Participants pass the misfortune accumulated over the past six month onto things like dolls and straw rings to prepare themselves for the rest of the year.Normally we'd just toss those impure dolls in a fire over something...
but this time, we have a better use for them.Bam! Half a year of impurity, right in the "basin"!You know those gods are gonna be pissed.Is such a juryrigged ritual really gonna work...?Exactly!You're definitely just making stuff up again...If anything, it's the opposite: angering the sky in order to coax out a storm.
