Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social · 07/07/2025(Japanese Demon Lore, Noriko T. Reider, p.67) 110
Spider Mage @spidermage.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Yamauba are strong, indepedent oni-women who don't need no man. 010
!["their yamamba dance, meet the real yamamba (shite or lead actor) on the mountain. She describes herself to them as being “with birthplace unknown, lodgings uncertain” who, “dragging good and evil [with her], makes her mountain rounds.” Baba Akiko considers yamauba legends representative of the downfall of the kunitsukami (deities of the land). Popular during the medieval period, the Noh play Yamamba is shrouded by overlapping religious and philosophical subtexts such as “the good and evil are not two; right and wrong are the same” (Brazell 207). The core concept of the Noh Yamamba is the transcendental philosophy of non-dualism epitomized in the Heart Sutra (Hannya shinkyō), perhaps the best-known Wisdom literature of Buddhism. From the point of view of the statement that “form is nothing other than emptiness, emptiness is nothing other than form” (shikisoku zekū, kūsoku zeshiki), the existence of Buddhas, human beings and/or yamauba is miniscule within the vastness of time and space. This yamauba is a seeker of enlightenment, and would wander the mountains until her delusions ceased to exist, in order to escape the wheels of painful rebirth."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5ba2cm5nwrmkwkdhsbdfoay/bafkreiec2a6hjxpuqmtkhe3pv453bzxzsrjruiz33nriqw6j2lf5gv7ude)