I made a newbie mistake and posted some info on Shikigami in another thread. Pretty soon I will be posting more information I have obtained from a Tendai monk that took college classes on Onmyodo, as well as some methods he learned from Yoshida Hojutsu.
I am totally getting as much as I can ready. It is important to understand that a lot of Onmyodo is a modern reconstruction in Japan. There is pretty much no written down -exact- instructions, so a lot of modern practitioners are doing what us westerners did to revive mideaval witchcraft etc..
I have instructions for making shikigami from a system called Yoshida Hojutsu (a modern onmyoji order). I am tempted to collect and post these at some point soon.
From what I have gathered Shikigami can be any of the following:
A servant spirit given by a god to the practioner by request (Abe no Seimei petitioned the 12 directional gods for shikigami and was granted 12).
A servent spirit graced upon someone by a God, like a Goho Doji in Buddhism.
A servent spirit bound by the magician (similar to goetia work), sometimes into paper dolls - binding the spirits into the paper dolls instead of a brass vessel.
A servent spirit created by the magician using techniques similar to servitors and tulpamancy. These can be anchored into a paper doll using servitor techniques. It has been documented that Onmyoji could create spirits with their minds, of from the Shikiban (kind of like a luopan but more Japanese)
Another technique is to make a servitor and have it become blessed and empowered by a Kami, Buddha, or Boddhisatva or perhaps a Dragon God.
I will post notes once I gather everything ive learned.
@HoldAll and @Master Pioneer
here is a thread to discuss that topic. I hope my @ function worked right. I will keep things on topic from now on and have read the rules
I am totally getting as much as I can ready. It is important to understand that a lot of Onmyodo is a modern reconstruction in Japan. There is pretty much no written down -exact- instructions, so a lot of modern practitioners are doing what us westerners did to revive mideaval witchcraft etc..
I have instructions for making shikigami from a system called Yoshida Hojutsu (a modern onmyoji order). I am tempted to collect and post these at some point soon.
From what I have gathered Shikigami can be any of the following:
A servant spirit given by a god to the practioner by request (Abe no Seimei petitioned the 12 directional gods for shikigami and was granted 12).
A servent spirit graced upon someone by a God, like a Goho Doji in Buddhism.
A servent spirit bound by the magician (similar to goetia work), sometimes into paper dolls - binding the spirits into the paper dolls instead of a brass vessel.
A servent spirit created by the magician using techniques similar to servitors and tulpamancy. These can be anchored into a paper doll using servitor techniques. It has been documented that Onmyoji could create spirits with their minds, of from the Shikiban (kind of like a luopan but more Japanese)
Another technique is to make a servitor and have it become blessed and empowered by a Kami, Buddha, or Boddhisatva or perhaps a Dragon God.
I will post notes once I gather everything ive learned.
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@HoldAll and @Master Pioneer
here is a thread to discuss that topic. I hope my @ function worked right. I will keep things on topic from now on and have read the rules
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