Chapter 15: East and West
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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three days have passed.
During these three days, Yang Yun frantically read a large number of ancient Japanese myths and legends in Shouya Shrine, trying to find out the mysteries of Rashomon and Gojinmon.
However, he showed nothing.
Nothing, helpless, this is the situation Yang Yun is facing now, there is no way to start, like a knight fighting against the wind.
Throwing away the heavy scroll in his hand, Yang Yun walked out of the shrine and stared at the Imperial God Gate.
[Gojinmon, Rashomon, two gates related to Shinto and Buddhism...... What secrets are hidden in this?]
Unconsciously, the sound of rooster crowing sounded in Yang Yun's ears, and in a blink of an eye, the east was already white.
[Another night has passed......]
Yang Yun sighed, he had nothing to gain in the past three days except for familiarizing himself with a large number of gods in Japan.
"What's the matter, Mr. Yang Yun, is there anything happening?" Just as Yang Yun sighed, Mei Li's voice suddenly came from behind him.
"No...... But you haven't been to class for the past few days, is it okay?" Yang Yun asked back.
"No, because my usual grades are quite passable, and taking a few days off won't affect anything. Melly shook her head, "But about my dreams......"
"Are you dreaming again?"
"Well, I had some dreams that were different from what I had before. Mei Li stepped forward and stood side by side with Yang Yun at the Imperial God Gate: "I dreamed that I was sleeping in a dark place with many, many strange eyes around......"
"Sleeping in a dream? It's funny. Yang Yun didn't pay too much attention to it, "But compared to your previous dreams, and even being able to bring back fresh bamboo shoots from your dreams, this is not a strange dream." β
"Only in this case, it's really nothing compared to the past...... "Melly said a little confused, "but this time my perspective is different from the past, and I sleep from a first-person perspective." In other words, in the dream, I was sleeping, but I was able to think clearly, as if I was awake...... No, that's not what I want to say......"
Seeing that Mei Li was getting more and more confused, Yang Yun didn't understand too much, so he had to stop Mei Li's nonsense first.
"Okay, since you can't think of it, forget it, your secret should be related to this one. Melly, what do you think of this Mijinmon matter?"
"Well...... I'm a foreigner and don't know much about Japanese myths and legends, so I can only look at it from a normal perspective. Melly brushed her head scattered to the back of her head and said, "If it is purely from the perspective of architecture, I do feel that this Imperial Gate is a little strange. β
"Oh, the architectural aspect, what's the strange?"
Yang Yun just asked Mei Li just to divert the topic, it can also be said that she was in a hurry to go to the doctor, after all, she didn't find the answer after three days of reading the book, let alone Mei Li, a foreigner.
"The direction of the door, the direction. β
Merry pointed to the gate and said, "Since this gate is related to the legendary god Amaterasu, why don't you face the east instead of the west? β
"I think if this gate really has something to do with Amaterasu, then the craftsman who built the gate must have built the opening of this gate to the east, right? After all, the sun sets in the west, which is not good for Amaterasu. β
Hearing Mei Li's words, Yang Yun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked at the rising sun in the east. As Melly said, the direction facing the gate is the west where the sun sets, not the east where the sun rises.
[In Japanese mythology, Izanagi, the father of the gods, was bathing by the river when Amaterasu, who rules the sun, was born from his left eye...... So how could the mountain gate, which had something to do with her, face the west when the sun was setting? There must be something wrong with this......
[Could it be that this mountain gate has nothing to do with Amaterasu?]
Glancing at the three runes on the door again, Yang Yun shook his head and rejected his own conjecture.
[Unlikely...... Since Sanae's mother said that the first generation of shrine maidens of the Toshikoya family knew the meaning of these three words, then it should have been the two gods of Suwako and Kanako Yasaka who told them. With the identities of those two gods, even if they don't know, they will definitely not talk nonsense, and casually pull out the name of Amaterasu to install it. γ
[Then, there is only one possibility...... This is not a mistake on the part of the builders, but it is deliberate!Maybe the puzzle that has plagued me for three days has something to do with the strange direction of the mountain gate!]
[Since the Mijin Gate is open to the west, then Rashomon's words ......]
Thinking of this, Yang Yun immediately asked Mei Li beside him, "Mei Li, do you remember which way the Rashomon Gate of that temple opened?"
"I want to think about it......" Melly put her hand on her cheek, and after thinking for a few seconds, she said with some uncertainty, "It seems to ...... It's the east, right?"
γTo the East...... Rashomon comes from the allusion of Buddhism, and Buddhism is also known as Western religion, whether it is Journey to the West or the Romance of the Gods, the base of Buddhism is in the West, shouldn't this Rashomon face the West? ]
If it is possible that the Okamimon Gate is heading west by accident, then Rashomon is also wrong and goes east instead of west, so there must be something wrong with the combination of the two.
"East, West......"
Yang Yun muttered these two words in his mouth, and suddenly took out a map from his arms.
[This is the Gojinmon of Moriya Shrine, here is the Rashomon of the temple, and the east and west ......]
Yang Yun took out a pencil and marked the locations of the Rashomon Gate and the Imperial God Gate, which were located exactly to the east and west of the city.
[If the opening direction of the two doors is deliberate to indicate the location for the latecomer......]
Yang Yun used a pencil to draw two straight lines on the map, one east and one west, but the result was very disappointing to him...... Two straight lines do not intersect, they are simply opposite to each other.
"No, that's not right!"
Seeing these two straight lines, Yang Yun shook his head and picked up the pencil again to meditate on the map.
[Rashomon to the east, Gojinmon to the west, these two are opposite...... On the contrary?]
"Yes, it's the opposite!"
Yang Yun patted his head, and instead of erasing the two dazzling straight lines, he drew them along the reverse extension line......
Then, the two reverse extensions crossed over a little......
"Where is this?" Yang Yun hurriedly pointed to the map and asked Mei Li.
"I look at it, it looks familiar...... Isn't this the location of the House of Grudges?" Melly covered her mouth in surprise when she saw the location marked on the map.
"Let's go, go there immediately!" Yang Yun patted his thigh and stood up, "There...... Probably the place we're looking for!"