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Mononoke Theory: the hexagrams= the types of Mononoke each medicine seller is tasked with exorcising.
I was doing some looking into Bagua, specifically the meanings of the Ri and Kon trigrams, for obvious reasons. And I found something quite interesting concerning the Attributes each trigram holds.
At first, I was hoping that they’d relate in some way to the personality or symbolism surrounding the medicine sellers themselves. But that didn’t seem to entirely be the case. Ri has the attributes “light-giving, humane, dependence”. The first two make sense, as he DOES bring metaphorical light (truth and understanding) by exorcising Mononoke, and he has been shown to express kindness towards the spirits that end up in these pitiable situations. But dependence? That makes…less sense.
Until I realized that Dependence is (in one way or another) a factor in the stories of all the Mononoke he’s exorcised.
Children aborted against the wishes of their mothers, the aftermath of a codependent incestuous affair, a battered woman who’s too afraid to leave the family she despises, an evil spirit desperate for the love of others, and a dead woman trying in any way she can to get the truth of her death brought to light….all of these Mononoke are spirits who were dependent on others, whether that’s their victims or the ones who wronged them. And all of them were exorcised by the wielder of the Ri sword—the sword of the dependence attribute.
Conversely, Kon’s attributes are “devoted/yielding.” Though we’ve only seen him exorcise one Mononoke so far, it was the spirit of a woman who was so devoted to her work it destroyed everything else inside of her. And since the other two movies in his trilogy also seem to be taking place in the Ooku, it seems like they will also deal with the consequences of letting your devotion to a cause destroy your personhood.
TL;DR: both Ri and Kon seem to specialize in spirits that have attributes of their respective trigram. Also, both their trigrams have associations with women: Ri is associated with the second daughter and Kon is associated with the mother.
I feel like i haven’t drawn in forever and have a new guy(s) I wanna shake in tupperware so hello Mononoke fandom
The entire time drawing this my hand and brain were like “how do i make shapes and colors” lol and i wanted to practice drawing Ri’s face a bit
mononoke is so funny because you have the series medicine seller who's like idgaf war veteran on the 9-5 grind and judging people in his head sexily and then you have movie medicine seller whose whole thing is poster pretty boy does unnecessary twirls and flips while hunting down enemies and ships lesbians in free time
An ancient doodle of last year
Actually took my breath away for a second
WIP previews of my illust for @mononoke-zine ☯️ Preorders will open soon, and I can't wait to share a preview of the finished illust then 👀✨. Please keep an eye open for this amazing zine!!
In his defence, he is
he thinks hes soooo coool huh
Me when Kusuriuri:
Just watched Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
Just watched Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
Just watched Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
That is SO cool
Cross stitched Mononoke talisman!!! Specifically the 2007 one
Original pattern by @sm01-sis absolutely go check them out! I edited the pattern a bit (mine is under the cut) and used a different red, DMC 321.
I swear this one almost killed me lol, so much of one color ahhhhhhhh. Clearly it's uncut/unfinished, I'm still working on that bit
Hand-drawn OneNote pattern, have fun going insane!
I've never touched any intoxicable substance besides prescription medicine in my life but I'm pretty sure any episode of Mononoke is exactly what an acid trip looks like
