Grain Avoidance / Bigu
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (38) currently groups 5 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.
Also attested under these titles
Section titled “Also attested under these titles”- Gachirinkan — Moon-Disc Contemplation
- Liandu — Refinement and Salvation
- Kamado / Fire Appeasement Rites
- Setsubun Exorcism
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Gachirinkan — Moon-Disc Contemplation
Section titled “Layer 1: Gachirinkan — Moon-Disc Contemplation”Source file:
01_Buddhism.md
A Shingon contemplation of the lunar disc, often related to Ajikan and the luminous mind. Deeper ritual details vary by lineage.
Access: lineage-dependent.
Reliability: B.
Layer 2: Liandu — Refinement and Salvation
Section titled “Layer 2: Liandu — Refinement and Salvation”Source file:
02_Daoism.md
Chinese: 煉度
A sophisticated salvation rite in which the dead are ritually refined/transformed. Some systems map the infernal/celestial journey into the priest’s own body, making the officiant a microcosmic ritual cosmos.
Access: priestly.
Reliability: B.
Layer 3: Kamado / Fire Appeasement Rites
Section titled “Layer 3: Kamado / Fire Appeasement Rites”Source file:
03_Shinto.md
Fire deities and hearth powers receive ritual attention. The ancient Chinka-sai appeased Homusubi and functioned as a state fire-prevention rite, with secret practices and onmyōdō elements reported in later sources.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 4: Setsubun Exorcism
Section titled “Layer 4: Setsubun Exorcism”Source file:
04_Syncretic_Japan.md
Bean throwing (mamemaki) drives out oni and invites good fortune. Court and Buddhist exorcistic antecedents include tsuina.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 5: Grain Avoidance / Bigu
Section titled “Layer 5: Grain Avoidance / Bigu”Source file:
13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md
Class: ASCETIC RESTRICTION
Abstention from cereals could be religiously valorized.
Important reversal
Section titled “Important reversal”A substance that is ordinary food in society becomes taboo for the practitioner during the regimen.