Secret Ritual Calendrics
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (48) currently groups 4 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”- Bardo Practice
- Daoist Hand Seals
- Kegare
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Bardo Practice
Section titled “Layer 1: Bardo Practice”Source file:
01_Buddhism.md
Meditations and liturgies preparing for postmortem intermediate states. Includes recognition instructions, deity imagery, clear-light recognition, prayers and ritual guidance for the deceased.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 2: Daoist Hand Seals
Section titled “Layer 2: Daoist Hand Seals”Source file:
02_Daoism.md
Chinese: 掐訣 / 手訣 and related terminology
Ritual finger configurations encode divine names, stars, trigrams, commands or cosmological relationships.
Usually paired with mantra/incantation and talismanic action.
Access: lineage-specific.
Reliability: B.
Layer 3: Kegare
Section titled “Layer 3: Kegare”Source file:
03_Shinto.md
Ritual pollution associated especially with death, blood, disease and disruptive states. It is not equivalent to moral “sin”; purification restores ritual fitness.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 4: Secret Ritual Calendrics
Section titled “Layer 4: Secret Ritual Calendrics”Source file:
13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md
Class: PROFESSIONAL / TECHNICAL RESTRICTION
High-level calendrical calculation was specialist knowledge. Knowing that a direction was taboo is not equivalent to knowing how to calculate it.