Taboo Repair Technologies
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (50) 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”- Sur Offering
- Spirit Writing — Fuji
- Niiname-sai
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Sur Offering
Section titled “Layer 1: Sur Offering”Source file:
01_Buddhism.md
Fragrant smoke/burnt-flour offering directed to spirits, karmic creditors, hungry beings and other nonhuman recipients.
Generic structure
Section titled “Generic structure”Prepare clean aromatic/food substances; generate bodhicitta; bless and multiply offering through mantra/visualization; burn; invite recipients; dedicate and dismiss.
Hazard: fire/smoke.
Reliability: B.
Layer 2: Spirit Writing — Fuji
Section titled “Layer 2: Spirit Writing — Fuji”Source file:
02_Daoism.md
Chinese: 扶乩 / 扶箕
A planchette or stylus is manipulated in a ritual setting to produce characters believed to come from gods or immortals.
Typical historical setup
Section titled “Typical historical setup”Purify altar; invoke deity; two attendants hold or guide a stylus/basket over sand/ash; characters emerge; a recorder transcribes; interpreters edit/organize the revelation; deity is thanked and dismissed.
Status: crosses Daoist, literati and popular-religious environments rather than belonging exclusively to Daoism.
Reliability: B.
Layer 3: Niiname-sai
Section titled “Layer 3: Niiname-sai”Source file:
03_Shinto.md
Offering and sacred consumption of new rice/harvest, historically tying kami, agriculture and sovereignty.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 4: Taboo Repair Technologies
Section titled “Layer 4: Taboo Repair Technologies”Source file:
13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md
A major cross-tradition theme:
Buddhism
Section titled “Buddhism”- confession;
- renewed precepts;
- Vajrasattva purification;
- samaya repair;
- monastic disciplinary procedures.
Daoism
Section titled “Daoism”- confession;
- petitions;
- purification;
- renewed abstinence;
- ritual correction.
Shintō
Section titled “Shintō”- misogi;
- harae;
- ōharae;
- hitogata/katashiro;
- temporary withdrawal/mourning.
Shugendō
Section titled “Shugendō”- purification and re-entry under lineage discipline.
A taboo system is incomplete without its repair mechanism.
VI. FORBIDDEN/TABOO METADATA STANDARD
Section titled “VI. FORBIDDEN/TABOO METADATA STANDARD”Every relevant encyclopaedia entry should now add:
Restriction class:
Who is restricted:
Who is exempt/authorized:
Trigger:
Duration:
Forbidden contact/action/word:
Reason given by the tradition:
Consequence claimed:
Institutional penalty:
Repair/purification:
Earliest source:
Major later source:
Survives today?:
Regional/lineage variation:
Politically imposed or internally religious?:
Image/diagram evidence:
Scholarly controversy:
This schema is now part of the requirements audit.
VII. HIGH-PRIORITY TABOO RESEARCH QUEUE
Section titled “VII. HIGH-PRIORITY TABOO RESEARCH QUEUE”Buddhism
Section titled “Buddhism”- complete bhikkhu and bhikkhunī Pātimokkha taxonomy;
- food taboos and prohibited meats;
- handling money;
- ordination disqualifications;
- menstruation and gender claims in specific historical texts;
- tantric samaya lists by tantra;
- “secret mantra” disclosure prohibitions;
- charnel-ground restrictions;
- sexual-yoga prerequisites;
- five meats/five nectars;
- ritual alcohol;
- skull-cup restrictions;
- mantra secrecy;
- taboo against teaching unsuitable recipients;
- Japanese Mikkyō initiation secrecy;
- mountain ascetic Buddhist taboos;
- funerary impurity within Buddhist-Shintō interaction.
Daoism
Section titled “Daoism”- Celestial Masters precepts;
- Xiang’er injunctions;
- Shangqing purity rules;
- Lingbao precepts;
- Quanzhen monastic rules;
- Longmen ordination;
- fasting/vegetarian days;
- ritual-sexual abstinence;
- menstrual/blood restrictions in specific manuals;
- death-contact taboos;
- prohibited foods before Jiao;
- alchemical secrecy;
- forbidden transmission days/recipients;
- taboo divine names;
- proscribed popular cults;
- heterodox “licentious cult” classifications;
- state suppression of sectarian movements.
Shintō
Section titled “Shintō”- complete Rokushiki-no-kinki legal text;
- mourning durations;
- childbirth pollution;
- menstrual restrictions historically and by shrine;
- hunting/fishing taboo vocabulary;
- mountain taboo speech;
- ritual meat restrictions;
- Ise purity codes;
- Saigū abstinence regime;
- Saiō restrictions;
- shrine-priest pre-ritual abstinence;
- funeral-shrine boundaries;
- taboo directions/days;
- sacred-island entry restrictions;
- forbidden shrine precinct zones;
- historical women-exclusion boundaries.
Shugendō / Onmyōdō
Section titled “Shugendō / Onmyōdō”- nyonin kekkai mountain-by-mountain;
- food/speech/sex rules for each nyūbu;
- forbidden routes;
- calendrical taboo days;
- directional gods;
- construction taboos;
- taboo births/deaths during ritual periods;
- esoteric formula secrecy.