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Mountain Entry as Rank-Generating Technology

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 16_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_I_v2_4.md.

Layer 1: Mountain Entry as Rank-Generating Technology

Section titled “Layer 1: Mountain Entry as Rank-Generating Technology”

Source file: 16_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_I_v2_4.md

The scholarly mine-iri source explicitly describes mountain entry as central to yamabushi training and historically related to acquisition of ritual competence/status.

A complete entry must record:

  • who leads (daisendatsu/sendatsu);
  • eligibility;
  • prior purification;
  • clothing/equipment;
  • route;
  • stations;
  • austerities;
  • initiations;
  • return;
  • resulting rank/status.