The Rope Priestess

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The Rope Priestess


Kanji 「縄ノ巫女」の伝承
「なわのみこ」のでんしょう
Game Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Author Ryozo Munakata
Chapter Hour IX: The Unleashing
Located at Yuu's Room
Obtained On the bookshelf
Description A folklore book from Yuu's bookcase on the Himuro Mansion. The author is Ryozo Munakata.
Additional Description The words "The Rope Priestess" can be found among the folklore-related books. Perhaps it has something to do with the woman bound in rope in Miku's dream.
Related Notes

In my visit to the Himuro area and the Five-Pedestal Shrine that protects that Five-Deity Mirror, I was able to peruse fascinating old texts on the Himuro-area legend about the gates to the underworld.

From these texts it was clear the apocryphal Gates of the Underworld ceremony was held in this area.

Following is vocabulary I garnered through my research this time.

Ceremony of the Ropes
The Ceremony of the Ropes is held to close the gates i.e the Gates of the Underworld and a special rope, the Laceration Rope is used.

The Laceration Rope
A special rope used to close the gates. It was also written that it is used to stay the Priestess' power.

The Rope Priestess
In a certain document, there is a diagram of a female with arms, legs and neck bound by rope. Perhaps she is the Rope Priestess and the five ropes are the laceration rope.

The Strangling Ritual
Bind the Priestess with Ropes. Pull them to the Five Gods. Create thereby the Laceration Rope to perform the rite.

Here, the Five Gods may signify the directions of the five shrines on which the Himuro Mansion is centered.

Pulling the Rope that binds the Priestess in five directions must create the Laceration Rope.

If the rope binding the Priestess is truly used as a laceration rope, is the Rope Priestess then a sort of human sacrifice?

I hope to visit the Himuro Mansion in the near future and unravel the tale of the Gates of the Underworld as well as that of the Rope Priestess.

氷室地方にある五神鏡を守る五座の神社
を訪ねるうち、氷室地方に伝はる黄泉の
門伝承に就いて、興味深い古文書を拝見
することができた。

それらの文献から、この辺りでは矢張り
「黄泉の門」伝承に即した儀式が行はれ
てゐたという記述が見て取れた。


以下に、今回の蒐集で見られた幾つかの
言葉を記す。

     「御縛ノ儀式」

御縛りの儀式とは「門」即ち「黄泉の門」
を封じる為の儀式であり、それには「裂き
縄」と呼ばれる特殊な縄を使ふとされて
ゐる。


     「裂キ縄」

門を封じる為に使はれる、特殊の縄。
「巫女の力を封じた」と記されてゐる文書
もあつた。


     「縄ノ巫女」

ある書物では、両手足、首に縄を結えられ
た女性が記された図が見られた。
彼女が「縄ノ巫女」であるなら、その結え
られた五本の「縄」が「裂き縄」なおであ
らうか。


     「裂縄ノ儀式」

  巫女ニ御縛リシ御縄ヲ 五神ニ曳キテ
    以テ裂縄ヲ作リシ儀式ヲ行フ
と記されてゐた。「五神」とは、氷室邸を
中心とした五つの神社の方向を意味すると
思はれる。
巫女に結わえた「縄」を五つの方向へ
「曳く」事により「裂き縄を作る」と云
ふことであらうか。


巫女に結わえた縄がつまり「裂き縄」で
あつたとして「縄ノ巫女」とは人身御供
的なものであつたのだらうか。

私は、近々氷室邸へ赴き、本格的にこの地
の「黄泉の門」、そして「縄ノ巫女」伝承
を繙(ひもと)いてみたいと考へてゐる。

Data
Legend of Song - Tattoo Folklore - Master and Snake - Rituals and Statues - Bones found in Well - Skewered Dolls - Many Bones Found - Buried Mummies - Shrine Carpenters - Carpenters Spirited Away - Missing in Minakami - Land Surveyors Missing - Twin Deification - The Rope Priestess - Rescued Woman, Gone - Patient Disappears - Vanishings - Radio Transmissions - The "Spirit World" - The Camera Obscura
Texts
Manor of Sleep Tomes - The "Other World" - Tattooed Diary - Calico Notebook - Moriya Tomes - Red Diary - Blue Diary - Green Diary - Gray Diary - Purple Diary - Folklore Notes - Crimson Diary - Crimson Sacrifice - Twin Shrine Maidens
Other
Kei's Research Notes - Map with a Mark - Scrap of Paper - Burnt Passport - Yoshino Takigawa's Diary - The Crawling Woman - Yoshino Takigawa - Abandoned House - Letters from Kei - Memo in Shaky Hand - On the Urban Legend - "The Manor of Sleep" - "The Sleeping Priestess" - Red Notebook - Basic Operation - Combat I - Combat II - Hiding Moves - The Purifying Light - "Flash" - "The Sacred Stone" - "Double"
Photos
Camera Obscura - Babe in Arms? - Blood-stained Platform - Ceremony Room Buddha - Cloth on Pedestal - Courtyard Graves - Crawling Woman - Crouching Woman - Four Shadows - Hammering Girls - Hiding Girl - Kei Lookalike - Man In Corridor - Men in white - Miku with Man - Mirror Stand - Mother and Daughter - Old Projector - Peephole - Photo of Kei - Photo of Mio - Picture of Yuu - Seated Twins - Shrine Maiden - Skewered Dolls - Stains on Wall - Standing Girl - The Altar Tattoo - The Closet Woman - Under the stairs - Weeping Woman - Woman at Well - Wounded man - Yoshino's Photo - Yoshino Takigawa
Tapes
Tape "Manor of Sleep" - Tape "The Same Dream" - Old Tape "Ototsuki" - Old Tape "Sleeping Priestess"