"This is where you were named?" A very long time ago, but this place was special then. He was aware that old gods reincarnated and that Ebisu had done so, relatively recently hence why he looked like a child. He hadn't however thought about the shinki of old gods being shinki before.
"You were shinki to a god before Lord Ebisu?" He had asked the question before it dawned on him it might be considered rude. The older generation of shinki could be particular in what was appropriate to talk about and what was not. But he had not imagined they would have a lot of different gods, after all old gods didn't disappear in the same way, at least not leaving shinki behind Suzaku hadn't thought.
"That's right. Oh..." He pauses, a partially curled hand rising up to his chin. "Or perhaps not exactly here... A little further down the mountain, I suppose." He straightens up somewhat, peering down the route they all took up. "When the roads were a little bit more rudimentary."
Dirt, in other words. It was a very long time ago, needless to say.
While he nods at the next question, it's Ebisu who gives voice to a proper answer. "That's right. All my shinki are nora, after all." That means some of them are still shinki to gods which continue to exist even now... But that's fine. Ebisu doesn't find it to be much of a secret at all. Likely the only reason that more of this newest generation doesn't know is because of the rift between the old and new. That works for Ebisu just fine.
It means they can explain his temple on their own terms, and not someone else.
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"You were shinki to a god before Lord Ebisu?" He had asked the question before it dawned on him it might be considered rude. The older generation of shinki could be particular in what was appropriate to talk about and what was not. But he had not imagined they would have a lot of different gods, after all old gods didn't disappear in the same way, at least not leaving shinki behind Suzaku hadn't thought.
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Dirt, in other words. It was a very long time ago, needless to say.
While he nods at the next question, it's Ebisu who gives voice to a proper answer. "That's right. All my shinki are nora, after all." That means some of them are still shinki to gods which continue to exist even now... But that's fine. Ebisu doesn't find it to be much of a secret at all. Likely the only reason that more of this newest generation doesn't know is because of the rift between the old and new. That works for Ebisu just fine.
It means they can explain his temple on their own terms, and not someone else.