Thrift Shop Finds
I had a dream last night that I was in a thrift shop. I was walking around, and I noticed this small little.... dresser type thing sitting on a shelf. A nice red wood, something close to cherry. I look at it, thinking it looks really nice. It had some drawers in it, and as I opened them, you could see Oriental motif that was painting on the insides of the drawers. Slowly, as the dream progressed, the dresser looked more and more asian in nature (this thing was only, probably a foot wide, maybe 8 inches tall. Quite small). I remember at the end of inspecting this piece, I saw a feng shui disc inside of one of the drawers.
Deciding I wasn't going to get that piece, I set it down, and as I went to turn away, I saw another item on the shelf that was of interest. There was this box that opened up, and it looked like a daruma meets a taiko drum meets a kokeshi. There were three wooden 'dolls' inside of it (I use dolls because I don't know what else to call them- figures perhaps). The one on the left looked almost like a taiko drum- as though the black hair was created by stretching a black leather over the top, and nailing it into place. The figure on the far right looked kinda like a kokeshi, or maybe one of those Russian stacking dolls. At least, the shape did. They were all natural wood color- a creamy brown honey color. As I inspect these dolls, I find out that they have ofuda inside of them. And I remember that each one had a small tidbit about who the figure was, and what they oversaw (which is common on a lot of pagan statuary). I can't remember the names for the life of me now. The only thing I remember is something like "Irainagi", which I'm pretty sure is not a legit name D: As the dream progressed, the box warped, and also included tiny little offerings- almost like offerings in Kemetic faith that never spoil. Little replicas of what you should offer them. I more or less thought of it as a "get started now!" kit. That you had the ofuda, the offerings, the statues, good to go! lol.
I set that down, and the last thing I picked up is the... hardest to pin down. I don't remember what it looked like originally, I just remember by the end, I had many different items laying around- almost like I took them about of a chest or box or something. I remember two things of importance. One was an omamori. In the style of a keychain or cell phone strap. It was a bright neon green. Almost to the point of being teal. And the other items of importance were blades- knives, swords and the like. There were tons of them by the time I was done. I remember saying that one blade was a replica of something out of a manga- Sheishirou's blade (a character from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999). Now that I'm awake, I don't know what that could mean- since Sheishirou didn't have any particular weapons in the manga. He preferred to kill people with more indirect means. I do, however, remember the details on the blade being white (handle, scabbard, etc).
And by that point I lost my dream, and it started to shift into a manga sequence of some randomness. Which I assume is irrelevant to the prior portions of the dream. I'm not sure what to make of the dream. The pieces are Shinto in nature, but the elements in some ways are very Kemetic. I've never seen a Shinto shrine or kamidama with actual icons in it, only the ofuda. Combining the ofuda and the statue reminds me of an open statue, more than anything. And mix that with the never dying offerings- it's very Kemetic in nature. So why the Shinto stylistics? I just don't get it. For me, the dresser type thing at the beginning reminded me of a place to set a deity shrine/statue. Which plays into the figures I found afterwards. What the feng shui disc inside of the dresser could mean- I don't know. And the last bit with the omamori and knives? Makes me even more lost. Omamori are meant for good luck, AFAIK. My s.o. keeps one on his cell phone. So I'm not sure if my brain is telling me to obtain one, or that I'll be lucky in the future, or how that relates. And the blade is the most confusing of all. Esp. how it might be related to the manga character that I thought it was related to.
Gah. Dreams- Y U NO MAKE SENSE?!
Deciding I wasn't going to get that piece, I set it down, and as I went to turn away, I saw another item on the shelf that was of interest. There was this box that opened up, and it looked like a daruma meets a taiko drum meets a kokeshi. There were three wooden 'dolls' inside of it (I use dolls because I don't know what else to call them- figures perhaps). The one on the left looked almost like a taiko drum- as though the black hair was created by stretching a black leather over the top, and nailing it into place. The figure on the far right looked kinda like a kokeshi, or maybe one of those Russian stacking dolls. At least, the shape did. They were all natural wood color- a creamy brown honey color. As I inspect these dolls, I find out that they have ofuda inside of them. And I remember that each one had a small tidbit about who the figure was, and what they oversaw (which is common on a lot of pagan statuary). I can't remember the names for the life of me now. The only thing I remember is something like "Irainagi", which I'm pretty sure is not a legit name D: As the dream progressed, the box warped, and also included tiny little offerings- almost like offerings in Kemetic faith that never spoil. Little replicas of what you should offer them. I more or less thought of it as a "get started now!" kit. That you had the ofuda, the offerings, the statues, good to go! lol.
I set that down, and the last thing I picked up is the... hardest to pin down. I don't remember what it looked like originally, I just remember by the end, I had many different items laying around- almost like I took them about of a chest or box or something. I remember two things of importance. One was an omamori. In the style of a keychain or cell phone strap. It was a bright neon green. Almost to the point of being teal. And the other items of importance were blades- knives, swords and the like. There were tons of them by the time I was done. I remember saying that one blade was a replica of something out of a manga- Sheishirou's blade (a character from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999). Now that I'm awake, I don't know what that could mean- since Sheishirou didn't have any particular weapons in the manga. He preferred to kill people with more indirect means. I do, however, remember the details on the blade being white (handle, scabbard, etc).
And by that point I lost my dream, and it started to shift into a manga sequence of some randomness. Which I assume is irrelevant to the prior portions of the dream. I'm not sure what to make of the dream. The pieces are Shinto in nature, but the elements in some ways are very Kemetic. I've never seen a Shinto shrine or kamidama with actual icons in it, only the ofuda. Combining the ofuda and the statue reminds me of an open statue, more than anything. And mix that with the never dying offerings- it's very Kemetic in nature. So why the Shinto stylistics? I just don't get it. For me, the dresser type thing at the beginning reminded me of a place to set a deity shrine/statue. Which plays into the figures I found afterwards. What the feng shui disc inside of the dresser could mean- I don't know. And the last bit with the omamori and knives? Makes me even more lost. Omamori are meant for good luck, AFAIK. My s.o. keeps one on his cell phone. So I'm not sure if my brain is telling me to obtain one, or that I'll be lucky in the future, or how that relates. And the blade is the most confusing of all. Esp. how it might be related to the manga character that I thought it was related to.
Gah. Dreams- Y U NO MAKE SENSE?!