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Re: For Ceremonial purposes?
Aug 16, 2013, 22:00
tiompan wrote:
Soul in the stomach ? and not the pineal mmmm maybe it has moved with the times , or more likely belief systems .

But what has this to do with the thread ?


Slightly blinkered Mr t. The location of the soul/mind/seat of morality in the head is a purely Western concept. The Japanese see the soul/mind/seat of morality as being located in the belly – hence the harakiri (seppuku) ritual which was intended to reveal the honour/purity of the one performing the act by literally exposing his (and it always was a male of samurai status) intestines.

Hara means belly and kiri means to cut. Other concepts in Japanese culture pertaining to the belly are haraguroi, where guroi means black – ie someone wicked or not to be trusted and, in a term/concept where East meets West, haragei – a man of guts :-)
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