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Originally Posted by Khym Chanur
So the fact that Watanagashi used to be human sacrifice is common knowledge among the villagers, including someone like Rena who just moved back and doesn't really remember her childhood there?
I understood that part. I'm wondering how Japanese culture/religion was different before the concept of non-living misogi came about.
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Well Rena's crazy of course at that moment, and she comes from a fictional village who practised human sacrifice in a way that never really happened in Japan. It's based in nothing but "what would be most horrifying to someone raised in Shinto". The actual folktales suggest there was a period when human sacrifice by means of drowning or being used as building foundation was sometimes engaged in but before that, nothing at all because the Japanese didn't have writing that far back. Archaeology has never discovered any evidence of major human sacrifice as has been discovered in China.
However, as far as Rena goes, it is indeed common knowledge that Oyashiro-sama "claims sacrifices" when offended. Everyone seems to know it, young children included. Almost nobody local is surprised to learn that people are disappearing during Watanagashi. They just hope that Oyashiro-sama or his irritable followers will calm down.