Thread:AbysmalShadows/@comment-1493741-20151117010054/@comment-1493741-20151117200749

Yeah, you misunderstood, I say Heaven and after life because I mean that, specifically. Soul Society is all of the Heavens out there in the real world. Other spiritual realms exist, of course they do (After all Hueco Mundo is a spiritual realm).

As I said, though. Its about the population of Hueco Mundo, not the Human World. The Wandenreich fucked up everything surrounding Las Noches, not Tokyo. So, I still stand on the point that your over analyzing a number that was just thrown out in a scene about how Genryuusai dun goofed by not killing Yhwach.

So? A lot of creation myths focus on the country that houses its roots, to those people, when those myths came to be, that was the world to them. It also doesn't actually ignore it. As I said, these things can exist in my version of the universe, they're just not as Humans have perceived or written them to be. Your scenario works on the idea that everything about Japan's mythology exists and is apparently correct, as could every other mythology, but its a key point in the franchise that Humans being able to see spiritual beings is a rarity. I don't think that should be the case. If being able to perceive spirits is a rarity, how is Japan so perfectly accurate in knowing all the details?

The way I see it, Humans get glimpses. A run in or two with spirits, a split second view of the spiritual world and it plays its part, just as how a good portion of real mythology comes from old tales and hearsay spread around by village folk.

There is also absolutely nothing to say Soul Society only came into being as recent as 2000 years ago outside of a single line that isn't even talking about Soul Society.

Its pretty simple when it gets down to it. Say, Man A and Man B encounter a spiritual creature at different times. Man A has spiritual awareness, but very little of it. He sees the creature but its very unclear, still he tells other people and a story spreads with each person he tells and so on. We'll say that turns into the story of. Now, Man B has greater spiritual perception, sees the same being and the same process occurs. But what he saw and what Man A saw were completely different due to their differing levels of awareness. Where what Man A saw became Hou Yi, what Man B saw became.

Same creature, two different identities, includes both cultures. Do you see where I'm going with this? I'm not ignoring other cultures, I'm simply going with a different approach to incorporate them.

Yes, I do have a "Quetzacoatl" (At least in name) as a Captain, I also have an Egyptian named after a Goddess. Both characters look at Soul Society through different lenses. Rather than being argumentative (While claiming I'm against the idea. Really I'm not, its totally fine as a backstory for the FC, but we're discussing my own interpretation that I use for my own AU's and such) why not try to look at the bigger picture, instead of niggling at tiny details in the canon until you go blind?