Nope. She's the god of chickens. She wields the power to heal sore throats (using chicken noodle soup). She also acts as a sorting clerk for the various hells, because Purdue is full of cheap jerks who refuse to donate anything. Even gods have to pay the bills somehow.
Nope. She's the god of chickens. She wields the power to heal sore throats (using chicken noodle soup). She also acts as a sorting clerk for the various hells, because Purdue is full of cheap jerks who refuse to donate anything. Even gods have to pay the bills somehow.
ZUN probably also took at least some inspiration from a Basan.
I was convinced she was one the moment I saw her sprite/artwork. And after seeing she shooting what looked like fire danmaku, it became even more likely. But well, turns out she is actually this "niwatarijin" (which is something I had never heard of before).
If chickens weren't domesticated, there wouldn't be a god of chickens.
I don't know that much about Shintoism, but animism often doesn't work that way - any sufficiently clearly definable concept can have a spirit associated with it.
That said, domesticating a wild species would definitely have a radical effect on the nature of the species' patron spirit. If the wild type is still prevalent in sufficient numbers, a likely effect is that a new god/dess of the domesticated species would be born (or perhaps split off from the wild animal's kami in some obscure fashion), and the wild-type spirit's power might be weakened (in proportion to the wild-type population's decline) but its nature not much changed.
It would make sense, for example, for there to be a wolf god/dess, and domesticating wolves might result in a god/dess of dogs, similar in someways to the wolf spirit but much more friendly to humans.
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