NaPoWriMo 2015: Day 7

For all the research I've done into Japanese cultural history, it never really registered that one of the Three Sacred Treasures was the Kusanagi sword. Until today. Which led to a sort of random connection leap to Ghost In The Shell and Major Kusanagi, and even more random speculation about the possibility of the Kusanagi part of it being a link between past and present, and... you get the picture. Congratulations if you're confused - I am too. The fascinating details of the mythology itself can be found in the Kojiki.

#7: Kusanagi

There is, in my distant memory

An echo of something more ancient than time:

Blinding light, utter darkness

The throb of blood in the ears

The rushing of many waters.

A malfunction of neural circuitry, they say

Easy enough with cybernetics as complex as mine.

False memories – not so unusual

In an augmented cyborg body

But for all their science the technicians

Can’t explain this odd… connection?

If that be the word:

A flash of déjà vu - open grassland

Under a blazing sky, comets of fiery arrows
Sword steel forged in the fires of the gods

And a strange power coursing through my veins.

Like a goddess I rise

One with the grass and the blade.