Esoteric Symbolism in the Boy and the Heron.

Warawara are described as baby souls, and on one level, they represent sperm — DNA—as they gather to form helixes. The white building blocks and white delivery room flags form helixes, too, which must have been intentional. Warawara, who ultimately become food for the gods, also resemble fish semen, shirako, literally “white children,” a culinary delicacy. To understand warawara (and humans) as forms of semen is easy, but to understand them as rice spirits, and humans as rice spirits, we have to look into the secret history of Japan. Around 1000 BC, the pearly white stuff landed on a mountain top in northern Kyushu alongside Jimmu, Japan’s first Emperor, “grandson of the gods.” The white seed was gifted to him by his grandmother, The Sun Goddess, who cultivated it in heaven; the grain is sometimes referred to as Jimmu’s Father. This heavenly seed-soul will be used to legitimize Japan’s divine heritage and superiority complex, as well as the radiance of the Japanese skin, and the purity of the Japanese heart. Rice is just so beautiful! Tanizaki Junichiro: “Each grain is a pearl.” Interestingly, the white part of rice, the eyeball, is called endosperm, hainyu, literally “ovule milk.” Rice gruel also looks exactly like semen. <a href="https://davidtitterington.medium.com/esoteric-symbolism-in-the-boy-and-the-heron-1dfe9ab60e6a">Read More</a>