Watching a broadcast about Super Bowl XX and it just reminds me how fast Hare Krishnas fell out of the public consciousness, I came after their peak and never saw them in person but “people in robes singing and dancing and chanting in a circle in highly trafficked places”, like, I know how to classify that
Nichiren Buddhism, as part of the Japanese “new religions” that boomed postwar and were the real testing ground that sociology developed the idea of “the cult” off of, they’d essentially walk in circles chanting “The Lotus Sutra”. Like, not chanting the Lotus Sutra, chanting “The Lotus Sutra”
The Tower of Zozo in the post-apocalypse Ruined World of FFVI, with the worshippers milling in circles chanting out front, that’s what it was referencing (that and Led Zeppelin)
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