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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The Wii survival horror game ''[[Cursed Mountain]]'' plays with the taboos, traditions, and underlying horrors of Himalayan Buddhism as its central theme.
* Although [[Values Dissonance|most western viewers (and probably the rest of the non-Japanese audience too)may don'tnot getspot it]], part of the horror of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' for Japanese viewers comes from the Shintô temple with a history of human sacrifice. Shintoism places a high emphasis upon "purity". Shedding- shedding blood in a religious context is anathema to Shinto, as is touching corpses and bodily wastes. Several stories in Shintô exist about villages and shrines that practiced human sacrifice, with the purpose of being moral parables for why this is not a good idea. That Rika's ancestors (beware, really gross) {{spoiler|presided over ritual sacrifices in which the participants ate the intestines of the victims}} makes their religion as much an inversion of Shintô as Satanism is an inversion of Christianity. To Western viewers, it's merely disgusting.; Toto believers in Shintô, it's beyond blasphemy, much like sacrificing a pig on the altar of the old Temple in Jerusalem.
** For added irony, Oyashiro {{spoiler|herself}} - the deity to whom those rites were dedicated to , Oyashiro {{spoiler|her}}self,- is [[Corrupt Church|''not'' happy with it .]] .▼** There are lots of stories in Shintô about villages and shrines that did practice human sacrifice as a part of the religion. Mostly they tend to be moral parables of why this is not a good idea, though.
▲** For added irony, the deity to whom those rites were dedicated to, Oyashiro {{spoiler|her}}self, is [[Corrupt Church|''not'' happy with it.]]
* Ditto with the ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' series, especially with the first and second titles. In Shinto, some deities are malevolent and must be placated, but the All-Gods Village take it to a whole new [[Squick]]y level, with a [[Human Sacrifice]] ritual gone horribly, horribly wrong. It's like a follower of an Abrahamic religion having to fight his or her way through an entire village of Satan-worshippers.
** With the exception of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, the series feature [[Human Sacrifice]] in order to keep some sort of [[Hell Gate]] sealed up. The sacrifice in ''[[Fatal Frame 2]]''{{'}}s sacrifice is probably the least [[squick]]y of the examples (''Fatal Frame 1'' involves a [[Virgin Sacrifice]] being torn apart by ropes attached to her legs, arms, and neck. ''[[Fatal Frame III: The Tormented]]'' is '''much''' worse.)
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