Status Updates From The Fox and the Jewel: Shar...

Ok, she kept fox behavior to a minimum.

Foxes in the wild are solitary animals
Not necessarily, the foxes in my city have been spotted to form family groups and even once raised cups as same sex couples.
Also we came to foxes again... oh boy I hope she keeps her misinformation in that regard to a minimum.

I argue that Inari goes even further…because devotees are not merely interpreting the traditions in subjective ways but, are quite actively changing them. Because of the considerable shamanic component … new traditions easily come into being as direct commands of Inari…it allows Inari to develop in almost infinitely diverse ways, as people worship their own individualized or personalized version of the kami.

The author says that unlike in western imagination the fox in Japanese is canny and sly, but also cautious and intelligent, uncanny and eerie, but also sacred and beyond rational knowledge. Apart from sacred and beyond rational knowledge, isn't this how they are perceived in the western world as well?