Talk:Futarasan shrine

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Phallic mountain??
I am baffled by the text in the #History_of_the_shrine section, purportedly from the 1993 book Cambridge History of Japan, page 524, stating that:

The mountain ... has the shape of the phallic stone rods found in pre-agricultural Jōmon sites.

How is the shape of the mountain even remotely phallic? None of the photographs in the article show this, nor does any map that I've seen. I don't have access to the Cambridge History of Japan and cannot confirm if the given source actually makes this claim, nor how they explain this.

Interestingly, I find no mention of phallic-ness in any of the monolingual Japanese sources I've just looked into, including:
 * JA WP article for Mt. Nantai at ja:男体山
 * JA WP article for Futarasan Jinja at ja:二荒山神社
 * Kotobank page for https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%94%B7%E4%BD%93%E5%B1%B1-108859
 * Includes content from Encyclopedia Nipponica, Encyclopedia Brittanica (Japanese edition), Mypedia, Shogakukan's Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Digital Daijisen, Dictionary of Japanese Heritage Sites, Dictionary of Japanese Tourism Resources, Sekai Dai Hyakka Jiten.

Where these sources describe the name of the mountain at all, they explain that the "man body" name arose from association between this mountain and another nearby mountain as a pair, with one called and the other called. There's nothing about genitalia or phallicness.

Even should the Cambridge History of Japan clearly state a claim that the mountain has a phallic shape, we need some further explanation -- visually, objectively, the mountain is not phallic in shape at all. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 19:51, 21 January 2022 (UTC)