Something I've Thought About In Regards To Touhou's World (Or More Like Outside Of It)

In Touhou's world, there of course exist humans, and then various youkai and other beings largely born from human belief. Touhou's lore (as far as I remember, at least) also states that divine spirits (ie. primitive forms of gods) have existed since at least the beginning of Earth's existence.
Considering that human belief allows for supernatural beings and places to be born, and that some supernatural beings already seem to exist irrespective of human belief, then beyond the Earth, there could also exist other supernatural beings either born from the beliefs of extraterrestrial beings or simply exist somewhere out there.
And considering that magic can come into existence in Touhou's world mainly through the belief in supernatural beings' existence, and can also be used in technology to some extent or another (as evidenced by the Lunarians) then there could also be civilizations somewhere out in space who instead of being built entirely on scientific technology, are instead largely built on magical technology.
They could even continue to believe in the existence of their supernatural beings irrespective of "logic", especially so that they can continue to use their technology.
Bougetsushou even shows that crude rockets can be built and actually function in space if the conditions and make are right.
Just some ideas that are interesting to think about.

Edit: Really only a couple very minor grammar mistakes.

SateriCat17 said:

Considering that human belief allows for supernatural beings and places to born, and that some supernatural beings already seem to exist irrespective of human belief, then beyond the Earth, there could exist other supernatural beings either born from the beliefs of extraterrestrial beings or simply exist somewhere out there.

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Imagine youkai annoy humans so bad humans decide to do self-manipulation into not believing in youkai at all so youkai will stop existing.

Naprzeciw said:

Imagine youkai annoy humans so bad humans decide to do self-manipulation into not believing in youkai at all so youkai will stop existing.

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I'm... not entirely sure it would work exactly like that, but ok...

That is an interesting topic. I would like to share some thoughts too.
I think that gods in such world might give information about general (magic) technologies (like fire and electricity), but I doubt they would be a "part" of the machines (as I don't think they want people to rely on them too much). They still can directly intervene in some serious case (like in SSiB). Gods need to gain faith anyway, so getting faith via giving information about technologies may work.
But looking at Gensokyo, the closest example to this idea is Kanako. She brought technologies, that is true. But the technologies are mostly used by gods and youkais, not humans. Youkais are the ones who build most machines for Kanako. And youkais are the ones who use energy produced by Okuu. Humans only get things which don't change their lives a lot (for example the ropeway). It looks like gods and youkais don't really want to give too much information about technologies. Why? I think they are afraid that human may start to rely more on technologies than on them this way, so they would get less faith.
And SSiB case (the Second Lunar War) is somewhat strange. That is the only situation when gods intervened a lot directly but they don't intervene much in other works. To be honest I am not sure why Reimu doesn't use that ability a lot, but it seems like that case was the only one when the gods wanted to help.

vanyk said:

That is an interesting topic. I would like to share some thoughts too.
I think that gods in such world might give information about general (magic) technologies (like fire and electricity), but I doubt they would be a "part" of the machines (as I don't think they want people to rely on them too much). They still can directly intervene in some serious case (like in SSiB). Gods need to gain faith anyway, so getting faith via giving information about technologies may work.
But looking at Gensokyo, the closest example to this idea is Kanako. She brought technologies, that is true. But the technologies are mostly used by gods and youkais, not humans. Youkais are the ones who build most machines for Kanako. And youkais are the ones who use energy produced by Okuu. Humans only get things which don't change their lives a lot (for example the ropeway). It looks like gods and youkais don't really want to give too much information about technologies. Why? I think they are afraid that human may start to rely more on technologies than on them this way, so they would get less faith.
And SSiB case (the Second Lunar War) is somewhat strange. That is the only situation when gods intervened a lot directly but they don't intervene much in other works. To be honest I am not sure why Reimu doesn't use that ability a lot, but it seems like that case was the only one when the gods wanted to help.

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I think in the cases of whether the gods would or wouldn't want to help, I think it largely depends on the god who's intervening.
And also, another thing to note is that Gensokyo's gods are mainly those from Japanese mythology, who tend to be a bit different from gods in other religions or mythologies.
But the idea of the gods "giving information" to aid in technological development in exchange for faith in the context of these theoretical "magical civilizations" sounds pretty plausible. Regardless, I think in that case, it'd largely depend on which types of gods those civilizations would believe in.
Anyway, in regards to why Reimu doesn't use her abilities to call upon the gods more often, I think, largely comes down to two main reasons:
She prefers to do things herself, and she's just lazy. lol