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"When the fox crosses the field road at dusk, do not decide too quickly whether you have seen an animal, a messenger, a woman, a flame, or a warning. The fox has already decided what you are allowed to see." — Traditional field saying associated with Inari shrine roads and rural fox lore.
"If a dream has teeth, do not name the teeth. Call the thing that eats them. Say Baku before the dawn finds you still afraid." — Attributed to a Kyoto household instruction, late Edo period oral tradition.
"When the sea turns the colour of an open wound, you do not ask what caused it. You take your boat out of the water. You go home. You do not look back at the bay." — Attributed to Setsu Kawakami, Ainu fisherwoman, Toyako district, collected account, 1934.
Forget everything you think you know about how mountains and rivers relate. The standard picture — rivers born in mountains, mountains preceding rivers, water flowing because the land tells it to — is not always how this world works. In Nepal, it is wrong in at least one extraordinary case.