Medium

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The medium is the living door between worlds: the blind itako of the north who calls up the voices of the dead, the shrine-maiden and the Delphic Pythia possessed and speaking with the god's own voice, the seance-caller of the modern parlour. Where the exorcist drives the spirit out, the medium lets it in — the close cousin of the Noh stage and of the wandering living spirit. — comparative religion