Incarnation

CRITICAL: must be sharply distinguished from the doudini’s Kherai-trance possession, in which a deity is understood to temporarily seize and speak through a human medium. The incarnation is the eternal Son’s permanent, personal assumption of human nature, not a temporary ritual embodiment. Bathou worship’s own aniconic character (centered on the sijou plant rather than an embodied image) makes this a genuinely unfamiliar category requiring careful teaching.