Incarnation

CRITICAL: a descriptive compound (‘taking on a human body’) is required. This must be sharply distinguished in teaching from the Kherai puja’s doudini possession, in which Bathoubwrai or another deity is understood to temporarily seize and speak through a human medium during ritual trance — a real, currently practiced phenomenon. The incarnation is the eternal Son permanently and personally taking human nature, not a deity briefly using a human vessel. Bathouism’s own worship is aniconic (centered on the sijou plant, not an image or embodied deity), which makes any embodiment language doctrinally loaded and in need of careful framing.