Was "Kaguya-hime" an alien?

※This article isExcerpted from "The Contact" open_in_new(by Ryuho Okawa)

To me, the story of "Kaguya-hime" from the Japanese classic "Taketori Monogatari" seems like an alien legend.
"Taketori Monogatari" has the following content.

An old man was taking bamboo in a bamboo grove when he found a bamboo that was glowing, and inside it sat a cute girl about ten centimeters tall.
When he took her home and raised her, she gradually grew larger, and after three months, she was the height of an adult.
This woman was truly beautiful, like a princess, and was named "Kaguya-hime".

However, one day, Kaguya-hime announced, "When the next full moon night comes, I must return to the world of the moon.
A messenger from the moon will come to pick me up." And indeed, a messenger from the moon came.

In the "Taketori Monogatari Emaki", there is a scene depicting a carriage coming to pick her up on a glowing cloud.
At this time, the soldiers who were deployed to protect Kaguya-hime took their bows on the roof of the house and tried to nock arrows, but their bodies became numb and they could not move.

The scene of Kaguya-hime returning to the moon (painted by Hiroshi Tosa and Hirozumi Tosa)

This is very similar to the "abduction" by aliens that often occurs today.

It seems that while being abducted by aliens, the body really becomes immobile.

The phenomenon of "even if you try to do something, your body becomes paralyzed and you cannot move, and you are at the mercy of the aliens" is occurring, so it is thought that there are quite a few real stories mixed into "Taketori Monogatari".

Furthermore, the fact that "Kaguya-hime was initially like a small person or a very small child, but eventually grew to the size of an adult Earthling" is also possible if Kaguya-hime is an alien.

For example, the Vega aliens often appear in "alien readings", and when listening to their stories, it seems they can change their appearance as much as they want.

Also, during my childhood, in Kochi Prefecture, which is next to Tokushima Prefecture where I was born, there were many sightings of small UFOs about thirty centimeters in size in rural areas, and many photos were taken.

If aliens are coming in such small discs, the people inside must be incredibly small, like really tiny aliens. Such small aliens might also exist.

There is a possibility that the Urashima Taro legend is related to space. The goddess Toyotama-hime of Japanese Shinto spoke about Urashima Taro in a spiritual message as follows.

Additionally, in the "Tango no Kuni Fudoki", there is a legend that "a young man named Urashima Ko was taken by a beautiful princess named Kamehime to the 'Heavenly Immortal House', where he met seven children named Subaru and eight children named Amefuri." The "Subaru" refers to the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus, and "Amefuri" refers to the Hyades star cluster in Taurus, which aligns with Toyotama-hime's spiritual message that "Urashima Taro was on another planet."