Paper 9 Tailed Fox embodies multiple identities, serving as a title, a persona, a fox, and, perhaps most significantly, a deity. The nine-tailed fox is a legendary creature featured in the folklore of various cultures, including Japan, China, Korea, India, and Vietnam. The entity’s morality and characteristics vary depending on the cultural context and narrative, but they consistently share the motif of a mystical fox gaining additional tails as it develops. Upon accumulating ten tails, it can transform into either a human or a god.
Why Paper?
Paper divination holds a significant role in various cultures and faiths, including Shintoism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Within the symbolism of the Paper Nine Tailed Fox, every individual sheet of paper embodies a soul or spirit that converges to form a part of the Nine Tailed entity.
Nine tails?
These tails represent the fox’s growth in power and spiritual abilities, with the ninth tail signifying a higher understanding of wisdom and divinity.
Meet Hieu
This is Hieu, a digital illustrator based in Southern California, who operates as a freelance artist. The wellspring of artistic inspiration for Hieu’s work emanates from a unique journey that melds the transformation into shamanism with the nuanced challenges of growing into adulthood. The aim is to impart the profound lessons acquired through the artistry, with a central focus on themes encompassing spirits, deities, and the pivotal roles played by close friends who have been catalysts in Hieu’s personal evolution. The ultimate goal of Paper 9 Tailed Fox is for these narratives to offer guidance and resonance to those who encounter them.