Inu-Yasha Why do you think Kikyou is in hell?

Doesn't everyone have a diffferent interpretation of hell? I think people go to hell because they've been sinful for a long time of their life. Kikyou hated Inuyasha the minute he betrayed her when she was about to die. How can you go to hell for like a minute you've been sinful?

 

Kikyou didn't hate InuYasha for fifty years, she was brought back to the Earth thinking what had just happend ( or seemed like just happend) she hated InuYasha for about a few minutes, thinking that he killed her, hating someone wouldn't send you to hell.

Wouldn't the god of this show see what had happend? Did he not care that she had been tricked? I think that hell is a place everyone goes to, there might be differnt types of hell one type is were the good people go and there is a other type were bad people go. The word hell, could just mean afterlife.

 

i think kikyou went to hell because she killed an innocent person. but then again she was very, very angry.

 

Hm.... I don't remember that saying, she killed him. She just sealed him to a tree. I don't think she was acually trying to kill him, or she would have did that with out saying a word. When she said "Die InuYasha" maybe she was just angery, if she meant to kill him he would have been dead. She kinnda sealed him away, more or less perserved him.

 

Its simple, dying with all that hatred inside her probably made her go a little nuts and thus she was sent to hell! At least at my view as well as some others!

 

I also do not fully understand the location
and things that go on in this "hell" that is created in this show,
but didn't Kikyou spend most of her life or at least a good bit protecting
the jewel? I mean she is also loved by these innocent children and even the villagers talk highly of her. But i know she changed once she came back and did some things that were wrong, but i don't know how her decision of ther life in the afterlife was decided or what she faces now.

 

i don't believe in the same god everyone else does, hatred is hatred. she should have known the inuyasha would never fight that dirty. he maybe a half breed but he's got more dignity than to try and trick her when he loves to go head on anyway. that would be just a waste on good fighting. :anger2:

 

Inuyasha also believed that Kikyou tricked him when he was going to meet her wherever they were supposed to meet. Inuyasha should have known that Kikyou wouldn't do something like that, so it's mostly both of there faults. I'm thinking that they both got tricked because everyone interprets things differently than others. They interpret being betrayed by one another so quickly they probably just jumped into doing something without thinking about consequences.

 

In "Hell"?

Hell is a christian concept. We should really look into shintoism (from which Inuyasha is based) to find out the answer.

 

Good point. Then the concept pf "Hell" will be clear and we can understand.

 

I think she had unfinished business to attend to and therefore she did not go to Heaven. Maybe they don't think you can come back from being in Heaven but you can come back from hell. She died without finishing her goal in life, and therefore is in hell. maybe? possibly? that and I agree with you can't go to Heaven hating someone.

 

Well, this is just my two cents, but I believe the Buddhist Hell (and probably Shinto Hell too, if there is one) is simply the place spirits go to atone for any sins they've committed in their lifetime before going on to be reincarnated. Now, I don't know exactly how many sins Kikyo had to atone for, but she had at least one (anger at Inuyasha, and the subsequent sealing of him in said anger), so she would've gone to the Buddhist Hell for that. Once that was done, she would go on to be reincarnated to whatever new life suited her actions in her previous life.

This could imply several things. First, since she was brought back from the dead and her soul(s) placed into the clay body, she probably wasn't done atoning in Hell, even after 50 years (time in alternate planes like Heaven and Hell might run differently). So that would explain why she's going back to Hell once she's done on Earth.

Spoiler: series' end

That said, at series'-end, we still don't know how much longer she's going to be running around Feudal Japan, since she refuses to die until Naraku is gotten rid of. That looks like it's going to take a while longer. So we've got that Earth-time taken out of her atoning in hell.

So, once she passes from this life, she's back in Hell. She needs to finish her atonement and move on to be reincarnated. We know she's reincarnated at least once (as Kagome). Assuming that the 50 years she was dead is a very short time in Hell, it could take a while longer on Earth for her atonement to finish. Say, another 100 years or so. ::shrug:: Who knows? We don't know how long it takes for her to be reincarnated, either, or how many reincarnations she faced before becoming Kagome. If she was very good in her life as a miko (which it looks like she was), then the sin we've mentioned above would probably be enough to keep her from going to Nirvana, but not enough to knock her down a rung on the reincarnation ladder. So Kagome might be the only reincarnation she's faced (unless there were lives prior to being Kikyo, but that doesn't count).

Anyway, this post was longer than it probably needed to be. ::shrug:: Sorry folks. Hope that helped.

 

I think she goes to Hell so that when Inuyasha dies, he can join her.

 

Why is she in hell? I think that's because she failed to do her job to protect the Shikon Jewel. And some religious crap goes in between that, so as punishment, she is sent to hell.

-SakataKentaro

 

Okay...I hate to do this...and I know I will probably get flamed...but it is needed:

"Buddhism believes in reincarnation of the soul to learn its lessons in order to reach Nirvana (to become pure or godlike) or to become one with God.

The "resurrected" Kikyo is evil, she is a hell spirit (she is the hate that remained) and it makes her a hungry ghost. The Shintos believe in different soul paths, and the first three are evil (1. Hell, 2. Hungry ghosts, & 3. Spirits of servitude). The other three paths include humans, devas (nature spirits) and demigods before reaching Buddhahood. Good souls don't go hell. Good souls become like kami and go to another place like what we call paradise - not hell!"

That was a quote from "The Mystical Aspects of Inu Yasha"
http://groups.msn.com/Kikyohaters/themysticalaspectsofinuyasha.msnw

It was written by a member of my website who is wiccan and very knowledgeable.

 

Why is Kikyou in hell? Since when was she in Hell? Did I miss something here?

 

Actually, KaYasha ment why Kikyou went to hell when she died 50 years ago, before she was ressurected, I think.

 

This might be alittle of topic of this post, but like you said in one of your other posts Kikyoulvr4eva, Kikyou should not completly perish until she finally
confronts Naraku. I'm not sure if this woman will ever find inner peace, but she should go once she settles things with Naraku.

 

Kikyou would mostly likely find peace after she destroys Naraku. I'm not sure what she does. It depends on Rumiko what Kikyou does. But I think Kikyou will return to hell once she kills Naraku.

About your post Hanyou_Kagome, the "ressurected" Kikyou is hateful yes, but not just hate makes you evil. Because she died in hate, her spirit cannot move from that spot, but Kikyou isn't a hungry ghost either. Her body is physical, even though she is dead.

But it is difficult to become a "good soul." If you are saying that hate makes you evil, then mostly everyone is "evil." According to my religon, (Buddism) one must not hate in order to become a "good spirit." Everyone is hateful towards everyone sometimes. Inuyasha, Kagome, Kikyou, Sango, Miroku, all hate someone. In other words, it is difficult just to go to "heaven."

All I know is that the Shinto religon is similar to the Buddist religon and the concept of "hell" is mixed in between the two so it is difficult to understand both in one concept. The url you gave us has the description of Buddism while the Inuyasha story is from the Shinto religon. All we can do is ask for Rumiko.

 

Well, her hate was unfounded. If she had really trusted InuYasha so much, then why was she so quick to think the boy had betrayed her? Though Naraku tricked them, they both obviously did not trust each other enough to overcome this. And since InuYasha technically didn't "die" as we use the word, Kikyou was sent to what I would call "hell" until she was reincarnated. But I wonder, can you really be reincarnated from hell in the Shinto religion? It's been bothering me. I heard when your in hell, according to Shintoism, you cannot leave...ever.
~Silver Rei