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>because the way something is worded is semanthics.
I think you should do a quick google search what semantics mean, Mr. Read Between the Lines.
>ZUN going out of his way to clarify what he means when he says "suns"
He didn't go out of his way to mean shit, he just said i.e. Apollo meaning one of the said suns was Apollo. One of the suns was also Junko's son, by the way.
In fact, the fact that he said "suns" instead of just Apollo or even just "sun" instead of plural is more damning than whatever mental gymnastics you're trying to pull here.
>ZUN loosely tying a myth to a character's backstory in a way that would fit in his established world, like say, the fisherman in CiLR.
>ZUN confirming there were ten suns, actual suns, not metaphorical suns, actual suns which Houyi shot down, carrying with them all the implications of such a feat.
Both aren't exclusive.
>Your argument hinges on the fact that Touhou's version of the myth is the same as the one of legends.
It's not. Junko also isn't Hou Yi's wife in the myth, but her character is instead part of another chinese myth that ZUN combined with the chinese creation myth. My argument doesn't hinge on that.
>. An assumption backed by no facts other than only one sun existing
An "assumption" backed by what is written in the omake and what is shown in the games, like Junko because being vengeful her son was also one of the suns that were shot down.
I'm not assuming some kind of nebulous curvature of the myth because others have done it before (except not fully, just like Chang'e's myth), so in this part that I have personally focused on it must be different from the myth because I don't want it to be. Which is what you're doing.
>How do you know the one sun that wasn't shot down isn't special in some way? How do you know the other suns were actual suns? How do you know there were ten? You can't know for sure, only speculate. And speculation is all you have for your claim of Touhou's supposed power level, not a mere supporting, sensible guess, rather an outlandish reach with insane implications and would mean such a departure from the series' usual style it would put Yorihime marrying her nephew to shame. That is the basis for your argument.
So your argument is based around "BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
Ok.
How do you know Remilia's name isn't actually Remilia but something else? She's lied before. Maybe she's not even a vampire, but just an oni pretending to be one.
How do you Akyuu isn't making literally everything up in the books? How do you know if Kaguya actually killed Mokou's father and it wasn't just Mokou hallucinating everything?
Barely any of those were shown firsthand.
Do you know why all these retarded questions are retarded? Because info has to be ingested to be truth despite it not everything being certain, or none at all. It's Occam's Razor.

You're speculating far, FAR more than I have here. You're diverting so much from the myth because you just don't want to believe something like that happened, when in fact similar things have happened before like Makai being destroyed.
>Tell me then, how is it more wrong to assume the series continued doing what it always did?
Because you're assumptions are so focused on what is being argued. Is it true that myths in Touhou often aren't 1:1 to their real equivalent? Yes.
But that's not what you're arguing. What you're arguing is "This precise, exact point in this myth cannot be true simply because it is too absurd for me to accept it, so it must have diverted here in some manner despite me not having much ground to stand on."

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