I've been sidetracked by some unexpected workload this
week (the kind that disrupts normal sleep patterns, if
you really want to know) so I haven't been able to
give any real effort at answering the backlog of
e-mail that this is generating. (Actually I expected
to be completely ignored, truth be told)

But I'll answer Alan Zabaro's response to Undiscovered
Country before I get on with the next part of my
proposed arc.  Akara Naja IS "Habuki", Alan. That is
why her personality traits become Washu's. The reason
I know this is based upon what happens subsequently
with Kagato, namely why she was able to clone her
after her seeming disappearance. Remember Kagato
(which subsequently emerged from this clone later on)
is referred to as Washu's male shadow. IYRC, in the Yi
myth the Archer is confronted by the destructive power
of the ten suns, each of which contained its own
destructive shadow, and revealed his own shadow in
slaying the first nine of them. Now I've asserted that
Xi He is the model for Washu, therefore it will follow
that Habuki (playing Yi) will be confronted with the
ten light hawk wings and will "destroy" nine of them
using knowledge that Tsunami gave her.

I'm glad you asked this question because it saves me
the effort to write an unnecessary segue section
before writing the next arc.  Here's a little 411 on
the subject of the goddesses' light hawk wings:

1-In the myth of the crane/phoenix, each feather
contains the essence of the whole bird. Which is a
fancy way of saying that each light hawk wing of a
goddess contains a compartmentalised portion of their
conciousness. Each LHW is itself a sentient lifeform
in its own right. Each of the original Choushin has
the ability to create ten LHWs, each of them
corresponding to the old Chinese lunar week. Three
goddesses times ten equals the day of the lunar month
(the moon being the determinant of fate). Technically
there can be as many as thirty different avatars for
all three choushin. Unlike the normal goddesses, each
avatar is shaped and formed by the collective
conciousness of whatever cultures or circumstances
they encounter, so that they may have fundamentally
different personalities from their "mother" goddess,
but are combined with her total power. That is why in
the myth Xi He's children rebel against their mother. 
But these changes do not run to their core; they are
merely a superficial reflection of the surrounding
environment.  Affecting a LHW is the same, however, as
affecting the goddess who emanates it.

(The numbers nine and thirty both have starring
billing in Kajishima's work. I'll explain their
symbolic meaning in more detail in a follow-up)

2-An exaggeration on my part leading to a
misunderstanding. In a previous section I said that
Miho's ancestor prevented Habuki from destroying a
goddess. That is actually impossible. The choushin are
indestructible, being personifications of the cosmos
itself, and cannot be brought down by down by
anything. BUT.. it is possible for a human to defeat
their potency by understanding or coming into
psychological resonance with a goddess. In that case a
goddess may become merged or assimilated with that
particular human.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.

3-The 101 states that an out of control LHW can be
catastrophic. I'm about to show where that happened.

And with that on with the next installment.