/jp/ - Otaku Culture

/jp/, I have a question regarding Touhou Canon.

I'm reading Oriental Sacred Place for the first time and I just read past the part where they're trying to find the goshintai for the Hakurei Shrine.

The Fairies discover (and accidentally steal) a yin-yang orb from the shrine, and abandon it in the forest. When Kasen goes to pick it up, it hurts her hand, and she comments that it's "the real deal".

Now, I thought that the yin-yang orb was something that Yukari made to keep in contact with Reimu during the Subterranean Animism Incident. But Kasen is injured as soon as she touches it.

Could the orb actually be the goshintai for the shrine? If it is, did Yukari somehow manipulate it to make it more than just the repository for the god? Did she trap it?

Could she, a youkai whose type is never really confirmed outside of sources who don't know her or her origins, be the God of the Hakurei Shrine? If the shrine is the boundary shrine, the parallel between that and Yukari's manipulation of borders is clear.

Or am I reading too much into this? Have I missed a glaring piece of evidence?

Also, as topics go this might've been discussed to death and I don't know. If so, I apologize for wasting your time.