I just was rereading the Chapter 808, when I realized that Three Calamities exist in Buddhism.
Specifically, there are three calamities and seven disasters, which are catastrophes described in various sutras:
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/T/106
This is what I managed to find:
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/T/105
three calamities ［三災］ ( san-sai): Disasters said to occur at the end of a kalpa. There are two sets of three calamities, lesser and greater.
(1) The three lesser calamities are warfare, pestilence, and famine. The calamity of famine is also called the calamity of high grain prices or inflation, because inflation was caused by a shortage of grain. These calamities are said to occur at the end of each kalpa of decrease in the kalpa of continuance. According to one explanation, all three occur at the end of each kalpa of decrease; first, war rages for seven days, then epidemics prevail for seven months, and finally famine lasts for seven years. According to another, they occur alternately, pestilence at the end of the first kalpa of decrease, war at the end of the second, famine at the end of the third, and so on, each calamity lasting for seven days. In a 1279 letter titled King Rinda, Nichiren described the cause of the three lesser calamities as the three poisons of greed, anger, and foolishness, the fundamental evils inherent in life, stating that greed brings about famine, anger incites war, and foolishness leads to pestilence.
(2) The three greater calamities are fire, water, and wind. These are said to occur at the end of the kalpa of decline following the kalpa of continuance and to destroy the world. In the calamity of fire, seven suns appear at the same time and burn up the world. The flames reach from the hell of incessant suffering to the first meditation heaven in the world of form. In the calamity of water, flood sweeps away everything from the hell of incessant suffering up through the second meditation heaven. In the calamity of wind, a great storm demolishes everything from the hell of incessant suffering up through the third meditation heaven.
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/S/91
seven disasters ［七難］ ( shichi-nan): Disasters said to be caused by slander of the correct Buddhist teaching. In the Benevolent Kings Sutra, they are (1) extraordinary changes of the sun and moon, (2) extraordinary changes of the stars and planets, (3) fires, (4) unseasonable floods, (5) storms, (6) drought, and (7) war, including enemy attacks from without and rebellion from within. The Medicine Master Sutra defines the seven disasters as (1) pestilence, (2) foreign invasion, (3) internal strife, (4) extraordinary changes in the heavens, (5) solar and lunar eclipses, (6) unseasonable storms, and (7) drought. The seven disasters are often cited together with the three calamities in Nichiren’s works as “the three calamities and seven disasters.” The “Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” (twenty-fifth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra also lists seven disasters from which people can be saved by the power of Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” (twenty-fifth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra also lists seven disasters from which people can be saved by the power of Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds: (1) fire, (2) flood, (3) rākshasa demons, (4) attack by swords and staves, (5) attack by yaksha and other demons, (6) imprisonment, and (7) attack by bandits. See also three calamities.
King the Conflagration is obviously fire, which is a Lunarian theme.
Queen the Plague is Pestilence as he is virus expert.
Jack the Drought is famine.
But what about warfare, water and wind? Do the three Kaido's Calamities represent these as well?
Specifically, there are three calamities and seven disasters, which are catastrophes described in various sutras:
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/T/106
This is what I managed to find:
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/T/105
three calamities ［三災］ ( san-sai): Disasters said to occur at the end of a kalpa. There are two sets of three calamities, lesser and greater.
(1) The three lesser calamities are warfare, pestilence, and famine. The calamity of famine is also called the calamity of high grain prices or inflation, because inflation was caused by a shortage of grain. These calamities are said to occur at the end of each kalpa of decrease in the kalpa of continuance. According to one explanation, all three occur at the end of each kalpa of decrease; first, war rages for seven days, then epidemics prevail for seven months, and finally famine lasts for seven years. According to another, they occur alternately, pestilence at the end of the first kalpa of decrease, war at the end of the second, famine at the end of the third, and so on, each calamity lasting for seven days. In a 1279 letter titled King Rinda, Nichiren described the cause of the three lesser calamities as the three poisons of greed, anger, and foolishness, the fundamental evils inherent in life, stating that greed brings about famine, anger incites war, and foolishness leads to pestilence.
(2) The three greater calamities are fire, water, and wind. These are said to occur at the end of the kalpa of decline following the kalpa of continuance and to destroy the world. In the calamity of fire, seven suns appear at the same time and burn up the world. The flames reach from the hell of incessant suffering to the first meditation heaven in the world of form. In the calamity of water, flood sweeps away everything from the hell of incessant suffering up through the second meditation heaven. In the calamity of wind, a great storm demolishes everything from the hell of incessant suffering up through the third meditation heaven.
https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/S/91
seven disasters ［七難］ ( shichi-nan): Disasters said to be caused by slander of the correct Buddhist teaching. In the Benevolent Kings Sutra, they are (1) extraordinary changes of the sun and moon, (2) extraordinary changes of the stars and planets, (3) fires, (4) unseasonable floods, (5) storms, (6) drought, and (7) war, including enemy attacks from without and rebellion from within. The Medicine Master Sutra defines the seven disasters as (1) pestilence, (2) foreign invasion, (3) internal strife, (4) extraordinary changes in the heavens, (5) solar and lunar eclipses, (6) unseasonable storms, and (7) drought. The seven disasters are often cited together with the three calamities in Nichiren’s works as “the three calamities and seven disasters.” The “Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” (twenty-fifth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra also lists seven disasters from which people can be saved by the power of Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” (twenty-fifth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra also lists seven disasters from which people can be saved by the power of Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds: (1) fire, (2) flood, (3) rākshasa demons, (4) attack by swords and staves, (5) attack by yaksha and other demons, (6) imprisonment, and (7) attack by bandits. See also three calamities.
King the Conflagration is obviously fire, which is a Lunarian theme.
Queen the Plague is Pestilence as he is virus expert.
Jack the Drought is famine.
But what about warfare, water and wind? Do the three Kaido's Calamities represent these as well?
