Topic: Shintoism
Kyoto was the first city in Japan to have electric streetcars (starting in 1895), which eventually made it necessary to widen the major thoroughfares to allow for citywide service.. A typical Kyoto house presents a narrow and low front to the street ...
Kagutsuchi is the Japanese god of fire, according to Shinto belief. According to Shinto mythology, Kagutsuchi was born to Izanagi and Izanami, the brother and sister gods that created the first Japanese islands and produced many of the first gods. However, the ...
The goddess of the sun, Amaterasu is one of the most important deities in the Japanese Shinto pantheon. The most famous myth that the goddess appears in features her brother, the storm god Susano-Wo, who had been born at the same time ...
The gods and mythology of Japan is a complicated knot of Shintoism and Buddhism; because of this it is not always clear as to whether a particular deity belongs to the Buddhist or Shinto faith. Buddhism was transported to Japan in the ...
Amaterasu's full name is Omikami Amaterasu, meaning " True to form, Susanoo overstayed his welcome and tried Amaterasu's patience with his rude and rowdy behavior. Jealous of her powers of fertility, he set Amaterasu's horses loose in her rice fields ...
Female shamans (known as miko) were those who transmitted the voices of the dead have been active members of Japanese culture from ancient times right into our modern society. come under the control of the "Master of sacred dance" of "integrated Shinto ...
The publicized discovery of a fragment of human bone, now known as Nipponanthropus akashiensis, has led a few scholars in recent years to suggest the theory that an exceptionally early member of the human race had lived in Japan before the Japanese ...
In the ancient Japanese Shinto religion, Susano-Wo was the god of the sea. Susano-Wo was a god that was feared by the people because of his fierce temper. The gods, known as the "eight million divinities", were so enraged at his antics ...
One of the most common and interesting themes that occur in world mythology and religions is the deification of a mortal. In the Shinto religion, the native faith of Japan, one of the most important deifications is that of Hachiman, the mortal ...
The word Shinto comes from the Chinese shin tao, meaning the way of kami or the way of the Gods. The Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matter) and the Nihongi or Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) were written around A.D. 712 and ...
