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Huaguang flees to the mortal world and becomes a popular demon slayer. To thank him for protecting the Country of a Thousand Fields, [i] the king presents Huaguang with his own temple, but this incurs the wrath of another fire deity, General Fire-Whirl, [j] whose shrine had to be demolished to make way for Huaguang's. Fire-Whirl kidnaps the ...
The entire Suwa shrine complex consists of four main shrines grouped into two sites: the Upper Shrine or Kamisha (上社), comprising the Maemiya (前宮, former shrine) and the Honmiya (本宮, main shrine), and the Lower Shrine or Shimosha (下社), comprising the Harumiya (春宮, spring shrine) and the Akimiya (秋宮, autumn shrine).
Even as, just 20 feet away, the Lake Shrine museum and bookshop with artifacts from Yogananda’s life still stands. The living quarters of the 14 monks who reside on the property also took a hit.
Very ancient bronze pieces have also been found, especially beginning in the Zhou dynasty (founded about 3,000 years before present), with allusions or short descriptions adding to modern knowledge of Ancient Chinese mythology. The sacred or magical attitude towards some of these cast inscriptions is shown in that they sometimes appear in ...
A malevolent sea serpent from the Oki Islands that demanded the yearly sacrifice of virgin maidens until the daughter of an exiled samurai slew it. Yōkai A class of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in Japanese folklore. They can also be called ayakashi (妖怪), mononoke (物の怪), or mamono. Yomi
Asuras gradually assimilated the demons, spirits, and ghosts worshipped by the enemies of Vedic people, and this created the myths of the malevolent asuras and the rakshasa. The allusions to the disastrous wars between the asuras and the suras, found in the Puranas and the epics, may be the conflict faced by people and migrants into ancient ...
The Ōmiwa Shrine is directly linked to Mount Miwa in that the mountain is the shrine's shintai, or "kami-body", instead of a building housing a "kami-body".This type of mountain worship (shintai-zan) is found in the earliest forms of Shinto and has also been employed at Suwa Shrine in Nagano, and formerly at Isonokami Shrine in Nara and Munakata Shrine in Fukuoka.
El Tiradito ("the little castaway") [2] is a shrine and popular local spot located at 420 South Main Avenue in the Old Barrio area of Downtown Tucson, Arizona.Because of the site's association with pleas for supernatural intervention, it is also called the Wishing Shrine. [3]