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Feather Dance , as tribute to ancestral temples or the Gods of the Four Directions. Imperial Dance , performed as homage to the Gods of the Four Directions or as a rain dance. Yak-tail Banner Dance , performed at sacrificial sites in Biyong (辟雍), a seat of learning. Shield Dance (干舞), performed for military purpose or for the veneration ...
She uses Shen'er's life to threaten and force Yunxi to change her name to Dou Yifang and become a spy in Dai, monitoring the behavior of the Prince of Dai and the Princess Dowager of Dai . The people who escort Dou Yifang to Dai are Zhou Yafu, a general of Dai, and her maid, Mo Xueyuan, who is also the Empress Dowager's spy. In Zhou Yafu's mind ...
When the Meiji government officially separated Shinto from Buddhism, official use of titles and terminology perceived as having Buddhist connotations such as (dai)myōjin, (dai)gongen or daibosatsu by shrines were legally abolished and discouraged. However, a few deities/shrines are still often referred to as (dai)myōjin in popular usage even ...
The tale follows the story of a young prince named Zhao Shutun (and variations; see above), who is looking for a bride. One day, he is guided to a lake where seven peacock maidens are bathing (or dancing), and he falls in love with the seventh and youngest of them, the Peacock Princess.
Kagura (神楽 (かぐら), "god-entertainment") is a type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance. The term is a contraction of the phrase kami no kura ("seat of god"), indicating the presence of gods in the practice. One major function of kagura is chinkon (purifying and shaking the spirit), involving a procession-trance process.
If an emperor was only a child, he acted merely as a figurehead while the empress dowager dominated court politics. [7] She not only had the right to issue edicts and pardons, but if the emperor died without a designated heir, she had the sole right to appoint a new emperor. [8] Below the empress dowager were the empress and imperial concubines ...
The Balinese Sacred Dance Sanghyang Dedari involves girls being possessed by hyang, Bali, Indonesia. The theologian W. O. E. Oesterley proposed in 1923 that sacred dance had several purposes, the most important being to honour supernatural powers; the other purposes were to "show off" before the powers; to unite the dancer with a supernatural power, as in the dances for the Greek goddesses ...
Lady Qi was the wife of Tuoba Yituo, the chieftain of the central Tuoba branch located around northern Shanxi between 295 and 305. The Book of Wei records that her family name was 'Qi' (祁) [1] but in the History of the Northern Dynasties [2] and Zizhi Tongjian, [3] her family name was recorded as 'Wei' (惟) instead.