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  2. Ta-no-Kami - Wikipedia

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    Ta-no-Kami shares the kami of corn, the kami of water and the kami of defense, especially the kami of agriculture associated with mountain faith and veneration of the dead (faith in the sorei). Ta-no-Kami in Kagoshima Prefecture and parts of Miyazaki Prefecture is unique; farmers pray before Ta-no-Kami stone statues in their communities.

  3. Category:Japanese folk religion - Wikipedia

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  4. Talk:List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    None of the responses provide any support for "Torento-no-kami", so I have deleted it. Please do not put it back unless you have an external source which explicitly mentions it. Imaginatorium ( talk ) 11:15, 14 May 2018 (UTC) [ reply ]

  5. Mountain worship - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese Ko-Shintō, due to the blessings obtained from water sources, hunting grounds, mines, forests, and awe and reverence for the majestic appearance of volcanos and mountains, these geographic feature are believed to be where the God resides or descends, and are sometimes called Iwakura or Iwasaka, the edge of the everlasting world (the land of the gods or divine realm).

  6. Gero Ta-no-Kami Festival (下呂の田の神祭, gero no ta no kami matsuri) [191] February 14: A lion dance followed by four dancers wearing hats decorated with red, yellow and white paper performing a flower umbrella (hana kasa) dance. At the end there series of performances imitating the stages of rice farming. Gero, Gifu —

  7. Yamawaro - Wikipedia

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    The folkloricist Kunio Yanagita theorizes with words such as "river-child migration" that these seasonal changes between kappa and yamawaro comes from the seasonal changes between faith and the field gods and the mountain gods (Yama-no-Kami) and that since birds could often be heard in many places during those times, it may be related to the ...

  8. Ōkuninushi - Wikipedia

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    The child was thus named 'Ki(no)mata-no-Kami' (木俣神, from ki (no) mata "tree fork"). [ 70 ] [ 69 ] Ōkuninushi – in this section of the narrative given the name Yachihoko-no-Kami (八千矛神, "Deity of Eight Thousand Spears") – then wooed a third woman, Nunakawahime (沼河比売) of the land of Koshi , singing the following poem :

  9. Shinto music - Wikipedia

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    Shinto music is the ceremonial and festive music of Shinto (神道), the indigenous religion of Japan. Its origin myth is the erotic dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto which lured Amaterasu from her cave.