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Gohei , onbe , or heisoku are wooden wands, decorated with two shide (zigzagging paper streamers) used in Shinto rituals. It may be considered an Ōnusa with only two Shide. The streamers are usually white, although they can also be gold, silver, jade, or a mixture of several colors, and are often attached as decorations to straw ropes ...
A gohei is an offering to kami that can be seen on kamidana altars and inside the main building of a Shinto shrine. [4] A common purification ritual uses a haraegushi, a wooden stick with linen or paper shide attached at the top. [5] A Shinto priest waves the haraigushi over a
An ōnusa or simply nusa [1] or Taima [2] is a wooden wand traditionally used in Shinto purification rituals. [2] Ōnusa are decorated with a number of shide (paper streamers). [3] When the shide are attached to a hexagonal or octagonal staff, the wand is also known as a haraegushi (祓串).
The most common shintai are man-made objects like mirrors, swords, jewels (for example comma-shaped stones called magatama), gohei (wands used during religious rites), and sculptures of kami called shinzō (), [3] but they can be also natural objects such as rocks (shinishi ()), mountains (shintai-zan ()), trees (shinboku ()), and waterfalls (shintaki ()) [1] Before the forcible separation of ...
Jinja-shinto (神社神道) – Originally a synonym of State Shinto (Kokka Shinto below), it is now a term criticized by specialists as problematic. [1] When applied to post-war Shinto, it means the beliefs and practices associated to shrines, particularly those associated with the Association of Shinto Shrines. [1] Jisei (自制, lit.
The most common shintai are objects like mirrors, swords, jewels (for example comma-shaped stones called magatama), gohei (wands used during religious rites), and sculptures of kami called shinzō (神像), [note 8] but they can be also natural objects such as rocks, mountains, trees, and waterfalls. [33]
A miko (), or shrine maiden, [1] [2] is a young priestess [3] who works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, [4] but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized [5] role in daily life, trained to perform tasks, ranging from sacred cleansing [4] to performing the sacred Kagura dance.
An ōnusa, which is used in certain types of harae.. Harae stems from the myth of Susano-o, the brother of the Sun goddess Amaterasu.According to the myth, while Amaterasu was supervising the weaving of the garments of the gods in the pure weaving hall, Susano-o broke through the roof and let fall a heavenly horse which had been flayed.