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Ōkuninushi-no-Kami (大国主神 (おおくにぬしのかみ), "Master of the Great Land" / "Great Master of the Land"; hist. orthography: おほくにぬし Ohokuninushi; OJ: Opokuninusi) – One of two new names later given to Ōnamuji by Susanoo; used as the god's default name in the subsequent narrative [6]
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
In the Kojiki, Ōkuninushi used to rule the world, but he relinquished control during the Kuni-yuzuri to transfer control to the Amatsukami.He made a request that a magnificent palace – rooted in the earth and reaching up to heaven – be built in his honor, and then withdrew himself into the "less-than-one-hundred eighty-road-bendings" (百不足八十坰手 momotarazu yasokumade, i.e. the ...
[6] The original shrine property was returned to the shrine organization in October 1961 as a result of lengthy legal and legislative appeals. [7] The shrine building was moved in 1963 to its present location to make way for Federal Housing Administration redevelopment. The shrine was restored from 1968-1969 at a cost of $170,000.
The Ptolemaic Decrees were a series of decrees by synods of ancient Egyptian priests.They were issued in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which controlled Egypt from 305 BC to 30 BC. . In each decree, the benefactions of the reigning pharaoh, especially towards the priesthood, are recognised, and religious honours are decreed for h
A Buddhist pagoda (a Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū shrine in Kamakura before the shinbutsu bunri. The Japanese term shinbutsu bunri (神仏分離) indicates the separation of Shinto from Buddhism, introduced after the Meiji Restoration which separated Shinto kami from buddhas, and also Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines, which were originally amalgamated.
The Ryukyu Disposition (琉球処分, Ryūkyū shobun), [2] [3] also called the Ryukyu Annexation (琉球併合, Ryūkyū heigō) [4] [5] [6] or the annexation of Okinawa, [7] [8] was the political process during the early years of the Meiji period that saw the incorporation of the former Ryukyu Kingdom into the Empire of Japan as Okinawa ...
[6] In Grace Lin's 2009 novel Where the Mountain Meets the Moon , a main character is named the “Old Man of the Moon” and seems to be heavily derived from Yue Lao and the story of Wei Gu. Till We Meet Again (2021 film) is a Taiwanese romantic fantasy comedy film where the main character has to serve as a Yue Lao to meet the requirements for ...