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  2. Ushi no toki mairi - Wikipedia

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    In earlier times, the term simply referred to worshiping at the shrine during the hours of the ox, and the curse connotation developed later. At the Kifune Shrine in Kyoto, there was a tradition that if one prayed here on the "ox hour of the ox day of the ox month of the ox year" the wish was likely to be granted, because it was during this alignment of the hour, day, month, and year that the ...

  3. Asian witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Asian witchcraft encompasses various types of witchcraft practices across Asia. In ancient times, magic played a significant role in societies such as ancient Egypt and Babylonia , as evidenced by historical records.

  4. Kotodama - Wikipedia

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    This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku.In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion.

  5. Onmyōdō - Wikipedia

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    [2] [1] From around the 9th century during the Heian period, Onmyōdō interacted with Shinto and Goryō worship (御霊信仰) in Japan, and developed into a system unique to Japan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Abe no Seimei , who was active during the Heian period, is the most famous onmyōji ( Onmyōdō practitioner) in Japanese history and has appeared in ...

  6. Tenjin Matsuri - Wikipedia

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    Tenjin Matsuri. In Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Tenjin Matsuri (天神祭, Tenjin Matsuri) is a festival held throughout Japan around the 25th of the month every year at Tenmangū shrines, the months varying depending on the location of the shrine.

  7. Onmyōji - Wikipedia

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    Based on the ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang and five phases, which began in the Xia and Shang dynasties and was almost completed in the Zhou dynasty, that all phenomena are based on the combination of yin-and-yang five phases of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, onmyōji is a uniquely Japanese profession that is responsible for astrology, calendar, I Ching, water clock, etc., which ...

  8. Ame-no-Uzume - Wikipedia

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    Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the ...

  9. Sukunabikona - Wikipedia

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    Prayer tablet (rear) of the Sukunahikona-Shrine in Osaka (Japan) showing the medicinal deities Sukunahikona (Japan) and Shennong (China) For his interaction with Empress Jingu, who was pregnant at the time of her voyage, he is also credited with helping women's health, women's reproductive ailments, fertility, and safe childbirth.