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A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
Shisa (Japanese: シーサー, Hepburn: shīsā, Okinawan: シーサー, romanized: shiisaa) is a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology. Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils.
Hachiman (八幡神) is the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people. Originally an agricultural deity, he later became the guardian of the Minamoto clan. His symbolic animal and messenger is the dove. Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神) The god or goddess of rice and fertility. Their messengers and symbolic animal are foxes.
The Shinto storm god, brother of Amaterasu the sun goddess and Tsukuyomi the moon god. He was banished from Takamagahara and some say he now rules Ne-no-kuni. Suzaku The Japanese version of the Chinese Vermilion Bird of the South. Suzuri-no-tamashii An inkstone that has come to life as a tsukumogami.
Lion goddesses (13 C, 29 P) Lion gods (3 C, 31 P) This page was last edited on 15 September 2023, at 22:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The post Legendary Mythological Dogs and Dog-Loving Deities appeared first on DogTime. Our canine friends have been a part of human mythology about gods and goddesses forever. Do we still worship ...
The phenomenon of inugami spiritual possession was a kojutsu (also called "kodō" or "kodoku", a greatly feared ritual for employing the spirits of certain animals) that was already banned in the Heian period that was thought to have spread throughout the population, and it was known to involve cutting off the head of a starving dog and burying the dog at a crossroads to inflame its grudges as ...
SUN (50A: What Ra, Sol, Helios and Huitzilopochtli personify) I like that this clue highlights the fact that many cultures have SUN deities as part of their legends. Ra is an ancient Egyptian SUN god.