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An important myth of Kim-un Kamuy explains this ritual: One day, the bear god is told by the crow that his wife has gone down from the heavens to the village of humans, and has not returned. He rushes home, takes his child, and goes to the human village, where he is greeted by Kamuy Paseguru , the hunt goddess, who invites him to visit Kamuy ...
The Ainu Iomante ceremony (bear sending). Japanese scroll painting, circa 1870. Bear worship is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, [1] Basques, [2] Germanic peoples, Slavs and Finns. [3]
The Seven Lucky Gods (by Yoshitoshi) The Seven Lucky Gods (七福神, Shichi Fukujin) are: Benzaiten (弁才天 or 弁財天) Also known as Benten or Benzaitennyo, she is the goddess of everything that flows: words (and knowledge, by extension), speech, eloquence, and music. Said to be the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi, over ...
A kamuy (Ainu: カムィ; Japanese: カムイ, romanized: kamui) is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy , passed down through oral traditions and rituals.
Mars (mythology) (3 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Bear deities" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Bears depicted in mythology Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Bear deities (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category ...
Japanese gods and goddesses, called kami, are uniquely numerous (there are at least eight million) and varied in power and stature. [1] They are usually descendants from the original trio of gods that were born from nothing in the primordial oil that was the world before the kami began to shape it.
Ugajin (宇賀神), masculine form. Ugajin (宇賀神) is a harvest and fertility kami of Japanese mythology. [1] [2] Ugajin is represented both as a male and a female, and is often depicted with the body of a snake and the head of a bearded man, for the masculine variant, [1] or the head of a woman, for the female variant.