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Like many monsters of Japanese folklore, malicious yūrei are repelled by ofuda (御札), holy Shinto writings containing the name of a kami. The ofuda must generally be placed on the yūrei ' s forehead to banish the spirit, although they can be attached to a house's entry ways to prevent the yūrei from entering.
Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld
Even though the kijin and onryō of Japanese Buddhist faith have taken humans' lives, there is the opinion that there is no "death god" that merely leads people into the world of the dead. [6] In Postwar Japan, however, the Western notion of a death god entered Japan, and shinigami started to become mentioned as an existence with a human nature ...
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.
With regard to Japanese mythology, Yomi is generally taken by commentators to lie beneath the earth and is part of a triad of locations discussed in Kojiki: Takamahara (高天原, also: Takamagahara, lit. "high heavenly plane", located in the sky), Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni (葦原の中つ国, lit. "central land of reed plane") located on earth ...
Kagutsuchi's birth, in Japanese mythology, comes at the end of the creation of the world and marks the beginning of death. [4] In the Engishiki, a source which contains the myth, Izanami, in her death throes, bears the water goddess Mizuhanome, instructing her to pacify Kagu-tsuchi if he should become violent. This story also contains ...
The Japanese began to believe in Hotei during the Edo era. The reason why the Japanese have such great respect for this god comes from a legend that says that, before Zen Buddhism arrived in Japan, an alternative Buddhist thought was extended by a priest of dubious aesthetic, who actually was a manifestation of Miroku .
Death Bringer, alternatively titled Galdregon's Domain in Europe, is a 1988 role-playing video game originally developed and self-published by Pandora and released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-CD, and X68000.