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The last affirmation is to practice matsuri, which is the worship and honor given to the kami and ancestral spirits. [19] Shinto followers also believe that the kami are the ones who can either grant blessings or curses to a person. Shinto believers desire to appease the evil kami to "stay on their good side", and also to please the good kami.
Significantly, in ancient Japanese texts the words jinja (神社, "shrine", jinja being the most typical modern reading) and 社 were sometimes read as yashiro ("sacred place"), but also sometimes read as mori ("grove" or "forest"), reflecting the fact that the earliest shrines were simply sacred groves or forests where kami were present.
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A river spirit that pretends to be a crying baby to lure people in for pranks that sometimes prove fatal to the victim. Kawa-no-Kami The king of the river gods, who serves the Emperor. He is mentioned only in the Man'yōshū. Kawauso Mischievous shapeshifting river otter spirits. Kaya-no-hime A kami of vegetation, grass and fields.
In Shinto rituals, gods are said to have descended from shintai, a rock, and the yorishiro, called himorogi, was made the center of the ritual, symbolizing the divine power of the gods. As time passed and temples , where gods were believed to reside, became more permanent, the object of worship shifted from the body of the gods to the shrine ...
The most common shintai are man-made objects like mirrors, swords, jewels (for example comma-shaped stones called magatama), gohei (wands used during religious rites), and sculptures of kami called shinzō (), [3] but they can be also natural objects such as rocks (shinishi ()), mountains (shintai-zan ()), trees (shinboku ()), and waterfalls (shintaki ()) [1] Before the forcible separation of ...
Kamo Shrine (賀茂神社, Kamo-jinja) is a general term for an important Shinto sanctuary complex on both banks of the Kamo River in northeast Kyoto. It is centered on two shrines. [ 1 ] The two shrines, an upper and a lower, lie in a corner of the old capital which was known as the "devil's gate" ( 鬼門 , kimon ) due to traditional geomancy ...
' Calming-of-the Spirits Service ' or ' Requiem ') – A Shinto Matsuri (a festival) performed for converting ara-mitama into nigi-mitama, quelling maleficent spirits, preventing misfortune and alleviating fear from events and circumstances that could not otherwise be explained. Chūgi (忠義, lit. ' Duty and Loyalty ') – One of the virtues ...