Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ise Shrine's Aramatsuri-no-miya is said to enshrine Amaterasu's ara-mitama. The Ara-Mitama (荒魂, lit. "Wild/Rampageous Spirit") is the dynamic or rough and violent side of a spirit. [5] [6] A kami's first appearance is as an ara-mitama, which must be pacified with appropriate pacification rites and worship so that the nigi-mitama can appear ...
Mitama (三珠町, Mitama-chō) was a town located in Nishiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 4,047 and a population density of 137.33 persons per km 2 .
Murai Jun (村井ジュン, 1897 - 1970) was the founder of what is regarded today as the largest indigenous church in Japan - Iesu no Mitama Kyōkai, was born into a Methodist family in Tokyo and later studied theology at Aoyama College. While he was studying there, something troubled him deeply to the point of anticipating suicide.
A monstrous goddess mentioned in the Kujiki, born from Susanoo's ferocious spirit (his ara-mitama) when he vomited it forth to expel it. She is said to be an ancestor deity for all short-tempered, disobedient yōkai. Amaterasu The Shinto sun goddess, sister of Susanoo the storm god and Tsukuyomi the moon god.
A mitamaya (御霊屋, literally mitama "soul [of the dead]" + ya "house"; also called, otamaya, tamaya, or soreisha 祖霊社, or "Reibyo" 霊廟) [1] is an altar used in Shinto-style ancestor worship, dedicated in the memory of deceased forebears. It generally has a mirror symbolizing the spirits of the deceased or a tablet bearing their ...
Ōmononushi (Japanese: 大物主神, romanized: Ōmononushi-no-Kami; historical orthography: Ohomononushi) is a kami in Japanese mythology associated with Mount Miwa (also known as Mount Mimoro) in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture.
While seemingly portrayed as a distinct entity in the Kojiki, the Shoki depicts the two as essentially being the same entity, with Ōmononushi being Ōkuninushi's aspect or spirit ( mitama) Kunitsukuri Ōnamuchi-no-Mikoto (国作大己貴命 (くにつくりおお(あ)なむちのみこと), "Maker of the Land, Ōnamuchi-no-Mikoto")
The deity's name is understood as being derived from uka no mitama, "august spirit (mitama) of food (uka)". [ 2 ] [ 5 ] While the above texts are silent regarding the deity's gender, Ukanomitama has long been interpreted to be female, perhaps due to association with other agricultural deities such as Toyouke or Ukemochi .