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  2. Ta-no-Kami - Wikipedia

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    Ta-no-Kami shares the kami of corn, the kami of water and the kami of defense, especially the kami of agriculture associated with mountain faith and veneration of the dead (faith in the sorei). Ta-no-Kami in Kagoshima Prefecture and parts of Miyazaki Prefecture is unique; farmers pray before Ta-no-Kami stone statues in their communities.

  3. Mountain worship - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese Ko-Shintō, due to the blessings obtained from water sources, hunting grounds, mines, forests, and awe and reverence for the majestic appearance of volcanos and mountains, these geographic feature are believed to be where the God resides or descends, and are sometimes called Iwakura or Iwasaka, the edge of the everlasting world (the land of the gods or divine realm).

  4. Yamawaro - Wikipedia

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    The folkloricist Kunio Yanagita theorizes with words such as "river-child migration" that these seasonal changes between kappa and yamawaro comes from the seasonal changes between faith and the field gods and the mountain gods (Yama-no-Kami) and that since birds could often be heard in many places during those times, it may be related to the ...

  5. Tano - Wikipedia

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    Tano (Ta Kora), the Akan God of war and strife; Ta-no-Kami, a Japanese spirit believed to observe the harvest of rice plants; Tano languages, a group of Kwa languages spoken in the Tano River region; Ahsoka Tano, a character in the Star Wars franchise; Hopi-Tewa, a Pueblo group from Arizona; Bofoakwa Tano, a football team from Sunyani, Ghana

  6. Po dolinam i po vzgoriam - Wikipedia

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    "Through Valleys and Over Hills" (Russian: По долинам и по взгорьям) or "Through Forests and Over Hills" (Serbo-Croatian: По шумама и горама / Po šumama i gorama), also known as the "Partisan's Song", is a popular Red Army song from the Russian Civil War.

  7. Ajisukitakahikone - Wikipedia

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    Oto 2-tanabata no 2 unagaseru tama no 2 misumaru misumaru ni anadama pa ya mi 1 tani puta watarasu Adisiki 2 Takapi 1 ko 1 ne no 2 Kami 2 so 2 [17] Ame naru ya Oto-tanabata no unagaseru tama no misumaru misumaru ni anadama ha ya mitani futa watarasu Ajishiki Takahikone no Kami zo Ah, the large jewel [b] Strung on the cord of beads Worn around ...

  8. Ōkuninushi - Wikipedia

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    The child was thus named 'Ki(no)mata-no-Kami' (木俣神, from ki (no) mata "tree fork"). [ 70 ] [ 69 ] Ōkuninushi – in this section of the narrative given the name Yachihoko-no-Kami (八千矛神, "Deity of Eight Thousand Spears") – then wooed a third woman, Nunakawahime (沼河比売) of the land of Koshi , singing the following poem :

  9. Kumano Nachi Taisha - Wikipedia

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    Nachi-no-Hi Matsuri Fire Festival, performed on July 14, is the major festival of Kumano Nachi Taisha. It is a fire festival in which six-meter-high portable shrines symbolically representing the purification of the waterfall with the fires from oversized torches is laboriously carried by men dressed in white.