She stands seductively at the water’s edge and speaks of poetry and music. In her hands a lute, and around her feet white snakes coiled in attendance. She brings good fortune to those who worship her, and she sails the … Read the rest
Category: Kami (Page 7 of 9)
This is the third and final part of a mini-series about Japanese kami taken from Joseph Cali’s introduction to the recently published Shinto Shrines by University of Hawaii Press. (The paragraphing and photos are my own.) [For Part One: Concept,
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Part Two of our mini-series on the kami is also extracted from the Shinto Shrines book recently out from the University of Hawaii Press. Illustrations are my own, and not those of the publication, as is the paragraphing.
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Kami are central to Shinto. Indeed, the very name Shinto means ‘way of the kami’. So an obvious question is what exactly is or are kami?
In Shinto Shrines (University of Hawaii Press), Joseph Cali provides an admirably clear overview … Read the rest
Who do you think might have written the following?
‘”The Sun is god!” cried J.M.W. Turner as he died, and plenty of other people have thought there was much in his analysis. The Aztecs agreed, and so did the pharaohs … Read the rest
Christmas Day with a difference at a laughing festival where you can “open the Rock Door of your heart”.
It takes place on Dec. 25 at a shrine near Osaka, and you can see the event on this youtube video… Read the rest
Youtube has a substantial four-part video programme on Shinto as part of the Religions of the World series. It’s narrated by Ben Kingsley, who gets one or two pronunciations wrong but on the whole does a credible job. One irksome … Read the rest