Green Shinto would like to wish its readers all the best for the winter solstice as those of us in the northern hemisphere pass through the darkest days of the annual cycle with revelry and Yuletide fires to ward … Read the rest
Category: Mythology (Page 5 of 11)
The first time I saw one, I thought it was an elephant! Now when I see it, I feel happy to know it will eat my nightmares….
Welcome to the imaginative world of the ‘baku’, courtesy of the Ancient … Read the rest
Green Shinto is delighted to host a piece by Deep Kyoto blogger, Michael Lambe, about the current major exhibition at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art. (The exhibition is on until December 14th.) To learn more about Michael’s blog, … Read the rest
There are two people in particular who have shaped my spirituality – Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell. Neither pretended to be a priest or guru, but both imparted jewels of wisdom. Joseph Campbell in particular wrote revealingly of myth … Read the rest
Last night in Kyoto I attended a striking butoh performance entitled ‘Uzume’. It portrayed the Kojiki deity in the distinctive manner of butoh, which meant that rather than simple narrative there was a succession of scenes in which the … Read the rest
A special kind of eclipse is scheduled for tonight in Japan, in which the sun, moon and earth will align so that the earth’s shadow covers the moon and it turns a reddish colour. Cultures in the past feared … Read the rest
One of the points of this blog is to show that Shinto, far from being unique in any way, shares much in common with religions throughout East Asia and beyond. In this respect it was of interest that we … Read the rest