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Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39AC974A.7551@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwodeOrganization: Lucky Mojo Curio Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.lucky.w Subject: Re: Shinto Priests References: <39AC1DC8.92B4D1A3@erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 40 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 05:04:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.136.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 967611850 209.204.136.46 (Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:04:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:04:10 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic:25158 alt.lucky.w:8098 Nate wrote: > > Does anyone know anything relating to the powers and practises of the > Shinto Priests of Japan (or China). I really am looking for good hard > information on their beliefs, powers/magic and any mythology/lore > sirrounding them I don't know much, but i will share what i know. When i was in Japan a few years ago, writing a book on gardening, i travelled with a Japanese woman who translated for me and she told me that the indigenous religion of Japan, sometimes erroneously called Shinto, is acrually "Kami Woship" (worship of the gods). Shinto, she said, is the official state religion of Japan and holds as a tenet that the Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. Kami worship, on the other hand, does not hold this as a tenet. She was a Kami worshipper, she said, and expressed some distate for Shinto. Strangely, she, like many Japanese people, also "prayed and bought incense" in Buddhist temples (not Zen Buddhist temples, just regular Buddhist temples) on the major Buddhist festival days. I saw many rural Kami shrines on farm properties near Iyo City -- way out in the boonies -- each replete with fresh offerings of tangerines, eggs, saki (rice wine) and clusters of pine needles. According to my translator, the pine needles were seasonal -- at other times flowers would be used. She told me a lot of little tidbits about rural festivals, and i can relate them if you are interested. Basically, as she explained it, the priests function as blessers and mediators between the Kami and the people for those festivals held in temples, but there are also folk-festivals in which the populace deals directly with the Kami by making offerings at home. cat yronwode Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html The Sacred Landscape ------- http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredland.html No personal e-mail, please; just catch me in usenet; i read it daily. Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets
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