Here is another example of the concept of nature in sacred Shinto , religion essentially pantheistic (God is everything and everything is God). Just as the
Torii, that is the portal to the gods (or ascension to the upper floors), can be found everywhere, as a gateway to the temple or in the middle of nature, including the American String shimenawa or may be almost everywhere, due to the horizontal part of a torii, or in nature, such as suspended between two rocks and the sea ..
It consists of a braid of rice straw, which are hung strips of paper (the so-called Gohei). And, like the mirror, the shimenawa is a representation of divinity.
Source: Wiki, Shinto (Sacred Rope)
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