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Fantastically light and elegant, represent a gateway to a sacred area , which may be the entrance to a Shinto shrine (Jinja), or access to a natural area, water or a forest: it is precisely because of this religion to consider not only the sacred temple, but all of nature, its elements and its manifestations.
simple construction consists of two vertical columns and horizontal pole at the top, traditionally painted in red color and made of wood or stone.
Pass under a torii is an early form of purification , whose care is very important to the Shinto.
"It represents the eternal interaction, since identification of the human world with the divine world. Torii Crossing a means to revitalize and renew the spiritual senses of continuous participation in the life, the entire universe and his own subjective existence. "
(source Wiki )
Torii Tori is composed of the word, which means" bird "with the addition of the final. This is because it is believed that originally they had been of support where to put the birds (and therefore an aviary), animals held in high regard as they are considered the bridge between Heaven and Earth, or between the human and the divine.
Legend has it that the sun goddess Amaterasu hid in a cave to escape his brother Susanoo and the world fell eclipse. Then the goddess to attract people out of the cave and built the first torii you settle on many birds, singing about the Goddess, curiously, looked out far enough so that the other gods pushed off the cave to allow the sun to come back to illuminate the Earth.
The above photoes are taken by " Ehnmark ", "Des Jardin Molly "And" jpellgen "on Flickr, Creative Commons license.
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