E 'in my opinion much better the image above, shows the goddess Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess (who knows why the sun is female in Japan ..), which, as legend reported here , was released from the cave in which it was hidden to avoid the mischievous brother. It 's the long-awaited moment by the men and all other kami (or deities), which terminates the long eclipse on Earth caused by his absence.
E ', however, as improper translation of the kami or gods, or at least is an understatement. Kami is a beautiful word in my opinion (which is greater correspondence with the Deva religion Hindu) that identifies the spiritual aspect of everything that exists in nature.
Kami is the guiding spirit who lives in the living thing as well as in the inanimate: plants like stones, mountains, rivers, seas, forests, streams, clouds, the sky. The forces of nature, wind, rain, storms, lightning strikes are kami.
curious that, given that the human being is part of nature, does not refer to man as kami, even if it is: this is because in their culture kami is also an honor to the noble and sacred souls, while themselves do not assign any award ever, out of respect.
Kami are also of how we understand Western the time of the Greeks and Romans. The Shinto pantheon includes:
Izanagi, the first man
Izanami, the first woman
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
Susanoo, god of the seas and storms
Inari, the god of rice
Shinigami, the god of death
Tsukuyomi, the god of The significance of the moon
Kami is not limited simply to the nature and the gods but also includes cultural aspects of Japan and may be extended to the great men (now deceased) of Japan.
therefore distinguish three broad categories of Kami: Kami
- Natural (celestial and terrestrial)
- Cultural Kami (Community and functional)
- Kami Rights (such Hitogami)
Kami Community protect a particular clan, while dealing with the functional processes of human life, such as growth, jobs and the economy. The Kami are human instead of historical figures within recognized as heroes or patriots.
As Shinto has its roots in the distant, there are kami that represent the spirit of the ancestors , both of ordinary families, and the nobility.
Even the emperors of Japan were akitsumikami (kami ground, manifest) until 1946, when, after the humiliating military defeat of the Second World War, Emperor Hirohito declared the nation by radio not to be. However, all the emperors trace the lineage of their family by the first emperor Jimmu (660 BC), which in turn derives from the goddess Amaterasu.
Finally, as there are kami? Infiniti
it seems, as there are many manifestations of nature and the human ones. The Shinto provide a number: Yaoyorozu-no-kami or 8 million kami: no coincidence that the number 8 is universally known to indicate infinity. If you rotate 90 degrees, it becomes the mathematical symbol for infinity, 8 as the Bagua Trigrams Chinese, the Buddhist eightfold path, 8 days for the transfiguration of Christ.
For further :
Wikipedia, Kami-Italia.com
Japan, Folklore, kami
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