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Traditionally, kami possess two souls, one gentle (nigi-mitama) and the other assertive ; additionally, in Yamakage Shinto (see Ko-Shintō), kami have two additional souls that are hidden: one happy (saki-mitama) and one mysterious (kushi-mitama). [3]: 130 Kami are not visible to the human realm. Instead, they inhabit sacred places, natural ...
' the calming of the spirits ') – A Shinto ritual performed for converting ara-mitama into nigi-mitama, quelling maleficent spirits, prevent misfortune and alleviate fear from events and circumstances that could not otherwise be explained; i.e. Ara-mitama that failed to achieve deification due to lack of sufficient veneration, or who lost ...
The Nigi-Mitama (和魂, lit. "Harmonious/Gentle Spirit") is the static side of a kami, while the ara-mitama appears in times of peril. These two sub-spirits are usually considered opposites, and Motoori Norinaga believed the other two to be no more than aspects of the nigi-mitama. [3] Ara-mitama and Nigi-mitama are in any case independent ...
[7] [8] The ritual for converting ara-mitama into nigi-mitama was known as the chinkon (鎮魂, lit. ' the calming of the spirits ' or 'requiem'). [9] Chinkon rituals for ara-mitama that failed to achieve deification as benevolent spirits, whether through a lack of sufficient veneration or through losing worshippers and thus their divinity ...
Along with the more famous Sumiyoshi-taisha in Osaka and the Sumiyoshi Jinja in Fukuoka, it is one of the "Three Great Sumiyoshi" shrines; however whereas the Osaka Sumitomo-taisha enshrines the Nigi-Mitama, or placid spirit of the Sumiyoshi kami, the shrine in Shimonoseki enshrines the Ara-Mitama, or rough spirit of the kami. [2]
A monstrous goddess mentioned in the Kujiki, born from Susanoo's ferocious spirit (his ara-mitama) when he vomited it forth to expel it. She is said to be an ancestor deity for all short-tempered, disobedient yōkai. Amaterasu The Shinto sun goddess, sister of Susanoo the storm god and Tsukuyomi the moon god.
(宇迦之御魂神) Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami (誉田別命) Homudawake-no-Mikoto (大床主神) Ōtokonushi-no-kami (武みかづちの神) Takemikaduchi-no-kami (経津主神) Futsunushi-no-kami (水波女神) Mizuhanome-no-kami Colorado: Kami Shrine (Drala Mountain Center) Red Feather Lakes: Amaterasu-Ōmikami
A torii gateway to the Yobito Shrine (Yobito-jinja) in Abashiri City, HokkaidoThere is no universally agreed definition of Shinto. [2] According to Joseph Cali and John Dougill, if there was "one single, broad definition of Shinto" that could be put forward, it would be that "Shinto is a belief in kami", the supernatural entities at the centre of the religion. [3]