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It is said that the shrine started to offer ritual service in 14th century. According to local legend, Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine is dedicated to the creator gods Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto from Japanese mythology. [4] [5] The original shrine was burned down by the flames of war in 16th century and current shrine was rebuilt in ...
The shrine represents 30 guardian deities, one to be worshipped on each day of the month; all native deities, ‘kami’. In the centre is an invocation to the Lotus Sutra, written by the Buddhist monk Nichinen. This is an example of how Buddhism and kami worship were closely associated in Japan until they were separated in the late 1800s.
The Ōmiwa Shrine is directly linked to Mount Miwa in that the mountain is the shrine's shintai, or "kami-body", instead of a building housing a "kami-body".This type of mountain worship (shintai-zan) is found in the earliest forms of Shinto and has also been employed at Suwa Shrine in Nagano, and formerly at Isonokami Shrine in Nara and Munakata Shrine in Fukuoka.
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Malevolent spirits that appear where people have died violently and try to lure others to similar if not identical deaths. Shintai Physical objects worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories where spirits or kami reside. They are not the kami themselves, just temporary repositories which make the kami accessible for humans to worship.
The New Kingdom Gurob Shrine Papyrus is a fragment of a workman's designs for a portable altar. It dates perhaps to the 18th Dynasty. One of the best-known artifacts of Ancient Egypt is the Anubis Shrine, which is in a portable form, placed atop a palanquin. The statue of a recumbent jackal is attached to the roof of the shrine.
Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden at Willesden, London, England; Shrine of Saint Alban in St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, England ; Shrine of Saint Aldhelm in Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, England ; Shrine of Saint Boniface in the Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him who Hung Thereon, Crediton, England
In Gifu Prefecture, there is a Mikubi shrine dedicated to Taira no Masakado. According to a legend left at the Shinto shrine , a priest at a shrine in Mino Province prayed to a kami (Shinto deity) to prevent the head of Taira no Masakado, who was beheaded in Kyoto, from returning to Kantō for revenge, and the kami shot the head off with a yumi ...