Religions

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Origin

From the Japanese “Shin-tô” (the “Way of Of i”, second pronounces it “on”, than it can also be pronounced, to the way “Kun”, like “Kami not Michi”) with the added one of the suffisso “ismo”. The Shintô, than does not recognize a supreme God, is a politeistico cult of the nature and the ancestors. To the origin the Scintoismo was aniconico, that is did not have no image of Of i; only as a result of the commistione, in the Middle Ages, of this primitiva religion with the Buddismo of the Great Vehicle, was begun to see statuette, representatives the Divinity, decided in the several one templi. In the Scintoismos'incontrano a great number of divinity of the nature to which they join, in later age, the divinity land, local and familiar. It is spoken about a number of divinity that goes from 80 to 800 mila, from that drift the definition of Japan Shinkoku that it wants to say for the note “country of of i”.

Story

Japanese national religion. In origin it consisted in a cult of the nature in which numerous sciamanici and animistici elements were met. Subsequently the Parthenon that personified the natural forces sistematizzato in an order of divinity that a tendency emphasized in historical age towards the monoteismo, with it graduates them convergence of the main divine attributes in the figure of the Goddess of the Amaterasu sun. The places of the cult are templi, of wood, characterize to you from an archaic architecture and mark from one species to you of portale, the torii. In primitiva age the scintoista religion did not have homogenous character and was constituted from a complex of local sideboards and cycles of legends that they formed to the base of a rich mythology and varies, which official sistemazione in sec. the VIII with the Kojiki (memories of the events of the antiquity) and the Nihon Shoki or Nihongi was given one (Reports or Annals of Japan). The name, derived from the Chinese shen-tao, means the “way of the spirits”. Under the infuence of the confucianism, penetrated in the first centuries of it it was Christian, the scintoismo was closely connected with the political system and the imperial idea, and it became rich of the ancestral cults. Towards the end of sec the IX, the scintoista religion and the buddismo, manifested a fusion process that said origin to the cd. “shinto of the two aspects”, which resisted for beyond a millenium altering deeply the appearance originate them of the scintoismo. In 1868, as a result of the imperial restoration, the two religions were newly scisse: the event was the result of one current to nationalistic background that had been proposed, through the return to pure shinto and that is to one the sfrondato scintoismo of the elements of buddhist derivation, a return to the ancient civic and imeperiali conceptions. The pure one shinto, like expression of the national feeling, subsequently was considered a religion of State, only abolished after the second world war later on to a rescritto imperial that denied the divine nature of the monarch. The Constitution entered in vigor in 1957 has placed the scintoista religion on the same one slowly of the other religions. The sacred witnesses of the scintoismo, collected and only transcribed in buddhist age, are three mitologiche collections re-united under the title it of Sam-bu-han-sho (the three main books): history of the ancient events until the 620 a.C., history of the antiquity that goes until the 712 a.C., Japanese annals until the 720 d.C.

The Religion

The cult of the defunct ones is one of the main characteristics of the scintoismo. The Japanese, believes that the dead men continue living like malignant spirits good or spirits, in a called country Yomi, that he corresponds to the ancient Ade of the Greeks. The paradise or hell does not exist. As far as the tombe, these are visited from the relatives who communicate to the defunct ancestors the more important events of the family. The spirit is guarded in a small coffer of said wood Mitamaya (house of the illustrious spirit), than it is placed in the house of the family before the funeral. Every scintoista family possesses Kami-checkerses (console for of i). The clergymen can marry themselves and hand on hereditarily their load in the family. Beyond to their religious charges, esplicano also a profession and they wear the sacerdotal dress, that garment consists in one melted white woman and with wide sleeves and in a black cap; this last one only when they take care themselves of cult. The Scinto festivities, said Matsuri, that they have a various duration, a month, three days or a day, are ceremonies of thanks for the benefits receipts from of or the ceremonies of supplica in order removing the disasters and often of are connected to the old cycles of working peasant. A place of particular relief covers the festivities connected with the religious adoration of the imperial family. In occasion of these festivities he is the emperor in person who officia the cult in the “sacred entrance hall” of the imperial palace. The fulcrum of the national cult was represented from adds clergyman, while the emperor was the true object of the popular venerazione.

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