Kami (divinity)

See also: Kami

Are the divinities or spirits of the Shintoïsme. They sticking to crowned objects, spiritual beings, sources, falls of water, mountains crowned, natural phenomena, venerated symbols. The kami are considered to support the relationship between the parents and the children and the ancestors and their descendants. They are celestial spirits having capacities, but not being the Almightyes, and also terrestrial spirits exempting of the blessings or the sanctions to people on ground.

The shinto regards as divine as well forces of the nature as of the animals or men famous. These divinities are called kami in Japanese and their Chinese equivalent is shin . Tô or C (道) means " voie" or " méthode" into Sino-Japanese. Thus shintô is literally the " sees divinités".

The most important divinity is the sun which, inter alia virtues, protects from the invasions. One can thus say that the Drapeau of Japan is a symbol shinto.

The kami generally inspire a respectful fear. One finds among them mountains, animals like the tiger, the snake or the wolf; and the emperor himself. An imperial Minister for the 9th century is the kami of penmanship. There would be eight million kami and Japan has as a nickname Shinkoku, " country of the divinités".

As in the Roman religion, with its Crepitus and others Portunus all the kami are not noble. Among the million kami , some are humble; cook, toilets, are represented. Kami of the comb, spittle, the excrements is indexed.

Izanagi and Izanami

All began thanks to the divine couple founder, Izanagi and Izanami. Resulting from a long line of divinities, they went down from the Milky Way to create the islands of Japan. They had many children, all the kami : water, wind, trees, rivers, mountains, etc Izanami died by giving birth to the god of Fire. Izanagi assassinated this god and joined his wife with the hells. Izanami, furious, made it drive out: Izanagi succeeds in surviving only by throwing behind him various objects (combs, fishings, gross hones), intended to block the race of its prosecutors. The couple, from now on separated, divided the roles: with it capacity to kill each day 1.000 human beings; with him, that to give birth to some 1.500. It is while purifying of its stay to the hells that Izanagi gave the life to other divinities including three principal: of its left eye appeared Amaterasu, goddess of the Sun; of its right eye, Tsukiyomi, goddess of the Moon; of its nose, Susanoo, god of the Storm.

Principal kami

Izanami, the first woman
Izanagi, the first man
Amaterasu, goddess of the sun
Tsukuyomi, god of the Moon
Susanoo, god of the seas and the Storm
Inari, god of rice
Sarutahiko, kami of the ground

See too

other directions of the term Kami

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