Shinto
The Shinto religion is thought to have started at 500BCE or even earlier. The word ‘Shinto’ means, ‘The way of the Gods’. During the 8th century CE, both Shinto and Buddhism became the official religions of Japan. The ‘Buddha’ for the Shinto religion was the ‘Kami’. Kami were ‘Divine spirits that dwell within nature’. People believed that Kami could be found in many different forms, anything unusual or beautiful in nature or in exceptional people. They believed Izanagi-no-mikoto and Izanami-no-mikoto, a divine couple, gave birth to Japanese islands. The most important God in the Shinto religion was the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami. She was believed to have given light to the world. Her brother, Susano, is famous for killing an evil serpent. …show more content…
The Shinto religion, with its joyous love of nature and life, is for events such as birth and marriage. Shintoism is also concerned with life in this world.
Sacred land marked off with a straw rope or rows of stone were the first places of Shinto worshippers. However, after 600 CE, wooden shrines became common. The Shinto shrine was an important place where the villagers celebrated the change of seasons, prayed for good harvests or took part in the ritual of purification to wash away physical or moral
The Shinto religion is thought to have started at 500BCE or even earlier. The word ‘Shinto’ means, ‘The way of the Gods’. During the 8th century CE, both Shinto and Buddhism became the official religions of Japan. The ‘Buddha’ for the Shinto religion was the ‘Kami’. Kami were ‘Divine spirits that dwell within nature’. People believed that Kami could be found in many different forms, anything unusual or beautiful in nature or in exceptional people. They believed Izanagi-no-mikoto and Izanami-no-mikoto, a divine couple, gave birth to Japanese islands. The most important God in the Shinto religion was the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami. She was believed to have given light to the world. Her brother, Susano, is famous for killing an evil serpent. …show more content…
The Shinto religion, with its joyous love of nature and life, is for events such as birth and marriage. Shintoism is also concerned with life in this world.
Sacred land marked off with a straw rope or rows of stone were the first places of Shinto worshippers. However, after 600 CE, wooden shrines became common. The Shinto shrine was an important place where the villagers celebrated the change of seasons, prayed for good harvests or took part in the ritual of purification to wash away physical or moral