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jôrei (Praxis) – 07 / 19 / 2014
jô (usual, ordinary, normal, regular)
rei (example, custom, usage, precedent) ❖ (usual practice, custom, common usage) ❖ Praxis (habitual or established practice)
jis | jitsu (reality, truth)
sen (practice, carry through) ❖ (practice, put into practice)
jô (usual, ordinary, normal, regular)
dô (way, journey, course, moral, teachings, street) ❖ (normal or proper practice) These are some of the practices of minzoku shintô. This list is by no means complete; it's up to each community to determine which particular set of practices they will follow.
bokusen – Divination
chiisana dentô – Little Traditions
saiki – Ritual Tools
shinsen – Offerings
shinshoku – Shrine Attendants
shu – Amulets and Protective Items
chin (ancient peace-preservation centers, tranquilize)
kon (soul, spirit) sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship) ❖ A ritual to calm a soul or kami ❖ (See goryo-e)
chin (ancient peace-preservation centers, tranquilize)
kon (soul, spirit) ❖ A ritual to prevent the soul from leaving the body ❖ Also called tamashizume, mitamashizume
tama (soul; spirit)
shizu.me (controlling; suppressing; quelling) mi (honorable) tama (soul; spirit) mitama (spirit of a deceased person – sonkeigo) shizu.me (controlling; suppressing; quelling)
i (comfort, console, consolation)
rei (spirits, souls) sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship) iresai (memorial sevice) ❖ Ceremony to calm the souls of dead soldiers
hi (sun)
ma.chi (wait) ❖ Waiting for the sun ❖ Believers assemble at a member's home on set days, such as the 15th of the first, fifth, and ninth months of the lunar calendar, to hold a religious ceremony, spend the night in fellowship, and worship the rising sun.
(small shrine)
❖ A small shintô shrine either found on the precincts of a larger shrine and dedicated to folk kami, or on a street side, enshrining kami not under the jurisdiction of any large shrine ❖ A shrine without a full-time jinjashishoku ❖ Also called hokura
ho (treasure, wealth, valuables)
kura (warehouse, storehouse, treasury) ho | ko | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror) kura (warehouse, storehouse)
iwa (rock, crag, cliff)
kura | suwa (seat, cushion) ❖ A formation of rocks to which a kami is invited to descend for worship, and considered to be holy ground ❖ Together with ishigami and iwasaka, such forms of worship represent a type of rock-worshiping cult
iwa (rock, crag, cliff)
saka (boundary, border, region) ❖ A stone altar or cairn erected in ancient times for the purpose of invoking the presence of a kami at times of worship koma inu – A pair of animals that protect the entrances to shrines and temples from evil. See komainu
koto (word)
dama | tama (spirits, soul, spirit) koto (word) dama | tama (soul, spirit) ❖ Soul or power of language ❖ Spirit or spiritual power residing in words
mi (honorable)
koto (say) ❖ A message from kami
ni (sun, day, Japan)
hon (origin, real, true, main) go (language, speech, word) ❖ (Japanese language) ❖ The native language of shintô ❖ Norito are usually in nihongo
nori (celebrate, congratulate)
to | shi (part of speech, words, poetry) ❖ Beautiful words or invocations addressed to kami ❖ Shintô ritual prayer ❖ Also called notto
nori (celebrate, congratulate)
to | shi (part of speech, words, poetry) norito (celebrate, congratulate) – archaic koto (words) ❖ Contraction of norito-koto
miya (Shintô shrine)
za (gathering, seat) ❖ Traditional community organization that oversees jinja affairs, planning ceremonies and matsuri in the absence of officiating priests, and naorai ❖ Lay people from leading families rotate as heads of matsuri and events ❖ Also called za
(gathering, seat)
nao (straightaway, honesty, frankness, fix, repair)
rai | kai (meeting, meet, party) ❖ Communing with the kami ❖ The ritual eating of gohan and drinking of sake at a matsuri after they have been offered to kami
oni (ghost, ogre)
gawara | kawara (tile) ❖ Roof tiles shaped like the head of an oni ❖ Keeps watch against approaching evil spirits
(hillock, mound)
❖ Sacred mounds used for worship or other ritual purposes
tsuki (moon)
ma.chi (wait) ❖ Waiting for the moon ❖ Believers assemble on set evenings, such as the fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-third days of the first, fifth, and ninth months of the lunar calendar, hold religious ceremonies, present offerings to kami, and pray |
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