Archive for the 'Shinto' Category
Here’s a very cool video of a Japanese farmer making a new shimenawa (the braided rice-straw rope that marks out the sacred in Shinto tradition) and shide (zigzag paper streamers) at the New Year (more…)
I was asked what references I used in my Shinto posts; here are a few of the ones that I consider most essential. Some of these are noted in various footnotes in the Shinto series, but here they all are in one place. (more…)
And borrowing phrases! The title of this post is borrowed from Mam Adar over at Urban Druid. She has a very nice post on the appeal of Shinto (and Tibetan Buddhism) to a Western seeker, and a lot of what she says in the Shinto section applies to me as well, pretty much directly… but [...]
I apologize, again, for the lateness of this post; I was at the beach, and thought I would be able to get online wirelessly, but the connection was too bad.
One of the most obvious aspects of polytheism is that we generally accept that other people’s deities are as likely to exist as our own. (more…)
Thanks to Sannion for reminding me of this quote from Seneca… I think it really captures the spirit of Shinto. (more…)
This post is going to be much less meaty than last week’s, but it’s still on topic for the series, so I’m going to claim victory and move forward.
In Part 1, I mentioned that both Greek temples and Shinto shrines have a place outside for worshippers to purify themselves with water before prayer. In this [...]
I want to start this series where I first noticed congruity between these two traditions - ritual pollution (miasma / kegare) and purification (katharsis / oharae). As throughout the series, I’m going to be looking at both ancient and modern Hellenismos and comparing them with modern Shinto - a somewhat limited perspective, I realize, but [...]
While organizing my thoughts for the Shinto series, I came across this absolutely amazing post (first in a series, even!) collecting a whole BUNCH of good links. Enjoy.
In the last year or two I have become very interested in Shinto, and in what I as a Hellenist can learn from the experience of a culture that has maintained their ancient traditional religion over thousands of years. However much it may have changed (and it has, quite a bit) over that time, the [...]
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