Word: amaterasu
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...With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
...promoted or encouraged in connection with Shinto or any other creed. These doctrines are specifically banned: that the Emperor is superior to other rulers because he descends from the sun; that the Japanese people are superior to other peoples, or the Japanese islands superior to other lands, because Amaterasu so willed...
...Father purified himself by bathing in the sea that washed Japan. He washed his nose: the Storm God was born. He washed his right eye: the Moon God appeared. He washed his left eye: lo! resplendent Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, leaped into being...
Japanese Roman Catholics have been doing likewise. "The god we speak of here has a different meaning from the absolute God," the bishop quoted from a Ministry of Education pronouncement on the Shinto divinity Amaterasu Omikami. Furthermore, to make the distinction clearer, the new church is changing the name of God from Kami (the word for the Shinto divinities which early Christian missionaries adopted) to the honorific Kamisama, Ainokami (God of Love) and Shu (Lord...
...When I stand in front of the shrine at Ise, I feel differently from the way I feel at any other place," he reported Bishop Abe as saying. "I feel a great sense of peace, of inexpressible sacredness, of oneness with the Ancestor of my country [Amaterasu Omikami] and my own ancestors. I am moved with a feeling of holiness, of piety. My spirit worships, but this is not religion. It is respect, adoration...