Word: omikami
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...According to legend, the mirror represents the sun-goddess Amaterasu Omikami, ancestress of all Japanese emperors and the sword Japan's national strength...
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...
Methodist Bishop Yoshimune Abe let his words speak louder than silence. Bishop Abe, reported Harold Edward Fey in last week's Christian Century, regularly worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
...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...
Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...