Quotes About Kami

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.

You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

Oaths sworn to the Kami show that the Kami were increasingly perceived as requiring people to conform to a moral code. The Great Purification Prayer was fully loosed from its original moorings in annual jingi rites. It came to be used in shortened form for all manner of personal, individual, and private devotional purposes.

I argue that although the term Shinto scarcely appears, we can identify Shinto's institutional origins in the late seventh- and early eighth-century coordination of Kami worship, regarded as embodying indigenous tradition, by a government ministry following legal mandates.