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Did you know... that in
Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract
spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
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Yorishiro in Christian and other monotheistic religions
It seems to me that icons, cucifixes and relics are the equivalents of yorishiro in monotheistic religions. Animism isn't absent in Europe, witness the belief in the supernatural powers of both saints (= polytheistic gods and/or shamans) and their images. I wonder if adding a "See also" section with items like "amulet", "icon", idol and "relic" would be original research.
urashimataro (
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03:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)reply
What does "to make their sacredness manifest" mean? Is it like, so that it will be obvious to people who look, that someone considered the item in question to be important enough to bother dressing in that way? Or do shintoists believe it is having some mystical effect (increasing the concentration of kami attracted into the object, or something)? (In Catholicism for comparison, the stained glass windows are just decoration whereas the wafers are not just a bite to eat..)
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23:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply
A fact from Yorishiro appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that in
Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract
spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
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Yorishiro in Christian and other monotheistic religions
It seems to me that icons, cucifixes and relics are the equivalents of yorishiro in monotheistic religions. Animism isn't absent in Europe, witness the belief in the supernatural powers of both saints (= polytheistic gods and/or shamans) and their images. I wonder if adding a "See also" section with items like "amulet", "icon", idol and "relic" would be original research.
urashimataro (
talk)
03:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)reply
What does "to make their sacredness manifest" mean? Is it like, so that it will be obvious to people who look, that someone considered the item in question to be important enough to bother dressing in that way? Or do shintoists believe it is having some mystical effect (increasing the concentration of kami attracted into the object, or something)? (In Catholicism for comparison, the stained glass windows are just decoration whereas the wafers are not just a bite to eat..)
Cesiumfrog (
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23:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)reply