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Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Shinto

Shinto (Jap.). The ancient religion of Japan before Buddhism, based upon the worship of spirits and ancestors.

Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Shinto

Shinto (Japanese) [from shin god + to, tao way, path]

The way of the gods; applied to the popular religion in Japan prior to Buddhism. Japan was considered to be the land of the gods -- a conception current among nearly all ancient peoples, each one of which looked upon its own land as the land of the original divine incarnations -- and the ruler (mikado) as the direct descendant and actual representative of the sun goddess (Tensho Daijin). Spiritual agencies were attributed to all the processes of nature, and a reverential feeling inculcated toward the dead. Hero worship took the direction in the prevalent belief that noble-minded warriors should be exalted nearly to the position of demigods.

The shrines or temples were of simple construction, without adornment or statuary, the outstanding characteristic being the tori or gateway always present before a temple. The gateway was erected as a perch for the fowls offered to the deities, but the tori came to be regarded as an offering to the deities themselves, hence as many as desired might be erected in the vicinity of a temple.

There is much that is distinctly elevating and beautiful in the ancient Shinto religion, especially the emphasis laid upon spiritual influences permeating the universe, so that everything that was, is, or will be, and everything that happens, is in the last analysis the production of spiritual influences. It was a religion notably without the ceremonial trappings of many other religious systems, for simplicity in all things was a particular teaching of Shinto itself.

(See also: Shinto, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Shinto Dictionary: New Age Spiritual Dictionary on Shinto

Shinto

(Japanese) "Way of the Gods", Way of life, devoted to nature and ancestral spirits

(See also: Shinto, Body Mind and Soul)

Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Kon-ton, Konton

Kon-ton, Konton (Japanese) The primordial chaotic essence of the Shinto cosmogony.

Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Tsu No Gai No Kami

Tsu No Gai No Kami (Japanese) Shinto male being. {SD 1:217}

Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Yo

Yo (Japanese) The male ethereal essence or substance of Shinto cosmogony, which in conjunction with In, the female essence, produces manifestation. Equivalent to the Chinese yang.

Shinto Dictionary: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Tenshoko Daijin, Ten Sho Dai Jiu

Tenshoko Daijin or Ten Sho Dai Jiu (Japanese) The Shinto sun goddess, the first of the five generations of so-called earthly deities -- two of which generations are yet to be evolved forth -- these seven in their turn following the seven earlier generations of heavenly deities.

Shinto Dictionary: Pagan Paganism Dictionary II on Paleopaganism, Paleo-Paganism

Paleopaganism or Paleo-Paganism:

A general term for the original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths of tribal Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania and Australia, when they were (or in some rare cases, still are) practiced as intact belief systems.

Of the so-called “Great Religions of the World,” Hinduism (prior to the influx of Islam into India), Taoism and Shinto, for example, fall under this category, though many members of these faiths might be reluctant to use the term.

Some Paleopagan belief systems may be racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. There are billions of Paleopagans living and worshiping their deities today.

See Mesopaganism and Neopaganism.

(See also: Paleopaganism, Paleo-Paganism, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Shinto Dictionary: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary on MOTHER GODDESS

MOTHER GODDESS -

1. natural mother of all things or mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the powers divine, the principle of them that dwell in heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the gods and goddesses, at whose will the planets of the sky, the wholesome winds of the seas and the lamentable silences of hell are dispersed. (Isis)

2. archetypal feminine aspect of the Godhead.

3. mediatrix, creator of forms, the celestial energy that gives birth to the world and all beings.

4. Mother Earth, Mother Nature.

5. space, the void field of consciousness.

6. time, who devours all her children.

7. Tao, way of gentle turning back (Lao-Tzu).