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Shinto
Basics
Ancient animistic religion of Japan Worship and devotion of spirits, or Kami No one exact founder means "The way of the gods" Nature worship, Ancestor worship Fertility cults
Torii & Shimenawa
Torii: Mark approach and entrance to a shrine, One or more
Shimenawa: Marks boundary to something sacred
Amaterasu Omikami
Image is a symbol of shinto
Very veered kami
Sun goddess
Beliefs
Asian perfection
asian openness
collection of rituals and methods meant to mediate the relations of living humans to kami
ritual is more important than belief
Beliefs
Unique Afterlife is not a primary concern shinto has no binding set of dogma no holiest person Kami - Dieties or spirits
Beliefs
Musahu - the harmonizing powers of the kami
Makato - true heart, people strive for this as it is the will of the kami
Four Affirmations
Live a simple and harmonious life with nature and people
Tradition ad the family
Love nature
Matsuri
Rituals
Ema
Votive plaques
buy a wooden plaque
write their wish on it
hang it on the stand
Taoism
chinese philosophical system and a religion advocating a simple honest life and non-interference with course of a natural events.
Basic Facts
Created by Lao-tzu
China
Prehistoric origins, 600 BCE to 440 BCE
Post buddhism
Yin Yang
Can also be drawn by a social line and a broken line
Religious
The book of the way and its virtue
Written by luozi
Major concepts
Chi: means air and breath
Li: The organic pattern
Tzu-jan: that which is so of itself
Wuwei: Without effort, without