HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nihon Shoki, Japanese Mythology, Kami
4 Aug 2015
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Do practice quizzes from oxford university press canada! There is one god specifically, that is the founder of japan that came about when. Literal meaning is the way of the gods . Kami (no) michi deities in one reading and shin in another. Kami: god, deity or spirit, can also refer to something or someone superior, sacred, miraculous, divine, any object or being that gives off affection, awe, mystery, rocks, plants, humans, animals, kami are for the japanese only. Chinese writing script was used differently: kojiki used the chinese script for its sounds not the meanings this has suggested to scholars that this was the history of japan that was for the. Japanese people so that they could read about their own myths and their political/social organization. Their union produced the japanese islands, the great bodies of water, the winds, the mountains, the fields, food, fire, all things that were produced were kami.
