RG ST 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kofun, Shapeshifting, Susanoo-No-Mikoto
SHINTO
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Amaterasu
First emperor of Japan
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Also a God/Kami - Sun Goddess
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Kami
gods, spirits, or deities, or beings who possess sacred power
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Any kind of a spiritual being
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Kojiki
Chronicle of Ancient Events
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First book ever written in Japanese
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Archaic
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Written in Chinese first, influenced by Buddhism
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Izanagi
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Male god who creates kami
Churns the ocean to create islands
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Hacks Kagu-Tsuchi to pieces, which become gods
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Sun God born from his left eye
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Nihongo
The japanese language
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Izanami
Churned ocean to create islands
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Gave birth to 8 small islands and 35 deities
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Dies and goes to underworld
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Susa-no-o
Storm god
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Created lots of natural destruction
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•Jomon Period
Prehistoric period of hunting and gathering, aboriginal culture
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Aboriginal hunting and fishing society
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Hunter gatherer society - no systematic agriculture
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• Yamato
Clan of revered sun goddesses, regarded as the ruler of heaven and
ancestress to the chieftains
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• Yayoi Period
Also prehistoric culture
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shows advanced pottery techniques
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Intensive cultivation of rice in irrigated paddy fields
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Society became richer, more complex, and stratified
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Clans fragmented and there was no central authority
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• Kitsune
Fox gods/kami
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Foxes had the ability to "shapeshift" and become human beings
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Foxes were intermediary between spiritual and earthly worlds
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•Kofun Period
Tombs/burial mound (kofun) erected for dead of the ruling classes
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Shinto culture
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Shinto study guide
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