Shinto

How Shinto grew from the worship of kami among Japan's rice farmers: Yayoi harvest rites and the shaman queen Himiko, sacred mountains, purity and the Yamato kings, the arrival of Buddhism and the rebuilding of Ise every twenty years, the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki myths of Amaterasu, the fusion of kami and buddhas, Meiji State Shinto and Yasukuni, the Shinto Directive of 1945, and shrine festivals and New Year visits today. Episode 08 of the Origins of Religions series.

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