![]() Socrates prayed to the Sun Æschylus's Prometheus appeals to him against the tyranny of Zeus in Sophocles's 'Œdipus Tyrannus' the Chorus swears by "the Sun, chief of all the Gods" Plato says that "the soul of the Sun should be deemed a God by every one who has the least particle of sense" Goethe admitted his claims to worship Don Quixote swears by God and by the Sun in the same breath, and Tristram Shandy "by the great God of Day." Milton, in the character of Satan, it is true, addresses the Sun in terms of awe and wonder, and Swinburne calls him "the living and visible God." The name of the first day of the week still remains to show what an important place he held in the religion of our forefathers. It implies a stigma which is altogether out of place. The application of the term "fetish" to the Sun considered as an object of adoration is to be deprecated. Almost all the peasant's doings are in some way dependent on, or regulated by, the Sun. Sun-worship is specially natural to the Japanese as an agricultural people. Among these the light and warmth of the Sun and the sources of their daily food held the chief place. ![]() The ancient Japanese recognized the divinity of the universe in a very imperfect, piecemeal fashion, and almost exclusively in those physical aspects by which they were more directly affected. But, naturally enough, there is little of this in Shinto. If, as Scotus Erigena has well said, "every visible and invisible creature is a theophany or appearance of God," what more striking aspect of Him can there be to the uncultured mind than the Sun? In a later stage of intellectual development men find a fuller revelation of Him in the moral order of the world, in the laws of human progress, and in the spiritual experiences of saints and sages, culminating in a synthesis of all the divine aspects of the universe in one harmonious whole. The Sun-Goddess.-The most eminent of the Shinto deities is the Sun-Goddess. I therefore take these two classes of deities together, noting the distinction wherever it is possible or desirable. The neglect of indications of number in the Japanese language often renders it impossible to say whether a God belongs to an individual natural object or phenomenon or to a class. It's thought worshiping there brings success and victory.I. Ugeto-iwa stone īehind the main hall is a large sacred stone called Ugeto-iwa in Japanese mythology it was kicked and a 10-meter hole was made by Kihachi, a follower of the god Takeiwatatsu-no-mikoto, who created Mount Aso. The shrine is believed to bring good luck in marriage. The original shrine was burned down by the flames of war in 16th century and current shrine was rebuilt in 1722. According to local legend, Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine is dedicated to the creator gods Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto from Japanese mythology. ![]() It is said that the shrine started to offer ritual service in 14th century. This shrine is famous for being the setting of a popular anime and manga comic Hotarubi no Mori e. ![]() Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine ( 上色見熊野座神社, Kamishikimi Kumano-imasu-jinja) is a Shinto Shrine in Takamori, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. ![]()
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