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4/8/2025, 8:22:53 AM
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Everything considered it's pretty unlikely that the old deities were worshipped in something like the existing Moriya shrine. That style of shrine and ritual items and symbolism likely spread with the imperial cult as the Yamato culture conquered present-day Nagano. There is a possibility that there was some shared symbolism, practices and so on due to earlier cultural exchange, but we're talking about truly ancient conquest here.
Speaking of the imperial cult, did you know that the middle kanji in Kanako's name (神奈子) is the kanji for Nara, the city that would have been the imperial capital when this conquest happened? The other two kanji are "kami" and "child". So her name has an additional layer of meaning that's like "Child of Nara's Kami".
There's been some theories that the mountain cult in Suwa was not a native thing but rather an adaptation of the worship of Mt. Miwa in Nara, and that Takeminataka would be a bunrei, divided spirit, of Mt. Miwa.
Everything considered it's pretty unlikely that the old deities were worshipped in something like the existing Moriya shrine. That style of shrine and ritual items and symbolism likely spread with the imperial cult as the Yamato culture conquered present-day Nagano. There is a possibility that there was some shared symbolism, practices and so on due to earlier cultural exchange, but we're talking about truly ancient conquest here.
Speaking of the imperial cult, did you know that the middle kanji in Kanako's name (神奈子) is the kanji for Nara, the city that would have been the imperial capital when this conquest happened? The other two kanji are "kami" and "child". So her name has an additional layer of meaning that's like "Child of Nara's Kami".
There's been some theories that the mountain cult in Suwa was not a native thing but rather an adaptation of the worship of Mt. Miwa in Nara, and that Takeminataka would be a bunrei, divided spirit, of Mt. Miwa.
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