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6/14/2025, 10:16:19 PM
>>49567775
My pleasure. There are some rookie ESL mistakes in the translation, sorry about that.
Anyway, on to your questions:
The Japanese kanji for Jijuubou are 侍従坊. "侍従" alone stands for "chamberlain", so don't get those two confused. "侍従神社" for Jijuu Shrine.
>the theory of Amaterasu as a surface god
I hadn't heard about it either, but it makes sense if you take in account the Kojiki was born out of political reasons, and strove to unify many Japanese myths (with some aboriginal myths mixed in too for good measure), which clearly contradicted each other; Amaterasu may have been an important god before Kojiki established cannon, and may have been the subject of many legends among Japan. Maybe in some of them she intervened directly on earthly matters.
>Iwato Cave
Not exactly. What I meant is, some people believed the Iwato Cave myth originally came from this region, probably this very mountain (although the text does not confirm this).
My turn to ask, though: what do you mean they were "distributing Ise Jingu"? I don't know any Ise Jingu other than the famous shrine.
>水上山
Yes, indeed it could be translated like that.
Anyway, if you ever hand me some pic from the Shika no Kuni booklet, I can translate it to you. I did ask one of my Japanese teachers several months ago, and he ended up replying me after watching it, and told me especially the reading of the texts transmitted from generation to generation would greatly help investigation from now on, although he wasn't sure the enacting of the Shuwa rites was wholly faithful to the actual ones from long ago.
My pleasure. There are some rookie ESL mistakes in the translation, sorry about that.
Anyway, on to your questions:
The Japanese kanji for Jijuubou are 侍従坊. "侍従" alone stands for "chamberlain", so don't get those two confused. "侍従神社" for Jijuu Shrine.
>the theory of Amaterasu as a surface god
I hadn't heard about it either, but it makes sense if you take in account the Kojiki was born out of political reasons, and strove to unify many Japanese myths (with some aboriginal myths mixed in too for good measure), which clearly contradicted each other; Amaterasu may have been an important god before Kojiki established cannon, and may have been the subject of many legends among Japan. Maybe in some of them she intervened directly on earthly matters.
>Iwato Cave
Not exactly. What I meant is, some people believed the Iwato Cave myth originally came from this region, probably this very mountain (although the text does not confirm this).
My turn to ask, though: what do you mean they were "distributing Ise Jingu"? I don't know any Ise Jingu other than the famous shrine.
>水上山
Yes, indeed it could be translated like that.
Anyway, if you ever hand me some pic from the Shika no Kuni booklet, I can translate it to you. I did ask one of my Japanese teachers several months ago, and he ended up replying me after watching it, and told me especially the reading of the texts transmitted from generation to generation would greatly help investigation from now on, although he wasn't sure the enacting of the Shuwa rites was wholly faithful to the actual ones from long ago.
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