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Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
G. Domenig
2023
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The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own ‘terrestrial heaven’ inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade’s popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky.
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Keywords
- Ancient Japan
- anthropology
- Asia
- Asian history
- charter myths
- Comparative studies
- creation myths
- Divination
- East Asia, Far East
- foundation rituals
- founder worship
- Fudoki
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- Humanities
- Japan
- Kojiki
- land-claiming
- Landnámabók
- Nihon shoki
- Oriental religions
- Other non-Christian religions
- Regional & national history
- Religion & beliefs
- sacred groves
- settlement geography
- Shinto
- Shintoism
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
- spatial anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPJ Japan
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRR Other religions and spiritual beliefs::QRRL East Asian religions::QRRL3 Shintoism
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004686458Editions