Excerpt from Japan and the Japanese The Kami of the first dynasty, the seven superior gods, being regarded as too elevated above the earth to concern themselves in what is passing on it, the chief object of the worship of the adhe rents of this ancient system was the goddess Tensio dai-bsin, already mentioned as the first of the demigods, and the supposed progenitor of the Dairi, and of the whole order of the Kuge. Of this Tensio dai-bsin, and of her heroic and miraculous deeds, a vast many fables were in circulation. Even ...
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Excerpt from Japan and the Japanese The Kami of the first dynasty, the seven superior gods, being regarded as too elevated above the earth to concern themselves in what is passing on it, the chief object of the worship of the adhe rents of this ancient system was the goddess Tensio dai-bsin, already mentioned as the first of the demigods, and the supposed progenitor of the Dairi, and of the whole order of the Kuge. Of this Tensio dai-bsin, and of her heroic and miraculous deeds, a vast many fables were in circulation. Even those who had quitted the ancient religion to embrace the new sects paid a sort of wor ship to the pretended mother of the Japanese nation; and there was not a considerable city in the empire in which there was not a temple to her honor. On the other hand, the religion of the Kami, by its doctrine of the apotheosis of all great saints and great heroes, gave, like the old pagan religions, a hospitable recep tion toall new gods, so that even the rival demigod, Buddha, came to be regarded by many as identical with Tensio dai-bsin, a circumstance which will serve to explain the great intermixture of religious ideas found in Japan, and the alleged fact, very remark able, if true, that, till after the arrival of the Portuguese missiona ries, religious persecution had never been known there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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