Last time, I mentioned that there is a special group called "witches" in the "Oriental Island Country Cultivation Realm", although the strength is not too strong, but there are many people, and they should not be underestimated.

In ancient Japan, the primitive image of "god" was actually "demon", because from "sickness" to "death", the "divine karma" and "spell" of Nozun, and the ancient "food" shown by "mantra". The process of moving from a "demon" to a "spiritual body", that is, the assimilation of the individual by the "divine concept", from the individual "spirit of sex" to the "god of society".

During this period, the ancient Japanese tribes had their own "guardian gods", that is, "primitive totem worship". Therefore, the ancient "witchcraft" society was a "spell group unit". Compared with the ancient Chinese "Taoism" before the formation and before the "Buddhism" spread to the east, the ancient Chinese also believed in "primitive witchcraft" and "ancestor worship".

In ancient Japan, "religious consciousness" existed earlier than "spells", and the beginning of "shrine maiden" was "Kikuri Wonmei", which created "family shrine maidens" and "professional shrine maidens", such as Yu Cheng (オナリ) regarded as "family shrine maidens". In ancient times, most Japanese women lived a life of "shrine maidens", and they remained in the Ryukyus and became a god of worship.

Therefore, as a "shrine maiden cult", "primordial Shinto" was gradually created, for example, "Amaterasu" is the "witch queen" of "Takamagahara" Divine Kingdom.

Of course, it is said that in ancient Japan, there were "shrine maidens" who could accept the "god's dependence" (ask the oni to come up) and convey the will of the gods, so as to fool the common people and leave them at their mercy. Among them, there is a person who is revered as "Himiko", which is the highest status shrine maiden (シャ-マン) in the "Yamatai Kingdom".

As early as in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, there is a record that Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, gave the envoy of the Wa Kingdom the "Golden Seal of the King of the Han Dynasty". Arai Shiraishi, a "Confucian scholar" of the Edo period, devotes about 2,000 words to the situation of the Wa Kingdom in China's Three Kingdoms Period, written by Chen Shou of the Jin Dynasty.

As mentioned in this article, at that time, in the northeastern part of the Japanese island of Kyushu, there was a large "queen kingdom" called "Yamataikoku" (やまたいこく/ yamataikoku), which had more than 30 small countries under its umbrella. The "queen" who rules the country is called "Himiko", which means "witch queen".

According to the book, although the "Yamatai Kingdom" has also had men as kings in successive dynasties, after 60 or 70 years of war, the people have established a "witch", or "hi miko", to serve as the queen, because she has "special functions" and can directly talk to various "gods" and ask for help.

In fact, "Himiko" is just good at using "lich" and "ghosts" to confuse the people. Later, in order to maintain the mystery of the "witch", she did not marry even when she was very old, so she had to let her younger brother assist the government in order to avoid suspicion.

However, the sorceress "Himiko" has never been seen by outsiders since she became king, because she must maintain her "mystery", so only a thousand ladies and a man who delivers food can enter and leave her palace. In the long run, the impact will be greater, leading to the proliferation of folk "witches".

In ancient Japanese mythology, the eldest daughter of the "Three Precious Sons" "Amaterasu Okami" (アマテラス) is the so-called "sun goddess" of the "Takamagahara" Divine Kingdom, and its beautiful name is "Oichi Akita" (おおひるみのむち), and the character "霎" can actually be written as "shrine maiden", so it is called "Oichi Shrine Maiden Expensive".

In this way, Amaterasu Okami has become a "shrine maiden" who specializes in worshipping the sun in real life. However, some people think that she is "Himiko", but later generations have been unable to successfully study it, so they have to compile it into the "mythological system", imitating the "Three Qing Daojun" in Chinese "Taoism", making her one of the "supreme gods" in Japan. According to "Japanese mythology", she is the ancestor of Japan's "Emperor Jimmu", so the Japanese Wa King is a descendant of the sun goddess.

In Japanese mythology, Izanagi, the "god of creation", and Izanami, the goddess, descended from the sky through the "rainbow bridge". "Izanagi" dipped his sword in water, and when he lifted it, the drops of water dripping from the sword became the first island. Next, the two "creator gods" learn to mate by observing the movements of the birds, and their "offspring" are islands one by one. Since then, there have been gods, such as Japan, tree gods, mountain gods, and the gods of nature.

However, the birth of the "god of fire" took the life of "Izanami". Before he went to "hell" to find "Izanami", Izanagi "beheaded their newborn son of death, the god of fire", and as a result, more "gods", "earths", and "mountains" were conjured.

In order to avoid being polluted by the "region", Izanagi bathed in the river, and by the way, he created the "evil god", and then created various other "gods" that could compete with the "evil god". Then, he bathed in the sea and created the "sea gods".

In the end, he created the three gods of the highest status, the "Three Noble Sons" mentioned earlier. He washed his left eye and gave birth to the "Sun Goddess", and washed his right eye to give birth to the "Moon God" - "Kyumi". Then, he washed his nose and gave birth to the "God of Storms and Earthquakes" - "Susanoo", who is in charge of the marine world.

The confrontation and hostility between "God" and "God" is a truce through marriage. So, after combining "Susanoo" and "Sun Goddess", they created offspring in a peculiar way, such as "Susanoo" gave his sword to the "Sun Goddess", and the "Sun Goddess" folded it into three parts, put it in her mouth and chewed it, and then opened her mouth to exhale the three "goddesses".

Next, the "Sun Goddess" broke her necklace, which was a token of the "Queen of Heaven's Throne", into five pieces and handed it to "Susanoo", who also put it in her mouth and chewed it, and spit out the five "male gods". Therefore, the "Sun Goddess" called these eight "gods" descendants, that is, the ancestors of the Wa kings and nobles.

On one occasion, the "storm god" threw a skinned horse and flew over the rocking roof of the "sun goddess", but she was so frightened that she hid in a cave, causing her to be robbed of the light of the universe and led to winter. In the end, the "gods" used mirrors to lure out the "Sun Goddess" and worked together to expel "Susanoo" from the "Heavenly Court" ("Takamagahara Divine Kingdom") as punishment.

After being expelled from the "Heavenly Court" ("High Heaven Divine Kingdom"), the "Storm God", also known as "Susanoo", became the "God of Abundance". He rescued a girl from the hands of a "dragon", married her, and founded the "Suga Dynasty".

They also gave birth to a child, whose name was "Lord of the Great Powers", and would be "the god of thaumaturgy and medicine". However, the "lord of the great country" not only betrayed his father "Susanoo", but even imprisoned "Susanoo" in the "underworld" after stealing his weapons.

Not long after, the "lord of the great powers", with the help of a "dwarf", established a "non-heavenly" state. However, the "Sun Goddess" sent her grandson Ninigi to overthrow the "Susanoo" dynasty and establish the "Yamato Empire", which is the "predecessor" of the "Yamato nation" in Japan, which is very mythical!

From ancient times to the present, "shrine maidens" have been the traditional profession of the Japanese "religious circles" and an important member of the "Fuso Shinto" religion. In the larger-scale "shrines" and traditional celebrations of later generations, the figure of the "shrine maiden" in white clothes and scarlet pants can still be seen. The ministry of dispelling calamities and relieving evil and serving the gods has cast a shadow of mystery on them.

"Shrine maidens" can be divided into two kinds, one is the "shrine" to which the "palace shrine" belongs, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the "Yin Yang Liao"; The other is the folk "shrine maidens", most of whom are attached to the "Yin and Yang Dao" and are in the company of "ninjas", but a few have business cooperation with the semi-official "Xiuzhen organization" - "Tuyumon".

The former's main duties in the court were to make wine, play musical instruments, interpret the divine will, and so on. In ancient Japan, the "oracles" of shrine maidens could also influence politics to some extent, because "shrine maidens" had the "supernatural" ability of "psychic", could communicate with ghosts and gods, and borrowed their power to make ordinary people fearful!

As for the ancient Japanese folk "shrine maidens", after the Middle Ages, they began to enter the folk and spread in large numbers in various places, even in modern times, even if the "Wa King" initiated the "Meiji Restoration" and ordered the government to strictly prohibit "witchcraft", but for the long-term "national faith", it is completely forbidden!

However, after the Meiji Restoration, shrine maidens could only go to the shrine to help with food and food, and were responsible for the practice and cleaning of the shrine.

After the combination of "primitive Shinto" and "witch Taoism", it evolved into "Fuso Shintoism". According to the insights of the Yamaji Aiyama clan, "primitive Shinto" is not just "witch Taoism", because "witch" can express the "national character" of ancient Shinto. At the same time, "shrine maidens" can also embody "ancestor worship" and "scepter" on behalf of "gods".

Since the "witches" have a certain degree of "independence and autonomy", then while concurrently serving as the "witches", they have also automatically become one of the grassroots representatives of the "Xiuzhen forces" in ancient Japan, compared with the "ninjas", but compared with the "ronin" or even the "samurai" class, the status is naturally much higher.

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