The origin of Japanese culture and, the world view as its logical conclusion.
	Hiromasa Noguti. Mail-address cotosiro@js6.so-net.ne.jp. September 13, 2003. This was renewed in March 28, 2004. Since this English edition was the unsatisfactory translation and performance, this was rewritten now. January 6, 2005. This was revised a little in April 16, 2008.
	4. The Jomon people's world view. 4-3. "The myth about birth of Japanese countries" and "the thought of Itak".
	As it stated before, for the Jomon people, the world is composed of the spiritual world and this world. And, these two worlds are connected by the words, that is, the conceptualizing of phenomenon. It was because the words are the important means for the contact of not only the human being and the human being but also the human being and Mother Nature(the gods and goddesses). Probably, the thought like that and also the special ability of the brain we have were kept because of the special characteristic our language has though many of people don't know the thought like that and the way of using of the ability like that. The human being utters the words of something, expecting the reaction of something usually. And, the Jomon people utter the words toward not only human being but also the nature(the gods and goddesses). The utterance like that to be based on the way to get along with the gods and goddesses(the nature) was the declaration of their expectancy turned to the nature, and was also the self-confirmation of the manner like that. However, it isn't that the Jomon people decided the above mentioned declaration and way unilaterally. It is that it was decided with the exchanging information between the people and Mother Nature(the gods and goddesses) persistently. And, the way acquired for the behavior in the decision like that became the manners and ceremony to talk with the Nature gradually. In other words, as long as the people keep such manner and ceremony, the Nature gives them the benefits. It seems the Jomon people's worldview includes the optimistic thought like that. By the way, how would the Jomon people have thought the nature was born? For the Jomon people, it must have been the serious problem. In the Stone Age or in the first term of Jomon period, it seems that they or their ancestors thought this cause one god and one goddess. That is, it is the goddess who gets pregnant of all the nature and the god who makes her pregnant. It can guess the thing out of the myth of the "Kuni-umi", that is, the myth that the certain god and the certain goddess gave Japanese Islands the birth. In passing, they are the "Izanagi" who is god and the "Izanami" who is goddess. However, when the thought of "Tak" grows, the god like that and also goddess evolved to embody the more abstract concepts probably. It seems that was "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi". Probably, the world of the Jomon people, since then, was parted into this world and the world of the gods and goddesses. In other words, it is that "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi" gave these two world the certain relationship. However, "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi" originally exist to the special spiritual world. And, even if they are special gods, they also have to materialize to this world if they think to go into action in their divine nature though Japanese myth says they don't appear in this world. It is because it is supposed they are in no active condition as long as it is in the spiritual world, if the logical conclusion from Jomon people's worldview is considered. Apparently, it seems to be the self-contradiction. But, as a matter of fact, it is that it isn't so. This detail is stated later.
NEXT PAGE			By the way, it seems the myth of "kuni-umi" originally was believed by the people of the old type Mongoloid who lived in the southern area(Kyushu and Ryukyu) of Japanese Islands. And, it seems the people of the old type Mongoloid living in the Pacific islands also had the same thought about the thing. However, it seems the thought of "Tak" was produced by the Jomon people living in Kinai or the east area and north area and so on of Honshu. If so, by any chance, "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi" originally may have been different from the god and goddess who were believed in the southern area. However, as it stated before, it can think the thought of "Tak" was spreading to Japanese Islands at least in the middle term of Jomon period. If so, it isn't so hard to suppose the Jomon people replaced the god and goddess who were believed as the Creator in the southern area with "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi" at least in Japanese Islands. Thereupon, it thinks more logically about the relationship of the spiritual world, this world and "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi" in the next knot.
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