The origin of Japanese culture and, the worldview as its logical conclusion.
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	3. The soul of Jomon lurking to Japanese gods and goddesses. 3-2. The divine nature of the gods of Koto-ama-tu-kami.
	In Nihon-shoki, there is one variant episode about the myth related to the Miho shrine situated to Shizuoka prefecture. According to that episode, Takami-musubi as Coto-ama-tu-kami married Oo-mono-nusi to Miho-tu-hime(goddess) of also Izumo family, trying to carry out the certain plan. And, he orders them to reign over the Kuni-tu-kami (the gods and goddesses of the ground). Thereupon, Oo-mono-nusi and Miho-tu-hime, obeying that command, came to the ground to reign over the Kuni-tu-kami. In that reason, it is said that they were enshrined in the Miho shrine of Shizuoka prefecture. In passing, "Coto-ama-tu-kami" is the general term expressing three gods to be worshiped as the footing of gods and goddesses. The three gods' names each are Takami-musubi, Kan-musubi, and Ame-nho-nakanusi. However, the certain opinion says Ame-nho-nakanusi was given the birth with the influence of the thought born in the ancient China. It is doubtful whether it is the original Japanese god. Then, as for the Ama-tu-kami, it is the general term expressing the Yamato's gods and goddesses, and puts Ama-terasu at the head of the list. Note:    The "ama-tu" means the belonging to the heavens. And, the "kuni-tu" means the ground side. Needless to say, the "kami" means a god.    Then, the "coto" in this case is the adjective meaning the especial or different thing.    In passing, Japanese words to express goddess are pronounced like "megami". Now, it is said Takami-musubi is the supreme god of Yamato generally though the goddess called Ama-terasu is situated to the political top of Yamato's gods and goddesses. However, Oo-mono-nusi and Miho-tu-hime are the god and goddess of the Izumo family who belong to the lineage of the Kuni-tu-kami. If so, it is strange they reign over the Kuni-tu-kami in the Yamato's god's command. If it thinks of the thing obediently, it rather should think that the god to order them to go on the ground is Kan-musubi because it is said that this god is the supreme god in Izumo generally. In other words, the description of the myth mentioned above makes me feel the political intent of something. It is said that Fuhito Fujiwara and Yasumaro Oo, and so on edited the Kojiki and the Nihon-shoki, to maintain Yamato's reign. If so, there is strong possibility they distorted original myth a little, trying to show Yamato dynasty's authority and power. In other words, the original myth may have been stating that Kan-musubi, not Takami-musibi commanded Oo-mono-nusi and Miho-tu-hime to reign over the gods and goddesses. As it thought before, it would be better to think that Fuhito Fujiwara, and so on have changed the myth in their political purpose in this case. Or else, it may be that this myth was changed like that gradually as Yamato's powers become stronger. But, how would that have been actually? By any chance, Takami-musubi originally may have been the god belonging to the Izumo lineage as Kan-musubi is so. If so, it can think that Yamato rewrote that myth, with substituting Takami-musubi for Kan-musubi described in the original myth because it already was making Takami-musubi one's own. It states that reason next. It is said that these two Coto-ama-tu-kamis both are the gods giving the Nature the birth. In other words, those two Coto-ama-tu-kamis have the force to bring the gods and goddesses to this world as the various phenomenon, with the purpose to make them grow thickly. Therefore, if those two Coto-amatu-kamis don't exist, this world also doesn't exist. Even if it asserts that the nature is the gods and goddesses itself, it is because it never be exaggeration. It is because the nature is the appearance of the gods and goddesses for the people of the ancient times. And, if so, it is easy to guess Kan-musubi and Takami-musubi to be the gods of the origin born as the logical conclusion out of the worldview the people in ancient time thought. Furthermore, it can think they were the historic gods worshiped since Jomon period, in the reason to be stated later. However, they are quite different from the Almighty God to be seen in Christianity, and so on. It is because those two Coto-ama-tu-kamis, making the gods and goddesses materialize to this world, only can make them grow as something of the nature. Therefore, it can't think logically that they are furthermore excellent than other gods and goddesses at other ability. And, in the meaning like that, it can think that all the gods and goddesses originally have the equal value for this world and for each gods and goddesses, leaving human value judgement. If it reasons from the Ainu's worldview, by the analogy, it seems that the gods and goddesses were the everlasting and changeless existence at the country of gods and goddesses at least for the Jomon people as it also can guess in the reason to be mentioned later. Then, if the gods and goddesses keep on staying to their country, it can think that they can feel nothing and can do nothing. In other words, they are the existence doing nothing else to be merely there. Needless to say, it is doubtful whether the Jomon people were thinking like that. Anyhow, the everlastingly changeless state means that the motion is nowhere. Therefore, it is certain the gods and goddesses can't act at all if they are in the country of gods and goddesses. It seems their country hasn't the space-time because it isn't the physical world. Therefore, the above mentioned conclusion would be proper probably. Not until the gods and goddesses are invited to this world by Coto-ama-tu-kamis, it each can act with one's divine nature. At least for the Jomon people, it seems that this world was the only place for the self-expression of the gods and goddesses. In passing, it seems that the hierarchy of the gods and goddesses obstructs or distorts such self-expression. It seems that the vengeful gods or vengeful goddesses were born because of such circumstance. The usual opinion says that the words of "Kan-musubi" and the words of "Takami-musubi" were born with adding the meaningless words, that is, "Kan" or "Takami" to the "musubi". And, it is said that the "musubi" means the "musu-hi", that is, the "the soul thickly appears at this world" originally. In passing, the "musu" means "something be born", and the "hi" means "a soul". In other words, the "musu-hi" means that the gods and goddesses grow thickly as the physical existence, invited to this world. However, it doesn't seem that the meaningless words exist in this world anyway. If it says about the "Kan" and the "Takami", it should think that the original meaning only was forgotten or that the original meaning was concealed intentionally in the reason of something in the certain period. Anyhow, it is certain that the "Kan" and "Takami" were the very old words already in those days. If so, there is the considerably strong possibility the names of these gods are composed of the Jomon language. Thereupon, it deciphers the names of these gods, using Ainu's language supposed to be close to the Jomon language. So, it first notices the "Kan-musubi" is "Kamuy-mun-us-i" or "Kamuy-mun-un-hi" in Ainu's language. In this case, the "Kamuy" means a god in Ainu's language. And, the "mun-us" is the plural of the "mun-un", is the verb expressing the sight of the thickly growing plants. The "i" or "hi" nominalizes the verb when those words each are attached to the end of the verb. Therefore, it seems that the name of this god originally means the cause or place that gives the gods and goddesses the birth as the various creatures or other. In other words, it seems that the "Kamuy-mun-us-i" means the origin of phenomenon. In that reason, it thinks that the name of this god was born of the nominalization of the verb of the meaning mentioned above. In passing, it seems that the word of "hi" or "i" expresses a kind of spiritual existence in this case. So, when it applied the above conjecture also to the "Takami-musubi", it seems that the name of this god was the "Tak-kamuy-mun-us-i" originally. The "tak" generally is used, with meaning of words. But, it is said that the "tak" also tacitly premeans that someone calls up the spirit to this world with uttering words. In other words, it can think that the word of "tak" has the religious or philosophical major premise like that though it doesn't know whether the people of Ainu behaved always consciously about the thing. Therefore, it seems that the name of this god means the making "Kan-musubi" active. If so, the name of this god has the common point to the name of "Coto-siro-nusi" who belongs to the Izumo lineage. It is said that Coto-siro-nusi is the god manipulating the soul of words. And, there is the opinion saying that it was born with the deification of shaman who, with uttering the words, can invite the soul of someone to this world. If so, since the name of this god has the same meaning as the "i-tak" in Ainu's language, it seems that this god is the origin of the Japanese spiritual medium called the "Itako". In other words, it feels the smell of Jomon culture from this god. So, as it stated before, there is strong possibility "Takami-musubi" belongs to Izumo lineage as "Kan-musubi" is so, I think. Needless to say, it can't assert there isn't possibility that as for those two special gods, at the beginning each was the goddess becoming pregnant of Mother Nature, that is, gods and goddesses, and was the god making the goddess get pregnant. However, as it stated before, there is in the Jomon people's worldview the thought that a person exchanges the mental information with the gods and goddesses, with uttering the words. That is, it is the thought of "tak" or the thought of "cotosiro" though it is my coined word. If it says furthermore in detail, it would be that the soul wanting the phenomenon makes the god or goddess materialize to this world, with uttering the words for the prayer. And, the gods and goddesses born like that into this world also talk with the person who is as the observer. So, because of the thought mentioned above, that is, the thought of "Tak", it seems that those two coto-amatu-kamis, that is, two special gods evolved to the more symbolic abstract conception, that is, the Creators Japanesque. As it stated before, It seems that Kan-musubi is the cause or place of the occurence of phenomenon. And, it also seems that Takami-musubi supposed to be the god making Kan-musubi active is a kind of observer or cognition-subject. So, it can think that Takami-musubim is the only thing able to perceive Kan-musubi. Furthermore, the perception he does has the function to make Kan-musubi active, is different from one sided perception the general people understand usually. In other words, His perception functions like the catalyst to make the gods and goddesses materialize in this world with making Kan-musubi active. Somehow, this logic seems to have common point to the quantum theory and the theory of relativity which explain the relationship of the observer and object(undulation).In other words, it seems that these two gods' names are the symbolic expression saying that the relationship in between the cognition-subject and the "object for perception" brings the phenomenon to this world. It states this logic in detail later. And, in that reason, it thinks that they are gods to be always in the state of pair originally. If not, they would lose the reason they exist. If so, Why would the usual opinion say they each were worshiped individually by the people of different lineages, that is, the Izumo and Yamato? It seems to be uncanny anyway. Those two gods must have been separated in the political reason of something surely. In other words, it seems that Yamato has worshiped Takami-musubi as one's supreme god in the certain period, taking this god from Izumo by force. And, at the variant episode first mentioned here, it is that Kan-musubi was substituted for Takami-musubi. Needless to say, it must be because Yamato wanted to add the myth in question to one's myth. Probably, in the similar reason, many of the Izumo's myths were turned over to Yamato and got distorted. If so, what would have been the original contents of the variant episode in question ? It thinks to solve that riddle after stating the outline of the Miho-tu-hime and Oo-mono-nusi or other at the next knot.
NEXT PAGE			Introduction. The mental problems of Japan. # 1. Culture and civilization. Ecosystem and the diverse human world. # 2. The fundamental understanding to Japanese culture. # 2-1. The formation of Japanese peoples. # 2-2. About Japanese language. # 2-3. Japanese culture and the Japanese people's brain. # 3. The soul of Jomon lurking to Japanese gods and goddesses. # 3-1. The origin of Japanese double standard. # 3-2. The divine nature of the gods of the Koto-ama-tu-kami. # 3-3. The change in the divine nature at the gods and goddesses. # 3-4. The country of the gods and goddesses.
	# 3-5. The birth of Ebisu. # 4. The world view Jomon people think. # 4-1. The Jomon world : The profit and the barter economy. # 4-2. The religion for Jomon people. # 4-3. "The myth of birth of Japanese countries" and "the thought of Itak". # 4-4. The world view lurking to us. # 5. The subject and object to realize into "Kan-musubi" and "Takami-musubi". # 6. The physical world the cognition-subject sees. (Characteristic time, Subjective time, and Objective time.) # 7. The information and the cognition-subject.
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