WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Usually translated as ‘Sun Goddess’, and the greatest of the kami. The kami of the Ise shrine, and the ancestor of the Imperial family.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kami is the Japanese word for a deity, divinity, or spirit. It has been used to describe mind, God, supreme being, one of the Shinto deities, an effigy, a principle, and anything that is worshipped.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kami are spiritual beings believed to inhabit particular places and elements of nature, such as the sea, mountains, waterfalls or trees. They can also be the spirits of historic personages who have been granted this status.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main beliefs of Shinto are the importance of purity, harmony, respect for nature, family respect, and subordination of the individual before the group. There are many Shinto gods or spirits and these have shrines dedicated to them where people offer food, money and prayers.