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Japanse godin Chup-Kamui

Berichtdoor tiamat » za 14 jan , 2006 14:28

Chup-Kamui

by Dr Anthony E. Smith
Sun goddess of the Ainu peoples. Originally she was the moon goddess but after one night overhead watching all the adulterous behavings below she begged the sun god to trade places with her; he did.


http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/chup-kamui.html


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Berichtdoor els » wo 18 jan , 2006 14:58

Bedankt voor de tip, Tiamat. Ik ben eens op zoek gegaan naar meer info, maar behalve deze passage oneindig gekopieerd op het web, kwam ik weinig tegen. Toen ging ik maar op zoek naar info over de godsdienst van de Ainu. Het was wel een interessante zoektocht. Het blijkt dat de Ainu een blank volk zijn in Japan. Oorspronkelijk bevolkten ze Japan, maar sinds de zevende eeuw zijn ze door de Japanners verdreven, met name onder de eerste Japanse keizer Jimmu, en nu leven ze alleen nog in een vrij kleine gemeenschap op Hokkaido.
Ze zijn ooit in hun voortbestaan bedreigd, evenals hun taal, zowel door hun kleine aantal als door angst voor discriminatie, maar het schijnt nu allemaal weer beter te gaan.

Ik kan niets vinden over een zonnegodin van de Ainu, maar het is wel bekend dat de eerste Japanse keizer zijn regalia ontving van Amaterasu, de Japanse zonnegodin.

Het woord 'kamuy' in Chub kamuy is verwant aan het Japanse 'kami', dat goden betekent. Dat moet er dus van het Japans zijn ingeslopen, want de Ainu hebben een andere taal.

Leuke weetjes: Ainu mannen dragen veelal baarden, vrouwen tatoeëren zich.

Van de statistiekpagina's van adherents.com komen de volgende quootjes.



"An 1807 survey reported the Hokkaido and Sakhalin Ainu population as 23,797. Mixed marriages between Ainu and mainland Japanese became more common over the last century. In 1986 the total number of people in Hokkaido identifying themselves as Ainu was 24,381. "

"Ainu religion: The Ainu people, are the aboriginal inhabitants of Japan who were, from about the seventh century A.D., gradually driven northward by the Japanese. By the Meiji era (late nineteenth century) they were found only in the northernmost of the main islands of the Japanese archipelago, Hokkaido. Since that time the tendency has been for them to be assimilated by the dominant Japanese culture. "

"Mixed marriages between Ainu and mainland Japanese became more common over the last century. In 1986 the total number of people in Hokkaido identifying themselves as Ainu was 24,381. " [Ainus had a distinctive religion. But these statistics are measures of ethnic/cultural affiliation, not how many practice Ainu religion.]

"Hokkaido is also known as the home of the Ainu, a fast-disappearing people originally from Honshu who have been forced north into the mountains. The Ainu are Caucasians, who, unlike other Japanese, have light skin and hairy bodies. The men often have thick beards, and the women have blue tattoos around their mouths. The best place to see their huts and their rituals of worship--the Ainu practice a form of nature worship influenced by Shintoism--is a small colony in Asahikawa, Hokkaido's 2nd-largest city. You also can visit a display village in Shiraoi, near Noboribetsu Spa on the south coast. "

"Ainu: Or emishi, (y)ezo). Indigenous inhabitants of Japan who were gradually pushed back to the northern island of Hokkaido by Japanese expansionist wars. Hokkaido was fully colonised by the Japanese only in the 20th century. Ainu culture is different from Japanese, but there have been many cross-influences in the long course of Japanese-Ainu relations... The best-known Ainu festival is the iyomante or kuma matsuri (bear sacrifice festival). "

"Ethnic Background:... There is a very small community of Ainu on Hokkaido Island who are physically very different from the Japanese, possibly descended from the earliest inhabitants of the islands. "

"Ainu: Location: Japan (Hokkaido); Population: 25,000; Religion: Traditional pantheistic beliefs "; "As with indigenous people in the U.S. and many other nations, the Ainu have largely assimilated. And like many other such groups, there have been signs of cultural revival recently. " [Ainus had a distinctive religion. But these statistics are measures of ethnic/cultural affiliation, not how many practice Ainu religion.]

"As of 1957 they totaled less than seventeen thousand, but the number of pure-blood Ainu may be no more than a few thousand. IN addition to intermarriage, for the last few centuries women have made a practice of adopting Japanese babies and raising them as their own. Because of this mixing, the Ainu often resemble the Japanese, but in their pure form they present quite a different appearance. "; Pg. 62: "Today, due to the influence of missionaries and the prohibitions of governments, [the bear] ceremony is practically a thing of the past. Soon the whole Ainu way of life will be gone, and possibly the genetic distinctiveness of this group as well. "




Religion
The Ainu believe in Animism, or that everything in nature has a kamuy (spirit or god) on the inside. There is a hierarchy of the kamuy. The most important is grandmother hearth (fire), then kamuy of the mountain (animals), then kamuy of the sea (sea animals), lastly everything else. They have no priests by profession. The village chief performs whatever religious ceremonies are necessary; ceremonies are confined to making libations of rice beer, uttering prayers, and offering willow sticks with wooden shavings attached to them. These sticks are called Inau (singular) and nusa (plural). They are placed on an altar used to sacrifice the heads of killed animals. The Ainu people give thanks to the gods before eating and pray to the deity of fire in time of sickness. They believe their spirits are immortal, and that their spirits will be rewarded hereafter by ascending to kamuy mosir (Land of the Gods).

Some Ainu in the north are members of the Russian Orthodox Church.


De discussiepagina over de Ainu:



En hier nog een leuke foto:



Okee, ik ga later nog eens meer zoeken over de godsdienst van de Ainu.
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Berichtdoor tiamat » do 19 jan , 2006 20:31

Hoi Els,

Ik heb natuurlijk niet zo'n lang opzoekwerk gedaan.

Interessant over de Ainu dit artikel.
Aangezien de Ainu animistisch zijn zoals hun verre familie de Native American Indians, is het best mogelijk dat Chip Kamui hun zonnegodin is.

De Native Americans hebben ook goden zoals Manitu, Michabo of zonnegoden, ook al staat er niet altijd een lange uitleg bij.

Groetjes,
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Berichtdoor RoyJava » do 16 maart , 2006 11:23

Wat aanvulling over een toch wel mysterie volk, die de Jappen niet echt omarmen ...









Spirituell gibt es ebenfalls eine klare Zweiteilung: Die Männer üben die mit Jagd und Fischfang verbundenen Rituale aus, während der Schamanismus bei den Frauen liegt. Die Schamaninnen heißen „Tusu Ainu“ und sie sind Ahnenbeschwörerinnen, Heilerinnen und rezitieren die Mythen und Epen der alten Ainu-Kultur im Tanz.

Über ihre wichtigste Göttin Kamui Fuchi stellen sie die Verbindung zu den Geistern und anderen Göttern her. Es gibt dazu keine Tempel, sondern heilige Plätze im Freien und insbesondere den Herd im Zentrum des Hauses.



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