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Angelic Salutation Ave Maria Andrey­ Truhac­hev
Angelic Salutation Hail Mary Andrey­ Truhac­hev
Angels Forever Forever Angels AFFA
Angels From Heaven AFH
Anglicans Helping Anglicans AHA
Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan AAOM
Annual Parish Meeting APM
Another Chance To Serve ACTS
Another Miracle And Never Defeated Again AMANDA
Anti Apostle AA
Anti Christ AC
Antilles Episcopal Conference AEC
Anzen Safety. Safety at work is a major benefit (riyaku) sought from the kami by business people who attend shrines at new Year and other significant times as official representatives of their company. It is common for large and small Japanese enterprises to identify a tutelary shrine to which corporate donations are made and from which a priest may be summoned to perform ceremonies in the business premises. See also
Aoi-matsuri 'Hollyhock Festival'. A festival of prayer for abundant grain harvests, elements of which date back to the 7th century. It is held every May 15 in Kyoto at the two Kamo shrines, the Shimogamo (or Kamo-wake-ikazuchi) jinja and the Kamigamo (or Kamo-mi-oya) jinja. A court messenger's procession (roto-no-gi) of ox-drawn carts (gissha) a palanquin carrying the horses with golden saddles and around 600 participants (omiya-bito) dressed in Heian period costume all adorned with hollyhock (aoi or katsura) travels from the Kyoto palace through the main streets of Kyoto via Shimagamo jinja to Kamigamo jinja. The costumes include those of The origins of the rite are unclear but it is popularly traced to the time of the legendary emperor Kimmei (reigned 539-571) when in order to appease the two kami whose had taken the form of torrential rains, men wearing the masks of wild boars rode horses with tiny bells attached up and down the shrine area
Apostolic Council Of Prophetic Elders ACPE
Apostolic Statement Of Faith ASF
Apostolic United Brethren AUB
Apple Valley Baptist Church AVBC
Aquarian Tabernacle Church ATC
Araburu kami "Savage" or unruly kami referred to in the who can be pacified and transformed by Shinto See

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