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Religion
(3990 entries)
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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