Only followers of shinto believe in us, so we have a symbiotic relationship. but i hope you are not eluding that we are not compatible with non-asian humans. i, myself, possessed an american dock worker twenty-five years ago."
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Eli had never stopped mano from being hindu, or fugue from being shinto, or ammut from being christian. ultimately, her main concern had never been about ultimate reality, but about doing everything she could to help people down here on earth.
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'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll)
Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...
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How do you explain to a fifteen year old boy that his grandmother is an immortal kami fox spirit who was a messenger for a japanese shinto god? it's a little ... over the top for him.
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Sinopa furrowed her brows, unsure as to how a shinto fox was able to get along with an olympian. "many deities are racist towards..."
tamamo raised her tone. "hermes has _always_ given me respect because i treated him _and_ his son with respect."
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"you see, when i renounced shinto, it was because something else came along that took its place, just as ammut came along and took your place." klein nodded. "what was it?"
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The plain, weathered wooden doors were set into the same type of arch he'd seen near shinto shrines, the handles simple wrought-iron rings, and the doors themselves each emblazoned with a different character.
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All of these ritual elements, the _shiko,_ the throwing of salt, stemmed from sumo's close association with shinto mysticism: the _shiko_ was a form of exorcism, and to this day, a _yokozuna_ was summoned yearly to the capital to perform it at the grand temple
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There were christian gods, hindu gods, shinto gods, even native american gods, but no atheist gods. charles darwin, no matter what some people might think, was not a god.
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Trying to get close to one of the shinto gods would likely end up with me being physically thrown from the building.
"sure, robbie. anything for you." he smiled.
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