Twilight of the Gods (Chapter 15, Book7)

The kitsune adjusted her tails beneath her kimono and followed the creature through the hallway of reflection towards the shinto chamber of majesty. "wait, i know this hall."

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Old Wounds (Chapter6, Book8)

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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Into The Abyss

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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Fishers of Men

'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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Arguments (Book7, Chapter2)

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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FoxFire (Act1, Book2, Chapter8)

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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Ripple Effect

"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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Spirit Bound: Chapter 123

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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A Gentleman of Strength

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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Kaiju ga Gotoku 1.4 - A Prayer for the Fallen

After finishing their food they headed back towards the office, the red shinto gate at the southern edge of tenkaiju street looking as lustrous as ever even in the daytime.

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Midnight in Central Park

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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Calling In the Big Guns

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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