Origins

= **__Origins__**  =

= = Shinto, or Shintoism is the indigenous spirituality of Japan. It is a set or practices to be carried out

People who are part of the shinto religion beleive that a person named Kami created the universe, this is told in the Kojiki.

Kami means spirits and Gods. However in the Kojiki it also tells the creation myth, which depicts a cosomic egg splitting from the heaven and earth showing a crazy kind of start of the universe. The better half of the egg also know as the postive portion rises from the sky, while the negative portion decends which produces the earth and the sea.

It is clear that one the half that rose to the sky was eirther the heavens being created or the sky being created, and as stated before the second half created the land and water.

A unique belief they have is that the japanese islands were one of the first acts of creation. After the creation of the heavan and the earth 2 God's where standing on a floating bridge in heavan. One of the gods was stirring the ocean water with his spear, once the god raised his spear the droplet of salt water fell from the head of the spear to form one of the first Japanese island called Ono-goro-jima.

As you can see its a very different creation story to what we have, with lots of super natural powers, and stuff that today is not even possabile

The creation story plays a big role in the Shinto Religion. Its forms the core basis of the shinto religion, It also defines many of there core belifs, and how there Gods were created.