Shinto has no founder, no sacred literature in which the religion is based, and no ethical requirement. The main aspects in the practice of Shinto are affinity with natural beauty, harmony with spirits, and purification rituals. The common followers of this religion are the Japanese. They believed the divine to be all around them because the beauty and power of nature surrounded them.

“In Shinto, the sacred is both immanent and transcendent (218).” The deity was believed to have given birth to several kami, or spirits. The Amatsu Kami organized the material world, and the Kami Amaterasu, the Goddess of the sun, created all of the natural world – land, water, animals, and people. When the two were combined in relationship the spiritual creation of the kami ev

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