The second temple on the Izumo 33 Kannon Pilgrimage is close to the first so on my way I took a short cut through the back roads to visit a shrine I had not yet been to. Fairly unpreposing, karinomiya (or kaminomiya) shrine looks like many other small village shrines, but is in fact quite unique. It is a sessha of Izumo Taisha and two names are listed as enshrined kami, Susano and Yaoyorozu. Yaoyorozu literally means 8 million kami, and is the word used to collectively describe all the kami of shinto, and they inhabit this shrine once a year during kamiarizuki, the time when all the kami meet up in Izumo. They hold a conference here in the early days of kamiarizuki. Why Susano is listed seperately is a mystery, though an interesting one. This area of Izumo is certainly Susano country, and records conveniently ignored by most say that Susano is the original kami of Izumo taisha.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8xIkppjy9wI441Xcman5etwBQGDjK_rGKzJQj2Rh8A_AkOW1E5xVqFBLVqIhJcN9cL5jkUENqaCBr_M4UmvGqU3QDs2EiNVF8I4INSARxC0UHdaXoQrSHstCgzQaAMyfn11lT2gZfKXn/w625-h429/k2.jpg)
Across the road is a massha of the shrine, named "lower" shrine. It enshrines Amaterasu. If this shrine was established in fairly modern times I would not be in the least surprised.
0 comments:
Post a Comment