Chapter Origin and Role of Trees in the Japanese Mythology in the Light of Kojiki and Nihongi

Animistic cults and religions are characterized by belief, that every part of the world, both alive and inanimate, contain soul or spirit. One of those is Japanese indigenous religion — shintō. The world of Japanese mythology revolves around anthropomorphic deities — kami and countless spirits that...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1547682025-03-07T13:35:14Z Chapter Origin and Role of Trees in the Japanese Mythology in the Light of Kojiki and Nihongi Wesołowski, Dawid animals in mythology fauna and flora in literature and culture mimicry in literature ecological humanities Animistic cults and religions are characterized by belief, that every part of the world, both alive and inanimate, contain soul or spirit. One of those is Japanese indigenous religion — shintō. The world of Japanese mythology revolves around anthropomorphic deities — kami and countless spirits that manifests in fauna, flora and in various phenomena of nature. Description of creation of the world and all its elements was written down in chronicles Kojiki and Nihongi. Cosmogony in Japanese mythology equals teogony and thanks to that it is possible to analyze origin of trees, as well as genealogy of deities responsible for that part of the flora. By studying texts of chronicles in Polish and English translations along with Japanese original I would like to show mythical beginnings of specific trees in Japan — first ancestor and origin of specific species — and role they played in history of a mythical heroes. Among others, paper presents theory of origin of sakaki and also a potential identification of the uncanny tree that grew near Uki river. 2025-03-07T13:35:12Z 2025-03-07T13:35:12Z 2018 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788381421935_193 9788381421935 9788381421928 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/154768 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/881 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8142-192-8.05 Animistic cults and religions are characterized by belief, that every part of the world, both alive and inanimate, contain soul or spirit. One of those is Japanese indigenous religion — shintō. The world of Japanese mythology revolves around anthropomorphic deities — kami and countless spirits that manifests in fauna, flora and in various phenomena of nature. Description of creation of the world and all its elements was written down in chronicles Kojiki and Nihongi. Cosmogony in Japanese mythology equals teogony and thanks to that it is possible to analyze origin of trees, as well as genealogy of deities responsible for that part of the flora. By studying texts of chronicles in Polish and English translations along with Japanese original I would like to show mythical beginnings of specific trees in Japan — first ancestor and origin of specific species — and role they played in history of a mythical heroes. Among others, paper presents theory of origin of sakaki and also a potential identification of the uncanny tree that grew near Uki river. 10.18778/8142-192-8.05 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788381421935 9788381421928 83-97 open access
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fauna and flora in literature and culture
mimicry in literature
ecological humanities
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Chapter Origin and Role of Trees in the Japanese Mythology in the Light of Kojiki and Nihongi
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title_short Chapter Origin and Role of Trees in the Japanese Mythology in the Light of Kojiki and Nihongi
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fauna and flora in literature and culture
mimicry in literature
ecological humanities
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fauna and flora in literature and culture
mimicry in literature
ecological humanities
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