The Gods Don’t Live Here Anymore
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Ruins of a shrine above Naka-no-Ura beach, Shikinejima.
I wonder what the process is for relocating gods? This next one, on the other side of the island, is still inhabited.
Shrine made of cinder-blocks, a common building material on the island.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.09.17 (Wed) • 17:04
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Posted by beth 2003.09.19, 00:51
beautiful photos, intriguing question.
Posted by Flame Critic 2003.09.22, 10:09
Well I don’t really know about the japanese, but for the chinese people there is usually a ceremony to “invite” the god that “inhabits” a certain place to it’s new “place”.
Sometimes you can see a small effigy or deity’s statue which has been left on the side of a huge tree. Normally this means that the owner of the effigy has either :
Taken up a new religion which does not permit praying to idols such as christianity or islam or
Has moved house
So what the owner has done is to invite the deity to it’s new place which is the tree. Normally the ruins like the ones you see in the pictures are those which the deity has “left the house”.
Nice bws btw.
Posted by Nathan Wainwright 2003.10.01, 13:49
To me, that would almost be creepy walking upon… just the general look of it that is.
Most old buildings do intriuge (sp?) me, but that one… don’t know…
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