The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō, a Study of the State Religion of Japan ..
The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō, a Study of the State Religion of Japan ..
Daniel Clarence Holtom
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The divine spirit is sent away. Warning. All make obeisance. All retire. " I. Cf. Frazer, Art. " Taboo, " Er\. Brit. , 9th ed. For an account of the use of combs in magic see Skeat and Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Penin- sula, Vol. I, pp. 148, 156, 492, 420 fT. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SHINTO. 16/ gone in/ Apparently slight details are important here. It is not by chance, for example, that the story says left bunch. In the light of Japanese custom, this was the side of peculiar p...otency and the use of the comb is to be interpreted as exhibit- ing an old idea that it constituted a powerful, protective device for Izanagi as he entered the dangerous confines of Yomi, Again when pursued out of the lower world by Yomo-tsu'shiko- mCf the Ugly Female of Hades, his defense against her was to make use of hair ornaments. His head-dress, cast down in the path of the oncoming Fury, turned instantly to grapes which stayed her while she devoured them. In like manner the pieces of the comb in the hair on the right side of his head, when cast down upon the ground, changed to bamboo sprouts and " while she pulled them up and ate them, he fled on.
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