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            Not sure, but I kind believe so-called Shinto religion is a religion to worship some great local nature as though the Nature itself has some sort of free will and intention or power to shape our living surroundings and environment we and the natures around us are in.    I think that's the simplest way to explain what Shinto means.  And I believe this belief system of ancient Japanese came from extreme volatile nature of their living environment.   After all, our islands have a lot of typhoons, volcanic disasters and earthquakes, and we have always been scared of great disasters we have to live with.  Taming our living environment was always super important to our ancestors, and they developed or designed the religion called Shinto to tame the scary powerful nature around us. 

So, it maybe should not be called a religion but some sort of philosophy of nature or some form of animism that believes existence of a soul in each of plants surrounding them, and all inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

It is hard to explain what Shinto really is, but it is I think one of the oldest and most primitive religions or religion like belief-systems still existing today.   It has some degree of similarity to Taoism and ancient Hebrew religion before the modern Judaism.

Taken on: November 7, 2023

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