I Was Going to Get `Round To #Shinto Eventually (prob'ly with #ReligionForBreakfast @andrewmarkhenry), but @Bing brought it up in an interesting way
I'll get to 'the way they introduced me to "Shinto" (or maybe it's just "a side-story of Shinto" ... like most of The Old Testament to Christianity)' below the subscribe-bar, but first ...
Bing also directed me to a websearch on 'Shinto' (linked through 'that word' below); before you get to that--though--I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Shinto” is built on ancient words that mean Way/Path/Doctrine of the Kami (supernatural beings known as Gods or Spirits). #Shintoism #Shintoists
Bing introduced it through this monument to marriage:
These huge rocks (off the coast of Japan) represent |Izanagi & Izanami---essentially the Adam & Eve of Shinto (but with a little more emphasis on their divine heritage).
Getting into Shinto ... it's said there's no universal definition; and the descriptions on Bing take so long to tell me that, they get cut-off before they can start telling me 'what it is!'
Wikipedia tells me it's a polytheism whose 'gods' (or maybe 'supernatural entities related to gods') are |Kami inhabiting all created things, worshiped at shrines known as |Kamidana & |Jinja.
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