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There should be an explanation of how parts of Shinto became labelled as a "mythology". It's like if some parts of Christianity became a mythology. When and how did this happen? Did America force upon Japan to describe it is a mythology after world war 2? Because many of these things were not considered a mythology in earlier times. I posted the same question on 1 January 2021 (see Archive 1) and got no replies. -Artanisen (talk) 07:52, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
@Kpratter: I appreciate your recent addition of information on "Overseas shrines" to this article, but I am concerned about the article becoming excessively long, especially with the addition of information that is not critical for the general reader interested in learning the basics of Shinto. The article is already reaching the recommended article length as it is. Perhaps the information that you are adding would be more appropriate at a separate article called Shinto in the United States? Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:05, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
'The kami came to be viewed as part of Buddhist cosmology and were increasingly depicted anthropomorphically.'
These are two very different processes that are hardly connected in any way, and the chronological order appears to be the opposite of the one that the wording here suggests. If the Kami were ever seen as anything other than anthropomorphic at all - a big 'if' - they surely must have become anthropomorphic before they had become widely viewed as part of Buddhist cosmology. Kojiki, the earliest written source about the Kami, already describes them as perfectly anthropomorphic, but there is nothing Buddhist in its depiction of them or in its entire narrative or cosmology yet, even though Buddhism itself was already known in the country by that time.
In general, I sense a strong agenda trying to push the message that, roughly, 'there has never been a non-Buddhist Japanese religious tradition, Japan has always been Buddhist'. Which is, of course, not true. I see no reason to refuse to call the pre-Buddhist Japanese religious tradition Shinto, but whatever one calls it, it clearly existed. 62.73.69.121 (talk) 20:18, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
The Way of the dao 2001:4456:CD5:6B00:51D2:40AC:505A:4497 (talk) 03:25, 15 August 2024 (UTC)