Native American Spirituality   -   Japanese Shinto

Vocabulary and Ideas

IDEAS - NATIVE AMERICAN

1. Overview of Native American Religions
      and challenges in study

2. The Spirit World

3. Animism

4. Various ways of contact with the Spirit World

IDEAS - SHINTO

1. Shamaness in early Japan

2. Shinto stories of creation

3. Historical importance of Shinto ideas

VOCABULARY - NATIVE AMERICAN

High God / Great Spirit - Wakan Tanka

Mother Earth

totemism

sympathetic magic

taboo

Land of the Dead

vision quest

Sun Dance

sweat lodge

Ghost Dance (Paiute and Sioux versions) - Wovoka
Ghost Shirt
Wounded Knee

eschatology

medicine man or woman / shaman -
   Rolling Thunder

sacred pipe

Native American Church

peyote

VOCABULARY - SHINTO

Shinto (kami no michi)

kami

The Wei Chronicle

The Kojiki

Himiko

Izanagi and Izanami

Yomi

Amaterasu

Shimenawa

Shinto shrines and festivals

torii

Ise Shrine

State Shinto