Spirit Tree : Origins of Cosmology in ShintT Ritual at Hakozaki - Leslie E. Williams

Spirit Tree

Origins of Cosmology in ShintT Ritual at Hakozaki

By: Leslie E. Williams

Paperback | 6 March 2007

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Despite what some scholarship has suggested, Shint´ does exhibit a unifying cognitive integrity. Spirit Tree offers a unique social psychological interpretation of Shint´ ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan and situates the cosmological organization of this practice within the larger context of ritual in East Asia. Employing a comparative approach, this study blends two theoretical orientations: cultural anthropology and Jungian psychology.

Hakozaki's rituals are a combination of a Yayoi period female medium tradition with a complex set of Chinese Yin-Yang Five Phase principles. Both systems are based on the feminine archetype, a fundamental conceptual foundation of Shint´ ritual practice, which cognitively links woman and the earth. While the female shaman tradition is female-affirming in outlook, the later Chinese system is much less so. This monograph is a new acknowledgement of the conceptual continuity of Shint´ ritual as an outgrowth of social cognition.

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