Before made the myths.

Hello, everyone. I am Mana.
Have a good new year vacation?
I went to shrine for worship day before yesterday.
I wish this year will give me some goodness.

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Well, today's topic is...

 Before made the myths.

Everyday I wonder that
"What are thinking of people a long long time ago?"
Before born Japanese Myth... in other words, before born Kojiki or Nihon-shoki, what were faith by people?
In this entry, I will think about ancient people's faith.

Then, I found there are two theory about ancient people's faith.
First, the theory of  that they believed in "animism".
Thinking of animism is that they believe every thing and lives has souls.
This thinking is snuggling naturally. And it has been very important nature.
And after that, people believe polytheism
The other theory is, to my surprise, people believed in "monotheism only".
I don't know this thinking, but it seems to have been in recent years for some reason.
I am going to consider about each theory.

1. ANIMISM and POLYTHEISM

Animism and Polytheism don't have only one god.The thinking is this everything has in god soul. 
Gods are exist innumerably and anywhere.
This thinking is not irreligion, almost today's our thinking .
People faith's evidence could see statues like a Budda and funerary in tumulus , remains, shrines and temples.
Clay figure like human is one of most salient evidence.
Especially "Shinto" is completion of one form of polytheism in Japan.
In Shinto, there are gods over eight hundred.
One of example, there are seven gods in a grain of rice.

2. MONOTHEISM ONLY

Monotheism only is thinking of that god is only one in the world.
One of the most famous religion is Muslim. It has Allah, just only one god in the religion.
There are some reason of ancient Japanase people believed monotheism.
First, until now, development of religion believed aminism→multi-religious→monotheistic→ monotheism only.
But recentury, archaeologist seem to find that their order is reversed.
Namely, the order is monotheism only→monotheistic→multi-religious→aminism.
Into multi-religious is the result of the corruption of faith.
Japanese people shold have era of monotheism only.
Also, people might have been hiding that they believe in only one god because to avoid attack from other countries.

From these results, ancient Japanese people before it was made Japanese myth believed polytheism or monotheism only.
There are no conclusive evidence very in the long past.
But I think it is too surprise to believe that we had the only one god very long time ago.
I believe there are many gods in the world. Of couse, in a grain of rice(but it's a little exaggerated...)
I can't imagin I faith to only one. But this thinking maybe appear this time, I am in now.
In the myth, there are many gods. Is it a evidence that people at that time faith to animism or polytheism?
Did  the myth gave religional influence the people of the time?
Learning about the myth bring another quiestion.

Next topic, I will write about Japanese myth's author.
Thanks your reading.

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