Japanese kami plural1/9/2024 ![]() ![]() Tsukimono are almost exclusively yokai or animal spirits invading human bodies. However, this kind of God Possession-known alternately as kamiyadori (神宿り kami dwelling), kamioroshi (神降ろし kami descending), or kamigakari (神懸り divine possession) –is different from tsukimono. As Lowell says, “In Shinto god-possession we are viewing the actual incarnation of the ancestor spirit of the race.” Because of the obscure nature of the kami and their relation to the sorei ancestor spirits, it can be hard to tell. The kami can be singular or plural, an ancestor spirit or merger of deities. The medium is just an empty vessel that gives voice to the kami. As in many spiritual traditions, the medium goes into a trance and clears their mind so that the kami can enter. There have long been mediums who could voluntarily drawn the power of kami or ancestor spirits into their bodies to serve as oracles. Probably the most ancient form of the phenomenon is God Possession. It is safe to say that no other nation of forty millions of people has ever produced its parallel….” “The number of possessing spirits in Japan is something enormous. In his 1894 book Occult Japan, Percival Lowell wrote: Spirit possession is an ancient and ubiquitous belief in Japan. So in a strange way, possession means asking a favor of someone-really, really hard.) It can do double duty not only as the verb tsuku (憑く to possess) but also as a kanji for tanomu (憑む to ask a favor). There is a different word for actual possession憑依 (hyoi), which is the kanji 憑 (tsuki again, but this time pronounced hyo-because Japanese is hard) + 依 (I caused by).Īlthough they are collectively known as tsukimono, different types of tsukimono use –tsuki as a suffix, such as kappa-tsuki (河童憑 kappa possession), tengu-tsuki (天狗憑 tengu possession), or the most common of all, kitsune-tsuki (狐憑 fox possession). It combines the kanji憑 (tsuki possession) +物 (mono thing). But when they do, they are all known by a single name-Tsukimono, the Possessing Things. There are eight million gods and monsters in Japan, and more than a few of them like to ride around in human bodies from time to time. Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, The Catalpa Bow, Myths and Legends of Japan, Occult Japan, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources ![]()
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