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MIKKYO SHINTO SATANISM ISLAM LUTERANISM SHINJUKU VENTURA DARKNESS LIGHT LUTHERAN FINNISH JAPANESE POWER MIKKYO MIND-SCIENCE ATHEISM TURKU TOKYO ALLA ÄäNEKOSKI HELSINKI HELL HEAVEN RAIN LOVE REGULAR LIKE RIGHT FRIEND SAARIJäRVI SAARIJäRVI SUOMEN KAUPUNKI JOKA SIJAITSEE KESKI-SUOMEN MAAKUNNASSA LäNSI-SUOMEN LääNISSä KAUPUNGISSA ASUU IHMISTä PINTA-ALA JOSTA KAKUSHI VENTURA DRAGON DRAGONZ DRACULA SAGAMIHARA HELLS ERIK SEGERSäLL ANGELS RESPECT TAI-CHI-CHUAN SLOW MOTION KANAGAWA ALLAH BUDDHA SATAN HELL HEAVEN BEACH RAIN FINLANDIA KAWASAKI KANAGAWA FUCK DAMNATION BLESSINGS PENIS CRAZYPENIS YOKOHAMA COSMOS TOTAL STOCK INDEX TOTAL INTERNATIONAL ÞORLáKS UNIVERSE ARNALDUR GYLFASON RUNNER ARNALDUR INDRIðASON WRITER ÁSMUNDUR SVEINSSON SCULPTOR ÁGúSTA ERLENDSDóTTIR ACTRESS SINGER ALTER SILVíA NóTT SILVIA NIGHT MODEL SINGER PERSON BALTASAR KORMáKUR FILM ACTOR FILM DIRECTOR BJöRGVIN HALLDóRSSON SINGER BJöRK GUðMUNDSDóTTIR SINGER SONGWRITER BJöRN HLYNUR HARALDSSON ACTOR BRAGI ÓLAFSSON MUSICIAN DAVíð STEFáNSSON POET KAMUYAMATO IWAREBIKO PRESUMED LEGENDARY CLAIMED DESCENT FROM GODDESS AMATERASU EMPEROR SUIZEI KAMU NUNAGAWAMIMI MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR ANNEI SHIKITSUHIKO TAMADEMI MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR ITOKU YAMATOHIKO SUKITOMO MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR MIMATSUHIKO KAESINE MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR YAMATO TARASIHIKO KUNIOSI HITO MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR YAMATO NEKOHIKO FUTONI MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR YAMATO NEKOHIKO KUNI KURU MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR KAIKA WAKA YAMATO NEKOHIKO BIBINO MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR SUJIN MIMAKI IRIHIKO INIE MIKOTO PRESUMED LEGENDARY EMPEROR SUININ IKUME IRIHIKO SUPPORT WIKIPEDIA MAKING TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION LIST SWEDISH MONARCHS FROM WIKIPEDIA FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA REDIRECTED FROM SWEDISH KINGS JUMP NAVIGATION SEARCH KINGDOM SWEDEN THIS ARTICLE PART SERIES POLITICS GOVERNMENT SWEDEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONSTITUTION HEAD STATE KING CARL GUSTAF PARLIAMENT SPEAKER WESTERBERG MEMBERS GOVERNMENT PRIME MINISTER FREDRIK REINFELDT CABINET MINISTRIES AGENCIES JUDICIARY SUPREME COURT SUPREME ADMINISTRATIVE COURT COUNCIL LEGISLATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTIES GOVERNORS ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS COUNTY COUNCILS MUNICIPALITIES SAMI PARLIAMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTIONS REFERENDUMS POLITICAL PARTIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOREIGN RELATIONS POLITICS EUROPEAN UNION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER COUNTRIES ATLAS POLITICS PORTAL VIEW TALK EDIT THIS LIST SWEDISH MONARCHS THAT KINGS RULING QUEENS SWEDEN WITH REGENTS VICEROYS KALMAR UNION UNTIL PRESENT TIME EARLIEST RECORD WHAT GENERALLY CONSIDERED SWEDISH KING APPEARS TACITUS' WORK GERMANIA KING SUIONES HOWEVER SCANT UNRELIABLE SOURCES BEFORE CENTURY LISTS SUCCESSION TRADITIONALLY START CENTURY WITH KING OLOF SKöTKONUNG FATHER ERIC VICTORIOUS ALSO WERE FIRST SWEDISH KINGS BAPTIZED THERE HOWEVER LISTS SWEDISH PAGAN MONARCHS WITH OLDER DATES MANY CASES THESE KINGS APPEAR SOURCES DISPUTED HISTORICAL RELIABILITY THESE RECORDS NOTABLY DEAL WITH LEGENDARY HOUSE YNGLING BASED DANISH CHRONICLER SAXO GRAMMATICUS ERIK SEGERSäLL OLOF SKöTKONUNG HAVE OFTEN BEEN CLASSIFIED BELONGING SWEDISH HOUSE YNGLINGS HOWEVER ACCORDING ICELANDIC SOURCES THIS LINE KINGS BROKEN INGJALD IVAR VIDFAMNE TRACE THEM BACK SIGURD RING RAGNAR LODBROK WHOM SAXO OTHER HAND CONSIDERED BELONG HOUSE YNGLING THERE EVIDENCE THAT ERIC OLOF EVER USED YNGLING NAME THEMSELVES MODERN HISTORIANS INSTEAD REFER THEIR FAMILY HOUSE MUNSö DYNASTY HOUSE UPPSALA CENTURY JOHANNES MAGNUS CONSTRUCTED MYTHICAL LINE SWEDISH KINGS BEGINNING WITH MAGOG JAPHETH DEMONSTRATE ANTIQUITY SWEDISH THRONE BASIS LIST ERIC CHARLES ADOPTED THEIR HIGH ORDINALS PREVIOUS MONARCHS WITH THOSE NAMES TRADITIONALLY NUMBERED COUNTING BACKWARD FROM ERIC CHARLES ADDITION LIST BELOW SWEDISH THRONE ALSO CLAIMED KINGS POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH FROM FOLLOWING ABDICATION SIGISMUND CONTINUED CLAIM THRONE FROM DEATH AFTER DEATH CLAIM CONTINUED SONS WLADYSLAW FROM JOHN CASIMIR FROM CONTENTS HIDE MONARCHS REGENTS SWEDEN HOUSE UPPSALA HOUSE STENKIL HOUSES SVERKER ERIC HOUSE BJäLBO MONARCHS KALMAR UNION REGENTS RIKSFöRESTåNDARE HOUSE VASA HOUSE PALATINATE-ZWEIBRüCKEN HOUSE HESSE HOUSE HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP HOUSE BERNADOTTE REFERENCES ALSO EDIT MONARCHS REGENTS SWEDEN LISTS PREHISTORIC KINGS SWEDEN MYTHOLOGICAL KINGS SWEDEN SEMI-LEGENDARY KINGS SWEDEN EDIT HOUSE UPPSALA MONARCH PORTRAIT BIRTH MARRIAGES DEATH ERIC VICTORIOUS ERIK SEGERSäLL BJöRN ERIKSSON SIGRID HAUGHTY SOTDöD DIED SICKNESS UPPSALA AGED ABOUT OLOF TREASURER OLOF SKöTKONUNG ERIC VICTORIOUS SIGRID HAUGHTY ESTRID OBOTRITES AGED ABOUT ANUND JACOB ANUND JAKOB SOUTH EAST CANUTE DENMARK JULY OLOF TREASURER ESTRID OBOTRITES AGED ABOUT EMUND EMUND GAMMAL ILLEGITIMATE OLOF TREASURER ASTRID NJALSDOTTER EDIT HOUSE STENKIL LIGHTBLUE HOUSE STENKIL MONARCH PORTRAIT BIRTH MARRIAGES DEATH STENKIL STENKIL RAGNVALDSSON PROBABLY FROM VäSTERGöTLAND RAGNVALD ULFSSON ACCORDING HERVARAR SAGA INGAMODER EMUNDSDOTTER SOTDöD DIED SICKNESS SVITJOD ERIC STENKILSSON ERIK STENKILSSON STENKIL DIES AGAINST ERIC VIII PAGAN ERIC VIII PAGAN ERIK HEDNINGEN DIES AGAINST ERIC STENKILSSON HALSTEN STENKILSSON HALSTEN STENKIL AGED ABOUT ANUND GåRDSKE COMING FROM GARðARíKI KIEVAN RUS' ALTHOUGH PROBABLY WITH ANCESTRAL LINKS SCANDINAVIA HåKAN HåKAN RöDE LEVENE VäSTERGöTLAND STENKIL WIDOW ERIC VIII PAGAN INGE ELDER INGE äLDRE STENKIL INGAMODER EMUNDSDOTTER HELENA SISTER BLOT-SWEYN DIED SICKNESS FIRST BURIED HåNGER THEN MOVED VARNHEM ABBEY BLOT-SWEYN BLOT-SVEN AMBUSHED INGE ELDER'S TROOPS ERIC ÅRSäLL POSSIBLY BLOT-SWEYN INGE ELDER INGE äLDRE SECOND PERIOD PHILIP HALSTENSSON FILIP HALSTENSSON KING HALSTEN INGEGERD DAUGHTER HARALD HARDRADA ASSUMED BURIED VRETA 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ÖREBRO AGAINTST CHARLES CHARLES KARL SVERKERSSON SVERKER ELDER ULVHILD HåKANSDOTTER KIRSTEN STIGSDATTER KILLED CANUTE ERICSON VISINGSö APRIL AGED ABOUT BURIED ALVASTRA ABBEY CANUTE ERICSON KNUT ERIKSSON ÖSTERGöTLAND FROM ALSO ÖSTERGöTLAND BEFORE ERIC SAINT KRISTINA PROBABLY GRANDDAUGHTER INGE ELDER DIED PEACEFULLY BURIED VARNHEM ABBEY SVERKER YOUNGER SVERKER YNGRE BORN BEFORE PROBABLY ALREADY KING CHARLES QUEEN CHRISTINE STIGSDATTER HVIDE BENEDICTA EBBESDATTER INGEGERD DAUGHTER BIRGER BROSA DIED BATTLE GESTILREN JULY AGED ABOUT BURIED ALVASTRA ABBEY ERIC ERIK KNUTSSON CANUTE ERICSON RICHEZA DENMARK DAUGHTER VALDEMAR DENMARK DIED SUDDENLY FEVER CASTLE VISINGSö APRIL AGED ABOUT BURIED VARNHEM ABBEY JOHN CHILD JOHAN SVERKERSSON UNGE SVERKER DIED VISINGSö MARCH AGED ABOUT BURIED ALVASTRA ABBEY ERIC LISP LAME ERIK LäSPE HALTE KING ERIK SWEDEN RICHEZA DENMARK CATHERINE YMSEBORG FEBRUARY AGED ABOUT BURIED VARNHEM ABBEY CANUTE TALL KNUT LåNGE HOLMGER NEPOS NEPHEW CANUTE ERICSON BURIED KLOSTER ERIC LISP LAME SECOND PERIOD EDIT HOUSE BJäLBO MONARCH PORTRAIT BIRTH MARRIAGES DEATH VALDEMAR VALDEMAR BIRGERSSON BIRGER JARL INGEBORG ERIKSDOTTER DAUGHTER ERIC MARRIED FOUR TIMES AMONG OTHERS SOFIA DENMARK DAUGHTER ERIC DENMARK DIED WHILE IMPRISONED BROTHER MAGNUS NYKöPING CASTLE DECEMBER AGED ABOUT BURIED VRETA ABBEY RIDDARHOLMEN CHURCH MAGNUS LADISLAUS ALSO BARNLOCK MAGNUS LADULåS BIRGER JARL INGEBORG ERIKSDOTTER DAUGHTER ERIC HELWIG HOLSTEIN VISINGSö DECEMBER AGED ABOUT BURIED RIDDARHOLMEN CHURCH BIRGER BIRGER MAGNUSSON MAGNUS LADISLAUS HELWIG HOLSTEIN MARTHA DENMARK EXILE DENMARK AFTER MURDERING BROTHERS NYKöPING BANQUET AGED ABOUT BURIED RINGSTED ZEALAND MATS KETTILMUNDSSON REGENT HOUSE BJäLBO UNKNOWN BIRTHYEAR NONE HöVITSMAN FINLAND MAGNUS ERICSON MAGNUS ERIKSSON TECHNICALLY MAGNUS NORWAY ERIK MAGNUSSON BROTHER BIRGER INGEBORG HåKONSDOTTER BLANKA NAMUR DROWNED SHIPWRECK WHEN SEEKING REFUGE WITH BøMLOFJORD NORWAY DECEMBER AGED ABOUT ERIC ERIK MAGNUSSON MAGNUS ERIKSSON BEATRIX BAVARIA GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT WIFE DIED PLAGUE JUNE AGED ABOUT HAAKON HåKAN MAGNUSSON MAGNUS ERIKSSON BLANKA NAMUR MARGRETE VALDEMARSDOTTER APRIL COPENHAGEN OSLO SEPTEMBER AGED ABOUT BURIED OSLO ALBERT SWEDEN ALBREKT MECKLENBURG MECKLENBURG ALBERT DUKE MECKLENBURG EUPHEMIA SWEDEN MECKLENBURG APRIL AGED ABOUT BURIED MECKLENBURG OLOF HAAKONSON OPPOSITION ALBERT PRETENDER SWEDISH CROWN AKERSHUS CASTLE OSLO HAAKON NORWAY MARGARET DENMARK NONE FALSTERBO CASTLE AUGUST AGED ABOUT BURIED SORø ZEALAND EDIT MONARCHS KALMAR UNION REGENTS RIKSFöRESTåNDARE MONARCH PORTRAIT BIRTH MARRIAGES DEATH MARGARET MARGARETA VALDEMARSDOTTER VORDINGBORG CASTLE DAUGHTER VALDEMAR HELVIG SøNDERJYLLAND HAAKON NORWAY FLENSBURG FJORD AGED ABOUT BURIED ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL ERIC XIII ERIK POMMERN RüGENWALDE POMERANIA WARTISLAW DUKE POMERANIA MARY MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN PHILIPPA ENGLAND DAUGHTER HENRY ENGLAND RüGENWALDE CASTLE AGED ABOUT BURIED RüGENWALDE POMERANIA REGENT ENGELBREKT ENGELBREKTSSON RIKSHöVITSMAN REGENT KARL KNUTSSON BONDE CHRISTOPHER BAVARIA KRISTOFFER BAYERN NEUMARKT OBERPFALZ BAVARIA DUKE JOHN PFALZ-NEUMARKT CATHERINE VRATISLAVA DOROTHEA BRANDENBURG HELSINGBORG AGED BURIED ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL REGENT BENGT JöNSSON OXENSTIERNA NILS JöNSSON OXENSTIERNA CHARLES VIII KARL KNUTSSON BONDE KNUT TORDSSON BONDE MARGARETA KARLSDOTTER SPARRE TOFTA BIRGITTA TURESDOTTER BIELKE DIED BEFORE BECAME KING KATARINA KARLSDOTTER KRISTINA ABRAHAMSDOTTER AGED ABOUT BURIED RIDDARHOLMEN CHURCH REGENTS JöNS BENGTSSON OXENSTIERNA ARCHBISHOP UPSALA ERIK AXELSSON TOTT CHRISTIAN SWEDEN KRISTIAN OLDENBURG LOWER SAXONY FEBRUARY DIETRICH OLDENBURG HELVIG SCHAUENBURG DOROTHEA BRANDENBURG COPENHAGEN AGED BURIED ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL CHARLES VIII KARL KNUTSSON BONDE SECOND PERIOD REGENT KETTIL KARLSSON VASA BISHOP LINKöPING REGENT JöNS BENGTSSON OXENSTIERNA REGENT ERIK AXELSSON TOTT CHARLES VIII KARL KNUTSSON BONDE THIRD PERIOD REGENT STEN STURE ELDER STEN STURE äLDRE JOHN HANS SWEDEN HANS AALBORG CASTLE FEBRUARY 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SATANISM ALSO CALLED SPIRITUAL TRADITIONAL SATANISM WORSHIP SATAN CONSISTS SEVERAL VIEWPOINTS GROUPS GROUP THAT FALLS UNDER DEFINITION THEISTIC SATANISM CALLED REVERSE CHRISTIANS THIS SOMETIMES USED DISPARAGING TERM OTHER THEISTIC SATANISTS EMBRACED LESSER GREATER EXTENT GROUPS GIVEN THIS LABEL GROUPS CALLED REVERSE CHRISTIAN SAID PRACTICE WHAT CHRISTIANS CLAIM SATANISTS WORSHIP ENEMY CHRIST SOME OTHER GROUPS THEISTIC SATANISTS ACCEPT BIBLE DEPICTING TRUE SATAN SAME DEGREE SPIRITUAL SATANISTS HOWEVER SATAN THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE OTHER HUMAN WITH RELIGIONS UNIFORM THROUGHOUT BELIEVERS WHILE THERE THOSE VIEW SATAN HUMAN-LIKE ENTITY THERE THOSE ACCEPT ANCIENT ROMAN IMAGE LUCIFER EVEN THOSE IMAGINE IMAGE GREEK SPIRITUAL SATANISTS TEND FOCUS THEIR TIME MEDITATION SELF EXPANSION THEIR BELIEFS HAVE NOTHING WITH CHRISTIANITY BIBLE THEIR VIEW SATANISM EDIT LUCIFERIANISM MAIN ARTICLE LUCIFERIANISM LUCIFERIANISM RECENTLY DEVELOPED OFFSHOOT SATANISM THAT KEEPS MOST TENETS SATANISM MORE LENIENCY WHAT COMMONLY REFERRED 'GOOD' MORALITY THEIR VIEW SATAN INCORPORATE SOME CONCEPTS FROM CONTEMPORARY WESTERN RELIGION SUCH SENSE SOME THEM FATHER THESE GROUPS CONSIDERS THEMSELVES 'CHRISTIAN SATANISTS REJECTS IDEAS MAGIC RITUALS DEFINE THEMSELVES BEING MIDDLE LAVEYAN SATANISM CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS THIS STANCE THEIR REJECTION FROM CHURCH SATAN EDIT ATHEISTIC SATANISM EDIT LAVEYAN SATANISM PETER GILMORE HIGH PRIEST CHURCH SATAN GILMORE TOOK OVER CHURCH FROM BLANCHE BARTON ANTON LAVEY'S PARTNER FORMER HIGH PRIESTESS MAIN ARTICLE LAVEYAN SATANISM LAVEYAN SATANISTS TECHNICALLY ATHEISTS AGNOSTICS BELIEVE THAT SATAN METAPHOR THAT REPRESENTS NATURAL URGES MANKIND TERM LAVEYAN SATANIST SYMBOLIC SATANIST USED OTHER SATANISTS REFER SUPPORTERS WRITINGS CHURCH SATAN FOUNDER ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY SUCCESSORS SUCH PETER GILMORE WORD SATANISM THIS CONTEXT ACCORDING RELIGIOUSTOLERANCE REFERS SMALL RELIGIOUS GROUP THAT UNRELATED OTHER FAITH WHOSE MEMBERS FEEL FREE SATISFY THEIR URGES RESPONSIBLY EXHIBIT KINDNESS THEIR FRIENDS ATTACK THEIR ENEMIES EDIT TEMPLE MAIN ARTICLE TEMPLE LARGEST MOST VISIBLE ORGANIZED GROUP RELIGIOUS SATANISTS APPEARS TEMPLE ORGANIZED MICHAEL AQUINO FROM MEMBERS CHURCH SATAN LEFT THAT CHURCH EDIT MODERN SATANISM MODERN SATANISM OBSERVANCE PRACTICE SATANIC RELIGIOUS BELIEFS PHILOSOPHIES CUSTOMS THIS INTERPRETATION SATANISM SATANIST DOES WORSHIP SATAN THEISTIC SENSE ADVERSARY SPIRITUAL CREEDS ESPOUSING HEDONISM MATERIALISM RANDIAN OBJECTIVISM ANTINOMIANISM RATIONAL EGOISM INDIVIDUALISM SUITHEISM NIETZSCHEAN SOME CROWLEYAN PHILOSOPHY ANTI-THEISM MODERN SATANISTS ALSO SOMETIMES REFERRED SYMBOLIC SATANISTS EDIT GROUPS ALLEGED HAVE PRACTICED SATANISM MANY GROUPS HAVE BEEN BELIEVED HAVE WORSHIPED SATAN FROM PAGANS CELEBRATING YEZIDIS WORSHIPING MELEK TAUS REALITY YEZIDI VIEW THEMSELVES SATANIST BEING THEY WORSHIP REFERRED THEM ANGEL CONSIDERED SERVANT ADAM ANTON LAVEY HIMSELF BELIEVED YEZIDI DEVIL-WORSHIPPERS BELIEVED STEREOTYPES RUMORS ABOUT THEM PROPAGATED BOTH WESTERNERS MUSLIM COMMUNITIES SOME VIEWED YEZIDI'S CUSTOMS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED SATAN CITATIONS NEEDED EDIT SATANISM HEAVY METAL MUSIC HEAVY METAL MUSIC OFTEN BEEN CONNECTED WITH SATANISM PART LYRICAL CONTENT SEVERAL BANDS THEIR FREQUENT IMAGERY OFTEN TIED LEFT HAND PATH BELIEFS SUCH PENTAGRAM RESULT MEMBERS SEVERAL BANDS INCLUDING SLAYER BLACK SABBATH HAVE FACED ACCUSATIONS BEING TRUE SATANISTS MORE OFTEN THAN SUCH MUSICIANS DENY BELIEF LEGITIMATE SATANIC IDEOLOGY OFTEN PROFESS BEING ATHEISTS SOME INSTANCES FOLLOWERS RIGHT HAND PATH RELIGIONS WHILE USING THAT WHICH APPEARS SATANIC ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES SHOCK VALUE HOWEVER WHILE SOME DEBATE THEIR AUTHENTICITY OTHER ARTISTS HAVE PROFESSED SATANIC BELIEFS GLEN BENTON VOCALIST BASSIST BAND DEICIDE ONCE OPENLY CLAIMED PRACTITIONER THEISTIC SATANISM SPOKEN PUBLICLY NUMEROUS OCCASIONS PROFESS STAUNCH ANTI-CHRISTIAN SENTIMENT NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL ARTISTS SUCH THOSE FROM BANDS GORGOROTH MAYHEM HAVE ALSO DEFENDED MODERN SATANIC IDEOLOGY NUMEROUS BURNINGS CHURCHES THAT COVERED PARTS NORWAY EARLY WERE ALSO ATTRIBUTED YOUTHS INVOLVED BLACK METAL MOVEMENT CLAIMED HAVE THEISTIC SATANIC BELIEFS STRONG ANTI-LAVEYAN ATTITUDES HOWEVER LEGITIMACY SUCH ACTIONS SATANIC ENDEAVORS RATHER THAN SIMPLY REBELLIOUS ACTIONS DONE PUBLICITY SOMETHING THAT BEEN DOUBTED EVEN THOSE CONTRIBUTE GENRE EDIT ALSO ARTHUR DESMOND BOYD RICE HELLFIRE CLUB MIGHT RIGHT SATANIC HOLIDAYS EDIT REFERENCES SATANISM DEFINITIONS FROM DICTIONARY FLOWERS STEPHEN LORDS LEFT-HAND PATH RUNA-RAVEN PRESS ISBN WITCHES WICCANS TRUE SATANIST SATANISM SATANISM SATANIC DENOMINATIONS DARKSIDE COLLECTIVE MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL MODERN SATANISM “THE DEVIL WORSHIPERS MIDDLE EAST THEIR BELIEFS SACRED BOOKS” HOLMES GROUP DECEMBER ISBN- ISBN- BADDELEY GAVIN RAISING HELL BOOK SATAN ROCK ROLL HTTP YOUTUBE WATCH QCGMWRHSG GARRY SHARPE-YOUNG METAL DEFINITIVE GUIDE GRUDE TORSTEIN DIRECTOR JANUARY SATAN MEDIA MOTION PICTURE NORWAY GRUDE TORSTEIN IHSAHN INTERVIEW EDIT FURTHER READING MICHELET JULES 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ARTICLE NEEDS ADDITIONAL CITATIONS VERIFICATION PLEASE HELP IMPROVE THIS ARTICLE ADDING RELIABLE REFERENCES UNSOURCED MATERIAL CHALLENGED REMOVED JULY OTHER USES SHINTO DISAMBIGUATION TORII ITSUKUSHIMA SHRINEPART SERIES SHINTO BELIEFS KAMI POLYTHEISM ANIMISM MATSURI RITUAL PURITY MYTHOLOGY NOTABLE KAMI AMATERASU AME-NO-UZUME INARI IZANAGI IZANAMI SUSANOO KOTOAMATSUKAMI TSUKUYOMI SCRIPTURE KOJIKI RIKKOKUSHI SHOKU NIHONGI JINN ALSO JAPAN JAPANESE BUDDHISM LIST SHINTO SHRINES SHINTO PORTAL SHINTO SHINT NATIVE RELIGION JAPAN ONCE STATE RELIGION POLYTHEISTIC ANIMISTIC FAITH INVOLVES WORSHIP KAMI KAMI SPIRITS SOME KAMI LOCAL REGARDED SPIRITUAL BEING SPIRIT GENIUS PARTICULAR PLACE OTHERS REPRESENT MAJOR NATURAL OBJECTS PROCESSES EXAMPLE AMATERASU GODDESS MOUNT FUJI WORD SHINTO FROM ORIGINAL CHINESE SHENDAO COMBINES KANJI SHIN SHIN COMPOUND WORDS CHINESE PRONUNCIATION HENCE SHIN KAMI MEANING GODS SPIRITS MEANING PHILOSOPHICAL PATH ORIGINALLY FROM CHINESE WORD SUCH SHINTO COMMONLY TRANSLATED GODS SOME DIFFERENCES EXIST BETWEEN KOSHINTO ANCIENT SHINT MANY TYPES SHINTO TAUGHT PRACTICED TODAY SHOWING INFLUENCES BUDDHISM WHEN INTRODUCED INTO JAPAN SIXTH CENTURY SHINTO LONGER JAPAN'S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION ALTHOUGH CONSIDERED NATIVE RELIGION JAPAN SOME SHINTO PRACTICES TEACHINGS ALTHOUGH GIVEN GREAT DEAL PROMINENCE DURING SECOND WORLD LONGER TAUGHT PRACTICED TODAY WHILE OTHERS STILL EXIST COMMONPLACE ACTIVITIES SUCH OMIKUJI FORM FORTUNE-TELLING JAPANESE YEAR WHICH PEOPLE GIVE RELIGIOUS CONNOTATIONS IMPORTANT NATIONAL CEREMONIES SUCH CORONATIONS IMPERIAL MARRIAGES CONDUCTED THREE PALACE SANCTUARIES TOKYO CONTENTS HIDE DEFINITION CHARACTERISTICS BELIEFS FOUR AFFIRMATIONS KAMI IMPURITY PURIFICATION AFTERLIFE SHINTO TEXTS PRACTICES SHRINES WELL-KNOWN SHRINES KAGURA HISTORY SHINTO BUDDHISM STATE SHINTO TYPES SHINTO POST-WAR CULTURAL EFFECTS ALSO REFERENCES FURTHER READING EXTERNAL LINKS EDIT DEFINITION SHINTO SEEN FORM ANIMISM REGARDED VARIANT SHAMANIST RELIGION SHINTO BELIEFS WAYS THINKING DEEP SUBCONSCIOUS FABRIC MODERN JAPANESE SOCIETY AFTERLIFE PRIMARY CONCERN SHINTO MUCH MORE EMPHASIS PLACED FITTING INTO THIS WORLD INSTEAD PREPARING NEXT SHINTO BINDING DOGMA HOLIEST PLACE WORSHIPPERS PERSON KAMI DEEMED HOLIEST DEFINED PRAYERS INSTEAD SHINTO COLLECTION RITUALS METHODS MEANT MEDIATE RELATIONS LIVING HUMANS KAMI CONVERSELY SHINTO CONTINUES HAVE IMPACT PRACTICE OTHER RELIGIONS WITHIN JAPAN PARTICULAR COULD EVEN MAKE CASE DISCUSSING UNDER HEADING JAPANESE BUDDHISM SINCE THESE RELIGIONS HAVE EXERCISED PROFOUND INFLUENCE EACH OTHER THROUGHOUT JAPANESE HISTORY FURTHER JAPANESE RELIGIONS THAT HAVE EMERGED SINCE SECOND WORLD HAVE ALSO SHOWN CLEAR SHINTO INFLUENCE SOME FEEL SHINTO USED IDEOLOGY DURING MILITARISTIC BEGINNING PERIOD FOLLOWING MEIJI RESTORATION BECAUSE SHINTO ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY SOME FEEL WHAT NATURAL EXPRESSION BELIEFS PEOPLE HIJACKED RADICAL NATIONALISTS DESIRED UNIFY JAPANESE PEOPLE AGAINST INFERIOR PEOPLE OTHER NATIONS OTHERS WONDER EMPHASIS SHINTO PLACES JAPANESE EXCEPTIONALISM MADE SUCH DEVELOPMENTS INEVITABLE EVEN TODAY SOME RIGHT FACTIONS WITHIN JAPANESE SOCIETY WANT GREATER EMPHASIS PLACED SHINTO INCREASED REVERENCE SHOWN EMPEROR PART PROJECT RESTORE JAPAN RIGHTFUL PLACE LEADING NATION WORLD WOMAN TYING FORTUNE OMIKUJI KASUGA SHRINE EDIT CHARACTERISTICS MOST IMMEDIATELY STRIKING THEME SHINTO RELIGION GREAT LOVE REVERENCE NATURE FORMS NATURAL ARTIFACTS PROCESSES THUS WATERFALL MOON JUST ODDLY SHAPED ROCK MIGHT COME REGARDED KAMI MIGHT CHARISMATIC PERSONS MORE ABSTRACT ENTITIES LIKE GROWTH FERTILITY TIME WENT ORIGINAL NATURE-WORSHIPPING ROOTS RELIGION WHILE NEVER LOST ENTIRELY BECAME ATTENUATED KAMI TOOK MORE REIFIED ANTHROPOMORPHIC FORMS WITH FORMIDABLE BODY MYTH ATTACHED THEM ALSO JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY KAMI HOWEVER TRANSCENDENT DEITIES USUAL WESTERN INDIAN SENSE WORD ALTHOUGH DIVINE THEY CLOSE HUMANITY THEY INHABIT SAME WORLD MAKE SAME MISTAKES FEEL THINK SAME THOSE DIED WILL USUALLY BECOME KAMI WITH THEIR POWER MAIN CHARACTERISTICS GIVEN THEIR DOINGS LIFE THOSE BELIEVING OTHER RELIGIONS ALSO VENERATED KAMI AFTER DEATH THERE SHINTO BELIEVERS WISH THEM EDIT BELIEFS EDIT FOUR AFFIRMATIONS THOUGH SHINTO ABSOLUTE COMMANDMENTS ADHERENTS OUTSIDE LIVING SIMPLE HARMONIOUS LIFE WITH NATURE PEOPLE THERE SAID FOUR AFFIRMATIONS SHINTO SPIRIT TRADITION FAMILY FAMILY SEEN MAIN MECHANISM WHICH TRADITIONS PRESERVED THEIR MAIN CELEBRATIONS RELATE BIRTH MARRIAGE LOVE NATURE NATURE SACRED CONTACT WITH NATURE CLOSE KAMI NATURAL OBJECTS WORSHIPPED CONTAINING SACRED SPIRITS PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS FOLLOWERS SHINTO TAKE BATHS WASH THEIR HANDS RINSE THEIR MOUTHS OFTEN MATSURI FESTIVAL DEDICATED KAMI WHICH THERE MANY EACH YEAR TYPICAL SHINTO SHRINE WITH PAPER STREAMERS MADE UNPROCESSED HEMP FIBRE EDIT KAMI MAIN ARTICLE KAMI SHINTO TEACHES THAT EVERYTHING CONTAINS KAMI SPIRITUAL ESSENCE WHICH SOMETIMES TRANSLATED INTO THOUGH PERHAPS SOUL SPIRIT WOULD MORE ACCURATE EVEN BETTER TRANSLATION WOULD ACTUALLY SACRED DIVINE EVERY ROCK EVERY SQUIRREL EVERY LIVING NONLIVING THING CONTAINS KAMI THERE ALSO MAIN KAMI GROUPS THINGS EXAMPLE THERE KAMI WITHIN RHINOCEROUS THERE ALSO MAIN KAMI RESIDING OVER RHINOS WORLD SHINTO'S KAMI COLLECTIVELY CALLED YAOYOROZU KAMI YAOYOROZU KAMI EXPRESSION LITERALLY MEANING EIGHT MILLION KAMI INTERPRETED MEANING MYRIAD MOST WIDELY WORSHIPED KAMI SUN-GODDESS AMATERASU HOWEVER JAPANESE SPECIFICALLY WORSHIP INVOKE NAME HELP MAIN SHRINE SHRINE MANY LESSER SHRINES DEDICATED WITHIN SHRINE OFTEN SYMBOLIZED MIRROR ALTERNATIVELY INNER SANCTUM EMPTY THIS EMPTINESS DOES MEAN NON-EXISTENCE RATHER SYMBOLIZES THAT EVERYTHING THAT SEES THROUGH MIRROR EMBODIMENT AMATERASU EVERY OTHER KAMI UNTIL WORLD TENNO EMPEROR BELIEVED HAVE BEEN DESCENDED FROM AMATERASU FATHER JAPANESE THEREFORE KAMI EARTH IKIGAMI LIVING KAMI THIS DIVINE STATUS POPULARIZED DURING MEIJI RESTORATION THIS PREVENT MILITARY GOVERNORS SHOGUN FROM USURPING POWER EMPEROR ALWAYS SEEN TRUE RULER JAPAN EVEN WHEN RULE ONLY NOMINAL ALTHOUGH EMPEROR HIROHITO RENOUNCED DIVINE STATUS UNDER AMERICAN PRESSURE NINGEN-SENGEN IMPERIAL FAMILY REMAINS DEEPLY INVOLVED SHINTO RITUAL THAT UNIFIES JAPANESE NATION SYMBOLICALLY BECAUSE SHINTO DOES REQUIRE DECLARATION ENFORCEMENT WORSHIPED CONSIDERED UNHARMONIOUS THIS DECLARATION WHILE SERVING POLITICAL REASONS RELIGIOUSLY MEANINGLESS MERELY MEANS THAT STATE ENFORCEMENT ENDED MEIJI JINGU SHINTO SHRINE TOKYO EDIT IMPURITY SHINTO TEACHES THAT CERTAIN DEEDS CREATE KIND RITUAL IMPURITY THAT SHOULD WANT CLEANSED ONE'S PEACE MIND GOOD FORTUNE BECAUSE IMPURITY WRONG ITSELF WRONG DEEDS CALLED DIRTINESS KEGARE OPPOSED PURITY KIYOME NORMAL DAYS CALLED FESTIVE DAYS CALLED SUNNY SIMPLY GOOD HARE KILLING LIVING BEINGS SHOULD DONE WITH REVERENCE TAKING LIFE CONTINUE ONE'S SHOULD KEPT MINIMUM MODERN JAPANESE CONTINUE PLACE GREAT EMPHASIS IMPORTANCE RITUAL PHRASES GREETINGS AISATSU BEFORE EATING MANY THOUGH JAPANESE WILL HUMBLY RECEIVE THIS FOOD ITADAKIMASU ORDER SHOW PROPER THANKFULNESS PREPARER MEAL PARTICULAR MORE GENERALLY THOSE LIVING THINGS THAT LOST THEIR LIVES MAKE MEAL FAILURE SHOW PROPER RESPECT SEEN LACK CONCERN OTHERS LOOKED DOWN BECAUSE BELIEVED CREATE PROBLEMS THOSE FAIL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FEELINGS OTHER PEOPLE KAMI WILL ONLY BRING RUIN THEMSELVES WORST EXPRESSION SUCH ATTITUDE TAKING ANOTHER'S LIFE PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT ENJOYMENT THOSE KILLED WITHOUT BEING SHOWN GRATITUDE THEIR SACRIFICE WILL HOLD GRUDGE URAMI BECOME POWERFUL EVIL KAMI THAT SEEKS REVENGE ARAGAMI THIS SAME EMPHASIS NEED COOPERATION COLLABORATION SEEN THROUGHOUT JAPANESE CULTURE TODAY ADDITIONALLY ANYONE INJURED GROUNDS SHRINE AREA AFFECTED MUST RITUALLY PURIFIED BRIDE SHINTO WEDDING KAMAKURA EDIT PURIFICATION PURIFICATION RITES VITAL PART SHINTO THESE SERVE PLACATE RESTIVE KAMI INSTANCE WHEN THEIR SHRINE RELOCATED SUCH CEREMONIES HAVE ALSO BEEN ADAPTED MODERN LIFE EXAMPLE CEREMONY HELD HALLOW APOLLO MISSION MOON BUILDINGS MADE JAPAN FREQUENTLY BLESSED SHINTO PRIEST DURING GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY MANY CARS MADE JAPAN HAVE BEEN BLESSED PART ASSEMBLY PROCESS MOREOVER EVERY JAPANESE FACTORY BUILT UNITED STATES AWAY FROM JAPAN GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY PERFORMED SHINTO PRIEST WITH OCCASIONALLY ANNUAL VISITATION PRIEST RE-PURIFY MORE PERSONAL PURIFICATION RITE PURIFICATION WATER THIS INVOLVE STANDING BENEATH WATERFALL PERFORMING RITUAL ABLUTIONS RIVER-MOUTH MISOGI THIS PRACTICE COMES FROM SHINTO HISTORY WHEN KAMI IZANAGI-NO-MIKOTO FIRST PERFORMED MISOGI AFTER RETURNING FROM LAND YOMI WHERE MADE IMPURE IZANAMI-NO-MIKOTO AFTER DEATH THESE FORMS PURIFICATION OFTEN REFERRED HARAE THIRD FORM PURIFICATION AVOIDANCE THAT TABOO PLACED CERTAIN PERSONS ACTS ILLUSTRATE WOMEN WERE ALLOWED CLIMB MOUNT FUJI UNTIL MEIJI RESTORATION ALTHOUGH THIS ASPECT DECREASED RECENT YEARS RELIGIOUS JAPANESE WILL INAUSPICIOUS WORD LIKE WEDDING WILL THEY ATTEND WEDDING THEY HAVE RECENTLY BEEN BEREAVED GATEWAY SHINTO SHRINE WITH TORII GATE EDIT AFTERLIFE UNLIKE MANY RELIGIONS DOES NEED PUBLICLY PROFESS BELIEF SHINTO SHINTOIST WHENEVER CHILD BORN JAPAN LOCAL SHINTO SHRINE ADDS CHILD'S NAME LIST KEPT SHRINE DECLARES FAMILY CHILD UJIKO AFTER DEATH UJIKO BECOMES FAMILY SPIRIT FAMILY KAMI UJIGAMI CHOOSE HAVE ONE'S NAME ADDED ANOTHER LIST WHEN MOVING THEN LISTED BOTH PLACES NAMES ADDED LIST WITHOUT CONSENT REGARDLESS BELIEFS PERSON ADDED LIST HOWEVER THIS CONSIDERED IMPOSITION BELIEF SIGN BEING WELCOMED LOCAL KAMI WITH PROMISE ADDITION PANTHEON KAMI AFTER DEATH THOSE CHILDREN BEFORE ADDITION LIST CALLED WATER CHILDREN MIZUKO BELIEVED CAUSE TROUBLES PLAGUES THIS ESPECIALLY CASE WHEN DEATH RESULT ABORTION CITATION NEEDED MIZUKO OFTEN WORSHIPPED SHINTO SHRINE DEDICATED STILLING THEIR ANGER SADNESS CALLED MIZUKO BECAUSE SHINTO CO-EXISTED WITH BUDDHISM WELL OVER MILLENNIUM VERY DIFFICULT UNTANGLE SHINTO BUDDHIST BELIEFS ABOUT WORLD THOUGH BUDDHISM SHINTO HAVE VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES WORLD MOST JAPANESE CHALLENGE RECONCILING THESE VERY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS PRACTICE BOTH THUS COMMON PEOPLE PRACTICE SHINTO LIFE HAVE BUDDHIST FUNERAL THEIR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AFTERLIFE SEEN COMPLEMENTING EACH OTHER FREQUENTLY RITUAL PRACTICE WILL HAVE ORIGIN OTHER PRAYING SHINTO SHRINE EDIT SHINTO TEXTS THERE CORE SACRED TEXT SHINTO BIBLE CHRISTIANITY QUR'AN ISLAM INSTEAD THERE BOOKS MYTHOLOGY HISTORY WHICH PROVIDE STORIES BACKGROUND MANY MOST WELL-KNOWN KAMI KOJIKI RECORD ANCIENT MATTERS RIKKOKUSHI NATIONAL HISTORIES SHOKU NIHONGI NIHON SHOKI CONTINUING CHRONICLES JAPAN JINN STUDY SHINTO JAPANESE POLITICS HISTORY WRITTEN CENTURY EDIT PRACTICES SHINTO SHRINE FUJIYOSHIDA EDIT SHRINES PRINCIPAL WORSHIP KAMI DONE PUBLIC SHRINES ALTHOUGH HOME WORSHIP SMALL PRIVATE SHRINES KAMIDANA SOMETIMES ONLY HIGH SHELF WITH RITUAL OBJECTS ALSO COMMON ALSO POSSIBLE WORSHIP OBJECTS PEOPLE WHILE THEY STILL LIVING WHILE PUBLIC SHRINES ELABORATE STRUCTURES MOST SMALL BUILDINGS CHARACTERISTIC JAPANESE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE SHRINES COMMONLY FRONTED DISTINCTIVE JAPANESE GATE TORII MADE UPRIGHTS CROSSBARS THESE GATES THERE PART BARRIER SEPARATE LIVING WORLD WORLD KAMI LIVE THERE OFTEN GUARDIAN ANIMALS PLACED EACH SIDE GATE THEY SERVE PROTECT ENTRANCE THERE WELL OVER THESE SHRINES OPERATION TODAY EACH WITH RETINUE SHINTO PRIESTS SHINTO PRIESTS OFTEN WEAR CEREMONIAL ROBE CALLED JO-E KAMI INVOKED SUCH IMPORTANT CEREMONIES WEDDINGS ENTRY INTO UNIVERSITY KAMI COMMONLY PETITIONED EARTHLY BENEFITS CHILD PROMOTION HAPPIER LIFE WHILE WISH FORTUNE OTHERS THIS BELIEVED POSSIBLE ONLY TARGET COMMITTED WRONGS FIRST WILLING OFFER ONE'S LIFE THOUGH SHINTO POPULAR THESE OCCASIONS WHEN COMES FUNERALS MOST JAPANESE TURN BUDDHIST CEREMONIES SINCE EMPHASIS SHINTO THIS LIFE NEXT ALMOST FESTIVALS JAPAN HOSTED LOCAL SHINTO SHRINES THESE FESTIVALS OPEN THOSE THAT WISH ATTEND WHILE THESE COULD SAID RELIGIOUS EVENTS JAPANESE REGARD THESE EVENTS RELIGIOUS SINCE EVERYONE ATTEND REGARDLESS PERSONAL BELIEFS EDIT WELL-KNOWN SHRINES ATSUTA SHRINE SHRINE IMPERIAL SWORD KUSANAGI MAIN ARTICLE LIST SHINTO SHRINES MANY DIVERSE SHINTO SHRINES EXISTENCE SOME WELL KNOWN ATSUTA SHRINE NAGOYA SHRINE IMPERIAL SWORD KUSANAGI HEIAN JING KYOTO DEDICATED EMPEROR KAMMU EMPEROR HIKAWA SHRINE OMIYA DISTRICT GRAND SHRINE DEDICATED AMATERASU ITSUKUSHIMA SHRINE HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE IWASHIMIZU SHRINE YAWATA KYOTO IZUMO SHRINE IZUMO KASUGA SHRINE NARA KATORI SHRINE CHIBA PREFECTURE KUMANO SHRINES WAKAYAMA PREFECTURE MEIJI SHRINE TOKYO SHRINE EMPEROR MEIJI NIKK NIKK TOCHIGI PREFECTURE SAKI HACHIMAN SHRINE MIYAGI PREFECTURE SENDAI SENDAI MIYAGI PREFECTURE SHIOGAMA SHRINE MIYAGI PREFECTURE THREE PALACE SANCTUARIES IMPERIAL PALACE TOKYO TSURUGAOKA HACHIMAN SHRINE KAMAKURA KANAGAWA HACHIMAN SHRINE PREFECTURE DEDICATED HACHIMAN YASUKUNI SHRINE TOKYO CONTROVERSIAL SHRINE DEDICATED JAPANESE SOLDIERS EDIT MAIN ARTICLE SHINTO MEDIEVAL TIMES WEALTHY PEOPLE WOULD DONATE HORSES SHRINES ESPECIALLY WHEN MAKING REQUEST SHRINE EXAMPLE WHEN PRAYING VICTORY BATTLE SMALLER FAVORS GIVING PICTURE HORSE BECAME CUSTOM THESE POPULAR TODAY VISITOR SHRINE PURCHASES WOODEN TABLET WITH LIKENESS HORSE NOWADAYS SOMETHING ELSE KANJI ARROW SNAKE NUMBER OTHER ANIMALS WRITES WISH PRAYER TABLET HANGS SHRINE SOME CASES WISH COMES TRUE PERSON HANGS ANOTHER SHRINE GRATITUDE EDIT KAGURA KAGURA ANCIENT SHINTO RITUAL DANCE SHAMANIC ORIGIN WORD KAGURA THOUGHT CONTRACTED FORM KAMI KURA SEAT KAMI SITE WHERE KAMI RECEIVED THERE MYTHOLOGICAL TALE KAGURA DANCE CAME INTO EXISTENCE GODDESS AMATERASU BECAME VERY UPSET BROTHER CAVE OTHER GODS GODDESSES WERE CONCERNED WANTED COME OUTSIDE AME-NO-UZEME BEGAN DANCE CREATE NOISY COMMOTION ORDER ENTICE AMATERASU COME KAMI GODS TRICKED AMATERASU TELLING THERE BETTER GODDESS HEAVENS AMATERASU CAME LIGHT RETURNED UNIVERSE MUSIC PLAYS VERY IMPORTANT ROLE KAGURA PERFORMANCE EVERYTHING FROM SETUP INSTRUMENTS MOST SUBTLE SOUNDS ARRANGEMENT MUSIC CRUCIAL ENCOURAGING KAMI COME DOWN DANCE SONGS USED MAGICAL DEVICES SUMMON GODS PRAYERS BLESSINGS RHYTHM PATTERNS FIVE SEVEN COMMON POSSIBLY RELATING SHINTO BELIEF TWELVE GENERATIONS HEAVENLY EARTHLY DEITIES THERE ALSO VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT CALLED KAMI WHICH DRUMMER SINGS SACRED SONGS GODS OFTEN VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT OVERSHADOWED DRUMMING INSTRUMENTS REINFORCING THAT VOCAL ASPECT MUSIC MORE INCANTATION RATHER THAN AESTHETICS BOTH ANCIENT JAPANESE COLLECTIONS NIHONGI KOJIKI AME-NO-UZEME’S DANCE DESCRIBED ASOBI WHICH JAPANESE LANGUAGE MEANS CEREMONY THAT DESIGNED APPEASE SPIRITS DEPARTED WHICH CONDUCTED FUNERAL CEREMONIES THEREFORE KAGURA RITE TAMA SHIZUME PACIFYING SPIRITS DEPARTED HEIAN PERIOD CENTURIES THIS IMPORTANT RITES IMPERIAL COURT FOUND FIXED PLACE TAMA SHIZUME FESTIVAL ELEVENTH MONTH THIS FESTIVAL PEOPLE SING ACCOMPANIMENT DANCE “DEPART DEPART CLEANSED PURIFIED LEAVE THIS RITE PURIFICATION ALSO KNOWN CHINKON USED SECURING STRENGTHENING SOUL DYING PERSON CLOSELY RELATED RITUAL TAMA FURI SHAKING SPIRIT CALL BACK DEPARTED SOUL DEAD ENERGIZE WEAKENED SPIRIT SPIRIT PACIFICATION REJUVENATION WERE USUALLY ACHIEVED SONGS DANCES ALSO CALLED ASOBI RITUAL CHINKON CONTINUED 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PATRIOTIC OBSERVANCE SHRINES THIS SHINTO GAVE JAPANESE PATRIOTISM SPECIAL TINT MYSTICISM CULTURAL INTROVERSION WHICH BECAME MORE PRONOUNCED TIME WENT SUCH PROCESSES CONTINUED DEEPEN THROUGHOUT EARLY PERIOD WHEN STATE SHINTO BECAME MAIN FORCE MILITARISM FINALLY COMING ABRUPT AUGUST WHEN JAPAN LOST PACIFIC JANUARY EMPEROR ISSUED NINGEN-SENGEN WHICH QUOTED FIVE CHARTER OATH EMPEROR MEIJI DECLARED THAT AKITSUMIKAMI EDIT TYPES SHINTO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THESE DIFFERENT FOCUSES EMPHASIS WITHIN SHINTO MANY FEEL IMPORTANT SEPARATE SHINTO INTO DIFFERENT TYPES SHINTO EXPRESSION SHINTO KO-SHINT OLDEST LINE SHINTO BRANCHES TRADITION THAT VALUES SYSTEMATIC METHODS EXERCISE TRAINING SHRINE SHINTO JINJA-SHINT OLDEST MOST PREVALENT SHINTO TYPES ALWAYS BEEN PART JAPAN'S HISTORY CONSTITUTES MAIN CURRENT SHINTO TRADITION ASSOCIATION SHINTO SHRINES OVERSEES ABOUT SHRINES NATIONWIDE SECT SHINTO HA-SHINT COMPRISES GROUPS FORMED DURING CENTURY THEY HAVE SHRINES CONDUCT RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES MEETING HALLS 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PENINSULA EASTERN EUROPE RUSSIA THERE ALSO LARGE MUSLIM IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES OTHER PARTS WORLD SUCH WESTERN EUROPE ABOUT MUSLIMS LIVE ARAB COUNTRIES INDIAN SUBCONTINENT INDONESIA LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY POPULATION CONTENTS HIDE ETYMOLOGY MEANING ARTICLES FAITH QUR'AN ANGELS MUHAMMAD RESURRECTION JUDGMENT PREDESTINATION DUTIES PRACTICES FIVE PILLARS RELIGION STATE ETIQUETTE DIET JIHAD HISTORY RISE CALIPHATE ISLAMIC CIVIL GOLDEN CRUSADES RECONQUISTA MONGOL INVASION TURKISH IRANIAN INDIAN EMPIRES MODERN TIMES –PRESENT COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS MOSQUES FAMILY LIFE CALENDAR OTHER RELIGIONS DENOMINATIONS SUNNI SHI'A SUFISM OTHERS ALSO REFERENCES NOTES BOOKS JOURNALS ENCYCLOPEDIAS FURTHER READING EXTERNAL LINKS ETYMOLOGY MEANING MAIN ARTICLE S-L-M WORD ISLAM VERBAL NOUN ORIGINATING FROM TRILITERAL ROOT S-L-M DERIVED FROM ARABIC VERB ASLAMA WHICH MEANS ACCEPT SURRENDER SUBMIT THUS ISLAM MEANS ACCEPTANCE SUBMISSION BELIEVERS MUST DEMONSTRATE THIS WORSHIPPING FOLLOWING COMMANDS AVOIDING POLYTHEISM WORD GIVEN NUMBER MEANINGS QUR'AN SOME VERSES AYAT QUALITY ISLAM INTERNAL CONVICTION STRESSED WHOMSOEVER DESIRES GUIDE EXPANDS BREAST ISLAM OTHER VERSES CONNECT USUALLY TRANSLATED RELIGION TODAY HAVE PERFECTED YOUR RELIGION HAVE COMPLETED BLESSING UPON HAVE APPROVED ISLAM YOUR RELIGION STILL OTHERS DESCRIBE ISLAM ACTION RETURNING GOD—MORE THAN JUST VERBAL AFFIRMATION FAITH ANOTHER TECHNICAL MEANING ISLAMIC THOUGHT PART TRIAD ISLAM FAITH EXCELLENCE WHERE REPRESENTS ACTS WORSHIP ISLAMIC SHARIA ARTICLES FAITH MAIN ARTICLES AQIDAH IMAN QUR'AN STATES THAT MUSLIMS MUST BELIEVE REVELATIONS ANGELS MESSENGERS JUDGMENT ALSO THERE OTHER BELIEFS THAT DIFFER BETWEEN PARTICULAR SECTS SUNNI CONCEPT PREDESTINATION CALLED DIVINE DECREE WHILE SHI'A VERSION CALLED DIVINE JUSTICE UNIQUE SHI'A DOCTRINE IMAMAH POLITICAL SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP IMAMS MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT REVEALED FINAL MESSAGE HUMANITY THROUGH ISLAMIC PROPHET MUHAMMAD ARCHANGEL GABRIEL JIBR THEM MUHAMMAD GOD'S FINAL PROPHET QUR'AN REVELATIONS RECEIVED OVER MORE THAN DECADES ISLAM PROPHETS SELECTED MESSENGERS MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT PROPHETS HUMAN DIVINE THOUGH SOME ABLE PERFORM MIRACLES PROVE THEIR CLAIM ISLAMIC PROPHETS CONSIDERED CLOSEST PERFECTION HUMANS UNIQUELY RECIPIENTS DIVINE REVELATION—EITHER DIRECTLY FROM THROUGH ANGELS QUR'AN MENTIONS NAMES NUMEROUS FIGURES CONSIDERED PROPHETS ISLAM INCLUDING ADAM NOAH ABRAHAM MOSES JESUS AMONG OTHERS ISLAMIC THEOLOGY SAYS THAT GOD'S MESSENGERS SINCE ADAM PREACHED MESSAGE ISLAM—SUBMISSION WILL ISLAM DESCRIBED QUR'AN PRIMORDIAL NATURE UPON WHICH CREATED MANKIND QUR'AN STATES THAT PROPER NAME MUSLIM GIVEN ABRAHAM HISTORICAL PHENOMENON ISLAM ORIGINATED ARABIA EARLY CENTURY ISLAMIC TEXTS DEPICT JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY PROPHETIC SUCCESSOR TRADITIONS TEACHINGS ABRAHAM QUR'AN CALLS JEWS CHRISTIANS PEOPLE BOOK AL-KIT DISTINGUISHES THEM FROM POLYTHEISTS MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT PARTS PREVIOUSLY REVEALED SCRIPTURES TAWRAT TORAH INJIL GOSPELS BECOME DISTORTED—EITHER INTERPRETATION TEXT BOTH MAIN ARTICLE ISLAM ALSO ONENESS ISLAM ALLAH ISLAM'S FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGICAL CONCEPT TAWH D—THE BELIEF THAT THERE ONLY ARABIC TERM MOST SCHOLARS BELIEVE DERIVED FROM CONTRACTION WORDS DEITY MASCULINE FORM MEANING AL-IL OTHERS TRACE ORIGIN ARAMAIC FIRST FIVE PILLARS ISLAM TAWH EXPRESSED SHAHADAH TESTIFICATION WHICH DECLARES THAT THERE THAT MUHAMMAD GOD'S MESSENGER TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC THEOLOGY BEYOND COMPREHENSION MUSLIMS EXPECTED VISUALIZE WORSHIP ADORE PROTECTOR ALTHOUGH MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT JESUS PROPHET THEY REJECT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE TRINITY COMPARING POLYTHEISM ISLAMIC THEOLOGY JESUS JUST DESCRIBED CHAPTER SURA QUR'AN …GOD ONLY ETERNAL ABSOLUTE BEGETTETH BEGOTTEN THERE NONE LIKE UNTO QUR'AN MAIN ARTICLES ISLAMIC HOLY BOOKS QUR'AN ALSO ORIGIN DEVELOPMENT QUR'AN FIRST SURA QUR'ANIC MANUSCRIPT HATTAT AZIZ EFENDIMUSLIMS CONSIDER QUR'AN LITERAL WORD CENTRAL RELIGIOUS TEXT ISLAM MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT VERSES QUR'AN WERE REVEALED MUHAMMAD THROUGH ANGEL GABRIEL MANY OCCASIONS BETWEEN DEATH JUNE QUR'AN REPORTEDLY WRITTEN DOWN MUHAMMAD'S COMPANIONS SAHABAH WHILE ALIVE ALTHOUGH PRIME METHOD TRANSMISSION ORALLY COMPILED TIME BAKR FIRST CALIPH STANDARDIZED UNDER ADMINISTRATION UTHMAN THIRD CALIPH TALIB SAID HAVE WRITTEN DOWN QURAN UTHMAN SAID HAVE REJECTED KEEP CITATION NEEDED FROM TEXTUAL EVIDENCE ISLAMIC STUDIES SCHOLARS FIND THAT QUR'AN TODAY CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER YEARS QUR'AN DIVIDED INTO SURAS CHAPTERS WHICH COMBINED CONTAIN VERSES CHRONOLOGICALLY EARLIER SURAS REVEALED MECCA PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH ETHICAL SPIRITUAL TOPICS LATER MEDINAN SURAS MOSTLY DISCUSS SOCIAL MORAL ISSUES RELEVANT MUSLIM COMMUNITY QUR'AN MORE CONCERNED WITH MORAL GUIDANCE THAN LEGAL INSTRUCTION CONSIDERED SOURCEBOOK ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES VALUES MUSLIM JURISTS CONSULT HADITH WRITTEN RECORD MUHAMMAD'S LIFE BOTH SUPPLEMENT QUR'AN ASSIST WITH INTERPRETATION SCIENCE QUR'ANIC COMMENTARY EXEGESIS KNOWN TAFSIR WORD QUR'AN MEANS RECITATION WHEN MUSLIMS SPEAK ABSTRACT ABOUT QUR'AN THEY USUALLY MEAN SCRIPTURE RECITED ARABIC RATHER THAN PRINTED WORK TRANSLATION MUSLIMS QUR'AN PERFECT ONLY REVEALED ORIGINAL ARABIC TRANSLATIONS NECESSARILY DEFICIENT BECAUSE LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES FALLIBILITY TRANSLATORS IMPOSSIBILITY PRESERVING ORIGINAL'S INSPIRED STYLE TRANSLATIONS THEREFORE REGARDED ONLY COMMENTARIES QUR'AN INTERPRETATIONS MEANING QUR'AN ITSELF ANGELS MAIN ARTICLE ANGELS ISLAM BELIEF ANGELS CRUCIAL FAITH ISLAM ARABIC WORD ANGEL MALAK MEANS MESSENGER LIKE COUNTERPARTS HEBREW MALAKH GREEK ANGELOS ACCORDING QUR'AN ANGELS POSSESS FREE WILL WORSHIP PERFECT OBEDIENCE ANGELS' DUTIES INCLUDE COMMUNICATING REVELATIONS FROM GLORIFYING RECORDING EVERY PERSON'S ACTIONS TAKING PERSON'S SOUL TIME DEATH THEY ALSO THOUGHT INTERCEDE MAN'S BEHALF QUR'AN DESCRIBES ANGELS MESSENGERS WITH WINGS—TWO THREE FOUR PAIRS ADDS CREATION PLEASES… MUHAMMAD MAIN ARTICLE MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD JUNE ARAB RELIGIOUS POLITICAL MILITARY LEADER FOUNDED RELIGION ISLAM HISTORICAL PHENOMENON MUSLIMS VIEW CREATOR RELIGION RESTORER ORIGINAL UNCORRUPTED MONOTHEISTIC FAITH ADAM ABRAHAM OTHERS MUSLIM TRADITION MUHAMMAD VIEWED LAST GREATEST SERIES PROPHETS—AS CLOSEST PERFECTION POSSESSOR VIRTUES LAST YEARS LIFE BEGINNING MUHAMMAD REPORTED RECEIVING REVELATIONS FROM CONTENT THESE REVELATIONS KNOWN QUR'AN MEMORIZED RECORDED COMPANIONS MASJID AL-NABAWI MOSQUE PROPHET MEDINA SITE MUHAMMAD'S TOMB DURING THIS TIME MUHAMMAD PREACHED PEOPLE MECCA IMPLORING THEM ABANDON POLYTHEISM ALTHOUGH SOME CONVERTED ISLAM MUHAMMAD FOLLOWERS WERE PERSECUTED LEADING MECCAN AUTHORITIES AFTER YEARS PREACHING MUHAMMAD MUSLIMS PERFORMED HIJRA EMIGRATION CITY MEDINA FORMERLY KNOWN YATHRIB THERE WITH MEDINAN CONVERTS ANSAR MECCAN MIGRANTS MUHAJIRUN M

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