Re: [sumo] Icy Ise report

["Joshua A. Reyer" <circlejar@comcast.net>]

STU wrote:

> Katrina wrote:
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> > was stronger than the glory of winning.  Asashoryu beat Shimotori to
> > once again claim the prizes, including a kamidana - miniature shrine,
> > and wooden carved chickens ?? (don't know the significance of these)
> >    
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> I think the rooster has some fundamental connection with Shinto.  The 
> tori (bird) in torii refers to the the rooster, I think, and the torii itself is 
> therefore a representation of its roost, a bird's rest.  Why a bird's rest has 
> come to symbolize the sacred precincts of Shinto, I don't know, but is 
> something I'd like to find out if anybody knows.

This is purely a guess, not learned information at all, but I would 
imagine it would go like this:

Shinto -> animism; spirits of nature -> rooster: crows at sunrise -> 
related to Amaterasu Omikami, the Sun Goddess.

Just a guess, though...

Josh Reyer

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