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Shinto

In Our Time: Religion

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What Is the Power of the Sun?

Shinto had an extraordinary effect on japan, where it just became a completely new place. What you needed was a spiritual underpinning, a new spiritual underpinning. And as martin said, the first thing to go actually buddhism went. The system that didn't really work in 700 was recreated in 18 60, o letsay, 18 to 18 68, 18 80 and actually worked. So you could create a system of shrines. Ye say, at the top, the emperor as the father figure, had a link to to the sun goddess, you. For the very, very first time, this actually, this, this became a proper system. Is it significant

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