@JustGeorge
Do you or Sam ever dabble in voodoo? As two "Demon wolves" it goes with the name.
Although, voodoo is associated with the demonic, it often isn't. It can be very similar to Shinto, native American going on vision quests and contacting ancestral spirits, or Catholics praying to Saints, and consuming the body and blood of Christ.
I knew a lady who claimed voodoo as her Religion, who also attended Catholic mass. Many of them do.
Loa strike me as Kami, Spirits, Heavenly beings.
The name of this band is "Wall of Voodoo"
I'm thinking of adding a title to my Shinto prayer wall, and calling it "wall of Voodoo", and rewriting the Song "Mexican radio".
In the Chorus , instead of saying "I'm on a Mexican radio".
I say
"I'm on a Shinto radio
A radio with Emperor Hirohito"...
Instead of "I feel a hot wind, on my shoulder"
I say "I feel Divine wind, on my shoulder"
Because Kamikaze means"Divine wind", and at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came as a Kamikaze, a Divine wind, rushing down on the Apostles.
Amaterasu brought two Kamikaze, Divine winds , against Mongolian fleet invading them, on two separate occasions.
One of those attacks was a fleet of 140,000 men. It was the greatest naval disaster ever recorded, at a time where that large of a fleet was far larger than today, because there weren't many people on earth compared to the 21st century.
For example, the revolutionary war was over 7 years long, and less than 30,000 people died in the entire 7 years of war, because there were fewer people on the planet, battles were big, that would be considered small by World War 2 standards.
Centuries before that, when even way less than that many people were on earth compared to the American revolution, a fleet of 140,000 was enormous, and should have been able to conquer Japan because Genghis Khan conquered 40% of earth with roughly that many men.
It was probably the largest fleet in a single operation that earth had ever seen at that time, from the greatest Empire earth had seen up until then.
A Divine wind destroyed much of it when it wasn't typhoon season, and those who made it to shore were wiped out by the Samurai.
It seemed whenever Japan was fighting a just war, Amaterasu protected them. Like when they fought their war with the huge Russian Empire, the Russians had more men deployed, better weapons, and were an enormous Empire of predominantly Caucasian people.
A little Asian Island archipelago defeated them on land and at sea , with fewer men, and Russia surrendered in less than two years. It was the greatest defeat that a predominantly non-caucasian Nation inflicted on a strong Caucasian nation or Empire , since the invention of gun powder!
World War 2 was simply unjust with too many atrocities, so Amaterasu couldn't help her beloved island, because her hands were tied , due to the sins of her people at that dark time in history, I believe.
But every Japanese soldier who died since 1869 is enshrined, their name and birthdates written in a book of souls at Yasukuni Shrine, in a Honden for them to dwell, and people pay homage to them as Divinities.
They even have a Honden shrine for the souls of the enemies who died fighting Japan. The Shinto Religion loves the dead and blesses, enshrines, cares for them, builds houses for them closed to the public, dwelling places reserved for enshrined Kami!
Japan had thousands of brave Kamikaze, fly planes into enemy military targets, and they told each other before Kamikaze missions "we shall meet each other again at Yasukuni Shrine".
Japanese soldiers, sometimes children, would get into Kaiten torpedoes that lock from the outside so you can't escape or surrender, and guide the torpedo to American ships, and crash into them.
Imperial Japanese, were the bravest soldiers of the war, most difficult to get to surrender.
I feel their sacrifices, even though for a bad cause in WW2, will be rewarded, because they were young, drafted, brainwashed, and many suffered tremendously, and were just trying to sacrifice for their loved ones , and die for country and Emperor.
Courage is a virtue I admire very much. And I pray the soldiers of Yasukuni Shrine be redeemed, and use their strengths to do good things for humanity, fight for the right reasons.
I felt like they were my friends before I knew what Shinto was , or knew Yasukuni Shrine existed, and a jacket with a Japanese flag on it showed up at the sidewalk, outside a church, right after receiving holy communion for Japan and Hirohito, which I still wear as my most prized possession!
I felt it was a gift from them.