I have shared so much about my faith and Religion at RF lately.
It is a form of Shinto, with emphasis on Divine femininity, Amaterasu Omikami ranks first place (in my eyes) in many areas, the Sun Divinity represented on the Japanese flag!
I like how in shinto, she is not the Creator of heaven and earth, and there were gods that came before her, yet she came to be more loved and venerated then her maker, or anyone, on her Asian Island archipelago, that was quite male dominant culture, that loves a female deity more than the males.
Despite the people sort of having a male dominant culture, the fact that the samurai would pray to a female, consider her greater, protectress of Japan (who probably sent the great divine wind Kamikaze to strike the Mongolian fleet, in the greatest naval disaster in history, on two different occasions) more important, more beloved, than any male deity, and their current Emperor allegedly descends from her, I all find interesting.
Traditionally, I accept her as being the capitoline wolf that breast fed the twins Romulus and remus, who went on to found Rome, where the Roman empire, and the Roman Catholic Church gets his name from that legend.
Amaterasu is sometimes depicted as a She Wolf. The Japanese word for God is Kami, the Japanese word for Wolf is Okami, and I like that , as well as the Capitoline wolf, I feel I have had signs linked to her.
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The Kami that led me to Shinto has a mother Eleanor Rose, who is my favorite mother of modern times, and her mother's maiden name is Deeb, which is Arabic for "wolf."
I have very zealous devotion to her and Amaterasu, who I identify as Capitol Hill Wolves, in a spiritual sense, because I believe them to be Mothers of a group of souls , a confraternity that stretches to multiple realms and kingdoms, that I call "Holy Roman Empire of the Rising Sun".
A series of coincidences, dreams, and inner locutions, caused me to have devotion to and enshrine a group of victimized girls I call Capitol Hill queens, a total of 83 of them whose names I have memorized and chant on a daily basis. I called them Capitol Hill Queens before knowing there was a Capitol Hill, outside of Washington DC.
I didn't know I would be moved to another county, next to a place called Capitol Hill, with a capitol building that is modeled after St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Vatican city.
Before that, I believed in an all girls Vatican city-state, where the Cardinal female clergy wears red socks, and hear my confessions, and absolve me of my sins.
When I noticed that our capitol building, Saint Paul (a city called the sister of Nagasaki) is modeled after the dome in St Peter's basilica, it was like a sign that in the spirit realm, there really is an all girls Vatican City state!
As a Shinto adherent, emphasis is placed on the importance of divine femininity, with female Kami being more important to me, because they did far more for me than any male divinity, they change me far more for the better, they motivate me better, I can make better sacrifices, be more disciplined, be more charitable, when they are influencing me, then any male deity.
As a Shinto adherent, I don't follow any text that I consider without error. In Shinto there are no scriptures, the only Dogma in Shinto is belief in the Kami (God, Angels, Spirits, Saints, Tulpas), there is no known founder of Shinto, so essentially there is nothing to argue about.
There is too much in the Bible that goes against my conscience, and that my conscience tells me is wrong, and I will not do what my conscience tells me is wrong, or say that something wrong is right, because the Bible says so.
But I will follow my conscience above what any text or prophet tells me. Shinto gives me that liberty.
On a day I called Japan day, I was praying for Japan at the Cathedral of Saint Paul. I turned around and saw a paper that said "Japan" in big letters, and I grabbed it, I exited the cathedral , and found a circular mirror on the ground.
Circular mirrors are the highest relic or blessed item in Shinto, and found at many Shinto shrines. That is because Amaterasu looked at her reflection in a circular mirror, she saw how beautiful she was, the mirror became haunted with her spirit, and she handed the round mirror to the first emperor of Japan , Emperor Jimmu, and she said to treat the mirror as if it was her, because the mirror was possessed with her spirit as a Goshintai.
The current emperor of Japan still has that mirror.
On Japan day, with Japan paper in my hand, I picked up the round mirror, and it had the same color lining as the mirror on my wall in a picture at that time, that Amaterasu was looking into.
I walked to Capitol Hill to see a shrine that I had not visited, in honor of firemen that lost their lives.
It had a ladder that I called Jacob's ladder and was dated 1987 , year of the fire Bunny, carved into the bottom platform.
1987 was the year I was born. I ascended the "Jacob's ladder" and could see my reflection everywhere. The ladder ascended through a circular mirror.
The circular mirror monument is a stone throw away literally , from a gun that sank the first Japanese ship at Pearl harbor, first ship that America sank in World War II from Japan.
You already know quite a bit about my religion, and some of those stories I've already shared with you, but I just mentioned it again as a reminder, but mainly for those who have not seen me say those things, if that testimony offers any inspiration to anybody.
If anybody has any questions for me about my religious practices, feel free to ask.
