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- Kegare (穢れ・汚れ, uncleanness, defilement) is the ****anese term for a state of pollution and defilement, important particularly in Shinto as a religious term...
- due to the violation of a divine taboo through evil deeds, defilement (kegare) or disasters. When translated in English as "sin", the term covers therefore...
- avoidance of kegare ("pollution" or "impurity"), while ensuring harae ("purity"). In ****anese thought, humans are seen as fundamentally pure. Kegare is therefore...
- "Tenchusatsu" or "Ankensatsu". Kegare calls forth more Kegare, causing Joka to perpetuate crime...As people commit crime, the Kegare escalates. Cause and effect...
- who created the first land of Onogoroshima, was cleansing himself of his kegare while bathing after escaping the underworld and the clutches of his enraged...
- invoke his advanced zadan techniques.Ep. 5-7 In manga he ****isted Ōzei no Kegare in bringing Sugami Maen back to mortal realm seemingly out of the sole desire...
- torii: birds were symbols of death, which in Shinto brings defilement (kegare). Finally, the possibility that torii are a ****anese invention cannot be...
- considered unclean as everything related to death is thought to be a source of kegare (defilement). After coming into contact with the dead, individuals must...
- hold negative views on death and corpses as a source of pollution called kegare. However, death is also viewed as a path towards apotheosis in Shintoism...
- onmyōji did not have to perform misogi or fast, they were able to deal with kegare (uncleanliness) more easily, and they expanded their activities beyond the...