The culture of Japanese witches and vampires is popularized.

"Witches" are a traditional profession in the Japanese religious world, and to this day they can still be seen in white robes and scarlet pants at the larger shrines and traditional festivals, and their role in eliminating calamities and ministering to the gods has shrouded them in mystery.

The witches can be divided into two types, one is the witch belonging to the court shrine, and the other is the folk witch. The former brewed wine, played musical instruments, and explained the meaning of the gods at the court. In ancient times, the oracles of the witches also influenced politics.

On the other hand, there were also folk witches. After the Middle Ages, the witch layer began to step into the folklore and spread around. During the Meiji government, although witchcraft was strictly prohibited, it was still prohibited for beliefs.

In ancient Japan, there were sorceresses who were able to convey the will of the gods, and one of them, Himiko, was a sorceress (シャ-ma

in) who held the position of the ruler of the kingdom of Shimadai. A witch is a person who conveys the will of the gods in primitive societies, similar to a priest or a seer. It is not the same as the concept of witch. Amaterasu, the eldest of the Three Noble Ones in Japanese mythology, is the goddess of the sun. Her other name is "Dahi Sharp Gui" (おおひるみのむち), Sharp can also be written as a witch, that is, "Dahi Witch Woman Gui", that is, in reality she may be serving the sun's witches, it is also said that she is the Pei Mi Hoo, but has been investigated can not be. According to Japanese mythology, she is the ancestor of Emperor Shinmu of Japan, so the Emperor of Japan is the descendant of the Sun Goddess. Mythological Accounts of the Sun Goddess In Japanese mythology, Izanagi, the god of creation, and Izanami, the goddess, descended from the sky by means of a rainbow bridge. Izanagi dipped his sword in water, and when he lifted it up, the drops that dripped from it became the first island. By watching the birds of prey, they learned ** and their descendants were islands one after another. From then on there was Japan, the god of trees, the god of mountains and the gods of nature. However the god of fire was born but took Izanami's life. Before going to hell to find Izanami, Izanagi decapitated their life-threatening son, Vulcan, resulting in the transformation of more gods and goddesses of heaven, earth and mountains. In order to avoid being polluted by the territory, Izanagi bathed in the river and created the god of evil, and then created gods to fight against it; then he bathed in the sea and created the gods of the sea; and finally, he created the three highest gods, or the "Three Noble Ones," as they were called earlier: the goddess of the sun who washed her left eye, the goddess of the moon who washed her right eye, Sukh Yumi, and then, he washed his nose to make the sun goddess, the god of the moon who washed his right eye, and the god of the moon who washed his right eye. Then he washed his nose and gave birth to Susanoo, the god of storms and earthquakes, who was in charge of the ocean world. The rivalry and hostility between the gods reached a truce by marriage, and the union of Susanoo and the sun goddess produced offspring in a peculiar way. Susanoo gives his sword to the Sun Goddess, who breaks it into three pieces, chews it in her mouth, and exhales the three goddesses. The Sun Goddess broke her necklace into five pieces (which was the object of her kingship as Queen of Heaven) and gave it to Susanoo, who also put it in her mouth and chewed it, exhaling five for the male gods. The Sun Goddess called these eight gods and goddesses her descendants. (They are the ancestors of the Japanese emperor and nobility.) Once the storm god threw a skinned horse over the roof of the sun goddess's rocking house, frightening her into hiding in a cave, thereby robbing the universe of its light (and bringing on winter). Eventually the gods used mirrors to lure the Sun Goddess out and banished Susanoo from Heaven as punishment. After being expelled from Heaven, the storm god Susanoo became the god of abundance again, saving a girl from a dragon, marrying her, and founding the Suga dynasty. They had a child, who was named Daikoku Lord, who was the god of wondrous arts and medicine. However, the Daikoku Lord betrayed his father, and after stealing Suga-no-Man's weapons, he imprisoned Suga-no-Man in hell. Followed by the Great Lord of the Land with the help of a dwarf, he founded a country that was not of the heavenly genus. However, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Ninigi, to overthrow Susanoo's dynasty and establish the Yamato Empire. Sources of Witches in History 1 Saibe Hirosei, "Gleanings from the Ancient Tongue": "Anyone who makes large coins must also follow the position of the god's representative, and the officer of the Saibe rate of the offerings of all the clans of the quasi-computerized preparation. However, the god only official god department can have in the minister, the department, the Saru female, mirror as, jade as, shield as, the god clothing, Japanese, hemp performance and so on clan. Nowadays, there are only two or three clans such as Zhongchen and Zhaibe, and the rest of the clans are not selected in advance. The gods have died and dispersed, and their leaves will be extinct. All that is left is ten." 2 "Toyotsukuri Imperial Imperial Shrine Imperial Zhenzha Benji": "Where the kagura starts, in the past, Suzan Mingjin worshiped as a god of the day, behavior is very unruly, all kinds of insults. At that time, the heavenly light too God he was angry, into the heavenly grotto, closed the rock door and secluded in it. Then the six worlds were always dark, and day and night were indistinguishable. The gods are worried and confused, hands and feet are not Alter. All the common things, prairie candles and type discernment. Heavenly emperor in the main god. Stop by the gas Huang Tai Shen is also. Prince Gao Huang produced spirit God, the order Xuan て, will be eight hundred thousand God in the day eight turbulent river plains. Yun Han is also. Deep thought, in front of the heavenly grotto households, raise the court fire, Bi as haiku. Saru female Junzu - Tin Tin female life, picking Tian Xiangshan bamboo, between its section carved wind hole, through the gas, the world number - flute class is also. Also Tian Xiangshan bow, Xing and knocking strings, today's world is called - and piano, its edge. Wood and wood, and prepare for the sound of peace and happiness. Move and wind, show eight sounds. That is, the goddess of the apes stretching play sound, or song or dance, show the quiet sound, for the divine music tunes. At this time, the gods were crashing and their anger was resolved, the demonic atmosphere was clear, and there was no more wind or dust in the sky. Since then, the wind and rain, the sun and the moon are all the time. A yin and a yang, the beginning of all things; a sound, a sound, the basis of all music. The mystery of God's way, the spiritual essence of heaven and earth. Silk and bamboo to be, the eight sound of the song, has been thought to be expensive. Therefore, still the right of the same clan, the Saruwoman's rate to come to the Misun Tunkura men and women, turn the relics of God's generation, and now for the three sections of the festival, and always for the future also." 3 In the doctrines of scholars such as Taro Nakayama and Nobuo Oguchi, the fujoshi (witches) are divided into the miko (goddesses), who serve the shrines, and the ichiko (folkloric parasites). Each of them is subdivided into various types of witches.