ЧㅋʭLㄹЧ ㄹʭLSЧ ㄹЧ U⊃! 

asir pa pirka pa ne! 

happy new year! 

新年をおめでとう! 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Renzio/56/50/2106

a reconstruction of Yamatai settlement in Second Life

a reconstruction of Yamatai settlement in RL (Yoshinogari):

Yoshingari alike settlement in Second Life

Jomon and Ainu patterns comparison

Summer Seminar On Root Shinto

June 3 2014 

6:45 AM SLT

 pon Jomon Museum 

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ever%20After/134/185/2006

the meet is going to be devoted to basic concepts of Shinto: ramat/tamashii and kamuy/kami

Summer Seminar on Root Shinto in Second Life

 May 27 2014  

6:45 AM SLT

 pon Jomon Museum 

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ever%20After/134/185/2006

after quite a long brake is going to take place first meet of seminar on Root Shinto; 

the meet is going to be devoted to historical context of the discussed tradition.

Tresi Nonno anthropological seminar

April 22 2014
6:45 AM SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ever%20After/134/185/2006

Why shintoists can celebrate Easter

Tresi Nonno anthropological seminar on Early Japan

April 15 2014
at 6:45 AM SLT

in Jomon Museum
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will take place a meeting of Tresi Nonno anthropological seminar on Early Japan.

this meet theme is critical analysis of koropokkuru legend

Second Life anthropological seminar on Early Japan

April 8 2014
at 6:45 am SLT
in Jomon Museum
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will take place a meeting of anthropological seminar on Early Japan 

15014 paikar party

Paikar
Ainu new year
アイヌ新年祭り

20.03.2014

6 am - 8 am SLT
paikar party
pon Ainu Resort

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ever%20After/122/175/3023

 

'Paikar' a-ye itak 'asir pa toyko ki' ne. Paikar anak Aynu purihi pa etok ne. Hemanta kus ne no a-ram easkay? Oyak sir rehe (sak, sitcuk, mata) or ta 'pa' a-ye sinrit isam kus nerok sir or ta asir pa iway isam a-ram easkay. Or wa, hempara ta tam iway an nankor? Hemanta to ta an nankor? Aynu utar anak teeta wa no Matnaw hemisuhere ta oka. Tap ne kus inkar=an ro: hemanta to iyotta pase iyotta nucaktek paikar to an ya? Matnaw hemisuhere ta iyotta pase paikar to anak paikar ekuinokkusu to ne (sirpeker tanne-hi anak sirkunne tanne-hi tura uneno-an pe ne). Tampe kus Aynu purihi asir pa iway nea to ta an nankor a-ram easkay.
Tam paikar anak hap rap cup iye 20 to 04:57 PM an.

Ainu word for 'spring', paikar/paykar, consists if the following morhemes: pa - 'year', i - 'to do something intensively', kar - 'to do something in order to get some result'. It means that traditional Ainu new year feast most probably was in spring. but when in spring? as far as Ainu always have lived in Northern hemisphere and the most notable spring day of Northern hemisphere is Vernal equinox so it can be supposed that paikar feast took place on the day of Vernal equinox.
This year paikar is March 20 04:57 PM

アイヌ語のpaikar｢パイカラ｣「春」の言葉はpa「年」,i「集約」,kar「作る」の形態素から成り立つ。何の意味するか？アイヌは伝統の新年祭 りが春に行えた。アイヌは普通北半球に住んでいたので、北半球には春の一番目ぼしいの日は春分点で、paikarの日付は春分点であろう。今年の paikarは三月二十日04:57PM来る。

Ainu state in Second Life supports Ukraine

Slava Ukraini! Geroyam Slava!
"Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!"
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Jomon - Yayoi seminar

this Tuesday 11th Feb 2014, at 6 am SLT pon Jomon museum http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ever%20After/134/185/2006 is going to take place first meeting of Jomon - Yayoi seminar after quite a long brake

19th century dress

I got a dress of 19th century

with skirt it's just a reconstruction of 19th century

and without skirt it's contemporary Japanese fashion

A Party pon Atomic Palace

27th January 2014

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Toor/167/226/23

speech on root shinto

Hello,

I am Tresi (Tresi is Ainu female name). I am anthropologist from Japan.  I have been studying Shintō since 2003, also I am a follower of a tradition.

Shintō is first and the basic religion of Japan. Along with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism it shapes the spirit landscape of Japanese culture. Shintō is the only religion of Japan which was not imported but is of islands origin.
It is important to note that term Shintō would better be revised because it is just an artificial term invented in the period of Nara (more exactly about 720 y.) in order to distinguish believes of islands origin from Buddhism and Taoism: in the scroll of Nihon shoki 日本書記devoted to the emperor of Yōmei 用明can be seen the following “Emperor believed in the doctrine of Buddha and honor the way of kami”.

Term Shintō （神道） – “the way of of kami” was invented according to Chinese model of naming of different doctrines: as far as Chinese culture is culture of written signs, doctrines and concepts are expressed in written signs and through these signs can be step by step acquired.
Due to this gradually acquire appears the analogy of “way”, i.e. gradually moving to a certain aim but Shintō was not a "way", it was not a systematic doctrine so we should use  this term with certain degree of awareness because using it we accept the Chinese point of view.

If we are going to catch the essence/inner logic of Shintō we have to find its root/roots and if we r going to find its root we have to pay certain attention to the history of Japanese ethnicity cause Shintō was shaped along with the formation of Japanese ethnicity.

Japanese ethnicity is a mix of at least three components: Ainu/Jomon, Austronesian and Korean.

Ainu were the founder of Jōmon culture" 縄文 (about 13000 BC till about 500 BC.) 

a comparison of Jōmon  skull and Ainu skull contour:  http://oi42.tinypic.com/15xweb6.jpg

a reconstruction of a man of  Jōmon http://www.united-brain.co.jp/koga-jiyo.jpg

Jōmon pottery is the oldest pottery of the world and one of the most beautiful also:  https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPcrvfw6-Bow5UmycCOgF8GNM2hUkFOA-zeZVc4LB8QqZe_cJxa6H9Kr1rN2eW3qbjNO5uou7vD1met9Yd-hcXx5vRLAPwTPZb6RreSNNgLdEa2_HD71tTWuwiAIAjN2Bm6owdAhUloWlG/s1600/h2_1992.252.1.jpg   

In early Jomon Ainu liven in all islands of Japanese archipelago https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCZXJCOAhmjBdUvt5nX_PGbnq2K47OkCD4IRAvrkYDleoTFCAy0NKWg9DOH3eMtMI6wKiKd_nuT8twb9GcRIXOfD0y4h12jLomIl9YVNwtALGObIbX27lcppyhf2E3jI65KVwjwhKSL4Z/s1600/before+the+mid.jpg

About the middle of Jōmon from Southern China came some so called Austronesian people who brought rice  https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDq9uD5A-7yHfAmCNV5zzLEm31AEUsrwmHLpUPfzZbYig1gXVHPnvzt2rgOiQObsKB7MiX9z5F95nnXpCvIPjELQ1z9Z8ycxAc3YndiUDr5-uMy0BEkfi07in1P7NGWuWniKKk9AZAn7Wl/s1600/late+jomon.jpg

by the end of Jomon appeared some so called Korean tribes (some people  from Korean peninsula who were of Mongolid anthropology speaking in a language of Altai stock) they brought metal and horses. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GEzljZwCRtaodrTNT8t9BWvzmGTSk-nVawSgsgDuSRBJRsXXe2dr6DDvntm2-sUuGNwYkwWU2fBorYyhL4A5aEo6QUkcwD5OpqieHhHV7Nphwk16s4gQ1hECN_TRuHWK0-fEC1jGGwPW/s1600/500+BC.jpg

Ainu and their culture were the basic component of forming Japanese ethnicity (Ainu Y DNA D2 is one of the most widely spread Japanese Y DNA) and belief.

In Shintō one can see
Austronesian elements: for instance shrine architecture http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Mishine-no-mikura_02.JPG can be derived from Austronesian stilt houses http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/AttapeuStiltHouse.jpg/800px-AttapeuStiltHouse.jpg

Korean elements: miko 巫女 "priestess" or "shrine maiden"  outfit http://images.halloweencostumes.com/products/2052/1-1/miko-san-costume.jpg  (the item I am wearing) is actually female clothes of Kofun epoch　古墳(250 – 538 AD)   https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKLUYz9zB0yfohTKNT5_CD9qsAiV1vCzcNEHIX358a-BiaQkC27UBGWUQtBM7FR5KhVqXhLOXx7EF5c945LKHUjCitmlF8DgqaFP8au2mxORfZSwW-rTfjQ2ypziwBJh-qtS1t_zeYHxk/s1600/female_kofun_cloth.jpg

Elements of  Taoism, for instance Taoist conception of creation which is described in first scroll of   “Nihon shoki”　日本書記

or Buddhism ideas accepted by different trends of so called shintō shinshūkyō “new religions of  Shintō branch” (神道新宗教)et c.

While basic concepts of Shintō: tamashii/tama  霊 “vital energy”/”soul  energy”, and kami 神 “a super human being” both r traced back to corresponding concepts of Ainu/Jomon origin which sounds alike and have similar meanings: ramat – “soul exists” and kamuy “super human being":

In Ainu language sound [ ɾ ] can easily become [ tɾ ] [ tl ][ dl ] [ t ] [ d ] [ l ]. In Old Japanese initial [ ɾ ] was prohibited and also there were no consonant claster and close syllables so Ainu word ramat could become only tama/tamatV/tamasV in Old Japanese. (Here sign "V" means an unidentified vowel sound.)

And etymology of Japanese kami is the following: Old Ainu (Upper Jomon Ainu) ka-mu-'i  [kamuj] ->  Old Japanese kamɯ -> Modern Japanese kami.

It should be noted that concept kamuy differs seriously from European concepts deus / god / Gott / dios / deux because European god (God of christianity) is a transcendental being opposite to this world while kamuy exists in the neighborhood of people and people can easily get kamuy mosir (island of kamuy) and also people can become kamuy.

Because of it, the word kamuy should not be translated as dew /god / Gott / dios / deux into European languages. I think the best way is to leave the word kamuy without any translation at all and explain its meaning with a certain context.

Tamashii penetrates by the whole world and fills everything, fills all beings and all things.

All beings and things are endowed tamashii in different degrees: some have a lot of tamashii but some have little. It is good to have a lot of tama. More tamashii you have more mighty you are. Kami have a lot of tamashii and can endow tamashii  or take it away.

 Therefore the purpose of any rite of Shintō is to save present tamashii and get more:  in order to save present tamashii and get more it is need to contact with kami.

Kamuy/Kami is everything that has a lot of tama and can endow tama other beings. Kami is all outstanding and unusual, somehow, for example: thousand-year cedar, stone of a freakish form, falls, mountain of Fuji, founder of the Panasonic company, emperor Meiji, master of a calligraphy or, for example, famous musician or writer. 

 It is very important to understand that often kami is not any personal/anthropomorphous being or a subject or a thing which can be presented, touched or, in general, be felt by means of five feelings. Much more often kami is certain amorphous force, for example, gravitation acting between Earth and Sun also is a kami, forces operating in an atomic nucleus between protons and neutrons also are kami, and other similar phenomena also are kami.

 When they speak of contemporary Shintō they always note that Shintō is a religion of nature: Shintō shrines correlate well with nature which is around them and sometimes just some outstanding natural objects are sacred items of Shintō. In early Shintō there were no special artificial shrines at all.

 But here I would like to think more about the roots of this tradition. Originally the care of nature grows from the character of Jōmon culture which as we remember was culture of gatherers hunters and fishermen.

Jōmon culture was tended to care much about nature as far as nature was its basement. And as far as early Shintō was based on Jōmon so Jōmon ideas were just continued in early Shintō. Speaking in the terms of early Shintō the demand to care about nature is actually demand to care about existing ramat of mankind and all living beings.

Well, as u all could understand, here is just a very brief sketch but all these and related items r described in my book written after a course of lectures which I gave in SL in 2013: http://2549807.flickrocket.com/An-Introduction-Into-Root-Shinto/p/38793/ 

Thank u all very much.

Ainu and Japanese official history

when arises a discussion about origin of Japanese then people immediately show their real mind. people's mind usually is fullfilled with myths created by official Japanese historians: "Ainu came from North as far as they live pon Hokkaido", "we r not anyhow related to Korean", "how can u be against Japanese? Ainu r a part of Japanese" and so on. and when u try to point that all these statements r wrong and show the real picture ur opponents usually begin just troll, repeat their stupid statement. the most amazing here is that they call their statements "opinions" though to have an opinion u need first think by urself not to follow dully to official point; to be not a part of herd but a personality.
the fact that Ainu r not already physically oppressed by Japanese doesn't mean anything actually. Ainu r thrown out of official Japanese history. Ainu haven't yet received their rightful place in the history of Japan, as an important component which took participation in the formation of Japanese ethnicity.

a winter view

An Introduction Into Root Shinto

https://payhip.com/b/cp40

 Shinto is basic Japanese religion. Along with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism it shapes Japanese spiritual landscape. But Shinto is often represented as a rather primitive heap of eclectic cults. In this book author tries to eliminate late borrowings and analyse basic concepts and show inner logic of Root Shinto (early Shinto).

69 pages
37 pictures

You will get a PDF (2MB) file.