Ja V :
Your description of Shintoism is remarkably evocative of the spirituality of the Pueblo people of the US southwest. The link between spiritual presences, particular places in the landscape, ritual, shrine, nature, ancestors, human relationships— all of it is there. The kiva being the umbilical of the world through which the people access spiritual power, their origins, and connection to each other. Mountains, trees, stones, rivers, animals, and humans being fundamentally a part of their environment and not separate from it.
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