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http://www.thelightisgreen.com/Mt%20Fuji%20and%20house.jpg

another picturre of mount fuji

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt,Fuji_2007_Winter_28000Ft.JPG

mt. fuji

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a map of japan

http://img.alibaba.com/images/eng/country_profiles/japan.gif

daily post 13

today i need to finish the script

i finished it

now i can finish the product

now i need to work on the final product

daily post 12

today i needed to work on the script

i did that

this is part of my project

i need to finish the script

script

Japan is a country consisting of four main islands. These islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The main religion of Japan is Shintoism. Shinto is literally “the way of the gods”
This religion is an old and ancient religion is polytheist and is natured based. There are countless gods, spirits, monsters, sacred places, and sacred animals. Shinto is said to come from Buddhism and Shamanism. The kami or gods are worshiped at local shrines. These deities are said to be protectors and can be ancient ancestors, animals, or plants.
The main gods are Izanami, Izanagi, Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi or Tsukuyomi, Susanaoo. There are many other deities
The creation of the gods and Japan started with the universe by itself and heaven and earth had not yet been divided. The purer and cleaner part was formed into heaven. The rest of the mass was created into earth. So it was said that heaven was created before earth. After the creation of heaven, many gods were created. The final gods to be created were Izanagi and Izanami. This totaled to be 8 gods. The gods Izanagi and Izanami decided to create a country on earth. They decided to take the jeweled spear of heaven and by dipping the spear in to the ocean, an island formed. The two became united and created the islands of Japan and the things on it. After they made the natural thing, they tried to produce a deity to rule the earth. They created the fire deity Kagutsuchi. This deity burned and killed Izanami. At the same time she gave birth to the water and earth deities. Since she died Izanami was sent to the netherworld Yomi. Izanagi, missing his wife tried to get his wife from the dark world. He found her but she told her not see her face. Also, she couldn’t go so easily because she ate the food of the dead. When they were going to earth he couldn’t help himself and looked at her. She had rotten and deformed skin. There were many worms and maggots in her. Seeing this, Izanagi ran out of Yomi. He sealed Yomi from earth by putting a rock over it. On the other side Izanami said that for revenge she would kill 1,000 people every day. In return Izanagi said he would give life to 1,500 people every day. To purify himself he washed himself in a river. From his left eye was the sun deity Amaterasu, his left Tsukiyomi the moon god, and from his nose was the storm god Susanaoo. This is the reason why the sun rises in the east.
Another ancient Shinto myth is based around Izanagi’s son Susanaoo. After Susanaoo was banished heaven because of the evil thing he did to torment his sister, Susanaoo traveled the islands. He eventually reached the village Izumo where the monster Orochi was terrorizing a family by eating their daughters. Orochi was a giant snake who was said to have 8 heads 8 tails and as long as 8 fields. Susanaoo said that he would kill the monster if he could marry the daughter that was to be eaten next. To defeat the monster, he put eight tubs of “eight-fold sake” to get the snake drunk. Then he appeared before the snake and fought it. After he killed it, he noticed that there was a notch on his sword after striking the tail. He opened the tail and found a sword inside it. He presented this fated sword to his sister the sun goddess as an apology for the things he had done to her. The name of this sword is “Ame-No-Murakumo-No-Tsurugi”. This sword is said to reside in the shrine of Atsuta, but is not on public display. Also this is part of the “Imperial Regalia of Japan” along with the “Mirror of Yata” and the "Magatama of Yasakani". The other two are from another myth regarding Susanaoo and Amaterasu.

The Japanese people use a lot of these myths in their comics and in their media. There are a lot of sacred places and shrines around japan. A sacred place is Mount Fuji. This was in the myth about Princess Kaguya , a story of a girl who was of the moon people, and when she went back to moon, the prince wanted his letter to reach her so; he sent his men to burn his letter at the highest point in Japan. This religion was more prominent in the past, but has decreased its followers. It is said that the emperor is related to the sun goddess Amaterasu

daily post 11

i needed to work on the script

i worked on this

this is needed to do the documentary

i still need to work on the script

status report

i have completed the research and the index cards for the project.

i need to create the script and work on the video

i thought that getting the index cards done was harder than i thought it would be.

i thought that the research was easier than i thought it would be

i wouldnt do anything different if i started over.

i need to finish the script before break

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this was the history of the japanese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

daily post 10

today i needed to finish my index cards

i finished them

i have all of the research i need

next i need to work on the project

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this is an encyclopedia on myths in japan

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/images/mlw_0001_0003_0_img0116.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Iz-Le/Japanese-Mythology.html&usg=__LNNjM2_w27ALjbAjjF7qx7z4UsM=&h=324&w=240&sz=36&hl=en&start=4&sig2=djKWgsEzkbny6sMXWwvKeQ&um=1&tbnid=svIVuEM6wX4kDM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=87&ei=6lS1SfjKO9vFmQeokuTtBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dizanagi%2Band%2Bizanami%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26um%3D1

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this is a picture of izanami and izanagi creating japan

http://www.geocities.com/ominaga2/izanagi_izanami_genesis_heian.jpg

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this is a supposed picture of the imperial regaliga of japan

http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/3treasures.jpg

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this is the ceation myth in full detail

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/kojiki.html

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this shows the imperial regaliga of japan
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/3treasures.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/LegbaHanuman.html&usg=__9PFF1eY8iYuhpBpZSeYFzipogpk=&h=234&w=234&sz=9&hl=en&start=1&sig2=1ZLS642rpll70LCLBbe1jQ&um=1&tbnid=hchVuxRKTlqLYM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=109&ei=2FG1SaPQEtbJmQe5lITYBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkusanagi%2Bno%2Btsurugi%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26um%3D1

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this talks about the shinto religion and it's practices

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/SHINTO.HTM

daily post 9

i need to have 26 index cards today

i got all thirty done

now i can work on the project itself

nex time i need to organize my information

daily post 8

i needed four more index cards or a total of 22

i did 24 index cards

i now am ahead and this helps me with rescearch

i need to do 2 more posts for next time

daily 7

i needed to have 4 more index cards done

i completed them

this will help me with information

next time i need to do 4 more index card posts

index 25

also a detailed version of another myth

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT7.HTM

index 24

is a detailed version fo the cave myth

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT6.HTM

index 23

susanaoo's story with amaterasu

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT5.HTM

index 22

another version of the creation of the gods

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT4.HTM

index 21

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT3.HTM

this is an old story of the creation of the gods.

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thus talks about the creation of the gods

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT2.HTM

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this is the mythacal version of how heaven and earth were created in shinto reilgion

http://wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT1.HTM

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this is about the tanuki a mythical animal which was created in ancient times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki

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a website containing the chinese/japanese zodiac which is similar to the greeek zodiac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac#Chinese_zodiac_in_other_countries