to pump themselves up as other participants and onlookers cheered. Purification is key to Shinto rituals to keep away evil spirits. Worshipers can also wish for other things, such as traffic ...

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of ... oversaw the cooking process while chanting purification prayers. At 5 a.m. on Jan. 15, the priests removed the ...

Shinto is Japan’s indigenous spiritual tradition, but unlike most religions, it has no single founder, sacred text, or strict doctrines. Instead, it revolves around the veneration of Kami—divine ...

An annual spring Shinto festival has started at a shrine near Lake Biwa in Japan's western prefecture of Shiga.

The company even asked a Shinto priest to conduct a purification ritual and offer prayers for operational safety as it continues to try to resolve the problem. The phenomenon surfaced around late ...