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Nature-Gods and Man-Gods, 15

Need-fire, 259

Needles worshipped, 73

Negi (priest), 205

Ne no kuni (root-country). See Yomi.

Nether Land, 104. See Yomi.

New Year in modern Japan, 312

Nichirin (the sun), 127

Nigi-hayahi, 120, 128

Nigi-tama, 31, 33, 140, 145, 275

Nihabi, 99, 101, 277

Nihiname (festival of first-fruits), 277, 109, 119, 124, 161, 268, 269

Nihongi, 2, 84, 169

Ninigi, 108, 111, 112, 116, 185

No dance, 238

Nomi no Sukune, 48, 57, 183

Norito, chap. xii. passim, 3, 42, 98, 99, 126, 232, 235, 270, 274, 322

North the honourable quarter, 56

North star, 142

Number neglected in Japanese grammar, 16, 21, 121, 168, 169

Number of Gods, 66, 98

Numerals, magical use of, 99, 336

Nuptial hut, 90, 104, 137, 248

Nusa, 216, 218, 318. See Offerings, Kirinusa, Ohonusa.

Nusa-bukuro, 197

Nushi, 20

Oaths, 236

Obeisance, 209, 284, 320

‘Occult Japan,’ 354

Offences, 297

Offerings, 210, 98, 193, 280

deified, 119, 161, 211

to dead, 60, 211

consumed by worshippers, 321. See Communion.

Offerings, symbolical, 211, 276

Oharahi, 305

Oho-hafuri, 205, 177

Oho-harahi, 294, 4, 242, 245, 246, 270

Oho-harahi offerings, 301

Oho-kuni-dama, See Ohonamochi.

Oho-kuni-nushi. See Ohonamochi.

Oho-miya no me, 184, 287, 290

Oho-mono-nushi, 111

Oho-naobi, 290

Ohonamochi, 144, 105, 110, 27–30, 46, 69, 200, 274

Oho-nihe, 268, 364

Oho-nusa, 213

Oho-sora, 96

Oho-toko-nushi, 144, 196, 253. See Ohonamochi.

Oho-tono hogahi, 287

Oho-toshi, 105

Ōjin deified, 178. See Hachiman.

Omens, 119, 126, 325, 345

Omnipresence of Deity, 27

Omohi-kane, 199, 98

Oni (demon), 198

Oni-yarahi, 189. See Tsuina.

Onogorojima, 89

Onyōshi, 365

Oracles, 367, 178, 350, 361. See Inspiration.

Ordeal, 347

O tento sama (sun), 127, 175

P'anku, myth of, 129

Pantheon, 121

Pairs of deities, 86

Parturition house, 113, 112, 114, 251, 345

Patron deity, 326

Peach, 189, 9, 93, 308

Penitence, 260

Perseus and Andromeda, 103–105, 50, 151

Personality of deities, 22

Personification, 5

Personal pronouns rare in Japanese, 23

Pestilence deities, 187

Pestle, a male symbol, 189

Pfleiderer, Dr., Preface, n, 76, 84

Phallicism, 186, 72, 363. See Bean, Chiburi no kami, Chimata no kami, Dōsōjin, Goriōye, Ishigami, Kunado, Kteis, Kedzurikake, Mushroom, Peach, Pestle, Rice, Sahe no kami, Sarutahiko, Shingi, Tama-boko, Tamuke no kami, Tsuji-ura, Yachimata hiko, Yakushin, Wo-bashira.

Pheasant as messenger of Gods, 108

Pictures of Gods, 71

Piebald colt of Heaven, 97, 98

Pilgrimage, 239

Pillar of Heaven, 95, 154

of House, 89, 90