misogi

The sacred waterfall at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, Japan, washes away impurities in the Shinto ritual known as misogi shuho, which celebrates the communion among worshipper, waterfall, and the creative life force of the universe.

iToot Stream Jaraad 2010

The sacred waterfall at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, Japan, washes away impurities in the Shinto ritual known as misogi shuho, which celebrates the communion among worshipper, waterfall, and the creative life force of the universe.

Qwaider Planet Anonymous 2010

It was a twisted form of misogi, but it was what she had been taught.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

She had spoken to him several times of the misogi, the Shinto rite of purification by water that she periodically attended.

Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

In later times both rites were compounded into one, the misogi-harai, or simply the harai.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

By the misogi the body was cleansed; by the harai all offences were expiated; the origin of the latter rite having been the exaction of certain penalties from

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Purification, Great, Oharai; regular, harai; bodily, misogi; as punishment for persons of high rank

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Izanagi's lustrations to remove the pollution contracted during his visit to the nether world became the prototype of a rite of purification (misogi) which always prefaced acts of worship.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

American Indians in the sweat lodge, with misogi at a Shinto waterfall, with puja in a Hindu temple, received karah prashad at a Sikh gurdwara, seen magick rites in a Pagan circle and so forth.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

American Indians in the sweat lodge, with misogi at a Shinto waterfall, with puja in a Hindu temple, received karah prashad at a Sikh gurdwara, seen magick rites in a Pagan circle and so forth.

KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010