当麻寺を訪ねて(共同研究 : 現代人の生活のリズムと健康・体力)

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Taima Temple has preserved a tradition of two rituals of death and resurrection. One of them is the ritual of Princess Choojo who goes down from the paradise to this world and take little Kannon to the paradise. It is a Japanese version of the descent into the underworld by goddess Ishtar. She takes her husland=son Tammuz out of the underworld where he has been dead, and brings him to life. This tradition may have come to Taima Temple from ancient West Asia. Another ritual was wrestling. According to the legend, Nomino-sukune wrestled with Taimano-kehaya; the latter lost in the contest and was killed, his blood was sprinkled over the grave to invigorate the dead in the underworld. The wrestling ritual has been held on July 7th of the year. It was the beginning of the season of ancestor worship. Ancestors would come to this world and were invigorated by blood, meanwhile men of this world would be resuscitated by contact with ancestors.
1999-09-30