古代日本の太陽信仰 –アマテル神と神鏡を中心に–

Abstract

In the sense that illuminate the heavens, Amateru would be old sun god was deified as the sun of the nature of previous or anthropomorphic God bears the Amateru. It is believed that a Shinto shrine worshiping God bears the Amateru to this across the country of the ancient Sun’s interspersed, and represents the worship of the sun that causes the growth of staple grains in agriculture. Sun god Amaterasu in Ise, was one of the God of these Amateru, but it will be seen that it has come to be tailored as Koso God by the Imperial Family. And the sun god powerful families such as Owari and Kinoatai had been enshrined, that have come to be incorporated as part of the myth of the imperial family, which centered on Koso God Amaterasu, but the sun god Amateru of nature as a private faith I believed God is, and has been told enshrined in the shrine around the country as it is. Including the imperial palace of fire of four years Tentoku, also from the article of a series of fire transmitted to various literature of the Heian period, it will be estimated the presence of God Amateru sun deity different from the Koso God Amaterasu. Sun god faith were being centralized in Koso God Amaterasu by the Imperial Family, but traces of the sun god of folk beliefs that Amateruonkami would had left.