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
Offerings,„ deified, 119, 161, 211
Offerings,„ to dead, 60, 211
Offerings,„ 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
Pillar„ of House, 89, 90