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  Kami
In Shinto, the ancient animistic religion of the Japanese, kami are understood as the divine forces of nature.
Shinto believers also adhere to kami having an anthromorphic form with the ability to act and communicate, as in a kind of Avatar.
In the 2005 expansion to Magic: The Gathering, entitled Champions of Kamigawa, kami and Shinto are the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ka/Kami.htm   (447 words)

  
  Kami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kami (神) is the Japanese word for the objects of worship in the Shinto faith.
"Kami" are the central objects of worship for the Shinto faith.
A Contemplation on Atsuta-no-Ookami - The Kami of the Sword
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 Kami (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kami is a character in the manga and anime Dragon Ball.
Kami is a character on Takalani Sesame, the South African version of Sesame Street who raised controversy because she was HIV positive.
Kami was a drummer in the j-rock group Malice Mizer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kami_(disambiguation)   (192 words)

  
 Kami - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Shinto, the ancient animistic religion of the Japanese, kami are understood as the divine forces of nature.
Shinto believers also adhere to kami having an anthromorphic form with the ability to act and communicate, as in a kind of avatar.
In the 2005 expansion to Magic: The Gathering, Champions of Kamigawa, kami and shinto are the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kami   (533 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In some instances, such as Izanagi and Izanami, kami are personified deities, similar to the gods of ancient Greece or Rome.
"Kami" are the central objects of worship for the Shinto faith.
The concept of kami has been changed and refined since ancient times, although anything that was considered to be kami by ancient people will still be considered kami in "modern" Shinto.
www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Kami   (990 words)

  
 Kami Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
Kami may, at its root, simply mean 'spirit', or an aspect of spirituality.
Some of the objects or phenomena designated as kami are qualities of growth, fertility, and production; natural phenomena like wind and thunder; natural objects like the sun, mountains, rivers, trees, and rocks; some animals; and ancestral spirits.
Although these kami can be considered deities, they are not considered omnipotent or omniscient.
www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=Kami   (996 words)

  
 Informat.io on Kami
In the 2004 expansion to Magic: The Gathering, entitled Champions of Kamigawa, kami and Shinto are the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.
Often anthropomorphic and always behaving in a manner associated with their "Ring", they were powerful forces prayed to for great power by spellcasters, or Shugenja.
Though, the relationship between the kami of the Shinto religion and this demonic entity seems to stop at the name.
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 Kami - TheBestLinks.com - God, Japan, Japanese language, Kamikaze, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The word is used to indicate any sort of god or "beings of a higher place," embracing both a number of spirits and the God of the Abrahamic religions.
In Shintoism, the ancient and animistic religion of the Japanese, the "kami" is understood as "divine forces of nature." The worshippers of the Shinto religion in ancient Japan revered creations of nature which exhibited a particular beauty and power such as waterfalls, mountains, boulders, animals, trees, grasses and even rice paddies.
This human but powerful form of kami were also divided into amutsu-kami or "the heavenly deities" and kunitsu-kami or "the gods of the earthly realm." A deity would behave differently according to which soul was in control at a given time.
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 Kami - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Shintō;, the ancient animistic religion of the Japanese, kami are understood as the divine forces of nature.
Shintō; believers also adhere to kami having an anthromorphic form with the ability to act and communicate, as in a kind of avatar.
In Japanese mythology, for example, Amaterasu, the sun-goddess of the Shintō; Pantheon, could not see the events of the human world.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Kami   (424 words)

  
 Kami information - Search.com
Kami (神) is the Japanese word for the objects of worship in the Shinto faith.
In some instances, such as Izanagi and Izanami, kami are personified deities, similar to the gods of ancient Greece or ancient Rome.
A Contemplation on Atsuta-no-Ookami - The Kami of the Sword
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Kami   (1290 words)

  
 Kami - L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
If capitalized, the term refers to the children of Amaterasu and Onnotangu: the Kami that fell to Rokugan, as well as their brothers Fu Leng and Ryoshun.
If uncapitalized, it refers to the spirits of the elements: the kami with whom shugenja commune.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
l5r.wikia.com /wiki/Kami   (161 words)

  
 Kami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kami (神) is the Japanese word for "god".
The word is used to indicate any sort of god, beings of a higher place or belonging to a different sphere of existence.
In the 2005 expansion to Magic: The Gathering, Champions of Kamigawa, kami and shinto are the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Kami   (445 words)

  
 Priests Information
For other uses of "oracle", see Oracle (disambiguation) An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature.
One explanation saw the Japanese kami as supernatural beings still caught in the cycle of birth and rebirth.
The kami are born, live, die, and are reborn like all other beings in the karmic cycle.
www.ogarnij.net /en/priests   (14591 words)

  
 Kami - Multiversal Omnipedia
Kami, the Guardian of the Earth from Dragon Ball
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
moa.dracandros.com /Kami   (67 words)

  
 Phoenix Clan Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Phoenix' presence in the courts of the land is not great, and their courtiers are relatively few in number, although they are not isolationists like the Dragon Clan.
The Phoenix were founded by the Kami Shiba, although the family of his first vassal, Isawa, generally run the affairs of the clan.
Sorcery (disambiguation) pentagram drawn by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.]] Magic or sorcery, coined by William "Pickles" Fleder, are terms referring to the alleged influencing of events and physical phenomena by supernatural, mystical, or paranormal means.
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 Shinto
It involves the worship of kami, which can be translated to mean gods, spirits of nature, or just spiritual presences.
Some kami are local and can be regarded as the spirit or genius of a particular place, but others represent major natural objects and processes, for example, Amaterasu, the Sun goddess.
The word Shinto was created by combining two kanji: "神" shin meaning god (the character can also be read as "kami" in Japanese) and "道" tō meaning Tao ("way" or "path" in a philosophical sense).
www.kiwipedia.com /en/shinto.html   (180 words)

  
 Tochigi Prefecture Information
Kanto (disambiguation) The Kantō region (Japanese: 関東地方, Kantō-chihō) is a geographical area of Honshū, the largest island in Japan.
Unlike a church or a mosque, a jinja traditionally has neither characteristics of a chapel nor a place for propagation; its sole purpose is for the enshrinement and worship of a kami.
A kami worshipped at a jinja is generally a Shinto kami but sometimes Buddhist or Taoist deities are worshiped, as well as other kami not generally considered to belong to Shinto.
tochigi.prefecture.en.ogarnij.net   (3806 words)

  
 Amaterasu Summary
Amaterasu is described in the Kojiki as the Sun goddess which was born from Izanagi, who was also accompanied by her sibling, Susanoo, the storm deity.
Until the end of World War II, the Japanese royal family claimed descent from Amaterasu, and the emperor was officially considered divine.
In the video game Ōkami, the main character is Amaterasu incarnated as a wolf.
www.bookrags.com /Amaterasu   (1567 words)

  
 Learn more about Underworld in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
For other meanings of the word "underworld" see Underworld (disambiguation)
In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term, referring to any place to which newly-dead souls go.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/un/underworld.html   (140 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kami (disambiguation)
Kami (神) is the Japanese word for god or spirit (in the shintō; tradition).
- Kami is also the name of several places in Japan:
Kami is the name of a race of spirit creatures in Magic the Gathering, a popular card game.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kami_(disambiguation)   (251 words)

  
 Wizards Community - Protection and SoFI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Protection's damage prevention aspect is a replacement effect generated by a static ability - meaning it does nothing until the moment the game actually deals the damage.
As the BoP is unprotected when the Kami's damage arrives, it dies.
The most correct phrasing would probably have been "in response to combat damage", but the further disambiguation provided by adding "on the stack" is useful - it avoids confusion with the common misuse "in response to combat damage (resolving)"
boards1.wizards.com /showthread.php?t=445465   (690 words)

  
 Rokugan
There are many minor clans in Rokugan -- clans that have been formed since the birth of the empire by those other than the seven Kami.
Unfortunately, this civilization was entirely within what has become the Shadowlands, and was presumably destroyed when the dark Kami Fu Leng fell to the earth.
See also Legend of the Five Rings (disambiguation) for other articles which share this name.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Rokugan.php   (1490 words)

  
 Re: PS re my last post
> > "'Kami': Noun: [Shintoism] A divine power or aura, often identified with > one or more deities or ancestors." > > "'Shinto': Noun: A principal religion of Japan, with emphasis upon the > worship of nature and of ancestors and ancient heroes and upon the divinity > of the emperor.
Prior to 1945, the state religion." > > According to my dictionary program, "kami" is not a proper noun.
In the EXACTLY the same sense that kami are often personified.
www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.hypnosis/messages/120788.html   (1330 words)

  
 Vampire
Vampires (or vampyres) are mythological or folkloric creatures believed to be the reanimated corpses of human beings who subsist on human or animal blood.
Foxes and human beings lived in close proximity in ancient Japan; this companionship gave rise to legends about the creatures.
Kitsune have become closely associated with Inari, a Shinto kami or spirit, and serve as his messengers.
libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Vampires   (9101 words)

  
 kami - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "kami" is defined.
Kami, kami : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include kami: yama no kami, amenominakanushi no kami, chimata no kami, gin-iro no kami no agito, hi no kami, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=kami&ls=a   (224 words)

  
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Kabbala may refer to; Kabbala Village Kabbalah, is a religious philosophical system claiming an insight into divine nature.
Kahless is a legendary Klingon portrayed in the Star Trek series Star Trek: The Next Generation by Kevin Conway.
In Shintoism avatar Japanese mythology, for example, Amaterasu The kami traditionally possessed two souls, one gentle (nigimi-tama) and the other aggressive (arami-tama amutsu-kami kunitsu-kami hokora) were built in honour of these kami.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/ka   (1956 words)

  
 Kami's Lookout Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the manga and/or anime Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, Kami's Lookout is a platform that is in orbit above the Earth, and directly above Korin's Tower.
For other uses see Manga (disambiguation) Manga (disambiguation) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics.
He is the product of Kami (God of Earth) splitting himself in an attempt to purge the evil from himself.
kami.s.lookout.en.ogarnij.info   (10948 words)

  
 Sumo Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
The classic Chinese novel Water Margin, dating in written form from the 16th century but based on much older folk tales, described the performance of "??" (Sumo) during the much later Song Dynasty.
In addition to its use as a trial of strength in combat, it has also been associated with Shinto ritual, and even today certain shrines carry out forms of ritual dance where a human ceremonially wrestles with a kami (a Shinto 'spirit' or 'god').
It was an important ritual at the imperial court.
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 [No title]
Karena Ia tidak membuat akun, kami terpaksa harus memakai [[alamat IP]]-nya untuk mengenalinya.
Kebanyakan fungsi yang terdapat di sini cenderung membebani basis data, jadi mohon jangan tekan tombol 'reload' setelah melakukan perbaikan ;-)", "maintenancebacklink" => "Kembali ke halaman pemeliharaan", "disambiguations" => "Halaman Disambiguation", "disambiguationspage" => "Project:Pautan_ke_halaman_disambiguation", "disambiguationstext" => "Halaman-halaman berikut ini berpaut ke sebuah halaman disambiguation.
Satu halaman dianggap sebagai disambiguation apabila halaman tersebut disambung dari $1.
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 neomarxisme: Lip Service
There's a pretty obvious Shinto explanation: it takes a second for the kami who lives deep in these characters' stomachs to realise their mouths are moving and start speaking.
I have never heard that ASR of Japanese has significantly lower error rates than that of other languages (which should follow from your assertion).
And too many possible counter arguments come to mind (disambiguation by context in a less homophone-ridden language, etc. etc.))
www.pliink.com /mt/marxy/archives/000809.html   (3288 words)

  
 Trust You - Wiki.theppn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kami wo naderu anata no te no nukumori motometeru
Kami wo nadete watashi dake no nukumori kanjite hoshii
I might as well put an end to that false relationship
wiki.theppn.org /Trust_You   (472 words)

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