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 | | 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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