THE KOJIKI AND ITS TEACHINGS, PAGE 59 Origin of the Kojiki.

Analysis of its opening lines--Norito .-- Indecency of the myths of the Kojiki .-- Modern rationalistic interpretations--Life in prehistoric Japan .-- Character and temperament of the people then and now .-- Character of the kami or gods .-- Hades .-- Ethics .-- The Land of the Gods .-- The barbarism of the Yamato conquerors an improvement upon the savagery of the aborigines .-- Cannibalism and human sacrifices .-- The makers of the God-way captured and absorbed the religion of the aborigines .-- A case of syncretism .-- Origin of evil in bad gods .-- Pollution was sin .-- Class of offences enumerated in the norito .-- Professor Kumi's contention that Mikadoism usurped a simple worship of Heaven .-- Difference between the ancient Chinese and ancient Japanese cultus .-- Development of Shint[=o] arrested by Buddhism .-- Temples and offerings .-- The tori-i .-- Pollution and purification .-- Prayer .-- Hirata's ordinal and specimen prayers .-- To the common people the sun is a god .-- Prayers to myriads of gods .-- Summary of Shint[=o] .-- Swallowed up in the Riy[=o]bu system .-- Its modern revival .-- Keichin .-- Kada Adzumar[=o] .-- Mabuchi, Motooeri .-- Hirata .-- In 1870, Shint[=o] is again made the state religion .-- Purification of Riy[=o]bu temples .-- Politico-religious lectures .-- Imperial rescript .-- Reverence to the Emperor's photograph .-- Judgment upon Shint[=o] .-- The Christian's ideal of Yamato-damashii..