2010年7月4日日曜日

Binbohgami - The God of Poverty


Binboh means poverty and kami(gami is from kami) means god. It is considered that people who are possessed by binbohgami fall into poverty. There used to be some events held for the god, but most of them are fading away.


When I was a kid, I was told that sharpening both sides of a pencil attracts binbohgami.

Nowadays, if a company which you just joined went bankrupt suddenly (not from your actions), and this situation was repeated on several occasions, you would be called binbohgami as a joke.

There is a twin god of binbohgami which is called fukunokami. This god is considered to bring good luck.

And there is another god called yakubyohgami. This god brings plague.



Frankly speaking, I don’t understand why monotheistic religion can have only one god because Japan has many gods here. The Japanese word kami is usually translated as god, but kami might be somehow different in concept from your god.



Thank you.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhKULxyQ5o

2 件のコメント:

  1. How do I invite fukunokami?
    How to ward off binbohgami?

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  2. Well Judaism came from a polytheistic society.

    They decided that having one all powerful god would unify their people.

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