The Living Goddess: Modern Shamanesses


The Kami with no fixed name: Inari

Kitsune (Fox) is just one manifestation, trickster figure that's highly changeable

Kitsune no yome iri (fox wedding) liquid sunshine

Personalization - Communal

Individuality, Regionality, and Community


"Three Great Inari Shrines" 

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Toyokawa Inari - Shrine-Temple Complex (Jinguji)

Regional Inari


Personal Inari - Watashi no O-Inari sama

Re-enshrinement 勧請 petitionary 

Apportioned spirit 分霊 - official and unofficial

Rock Altars 大塚 - official and unofficial, at the shrine and at home

Spirituality and Commerce


Inari as Trickster Figure

O-bake お化け

The Gods are tricky

Inari as a Shamanic Deity of Possession

Oda-san - alcoholic - 

Omatsu O-kami (Kami) as personal kami

Rock altar worship and pilgrimage

Gendered experience

Case of Chizuko

Case of girl who refuses to school

Case of Yuriko the delinquent

Waterfall austerities

Possession

Support and pressure - that world and this