Hitogami
(Japanese: �man-god�), a way of distinguishing certain characteristics of Japanese religion by focusing on the close relationship between a deity and his transmitter, such as a seer or a shaman. The Japanese scholar Hori Ichiro contrasts hitogami as a religious system with the ujigami (�guardian deity�) type of belief. Membership in the circle of believers is not dependent
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