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"Whose" language is Japanese ?
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minus273
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20 February 2010 at 7:23pm | IP Logged

Sayumi wrote:

nescafe wrote:

言霊 means "the spritis of words", here appearently be a Shinto concept of the 8 million dities 八百万の神々.

I labored under the impression that the figure of 8 million gods was not meant to be taken literally, but rather that 八百万の神 simply meant "many"; "countless"; "innumerable" deities. Is this not so?

P.S.- I recommend the works of Osamu Dazai.

For the University people:
Sange - Dazai Osamu

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