Saturday, May 7, 2011

Shintoism question: Can someone give me about info about the the "san hikari" {Also known as "three lights)?

Question:


Shintoism question: Can someone give me about info about the the "san hikari" {Also known as "three lights)

Answer:


As far as I know, it's "San Koh" 三光 which means three lights. It could be also read "san hikari", but it's less common way to read.

Three lights are: Sun, Moon, and the Stars..... The Stars usually means the Wain / Big dipper, or sometime the polar star. People believed these stars had mysterious power.
These lights rake all over the world; day and night, and give right direction to people who lost.
These three lights are icon of grandioso, universal and unlimited eternal majesty of deities.

San Koh, is usually written 三光 (three light), but it sometime written 三皇 which means three emperors.
Some shrines enshrine these three lights and crested three lights:
http://www.chibajinja.com/060mon.html
http://www.genbu.net/sinmon/hi.htm

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