Concerning the process of the Creation and emergence of the first deity, it is pointed out from a religious standpoint that these explanations of phenomena might reflect the ancient outlook on the universe of the Japanese, who should have believe the ultimate spiritual source from which every lives in the universe be deriving[i]. This idea has been ever inherent in the Shinto as nature worship or pantheism up to the present. In a sense, the Japanese would have preferred abstract and systematic way of thinking to native animism or totemism sometimes found in primitive societies and sought for the origin of lives in celestial space.
[i] Toshihiko Uda, The Japanese Shinto, Igaku-dou, Tokyo, 1971, pp. 21-25.
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