The Mystery of Japanese and Hebrew Custom

　　　As a matter of course, the similarity between Japanese and Hebrew custom of purification may be only a coincidence, or the ancient Japanese would have introduced these custom by foreign people who came to Japan through the Silk Road like the Hata clan. Moreover, we have to deliberately examine other plausibility that ablutions and other similar custom should not have been Hebrew peculiar but rather popular in the Orient, or should have come from one of ancient empires, Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Hittite, Phoenicia and so on, where the Hebrew lived and was dispersed later. But it seems significant that it is Izanagi-no-mikoto, father deity of Japan, who performed his ablutions in the Kojiki. How do we think of it?

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