Ananaikyo

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Ananaikyo. A New Sect Shinto organization (see SECT SHINTO) founded in 1949 by Nakano Yonosuke. It is deliberately eclectic: the name means ‘the teaching’ (kyo) of ‘the three’ (ana) and ‘the five’ (nai), referring to the religious traditions from which it draws inspiration. It practises kami possession and ecstasy, through a technique known as chinkon kishin, ‘stilling the self to become one with the kami’. The principal kami worshipped is Kuni Tokotachi no Mikoto.

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