Onbashira-sai / Log festival in Nagano,Japan / Suwa Taisha Shrines
Monday, March 6, 2017
and it is composed of four shrines.
Lake Suwa locates in the middle of Nagano prefecture.
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ABCD = A group of Suwa Taisha
A,Harumiya shrine B,Akimiya shrine C,Honmiya shrine D,Maemiya shrine
Lake Suwa exists in very special location.
Dotted line represents Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic line.
Regular line represents Japan Median Tectonic line.
Japan's two big important faults are crossing at the Lake Suwa.
Red line is Median Tectonic line
Pink shaded region is Fossa Maguna,bounded by the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic line(western blue line).
There is a big crossed faults in Japan like this → ×
I think Japanese culture is also divided by these lines.
This fact is important to know about Japanese religious secret.
There is a interesting festival of Suwa Taisha.
Onbashira-sai is a pillar-replacing festival held every 6 years.
(2016 was the festival year.April-May 2016)
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The highlight is men's sliding down the steep slope.
But main purpose of this festival is replacing old pillars around each shrine with new tree pillars.
Pillar worship was primitive world-common worship.
The root is derived from Mount Haku.
Generally,pillar and mountain means men or male genitalia.（Other photos)
All human came from that vital energy of your father.
Pillar worship was primitive world-common worship.
The root is derived from Mount Haku.
Generally,pillar and mountain means men or male genitalia.（Other photos)
All human came from that vital energy of your father.
Some people died because it is a dangerous festival.
In Japan,we call pillar HASHIRA.
This pronunciation was derived from ASHERAH goddess of Sumer civilization.
People delivered big tree pillars from mountain of Lebanon to Jerusalem.
And then,people built Solomon's Temple.
Japanese Onbashira-sai is still active as interesting festival.
In Japan,we call pillar HASHIRA.
This pronunciation was derived from ASHERAH goddess of Sumer civilization.
Photo by wikipedia
In Books of Kings chapter 6,People delivered big tree pillars from mountain of Lebanon to Jerusalem.
And then,people built Solomon's Temple.
Japanese Onbashira-sai is still active as interesting festival.
photo by wikipedia