P P'anku, myth of, 129 Pantheon, 121 Pairs of deities, 86 Parturition house, 113, 112, 114, 251, 345 Patron deity, 326 Peach, 189, 9, 93, 308 Penitence, 260 Perseus and Andromeda, 103-105, 50, 151 Personality of deities, 22 Personification, 5 Personal pronouns rare in Japanese, 23 Pestilence deities, 187 Pestle, a male symbol, 189 Pfleiderer, Dr., Preface, 11, 76, 84 Phallicism, 186, 72, 363. See Bean, Chiburi no kami, Chimata do kami, Dōsōjin, Goriōye, Ishigami, Kunado, Kteis, Kedzurikake, Mushroom, Peach, Pestle, Rice, Sahe no kami, Sarutahiko, Shingi, Tamaboko, Tamuke no kami, Tsuji-ura, Yachimata hiko, Yakushin, Wo-bashira. Pheasant as messenger of Gods, 108 Pictures of Gods, 71 Piebald colt of Heaven, 97, 98 Pilgrimage, 239 Pillar of Heaven, 95, 154 " of House, 89, 90 Pious fraud, 360 Plain of High Heaven, 98, 107, 134 Poverty, Gods of. See Hitomaro, Sotoöri hime. Polar star, 85 Polytheism, 66 Positive and negative. See Yin and Yang. Possession, 340, 357 Potsticks, striking women with, to produce pregnancy, 190 Posthumous honours, 53 Poverty, God of, 199 Pradakchina. See Circumambulation. Praise, 234, 306 Prayer, 232, 162. See Norito. Prehistoric Shinto, 1 Priesthood, 200 Priestess, 205 Primitive man, 77, 12, 18, 26, 80, 345 Primitive religion, 13, 26, 121, 160, 166, 211 Primitive religion, Shinto not a, Preface Privy, God of, 167, 289, 314 Processions, 240, 317 Procreative power deified. See Phallicism. Prophet, 348, 350 Propitiation of evil deities, 305, 315 Prophylactic magic, 187 Providential character of nature Gods, 65, 125, 156, 162 Properties, Gods of, 15 Profanity, 237 Pseudo-ancestor worship, 46 Pure Shinto, 4, 372 Purification, 189 Purity, 247, 343 " of heart, 264, 368, 369, 371 " of language, 271, 255 Q Qualities, Gods of, 15, 34, 62 R Races, 321 Rain, praying for, 43, 151, 152, 180, 286 Rainbow, 87. See Taikobashi. Rain-Gods, 153 Rain-storm. See Susa no wo. Ransom offerings, 262, 220. Se Agamono, Katashiro, Nademono, Scape-goat. Rank conferred on Gods, 237, 323, 324 Rationalism, 92, 375 Real presence, 217, 27, 72 Red colour, 194, 56, 163, 165 Regalia, 135, 202, 273, 289, 291, 353, 363 Relic, Buddhist, 361 Religion, nature and origin of, 5, 13 Remmonkyō, 375 Repentance, 102 Réville, Preface, 268 Revival of Pure Shinto, 4, 372 Rice-God. See Inari. Rice in magic and ritual, 189, 288, 289, 334, 341 Risley, Mr. H., 73 Ritual, 1, 3, 268 River of Heaven (milky way), 97, 98, 100, 110 River-Gods, 115, 150. See Water, Rain. River-weed deified, 316 Road-Gods. See Sahe no Kami. Rock-boat of Heaven, 95, 117, Rock-cave of Heaven, 97, 101 Rokkon shōjō, 239, 304, 355 Rudimentary character of Shinto, Preface, 242 Ryôbu, 360, 373