Takama-ga-hara

Takama -no- hara (Japanese高 天 原, literally: level of High Heaven ), and Ama -no- hara, Ama- tsu - kuni, Takahama- hara, Takama -ga- hara or Takama - hara ), is the Shinto of the birthplace and home of the Heavenly Kami ( ama -tsu - kami ), from which the creation of the world took its course, and heaven and earth separated from each other. Karl Florence translated Takama -no- hara with "Heavenly realms " or " realms of High Heaven ."

Further notes Florence, so that the blue vault of heaven is meant. The " Tranquil River of Heaven" ( Ame -no- yasu - gawa ), which Takama -no- hara crosses and whose bed is filled with stone rubble on which the Kami have their seats, thus was the Milky Way.

Takama -no- hara is ( Ama -no- Uki - hashi ) by the " Floating Bridge of Heaven " connected to Ashihara -no- naka -tsu - kuni, the real world of mortals, where the earthly Kami ( kuni -tsu - kami ) live (Japan; Florence compares this bridge Bifrost and mentions an old tradition from the Tango Fudoki, after which the real counterpart of the headland Ama -no- Hashi -date ( " sky ladder " ) in the province of Tango should be, built by Izanagi to get from there to Takama -no- hara and fell over as he slept ). As an antithesis to Takama -no- hara applies Yomi, the land of the dead, from the evil, misfortune and destruction to come.

As a representative of the unity of Takama -no- hara applies Amaterasu.

Many stories from Japanese mythology or folk beliefs also report mortals who traveled in some way by Takama -no- hara and stayed there.

In mysticism of Shinto also states that the souls ( tama ) return of the dead back there to be with the souls of the ancestors. Some consider that the duration of the path directed by the purity of the soul: Impure Souls can take years to arrive in Takama -no- hara, while completely innocent souls arrive immediately. Others are of a fixed period of one year.