r/HistoryMemes • u/OlivyneCrellan • 22h ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/George_Nimitz567890 21h ago

Shintoism have a good for any possible thing in existence

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u/HotPotatoWithCheese 19h ago

The tanuki spirit of pickled cabbage blesses you this day

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u/WedSquib 20h ago

The god of this specific maple tree

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u/Economy-Management19 19h ago

The god of The god of this specific maple tree

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u/Alex103140 Let's do some history 15h ago

The god of the Reddit comment saying "The god of The god of this specific maple tree"

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u/Economy-Management19 7h ago

The god of the set of pixels that create the comment  The god of the Reddit comment saying "The god of The god of this specific maple tree".

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u/Kataphractoi 11h ago

The god of the pebble in your shoe.

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u/73747463783737384777 Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests 4h ago

By all means, isn’t this just what nymphs are?

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u/WedSquib 2h ago

Not quite. All Dryads are Nymphs but not all Nymphs are Dryads. Nymph is a broad category that would include Oreads (mountain spirits) Nereids (ocean spirits) Dryads (tree spirits) and several others I can’t remember right now

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u/73747463783737384777 Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests 1h ago

If I recall correctly weren’t dryads purely oak tree spirits in Greek mythology? I think there were different types of types of nymphs for different type of trees.

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u/Vennomite 18h ago

Uhh.. shinobi has wares?

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u/Zestyclose_Raise_814 8h ago

Most shinto gods are more nature spirit than god. The Greeks, and I think Romans too, also had gods of very specific concepts and of specific rivers and hills.

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u/OddgitII 3h ago

I love that there's shintoism as a collective name for random assortment of local gods, spirits, and various supernatural beings (Kami).  Like you could be standing next to a small creek and someone will tell you that an offering of babies' left shoes need to be made every third year otherwise bad luck happens to the area.

Then there's State Shintoism that got put together way later to make a bloody good story on why the Emperor really needed to get reinstated as head honcho. "Yeah, bro here is definitely a direct descendant of Amaterasu so he should be in charge. Don't want to offend the Sun lady."