Religion:Kotan-kar-kamuy
Kotan-kar-kamuy (コタンカㇽカムイ, lit. 'world-making-god')[1] is the creator deity of the Ainu people. He should not be confused with god of the land Kotan-kor-kamuy,[2] or the god of the sky Kandakoro Kamuy.
According to missionary John Batchelor, all kamuy are intermediaries responsible to Kotan-kar-kamuy in the Ainu religion, who is regarded as the almighty and eternal ruler of the universe.[3] This led to assumptions that the Ainu faith had originally been monotheistic.[2] Although he stands on top of the hierarchy of gods in Ainu mythology he is only rarely worshipped.[2] Therefore, Norbert Richard Adami criticises the monotheism theory, and holds that Batchelor's views leading into this direction resulted from a straitened and sometimes misinterpreted mode of perception based on his faith, through which they would lose in value.[4]
References
- ↑ アイヌ民族博物館. "アイヌと自然デジタル図鑑" (in ja). http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/siror/dictionary/detail.php?book_id=P0298.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dettmer, Hans A. (1994). "Die Mythologie der Ainu". in Haussig, H.W. (in de). Die Mythologie der Ainu. Wörterbuch der Mythologie. Band VI. Klett-Cotta. pp. 199–200. ISBN 9783129098608. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4BQ0YmlPKIC&pg=PA199.
- ↑ John Batchelor: The Ainu and Their Folk-Lore, London 1901, p. 35, p. 575–585.
- ↑ Norbert Richard Adami: Religion und Schaminismus der Ainu auf Sachalin (Karafuto), Bonn 1989, p. 40-41.
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