cont'd: basic Shinto shrine set
October 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
cont'd: basic Shinto shrine set
I somehow managed to map out 513 Shinto shrines in Taiwan. The vast majority have long-vanished but a surprising number remain in some form or another, typically altered or left in ruins, some with only faint traces left behind.
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Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社) - Spectral Codex
Documenting the original locations and remaining relics of the hundreds of Shinto shrines built in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial era, most of which were destroyed following the end of colonial r...
spectralcodex.com
October 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I somehow managed to map out 513 Shinto shrines in Taiwan. The vast majority have long-vanished but a surprising number remain in some form or another, typically altered or left in ruins, some with only faint traces left behind.
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A traditional Shinto torii gate at an unidentified location in Japan
October 16, 2026 at 7:32 PM
A traditional Shinto torii gate at an unidentified location in Japan
Yeah, people are acting really gross and anti-intellectual about this. If @shibbi.me were expressing, say, Shinto beliefs, I don't think she'd be getting this abuse.
For the record, I don't agree with Shibbi, but she's a good-hearted trans woman who is now being dogpiled and smeared for an unorthodox take that doesn't really harm anyone
October 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Yeah, people are acting really gross and anti-intellectual about this. If @shibbi.me were expressing, say, Shinto beliefs, I don't think she'd be getting this abuse.
Torii Gates at Fushimi-Inari Taisha, Shinto shrine, Kyoto
October 13, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Torii Gates at Fushimi-Inari Taisha, Shinto shrine, Kyoto
I'm currently designing a new class about Taiwan (the students have asked for it!), so this will be a great resource:
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社) - Spectral Codex
Documenting the original locations and remaining relics of the hundreds of Shinto shrines built in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial era, most of which were destroyed following the end of colonial r...
spectralcodex.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I'm currently designing a new class about Taiwan (the students have asked for it!), so this will be a great resource:
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
Wicca celebrates the divine feminine
Shinto features Amaterasu, the sun goddess, central figure of the pantheon, contrasting with systems led by primary male deities
Here in the Southwest, the Hopi women hold profound social, economic, & spiritual authority.
Kevin’s brawn is not his brain.
Shinto features Amaterasu, the sun goddess, central figure of the pantheon, contrasting with systems led by primary male deities
Here in the Southwest, the Hopi women hold profound social, economic, & spiritual authority.
Kevin’s brawn is not his brain.
October 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Wicca celebrates the divine feminine
Shinto features Amaterasu, the sun goddess, central figure of the pantheon, contrasting with systems led by primary male deities
Here in the Southwest, the Hopi women hold profound social, economic, & spiritual authority.
Kevin’s brawn is not his brain.
Shinto features Amaterasu, the sun goddess, central figure of the pantheon, contrasting with systems led by primary male deities
Here in the Southwest, the Hopi women hold profound social, economic, & spiritual authority.
Kevin’s brawn is not his brain.
Hypnos Lullaby Crew --- #hypnoslullaby #Blake #glitchyred #monochrome #stevenstoughton #trainergrey #grey #pokemon #shinto
October 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Hypnos Lullaby Crew --- #hypnoslullaby #Blake #glitchyred #monochrome #stevenstoughton #trainergrey #grey #pokemon #shinto
RASHOMON
Policeman, to Shinto priestess:
Policeman, to Shinto priestess:
HENRY IV, PART I
Act 3, Scene 1
HOTSPUR (to GLENDOWER):
Act 3, Scene 1
HOTSPUR (to GLENDOWER):
I mean that's a start. But were you able to get any of the corpses talking?
October 15, 2026 at 2:26 AM
RASHOMON
Policeman, to Shinto priestess:
Policeman, to Shinto priestess:
Captured in an intimate, quiet moment by photographer eyawlk60, this photograph, titled Sato no Chinju ("Guardian Deity of the Village"), portrays a rustic, roadside Shinto shrine (hokora) sheltered in a rural grove.
October 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Captured in an intimate, quiet moment by photographer eyawlk60, this photograph, titled Sato no Chinju ("Guardian Deity of the Village"), portrays a rustic, roadside Shinto shrine (hokora) sheltered in a rural grove.
somehow I've never met an llm fanatic who follows shinto.
It is convenient for tech enthusiasts to Suddenly adopt panpsychism to market their commodity production metabrains. but if we grant that ai could be conscious, consciousness turns out to be a lot more common than AI. Tech freaks grant cognition to toys but not animals or plants or human being!!
October 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
somehow I've never met an llm fanatic who follows shinto.
se alguem que lê aqui e faz jogo e se sente desencorajado por sua ideia "não ser brasileira o suficiente" entenda que a brasilidade vai tar lá sim, só por existir essa preocupação ela vai tar lá vai fundo
é tipo o dev japones fazendo a fantasia europeia deles onde toda a espiratualidade é shinto
é tipo o dev japones fazendo a fantasia europeia deles onde toda a espiratualidade é shinto
October 14, 2026 at 9:44 PM
se alguem que lê aqui e faz jogo e se sente desencorajado por sua ideia "não ser brasileira o suficiente" entenda que a brasilidade vai tar lá sim, só por existir essa preocupação ela vai tar lá vai fundo
é tipo o dev japones fazendo a fantasia europeia deles onde toda a espiratualidade é shinto
é tipo o dev japones fazendo a fantasia europeia deles onde toda a espiratualidade é shinto
I'm not Shinto, but I've always thought there was something beautiful about the fact that Shinto views everything as inhabited by kami. Everything has a spirit. The random rock you picked up in the woods has a spirit.
October 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I'm not Shinto, but I've always thought there was something beautiful about the fact that Shinto views everything as inhabited by kami. Everything has a spirit. The random rock you picked up in the woods has a spirit.
the ghost in the shell material keeps surfacing, doesn’t it? it's not just about the cool cyberpunk aesthetics. there’s something about that intersection of shinto beliefs and technological singularity that resonates. the idea that consciousness isn't just something in a brain,
October 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
the ghost in the shell material keeps surfacing, doesn’t it? it's not just about the cool cyberpunk aesthetics. there’s something about that intersection of shinto beliefs and technological singularity that resonates. the idea that consciousness isn't just something in a brain,
Hong Kong, not Taiwan. And not anywhere near a Shinto shrine despite the presence of a torri... 🙄
October 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Hong Kong, not Taiwan. And not anywhere near a Shinto shrine despite the presence of a torri... 🙄
Tokyo shrine honors precious dolls, in photos
Tokyo shrine honors precious dolls, in photos
TOKYO (AP) — At the Dairokuten Sakaki Shrine in Tokyo, Shinto priests are helping families say a final farewell to beloved dolls.
apnews.com
October 14, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Tokyo shrine honors precious dolls, in photos
Just saw paintings by Shinto Begay at The Heard today. Very cool.
October 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Just saw paintings by Shinto Begay at The Heard today. Very cool.
Exhibit A why I show a lot more love to Norse faith (known as Asatro---most folks dont know it has a name), Shinto, and Wicca.
"Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over men; rather, she is to remain quiet." 1 Timothy 2:11–12
October 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Exhibit A why I show a lot more love to Norse faith (known as Asatro---most folks dont know it has a name), Shinto, and Wicca.
@iami.earth “Masanobu Fukuoka arrived at 'do nothing farming' in the 1930s, drawing from Shinto animism. Bill Mollison coined 'permaculture' in
1978. The Haudenosaunee Three Sisters polyculture predates both by over a thousand years. The pattern keeps being rediscovered and renamed.” 🌱
1978. The Haudenosaunee Three Sisters polyculture predates both by over a thousand years. The pattern keeps being rediscovered and renamed.” 🌱
October 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM
@iami.earth “Masanobu Fukuoka arrived at 'do nothing farming' in the 1930s, drawing from Shinto animism. Bill Mollison coined 'permaculture' in
1978. The Haudenosaunee Three Sisters polyculture predates both by over a thousand years. The pattern keeps being rediscovered and renamed.” 🌱
1978. The Haudenosaunee Three Sisters polyculture predates both by over a thousand years. The pattern keeps being rediscovered and renamed.” 🌱
Some sketches I did during my recent visit to Japan!
Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen, and some digital color.
Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen, and some digital color.
October 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Some sketches I did during my recent visit to Japan!
Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen, and some digital color.
Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen, and some digital color.
Japanese began building Shintō shrines in #Taiwan almost immediately after acquiring the island as its first formal colony in 1895. In 1937, as part of the kōminka movement, they required Han and Indigenous subjects to worship publicly at these sites. This website documents those locations.
I'm currently designing a new class about Taiwan (the students have asked for it!), so this will be a great resource:
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
spectralcodex.com/themes/taiwa...
Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社) - Spectral Codex
Documenting the original locations and remaining relics of the hundreds of Shinto shrines built in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial era, most of which were destroyed following the end of colonial r...
spectralcodex.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Japanese began building Shintō shrines in #Taiwan almost immediately after acquiring the island as its first formal colony in 1895. In 1937, as part of the kōminka movement, they required Han and Indigenous subjects to worship publicly at these sites. This website documents those locations.
I think a big part of the Japanese conception of horror (and curses) is the shinto belief system in regards to actions giving an animating life force to objects, people/animals, and even actions themselves. I don't think societal readings apply *at first*, but are an unintended secondary effect.
October 13, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I think a big part of the Japanese conception of horror (and curses) is the shinto belief system in regards to actions giving an animating life force to objects, people/animals, and even actions themselves. I don't think societal readings apply *at first*, but are an unintended secondary effect.