A Kannushi is the person responsible for the maintenance of a Shinto shrine, or jinja, purificatory rites, and for leading worship and veneration of a certain kami.
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Unlike the third and fourth formula, the first two do not express wishes and are technically purificatory and meditational declarations ( " asti ", " it is " ).
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The very first day, they rise before dawn, do their hair, anoint their bodies with turmeric paste and oil and then take the purificatory bath in a river or tank.
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Stein ( 1972 : p . 66-67 ) holds that Kamala [ + la disseminated a " gradualist approach " to enlightenment, consisting of purificatory sdhan such as cultivating the pramits.
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In a sign of the times, you'll learn that those devotees who can't make it to the sacred waters can absolve themselves by taking a computer-guided purificatory bath in the comfort of their homes.
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Ezekiel depicts the destruction of Jerusalem as a purificatory sacrifice upon the altar, made necessary by the " abominations " in the Temple ( the presence of idols and the worship of the god Tammuz ) described in chapter 8.
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This can be compared to Pausanias'report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.
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A " kannushi " was a man capable of miracles or a holy man who, because of his practice of purificatory rites, was capable to work as a medium for a " kami ", but later the term evolved to being synonymous with " shinshoku ", that is, a man who works at a shrine and holds religious ceremonies there.
