Talk:List of Japanese deities

message: An emperor one day passed by a cat, which seemed to wave to him. Taking the cat's motion as a sign, the emperor paused and went to it. Diverted from his journey, he realized that he had avoided a trap that had been laid for him just ahead. Since that time, cats have been considered wise and lucky spirits. Many Japanese shrines and homes include a figurine of a cat with one pay upraised as if waving-hence Kami Neko. Problem is, I don't know which emperor. Help? Chris 02:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  より多くの情報はここで共同しています。 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Maneki-neko.html 15:26, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: What of [[Maneki Neko|Kami Neko]]?

message: This was a link within Ame-no-Uzume to what looks like OR, which has been deleted from the Solar deity article. Is there any basis to this claim at all? Imaginatorium (talk) 14:39, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "missing sun motif" 

message: These deities now added should not be removed as they are properly sourced.
YodogawaKamlyn (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Ta-no-Kami and other deities=

message: I’m gonna go through this and make articles for some Kami.
So fair I created 3 articles.
I’m also gonna work on the genealogy.  CycoMa (talk) 16:54, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making some articles for some Kami 

message: I removed the following redlink entry: *Ekibiogami, kami of disease and pestilence. (ref) Cite book|last=Ashkenazi|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqs-y9R2AekC&q=Ekibiogami|title=Handbook of Japanese Mythology|date=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-467-1|language=en}}. Probably the author meant to write Ekibyōgami, but the introduction to his book makes it clear he is not exactly an expert. Japanese WP has ja:疫病神, read Yakubyōgami, but this does not have a WP:en entry. (The first character, 疫 is usually read "eki"; the name can also (WP:ja) be written 厄病神, where the first character 厄 is usually read "yaku". The two characters have similar meanings, but 疫病 is the normal word for an epidemic, while 厄 is more associated with woo stuff about magical problems. Imaginatorium (talk) 06:34, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: About Michael Ashkenazi: he is an anthropologist, but has no competence in Japanese (if he did, he could not have written the description he gives for Japanese), so he may write useful and interesting things, but cannot be guaranteed to get the name right. Actually, I think that WP:ja is right, and the name should be Yakubyōgami. I checked a standard reliable (real-world reliable, not just WP:NOTREALLYRELIABLEATALLBUTDEFINITELYAPROPERPRINTEDBOOK), 広辞苑 (Kōjien) and it has an entry for 疫病神, read "Yakubyōgami", but no entry for a reading Ekibyōgami. "Ekibio-" is an obvious error, and any source quoting it can be deduced not to have basic Japanese competence. I'm not going through all of them, but how many of your "references" are derived from WP, I wonder? (Did you notice that there are lots of Google hits for Maristino, and they are all rather obviously circular regurgitation of the WP article.) Imaginatorium (talk) 11:29, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ekibyōgami? 

message: I don’t entirely agree with the whole major and minor deities thing.
It just seems like a weird way to list them off and it’s hard to tell exactly who is more major or more minor in some cases.
Not to mention many of these deities are classified in different groups.CycoMa (talk) 18:12, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in the Hebrew Bible, some prophets are major, and some are minor, classified through a number of ecumenical councils, traditions, heresies and revisions. I don't actually know a lot, if at all, about Japanese deities, but it may just be how they're classified in tradition. --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 23:20, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  major and minor deities 

message: If i were looking for a list of Shinto Kami sorted by the number of shrines they are venerated in, where could i possibly find this? Would it be in the scope of Wikipedia to have that here? - Schockocraft (talk) 19:58, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorted List