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Akakura
Mountain Gorge
Akakura
Mountain Gorge, looms large in the iconography and ritual practice
of the shrine. It is characterized by many dramatic volcanic
and geological features, and is compared by many worshippers
to a woman's genitalia, "the thing of a woman". Through
it runs Akakura river, the source of the life-giving water of
the gods. The gorge also spatially orients those undertaking
mountain asceticism (shugyo).
This
photograph of the gorge is displayed within the Reido ancestral
veneration hall of the shrine.
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