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Shinto Fire Festival
Presenter Reverend Peter Owen-Jones observes a Shinto Oto Matsuri Fire Festival in Shingu, Japan. He talks with some of the participants as they cleanse themselves in the cold waters of the sea, as they prepare their torches adorned with personal wishes and prayers, and as they walk up to a local shrine above the city. [...]
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Tagged belief, gods, Peter Owen-Jones, prayer, purification, Religious Education, ritual, Shinto, worship
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