The Whole Areas around Hanioka no Sato = ONE HUGE SHRINE!!!!

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About Himeji Castle 姫路城.. 姫 means “princess”, and 路 means “way, road”… which makes Himiji Castle some “way to lead to Princess”. I believe this means “The way to reach Queen Himiko”.
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Now, to Hanioka no Sato.. before going into Uemori, Mr. Takebe, Ms. Tanaka, and Uemori’s team’s great discovery of Moses’ Grave.. The 3 main characters, Jesus, Queen Himiko, and Moses contributed to building the foundation of the ancient Japanese country in a very significant way. But before going to this splendid discovery around Moses, I’d like to check the ” Hanioka no Sato” area.. Mr.Ichikawa made the map easy to understand. HANIOKA is the region around Kamikawa town, Ikuno city, Okawachi Village before 2005. But now, this village is merged into Kamikawa town.. So, HANIOKA is around Kamikawa town and Ikuno city in Kanzaki District, Hyogo prefecture. But I use Mr. Ichikawa’s map, because HANIOKA was named in Harima Fudoki (a regional record), which is not so new..
The mountaintop rock arrangement device, flat spot, and the stone circle with a sunstone at the center made the place for prayer for the ancient people, and this developed into the small shrine on the mountaintop, and then it came down to the city area for us to pray for the creator god.. But, what if the whole KAMIKAWA and part of the Himeji area functioned as one huge shrine’s main part, kamidana??? How romantic and super-dynamic!! Ancient people must have used a river(the River Ichikawa) as the means of traffic (as a road), going up and down with their boats!! They must have needed some water springs, some places to put some offerings, and the main shrine and the place for some rituals.. The huge area of HANIOKA must have been made as a device for ancient people to pay homage to the creator god, or the sun, for the richness of rain, food, and nature, and the social meetings..in short, for our happiness. I cite “Traces of the Phoenix Vol 1” for the lovely/ excellent illustration by Mr. Yano, our hero in Uemori’s Team!! Surprisingly, Uemori and his team climbed all of these mountains visited all areas, and know them well.. all the info has been downloaded to him..(it is a huge mystery for me.. why can he/his team do them all???.) Nature(spring water, greenery, etc) is all used to create a huge shrine…
And of course, Himeji Castle is there, I believe, to praise Queen Himiko!!!, the Japanese Pride.
The entrance to the huge “shrine” is Kamijima, and we go between two mountains, Mt. Jjinjyu（仁寿）and Mt. Kofuji（小富士）. 仁 means love/compassion, so, the entrance of HANIOKA might be telling us, ” We are going through the “happiness of love”仁寿 and Mt.Fuji(富士山 longevity, immortality)…
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