Ritualistic

On December 31st, 2008 I posted something about an article I read. This post is here. It has to do with some people in Shingo, Japan that believe they are descendants of Christ because, according to their beliefs, he supposedly fled from being crucified and let his brother, possibly his twin brother at that, Isukiri, take the fall. Of all places, Jesus went to Japan. Japan! Not Egypt. Not Greece. Not Africa.

Japan.

Anyway.

Some of their reasons for believing this are bit ludicrous. The article states that an interviewees grandfather “stood out in the neighborhood for being tall and thin, completely the opposite of these sturdy mountain folk. But most tellingly, he had blue eyes, they say.” We all know that Jesus was most likely not tall, not thin and did not have blue eyes. Maybe if these supposed descendants of Christ were healing or walking on water, that’d be a different story…

However, other reasons are perhaps not so ridiculous. The article makes mention of “ … the hamlet’s former name, Herai, sounds slightly similar to “Hebrew,” the chants in the summer festival at the site of the tomb sound somewhat Judaic.”

When I first read this I chalked it up to coincidence or looking for something that isn’t there. However, it may not be so. Someone informed me that Ancient Israel may have ended up in Japan.

There is startling evidence that this happened. Many traditions in certain parts of Japan come straight from the traditions from the Old Testament and those followed by Ancient Israel. They reenact actual stories in the Bible, or used to.

For instance, take into account this Japanese festival, called “Ontohsai”:

According to this site “at the festival, a boy is tied up by a rope to a wooden pillar, and placed on a bamboo carpet. A Shinto priest comes to him preparing a knife, and he cuts a part of the top of the wooden pillar, but then a messenger (another priest) comes there, and the boy is released.”

Sound familiar? That’s the re-telling of the story of Isaac as written in Genesis 22.

There is also other evidence that is too big to ignore. Similar Crests, similar traditions that Japanese priests do that the Jewish people do today (even though I do not believe most Jews come from the Tribes of Israel, they must get some of their traditions from the Lost Tribes), robes that the Japanese priests wear look like robes that the Israeli priests wore, and so on and so forth.

Even some old Japanese words have Hebrew in it. Look at what some this site says about that:

AND I QUOTE… (quote ends when I put “END QUOTE” at the bottom)

“ …When we Japanese count, “One, two, three… ten,” we sometimes say:

“Hi, fu, mi, yo, itsu, mu, nana, ya, kokono, towo.”

This is a traditional expression, but its meaning is unknown and it is thought of as being Japanese.

It has been said that this expression originates from an ancient Japanese Shinto myth. In the myth, the female god, called “Amaterasu,” who manages the world’s sunlight, once hid herself in a heavenly cave, and the world became dark. Then, according to the oldest book of Japanese history, the priest called “Koyane” prayed with words before the cave and in front of the other gods to have “Amaterasu” come out. Although the words said in the prayer are not written, a legend says that these words were, “Hi, fu, mi….”

Joseph Eidelberg stated that this is a beautiful Hebrew expression, if it is supposed that there were some pronunciation changes throughout history. These words are spelled: “Hifa mi yotsia ma na’ne ykakhena tavo.”

This means: “The beautiful (Goddess). Who will bring her out? What should we call out (in chorus) to entice her to come?” This surprisingly fits the situation of the myth.

Moreover, we Japanese not only say, “Hi, hu, mi…,” but also say with the same meaning:

“Hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu, yottsu, itsutsu, muttsu, nanatsu, yattsu, kokonotsu, towo.”

Here, “totsu” or “tsu” is put to each of “Hi, hu, mi…” as the last part of the words. But the last “towo” (which means ten) remains the same. “Totsu” could be the Hebrew word “tetse,” which means, “She comes out. ” And “tsu” may be the Hebrew word “tse” which means “Come out.”

Eidelberg believed that these words were said by the gods who surrounded the priest, “Koyane.” That is, when “Koyane” first says, “Hi,” the surrounding gods add, “totsu” (She comes out) in reply, and secondly, when “Koyane” says, “Fu,” the gods add “totsu” (tatsu), and so on. In this way, it became “Hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu….”

However, the last word, “towo,” the priest, “Koyane,” and the surrounding gods said together. If this is the Hebrew word “tavo,” it means, “(She) shall come.” When they say this, the female god, “Amaterasu,” came out.

“Hi, fu, mi…” and “Hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu…” later were used as the words to count numbers.

In addition, the name of the priest, “Koyane,” sounds close to a Hebrew word, “kohen,” which means, “a priest.” Eidelberg showed many other examples of Japanese words (several thousand) which appeared to have a Hebrew origin. This does not appear to be accidental. … ”

END QUOTE.

There is also evidence of Biblical genealogy, the genealogy of the Lost Tribes of Ancient Israel that is, effecting Japanese mythology. Similar stories that happened in the Old Testament, with family, who borne who, who died or went away at a young age, are exactly how it is in Japanese mythology too.

When I read all of this I was blown away. Do I think that Jesus went to Japan? No. But now at least it makes some sense to me why some people do believe that.

For more information please visit “Israelites Came To Ancient Japan” by Arimasa Kubo and all the chapters henceforth. Especially chapter 3. That has A LOT of evidence.

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