No47

How do human beings treat the spirit?

As the image of the spirit,

In many cases, a near relation person's spirit is innocent to the person.

It is thought that the influence of him on it also appears with "protection" form.

It gives a broad interpretation of this,

The heroes who had distinguished services to the whole family are contained in this.

"By deifying them, a certain profits are obtained to us."

Such way of thinking is produced and a hero is worshipped as God.

On the other hand, when the person who is clearly malicious to us dies, we think that he curses us.

In this case, if we do not consider a certain confrontation expedient to him, disadvantageous valuing will occur to my body and whole family.

There are two kinds in the measure in this case.

One is the hard-lining way of thinking.

We receive protection of a virtue spirit more powerful than the cursing evil spirit.

Furthermore, we make him eradicate an evil spirit.

It is such an expedient.

In this case, we look down upon an evil spirit thoroughly.

It is emphasized that he is vicious existence.

It is a "ghost" when he is a unimportant fellow.

Or he is called a "fairy", "monster", etc.

If he becomes a large thing, it will become an "devil" and "evil God."

It will be based on the following reasons that these images exist mostly.

"There is much stress of personal relations in human society,

and we are always exposed to the threat of the person considered to be an enemy."

Another method is a way we flatter an evil spirit somehow and aim at reconciliation with him.

There are the following expedients in it.

"We accept our negligence and apologize to him intently."

We raise an opponent's spirit level and make him abandon the immature way of thinking which is likely to curse.

When he is a "ghost" grade, we ask a religionist and should just return him to an appropriate place.

What is necessary is just to deify as "God", if he is the existence which curses more powerfully.

Generally in a nomadic people's cultural group, the hard-lining way of thinking is taken in many cases.

It seems that the quiet way of thinking is chosen in many cases in an agricultural people's cultural group.

Irrespective of the difference in culture, it is thought of with because there is influence of unconsciousness that consciousness reaches to the spirit.

Then, where did unconsciousness get the information over the spirit?

If this is considered, it means that human beings had possessed the opportunity to meet with the spirit in the process which gets the present mind.

The information was an element important when saving a race,

It is written in the circuit of unconsciousness and, probably, we should think that it was inherited by nature.