Hierarch Daikokuten
Daikoku, Ta-No-Kami
God Daikokuten (Daikoku, Ta-No-Kami) serves as a Hierarch of the
Sixth Ray of Traditions Preservation. The Sacred Site focal point of Hierarch
Daikokuten is the Hachijyoji Temple on Awajishima in Japan.
As Daikoku, Daikokuten was a Japanese Shinto god of luck, happiness, wealth, agriculture, crops, farming, rice paddies,
harvests, and kitchens.
As Ta-No-Kami, he was an agricultural, farming, and
rice paddies god in western Japan.
Often portrayed as a wealthy rotund figure seated on
two bales of rice with a sack of jewels over his shoulder, he also held a hammer
in his right hand. Frequently a mouse was also depicted nibbling at one of the
bales of rice.
According to Japanese traditions, whenever Daikokuten
shakes his hammer a large amount of money falls out of it.
Small gold talismans with representations of
Daikokuten on them are carried to ensure prosperity, abundance, and wealth.
Shinto God of Good Fortune Daikokuten
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The Sacred Site focal point
of Hierarch Daikokuten and the Sixth Ray of Traditions Preservation is the
Hachijyoji Temple on Awajishima in Japan.
Daikokuten was revered by
people as the god of wealth at the Hachijyoji Temple on Awajishima since the Oei
Period from 1394-1428.
Painted a distinctive shade
of vermillion red, the main temple houses a two meter high image of Daikokuten... Hierarchs Goddesses Gods of Twelve Universal Rays
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Public Domain Image Shinto God of Fortune Daikokuten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shichi_fukujin.jpg]. Accessed January 21, 2007.
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