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1. Jomon Period

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   Animism and Kami Worship
   Archaeological and ethnographic evidence indicates that Jomon peoples practiced animistic beliefs centered on the veneration of natural phenomena and spiritual essences known as kami. Mountain peaks, bodies of water, unusual rock formations, and large trees were conceptualized as inhabited by spiritual beings requiring propitiation and respect.[^12]
   Shamanic practitioners, identifiable in burial contexts by unusual grave goods and skeletal modifications (including deliberate cranial deformation), appear to have mediat…