kami

In the Japanese spirituality of Shinto, Kami are defined by wikipedia as – “Kami may, at its root, simply mean spirit, or an aspect of spirituality. It is written with the kanji 神, Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin. In Chinese, the character means deity or spirit. In the Ainu language, the word kamuy refers to an animistic concept very similar to Japanese kami.”

In the cosmology of the Mythica, kami are another name for deva, for the elemental spiritual entities which form the natural world.  As with the Shinto practice of reverence and connection with the kami as a means of finding balance and harmony with the natural world, the journey through the underlands of the Mythica is about this sacred relationship and what it speaks to regarding hte age of the akasha in which we live.