Kamigamo Shrine
Ancient Shinto shrine to a thunder god, marked by twin sand cones echoing his sacred mountain.
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This guide to Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto opens with Tamayorihime, a priest's daughter who finds a red arrow drifting in a river and takes it home, and the son she cannot explain who is born soon after. It follows his growth into a thunder god and the strange test his grandfather set him at a feast, then turns to the twin cones of pale sand that still rise before the inner hall, said to carry a little of his protection home with you.
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