3.Shirokane Hikawa Shrine/白金氷川神社

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Shirokane Hikawa Shrine (said to have been founded in the Asuka period)
The period from the end of the 6th century to 710 is known in Japan as the Asuka period, and it is believed that governance was centered around the Asuka region of present-day Nara Prefecture.

During this period, the country was able to establish a system for domestic and foreign affairs by utilizing Chinese characters that had already been introduced from China, such as controlling bureaucrats through the Twelve Ranks of Caps, establishing laws such as a 17-article constitution and a 17-volume ritsuryo code (the Taiho Code), publicly spreading Buddhism through correspondence with the continent, and sending envoys (envoys to the Sui Dynasty) to China.Chinese characters that had already been introduced from China were used to establish a system for domestic and foreign affairs, and culture also flourished.

Even after the introduction of Buddhism, Japan did not prohibit worship of ancient Japanese gods (Shinto), and the coexistence of Buddhism and Shinto, in other words, freedom of religion, has continued to the present day.

Shirokane Hikawa Shrine is a Shinto shrine that is said to have been founded as the guardian deity of Shirokane village during the Hakuho period (645-710), when construction of magnificent Buddhist temples was underway in the Kinki region, where the capital was located at the time.
The three deities enshrined here are Susanoo-no-Mikoto, who is said to have defeated Yamata-no-Orochi (an eight-headed snake monster) in Izumo Province (present-day Shimane Prefecture), Kushinadahime, who was saved by him and became his wife, and Okuninushi-no-Mikoto, who saved a white rabbit in the area and became Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s son-in-law.

白金氷川神社（飛鳥時代に創建されたと伝わる）
6世紀終わり〜710年までの時代は、我が国では飛鳥時代と呼ばれ、現在の奈良県飛鳥地方を中心とした統治が行われたと考えられています。

この時代には、冠位十二階による官僚の統制、全十七条からなる憲法や全17巻からなる律令(大宝律令)等法令の制定、大陸との書状のやり取りによる仏教の公伝や、中国への使者(遣隋使)の派遣等、既に中国から伝わっていた漢字を活用し、内政外交上の国家として体制が整えられるとともに、文化の華も開きました。

仏教伝来後も、我が国は日本古来の神々への信仰(神道)を禁止せず、仏教と神道が共存する、言わば、信教の自由が確保された状態が今の時代にまで続いています。

この白金氷川神社は、当時の首都が置かれた近畿地方で華やかな仏教寺院の建造が進められていた「白鳳時代」(645年〜710年)に、白金村の鎮守として創建されたと伝わる神道の神社です。
祀られている神様は、出雲の国(現在の島根県)でヤマタノオロチ(八本首の蛇の怪物)を退治したと伝わる素戔鳴尊、その尊に助けられ妻となった櫛名田比売、その地域で白兎を助けて素戔鳴尊の娘婿となった大巳貴命(大国主命)の3柱です。