The Tainos had respect for every living thing and knew the importance of giving honor and gratitude to ancestors and spiritual beings which the called Cemi. The cemi was represented ocassionally by certain animals and distordes human faces. These represented the divine or sacred.
The kami in Japanese history were gods including the greater creation ones to smaller gods of nature, including ancestors or any natural force or human aspect that could provoke awe. Kami was more than a plurality of gods or forces. It was more the idea and concept that all of nature and life participated of this divine and sacred nature (kami-nature).
Between the Cemi and kami concepts there are more similarities than diferences. And they were a great distance apart. Curious, ah?
Sensei Myriam
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