To Tokyo the cycle of ceremonies of declaration of the new Emperor of Japan] bega

Tokyo, 22 Oct – information agency "RIA Novosti", Naka Xenia. The cycle of the ceremonies connected with official declaration of the new Emperor of Japan by Narukhito began to Tokyo with the ritual announcement of it to gods of Three sanctuaries. The emperor Narukhito, dressed in ritual snow-white clothes, entered the temple of Kasikodokoro in which worship to the goddess of the Sun Amaterasu Omikami – the Supreme deity of a Shintoistic pantheon. In the temple brought also two of three imperial regalia - a sword of Kusanagi-no-tsurugi and a jasper magatama. According to chronicles and myths, the jasper was carried by the goddess of the Sun. It is considered that this the most ancient of...