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Bob Blackburn wrote:
I think Kami here is God. It is also used for deities or spirits.
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And in the first sense, Shinto may be understood as a rather wildy elaborated, loosely collected form of panentheistic monotheism.
And in the latter sense -- it isn't.
O Sensei's heavy focus on the first kami of creation, Ame no Minakanushi no Kami, one of the "hidden" "trinity" of creator deities is of the first variety.
But that debate has been going on for over two hundred years ....