place
Shrine
A focused place of presence or memorial, often smaller than a temple. Wayside and household shrines are local.
Hellenic religion
Shrine appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias names lesser shrines and hero-marks beside the great temples. A named shrine class in that periegesis, not temple as the major seat and not every wayside dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Nahua tradition
Shrine appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records household and wayside shrines beside major teocalli — named smaller cult places and god-images’ seats. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Roman religion
Shrine appears in Roman religion.
Virgil’s Aeneid seats shrines and sacred houses across Troy, Carthage, Cumae, and Latium—temple doors, Penates seats, and vowed fanum speech. A shrine as cult place in that epic, not the Pausanian hellenic shrine walk restated.
from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)
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Shinto
Kamidana is historically related to Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat the kamidana as the household god-shelf shrine — domestic shrine speech, not a butsudan Buddhist altar alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Gohei is used in Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat gohei as the paper-wand / streamer staff of shrine ritual — wand use at the shrine, not a shimenawa rope alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Mikoshi is used in Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō / Festivals notes seat the mikoshi as the portable shrine carried in procession — portable-shrine use, not the fixed honden hall alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Honden is historically related to Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat the honden as the inner sanctuary hall of a Shintō shrine — main-hall speech, not the haiden worship hall alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Haiden is historically related to Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō notes seat the haiden as the oratory / worship hall before the honden — worship-hall speech, not the inner honden alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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Komainu is historically related to Shrine.
Chamberlain’s Shintō / Sculpture notes seat komainu as the paired lion-dog guardians at shrine gates — guardian speech, not a Chinese foo-dog dump alone.
from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)
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sources
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Aeneid · Virgil
Virgil, Aeneid.
- Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain
Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).