Talk:Yomi

Hmm, Another Article on Japanese Mythology Completely Unsourced

So how do we fix this? There's a lot of information here, but if we cut out everything that does not have a citation we won't have an article either. For reasons that are obscure whenever an editor suggests we simply just delete articles like this for failing Wiki's own standards people get upset but when an editor says "I see a problem, how do we fix it?" the response seems to be: "why are you asking such a question? why don't you fix it?" I wouldn't mind simply deleting the Yomi page, not because it isn't important to understanding Japanese Mythology, but because no editor since 2005 seems to have cared enough to add a single line of reference here. What's the point of keeping Yomi alive if, as it stands now, it just looks like we simply don't care? Duende-Poetry (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

The precise statement I am referring to is "Yomi is more of a place for souls to be cleansed." I would suggest that this statement be removed or clarified.JssPue 17:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I am skeptical about the statement that Yomi serves to "purify souls" as I do not believe this is implied in either KOJIKI or NIHON SHOKI. If this was concluded by a later commentator, e.g. Motoori Norinaga, then this should be explicitly stated.JssPue 17:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

What does "the crash with Buddhism" mean? RickK 02:30, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Christian Uses

"Yomi" is also used in some Japanese Christian texts in places where "Hell" is used in the English versions. For example Revelation 6:8 from the Japanese Bible Society's 1954 translation http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%8F%E3%83%8D%E3%81%AE%E9%BB%99%E7%A4%BA%E9%8C%B2(%E5%8F%A3%E8%AA%9E%E8%A8%B3)#6:8

そこで見ていると、見よ、青白い馬が出てきた。そして、それに乗っている者の名は「死」と言い、それに黄泉が従っていた。彼らには、地の四分の一を支配する権威、および、つるぎと、ききんと、死と、地の獣らとによって人を殺す権威とが、与えられた。

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Revelation#Chapter_6

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Other versions of that passage, and some other Christian works like the Apostle's Creed, use a term "陰府" which is apparently pronounced the same ("yomi") but written differently. However I don't see that version on the current page so I don't know how it is related to the other "yomi". http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%BF%E5%BE%92%E4%BF%A1%E6%9D%A1 十字架につけられて死に、葬られ、陰府（よみ）に下り、三日目に死者のうちから復活し、 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again. crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad ínferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, Identity0 (talk) 15:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Just wondering....

If the entrance is blocked, how do the dead get inside? 91.105.48.11 (talk) 16:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)