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- [get physically clean]
- [Face towards kamidana]
- [Bow twice]
- I ask that you purify and cleanse me
- [Take three steps forward]
- [Bow to 45 degrees]
- [Stand up straight and pause for a couple of seconds]
- [Bow deeply]
- [Bow your head or bow slightly from your waist]
- [I have seen people do different things with their hands when reciting the norito, I do the gassho type thing with thumbs crossed]
- I call you great kami
- to come to this kamidana
- to receive my offerings
- and hear my prayers
- You whose names I should dread
- but you who reached out to me
- even when I did not know
- how to even properly pray
- *here I recite the names of the kami and honorable epithets for them*
- I thank you for everything that you have done for me
- *here goes a special request if there is one to make, everything after this is more or less just translated standard kamidana norito*
- I pray that I may offer forward the blessing you grant me
- I pray that I may follow the true path you teach without straying
- Give energy for the work I do
- Protect me and those close to me
- Help me to give my everything
- for the sake of humanity and the world around me
- This I mostly humbly ask from you
- [Straighten your head and body]
- [Bow deeply twice]
- [Stand up straight again]
- [Put your hands together in front of your chest at about shoulder height]
- [Slide right hand down slightly so that the tips of fingers are around the joints of the left hand]
- [Clap your hands loudly twice, opening them to the width of your chest]
- [Slide your right hand to be on the level with your left hand]
- [Put your arms down by your sides]
- [Bow deep once]
- [Stand up straight and pause for a few seconds]
- [Bow once down to about 45 and straighten up]
- [Take three steps backwards - you should walk backwards]
- [Bow slightly once]
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