やはり山陰を巡るのであれば、なんども参拝させていただいているけれど、出雲大社には「帰っていかないと」と思う心理が湧いてくる。実際に「神楽殿」の大注連縄のところに来ると、そういう心理になってくる。神職の方から「お帰りなさい」と声掛けしていただくとなにかが「融ける」気がする。
　国譲りの伝承の浜辺を参観してから今回も向かっていた次第。
　で、写真は「ムスビの御神像」。凡人にもわかりやすい「出雲の心」。以下、碑文。
　〜幸魂 奇魂（さきみたま くしみたま）
　時に海を照らして依り来たる神あり。吾在るに由りての故に汝その國造りの大業を建つるを得たり。
　吾は汝が幸魂 奇魂なり。大国主神これ吾が幸魂 奇魂なりと知りぬ。〜
　古事記また日本書紀に述べるところであります。出雲大社の御祭神大国主神はこの幸魂 奇魂の「おかげ」をいただいて神性を養われ「ムスビの大神」となられました。生きとし生けるものすべてが幸福になる「縁」を結ぶ「縁結びの神」と慕われるゆえんであります。
　およそ人が人であるということは幸魂 奇魂というムスビの「みたま」をわが身にいただいて霊止すなわち人として生かされているからであります。大神からいただいたこの「いのち」を感謝して大切に正しくこれを生かしきりましょう。＜以上、要旨＞
　この「ムスビの御神像」はこういう大国主神の心象を形象化したものとされる。やはり山陰の旅を通して感受させられるコアな部分が宿っているように思える。そのプロセスの解明は道半ばなのだろうけれど、やはり古代における大きな「政治的変動」を経て、和の国国家社会が成立していった底流が「心意」として伝わってくるような気がする。
　この国社会につい最近正式に参入した地域である北海道神宮にも、この大国主神は祭神として祀られているので、日頃からその縁につながっているのだと思う日々であります。高校時代新左翼運動に埋没していたとは思いにくいのですが（笑）、どうも、結ばれた縁を感じるきょうこの頃であります。
　
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The Ancient Mind as Seen in the Musubi no Mikami Statue at Izumo-taisha Shrine]
Even those of us who lean toward the New Left Movement are moved by the message of the faraway ancients. Is this a social sharing of the mindset of a country of harmony? …

　I have visited Izumo-taisha many times when touring the San’in region, but the thought that I must return to the Izumo-taisha shrine comes to mind. Such a mentality comes into play when you actually come to the large shimenawa (sacred rope) in the Kaguraden (Hall of Shinto music and dance). When a priest says to me, “Welcome home,” I feel something “melt away.
　After visiting the beach of the legend of the handing over of the country, I was on my way to the shrine again.
　The picture is of the “Musubi no Mikami” (Goddess of Mercy). The heart of Izumo” is easy to understand even for ordinary people. The following is the inscription.
　〜Sacred soul, miraculous soul (Sakimitama, Kushimitama)
There is a god who shines on the sea and comes to us at times. I am the reason for thy presence, so that thou mayest build thy great work of nation-building.
　I am thy spirit of good fortune and thy spirit of wonder. I know that I am the spirit of good fortune and the spirit of strangeness. 〜
This is what the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) and Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan) say. Okuninushi, the deity of Izumo-taisha Shrine, received the “blessings” of this “lucky soul” and “miraculous soul” to nurture his divinity and become the “Great God of Musubi”. This is the reason why he is called the “god of marriage,” who brings happiness to all living things.
　The reason we are human beings is that we have received the “divine spirit” of MUSUBI, which is the spirit of good fortune and miraculous souls, in our bodies, and are thus kept alive as human beings. Let us be grateful for this “life” that we have received from God the Great, and let us cherish it and make full use of it correctly. ＜This “Musubi no Mikami” is said to be the embodiment of this image of Okuninushi. It is said that this “Musubi no Mikami” is an embodiment of the mind of the deity Okuninushi. It seems to contain the core of what was sensed through the San-in region. Although we are still in the process of elucidating this process, it seems to me that the underlying “spirit” that led to the establishment of the Japanese nation-state society through major “political changes” in ancient times is being conveyed to us.
　Since the deity Okuninushi is also enshrined at the Hokkaido Jingu Shrine, which is a region that has only recently officially entered this national society, I feel that I am connected to this relationship on a daily basis. It is hard to believe that I was buried in the New Left Movement during my high school days (laugh), but I feel that I am connected to it these days.
　
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Posted on 7月 3rd, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
Filed under: 日本社会・文化研究