日本三霊山

にほんさんれいざん

Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

山霊

さんれい

a mountain's guardian deity

霊山

れいざん

sacred mountain

三山

さんざん

three mountains

三名山

さんめいざん

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

霊

れい

soul, spirit, departed soul, ghost

熊野三山

くまのさんざん

three main Kumano shrines (Kumano Hongu Taisha, Kumano Nachi Taisha, Kumano Hayatama Taisha)

大和三山

やまとさんざん

Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi)

日本三名山

にほんさんめいざん

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

分霊

ぶんれい

division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine, spirit divided in such a manner

皇霊

こうれい

spirits of past emperors

威霊

いれい

powerful spirit

言霊

ことだま

soul of language, power of words

御霊

みたま ごりょう

spirit of a deceased person

祖霊

それい

ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities

霊異

れいい りょうい

miracle, wonder, wondrous thing

霊長

れいちょう

leader with miraculous powers, humanity

霊威

れいい

mysterious power

霊地

れいち

sacred ground