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=Tenrikyo cosmology=

Creation myth
The authoritative version of Tenrikyo's creation story can be found in the third chapter of The Doctrine of Tenrikyo, which is titled "The Truth of Origin" (「元の理」moto no ri).

Content
What does it talk about?


 * Fukaya, Tadamasa. A Doctrinal Study: The Truth of Origin.
 * explains the three causalities.
 * Promised Time, Residence, Oyasama
 * explains the beginning of human creation and why humans were created
 * Joyous Life
 * explains how human beings were guided and developed over many years.
 * explains the significance of the Kagura Service.
 * explains the existence of Tenrikyo as a teaching
 * explains the importance of human beings' consent in the creation
 * explains why souls were drawn back to the Residence
 * explains tsukihi dialectic, oneness in two

History of composition
Nakayama Miki left a written record of Tenrikyo's creation story in the Ofudesaki, one of Tenrikyo's three main scriptures. The story is recounted mainly in Part VI, which was composed in December 1874.

Nakayama also taught the creation story a number of times by word of mouth. The earliest versions of the story were written down by her disciples in 1881. Most of these versions were written in verse form, similar to the Ofudesaki. Later versions of the story, written from 1883 until the time of Nakayama's passing in 1887, were written in prose form.


 * Nakayama Shozen. Lectures on The Doctrine of Tenrikyo.

Jiba
A kind of axis mundi. The identification of the Jiba in 1875.

Kanrodai
The pillar that marks the Jiba.

Construction
The construction of the Kanrodai. The model of the Kanrodai. Ofudesaki's specific orders.