Not only the soul and the spirit but also their expressions and understandings were the life, the soul, the departed soul, the god, and the deity, where the distinction among them or concepts of them were vague, which have not categorized or defined in the past.
そして、霊や精霊だけでなくその表現や捉え方は命・魂・御霊（みたま）や神・尊（みこと）でもあり、その区別や概念も曖昧であり、それを分類や定義付けることなく享受してきた。