It is also called 'Minkan Shinto and Minzoku Shinto' (Folk Shinto and the Folk or Popular Shinto,) Primitive Shinto, Jomon Shinto (縄文神道) and Kodo (ancient moral teachings) (Primitive Confucianism of Chinese Civilization is the same in meaning, but it is excluded here), and means things that have been continued by common people in Japan from the olden times and events of faith related to Buddhism or Sutra syncretized with Koshinto, such as Shugen or Koshinto incorporating the thoughts of Taoism.
「民間神道・民俗神道」や原始神道・縄文神道・古道（中華文明の原始儒教も同意であるがここでは除く）とも呼ばれ、日本で古くから民間でおこなわれてきたものや、修験などの古神道と習合した密教や仏教、あるいは道教の思想を取り入れた古神道などの信仰行事をいう。