Black mass

Japanese: black mass(英語表記)blackmass
Black mass

…Only Christian Satanism was established strictly as a parody or perversion of church rituals. Whenever a church held a mass, it would hold a satanic mass (a black mass) that was the inverse of the mass, and while Catholic customs used the pure color white for the mass, the black mass would use black wafers and black anointing oil, making the parody consistent. On the other hand, pagans who were oppressed by the orthodox church worshiped the evil gods of ancient paganism and indigenous religions as anti-images of Christ, so in terms of content they worshiped the indigenous gods of antiquity that had been rejected since ancient times, and in terms of worship form they indulged in blasphemies as a perversion of the church mass. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "black mass" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…キリスト教的悪魔主義のみが厳密に教会儀式のパロディまたは倒錯として成立したのである。教会がミサを行えば,これを裏返した悪魔ミサ(黒ミサblack mass)を行い,カトリックの慣習がミサに清浄な色彩である白を用いれば,黒ミサは黒い聖餅,黒い塗油を用いるというようにパロディを一貫させるのである。一方,正統教会に圧迫された異教徒たちは,古代異教や土俗宗教の悪神をキリストの反像として崇拝したので,内容的には排除された古代以来の土俗的異神を礼拝し,礼拝形式は教会ミサの倒錯として瀆神行為に耽った。…

※「black mass」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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