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To be precise there is no godhead, though there is a plethora of deities and demons derived from native religions (Hinduism in India, Bon in Tibet, Shintoism in Japan, Taoism in China, etc etc) all of which have sacred sites – natural or otherwise.

Mt Fuji is a sacred mountain (not the only one in Japan) but that doesn’t stop people crawling all over it and treating it like a rubbish dump. The first non-Japanese woman (allowed) to climb Fuji was an Englishwoman – the wife of Harry Smith Parkes. It was downhill all the way after that ;-)