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Moromis

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Don't know what else to call this. It's a cult, and my best guess is the King of Heaven Society, but I dunno about the first character.


This isn't a kanji problem, I just don't know how to mix it in there. So. Help?
 
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Google led me to a Japanese Wikipedia entry that says 別天王 is simply a name, which is transliterated as 'Bettenou' in the English article. Also, a lot of google hits show that people use double quotes 『別天王会』when writing about it, which is another indicator that it's a proper name. That would simply make it the "Society of Bettenou" or, since it is a cult, maybe "Church of Bettenou".

Just out of interest, I looked up some combinations in Koujien:

- 別天地: Another world
- 別天神: The gods who appeared at the beginning of heaven and earth
- 天王 has three meanings: 1. (Buddhism) The gods of the lowest sphere of the 6th heaven; 2. Gozu (a bull-headed demon-guardian of hell); 3. Emperor of China

So the name either means something like "Society of the otherworldy god(s)/king(s)", or (rather unlikely imo) "Society of the other gods/Emperor".
 
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