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No, this is not about any Buddhist chant or mantra that can be used to call
forth Japanese gods or heavenly spirits, but rather about any specialized
words or interjections that attract attention of the God/spirits that we want
to communicate with. Similar to the following equivalent interjections in some
languages I know:

> English: 'O'  
>  e.g: O The Great God
>
> Arabic: 'يا' (pronunciation: Ya)  
>  e.g: ياربي
>
> Malay/Indonesian: 'Wahai'  
>  e.g: Wahai Tuhanku

Does Japanese have such words/interjections? Even though 神様へ might be serving
the purpose, へ lacks the glorification that 'O' has. Note that 'O', 'يا' and
'Wahai' are not restricted to God/spirits/heavenly beings only since they can
also be used towards people, for example in a sermon, so the Japanese
equivalent(s) must also have to have similar scope in order to qualify.
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How to invoke God/spirits in Japanese
It sounds like you are looking for the vocative case particle in Japanese.

Taken from [wikipedia's article on vocative
case](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocative_case#Japanese):

> In archaic Japanese, or when written as verse, a particle `よ` and `や` may be
> affixed.
>

>> 少年`よ`、大志を抱け (Boys, be ambitious, quote by William S. Clark)

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>> 神`よ`、汝の誉れはその御名のごとく (O God, Thy praise is according to Thine name, from
Bach's cantata)

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>> じいさま`や`、山さ雨は降っただけ (Old man, was it raining on the mountain?)

The article however notes that this is archaic, and usually vocative case in
Japanese is formed with null morpheme, i.e. without any specific particle.
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