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Hoori is often associated with both his parents and his wife. He is worshiped mainly as a god of cereals or grain . In Japanese mythology, it was said that the ho ( 火 ) part of his name meant fire, but etymologically, it is a different character pronounced ho ( 穂 ) , which refers to crops, particularly rice.
The Ogata clan's leader was originally a retainer of Taira no Shigemori.When the wars between the Taira and Minamoto began, Ogata no Saburo Koreyoshi switched sides after the Minamoto killed his rival Kikuchi Jiro, [3] and his armies played the key role in securing Minamoto no Yoritomo's control of Japan by expelling the Taira from Kyūshū. [4]
A Japanese dragon and Shinto deity of rain and snow, born from Kagu-tsuchi's blood or body after Izanagi slew him because his birth killed Izanami. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi A sword Susanoo found in one of the tails of the Yamata-no-Orochi after he killed it and subsequently gave to Amaterasu to settle an old grievance between them.
Fūjin (風神) Also known as Kaze-no-kami, he is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods, said to have been present at the creation of the world. He is often depicted as an oni with a bag slung over his back. Hachiman (八幡神) is the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people.
Ninigi-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 瓊瓊杵尊) is a deity in Japanese mythology. [1] (-no-Mikoto here is an honorific title applied to the names of Japanese gods; Ninigi is the specific god's name.) Grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu, [2] Ninigi is regarded according to Japanese mythology as the great-grandfather of Japan’s first emperor ...
T.C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle, the son of Thomas John Boyle, a school bus driver, and his wife Rosemary Post Boyle (later Rosemary Murphy), a school secretary. [4] He grew up in Peekskill, New York and changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17 after an ancestor of his mother.
The roof of the birthing hut had not been completely thatched (fukiaezu) with cormorant feathers (ugaya) when his mother gave birth to him, which explains his name. Later, when Ugayafukiaezu reached adulthood, he married his aunt, Tamayori-hime , and they had four children: Hikoitsuse , Inai , Mikeirinu , and Hikohohodemi (later Emperor Jimmu ).
Also, in the Kojiki-den, his alternative name of Hoakari is written with differently as (穂赤熟, ears of grain + red + ripen), meaning he warms grain so that it may ripen. Like other kami connected to the emperor , this name is connected to rice, leading to worship of him as a kami of the sun and agriculture.