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Sculpture of Raijin from Sanjūsangen-dō temple in Kyoto. Kamakura period, 13th century. Raijin (雷神, lit. "Thunder God"), also known as Kaminari-sama (雷様), Raiden-sama (雷電様), Narukami (鳴る神), Raikō (雷公), and Kamowakeikazuchi-no-kami is a god of lightning, thunder, and storms in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. [1]
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They contain agricultural, geographical, and historical records as well as mythology and folklore. [1] Fudoki manuscripts also document local myths , rituals , and poems that are not mentioned in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki chronicles , which are the most important literature of the ancient national mythology and history.
Some tellings say that the eight deities were from the maggots of Izanami's rotting corpse. Many versions of the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki state that after Izanagi saw his wife in such a state and fled in terror, Izanami sent the Yomotsu-shikome, 150 warriors, and the eight thunder kami after him.
Raiden (Mortal Kombat) (sometimes spelled Rayden), a character in the Mortal Kombat video game series; Raiden (series), a series of scrolling shooter arcade games Raiden, the first game in the series; Raiden II; Raiden DX; Raiden III; Raiden IV; Raiden V; The Raiden Fighters series, a later arcade shooter series that uses the Raiden name ...
The middle country of reed beds) is, in Japanese mythology, the world between Takamagahara and Yomi . In time, the term became another word for the country or the location of Japan. The term can be used interchangeably with Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni (豊葦原中国). There is a great dispute among historians about where exactly in Japan the ...
Statue at Taiyū-in in Nikkō. The iconography of Fūjin seems to have its origin in the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.Starting with the Hellenistic period when Greece occupied parts of Central Asia and India, the Greek wind god Boreas became the god Wardo/Oado in Bactrian Greco-Buddhist art, then a wind deity in China (as seen frescoes of the Tarim Basin; usually named Feng Bo/Feng ...