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A second son, Ame no hohi (天菩比命) was then sent, but ended up currying favor with Ōkuninushi and did not report for three years. [79] The third messenger, Ame-no-Wakahiko (天若日子), ended up marrying Shitateruhime [ ja ] (下照比売), Ōkuninushi's daughter with Takiribime.
Izumo, known as the realm of gods or the land of myths, is Izumo-taisha's province. Its main structure was originally constructed to glorify the great achievement of Ōkuninushi, considered the creator of Japan. Ōkuninushi was devoted to the building of the nation, in which he shared many joys and sorrows with the ancestors of the land.
In the Kojiki, Ōkuninushi used to rule the world, but he relinquished control during the Kuni-yuzuri to transfer control to the Amatsukami.He made a request that a magnificent palace – rooted in the earth and reaching up to heaven – be built in his honor, and then withdrew himself into the "less-than-one-hundred eighty-road-bendings" (百不足八十坰手 momotarazu yasokumade, i.e. the ...
[1] [2] [3] The Hare of Inaba forms an essential part of the legend of the Shinto god Ōnamuchi-no-kami, which was the name for Ōkuninushi within this legend. [4] The hare referred to in the legend is the Lepus brachyurus, or Japanese hare, possibly the subspecies found on the Oki Islands known as the Lepus brachyurus okiensis.
Ikushina Jinja (生品神社) is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Ōta, Gunma, Japan, dedicated to the kami Ōkuninushi. The precincts of this shrine was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1934. [1]
The original construction of Takase Jinja is uncertain. Worship of Ōkuninushi was widespread in the Hokuriku region from before the Nara period and is believed to have been brought to this area by migrants from Izumo. The shrine claims to have been founded during the reign of the semi-legendary Kofun period Emperor Keikō (reigned 71–130 AD) [5]
[7] [8] While this god is yet unidentified at this point in the Kojiki, the version of the myth found in the Nihon Shoki has this deity explicitly identify himself as Ōnamuchi's (the default name of Ōkuninushi in this text) kushimitama and sakimitama (幸魂奇魂, 'wondrous spirit' and 'lucky/auspicious spirit', respectively). [9]
The Kojiki extensively documents his genealogy. It says Amenofuyukinu married Sashikuni Wakahime []. [4] [5] [1] They had a child named Ōkuninushi [8] (Ōnamuchi). [9]The Nihon Shoki adds more to the story.