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Ame no Hohi's sons are called Ame-no-Hinadori and Takehi-Nateru. [1] Ame no Hohi is believed to be the ancestor of the Izumo no Omi [8] [page needed] as well as the priests of the Izumo and Sugawara clans. [9] Nomi no Sukune is said to be one of his descendants. [10] He is also believed to be the ancestor of the Haji clan. [11]
The child was thus named 'Ki(no)mata-no-Kami' (木俣神, from ki (no) mata "tree fork"). [ 70 ] [ 69 ] Ōkuninushi – in this section of the narrative given the name Yachihoko-no-Kami (八千矛神, "Deity of Eight Thousand Spears") – then wooed a third woman, Nunakawahime (沼河比売) of the land of Koshi , singing the following poem :
He was born out of a kami-making competition between Amaterasu and Susanoo. In many versions, Susanoo took Amaterasu's beads and crushed them within his mouth, which created five male kami. [5] [1] The first one to be born was Amenooshihomimi, second was Ame-no-hohi, third was Amatsuhikone, fourth was Ikutsuhikone, and Kumanokusubi was the fifth.
The Kojiki portrays Ame-no-Minakanushi as the first god to appear in the heavenly realm of Takamagahara after the emergence of heaven and earth from the primeval chaos: . At the time of the beginning of heaven and earth, there came into existence in Takamanohara a deity named Ame-no-Minakanushi-no-Kami; next, Takamimusubi-no-Kami; next, Kamimusubi-no-Kami.
Shinatsuhiko, a kami of wind. [25] Sukuna-Biko-Na (少名毘古那) A small deity of medicine and rain, who created and solidified the land with Ōkuninushi. Sumiyoshi sanjin, the gods of the sea and sailing. Tajimamori (田道間守), god who obtained the tokijiku no kagu no mi in Tokoyo-no-kuni, and hailed as "god of wagashi" (sweets ...
In the Izumo no Kuni no Miyatsuko no Kanʼyogoto, Ōnamochi (Ōkuninushi), after relinquishing his authority over the land, attaches his nigitama (和魂, 'gentle spirit') in an 'eight-hand mirror' (八咫鏡 yata no kagami), which he then enshrined in Miwa under the name 'Yamato-no-Ōmononushi-Kushimikatama-no-Mikoto' to serve as a patron of ...
Yaoyorozu no Kami (八百万の神, Eight Million Gods) is a term referring to kami in Shinto. The phrase "eight million gods" in Shinto religion does not mean that there are exactly 8 million gods. It means there are too many gods to count. [1] At the time infinity was not a known concept [2] and 8 is a lucky number in Asian culture. [3]
The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote: "The [names of the] letters that make up the Slavonic alphabet don't represent a meaning at all. Аз, буки, веди, глаголь, добро etc. are individual words, chosen just for their initial sound". However, since the names of the first few letters of the Slavonic alphabet seem to form ...