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A love deity or lust deity is a deity in mythology associated with romance, sex, love, lust, or sexuality. Love deities are common in mythology and are found in many polytheistic religions . Female sex goddesses are often associated with beauty and other traditionally feminine attributes.
Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (ツクヨミノミコト, 月読命), [1] or simply Tsukuyomi (ツクヨミ, 月読) or Tsukiyomi (ツキヨミ), [2] is the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. The name "Tsukuyomi" is a compound of the Old Japanese words tsuku (月, "moon, month", becoming modern Japanese tsuki) and yomi (読み ...
Kuebiko (久延毘古), the god of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness. Kukunochi, believed to be the ancestor of trees. [22] Kukurihime no Kami (菊理媛神), a goddess enshrined at Shirayama Hime Shrine.
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the ...
Following that, in the Japanese epic, Taiheki, one of the characters, Nitta Yoshisada (新田義貞 ), made comparisons with Amaterasu and a dragon Ryūjin with the quote: "I have heard that the Sun Goddess of Ise … conceals her true being in the august image of Vairocana, and that she has appeared in this world in the guise of a dragon ...
Tennin are mentioned in Buddhist sutras, [citation needed] and these descriptions form the basis for depictions of the beings in Japanese art, sculpture, and theater.They are usually pictured as unnaturally beautiful women dressed in ornate, colourful kimono (traditionally in five colours), exquisite jewelry, and stole-like, feathered, flowing scarves--called both Chányī/Tenne (纏衣, lit ...
Kuebiko (久延毘古) – A Shinto kami of local knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow, who cannot walk but has comprehensive self-awareness and omniscience. Kuji-in (九字印, lit. ' Nine Hand Seals ') – A system of mudras and associated mantras that consist of nine syllables. Kuji-kiri (九字切り, lit.
Ōkuninushi is closely associated with the province of Izumo (modern Shimane Prefecture) in western Japan; indeed, the myth of his surrender to the gods of heaven may reflect the subjugation and absorption of this area by the Yamato court based in what is now Nara Prefecture.