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Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven". For many reasons, one among them being her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not officially) to be the "primary god" of Shinto. [1] [2] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...
Deified Japanese women (2 C, 21 P) G. Guanyin (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Japanese goddesses" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Kisshōten (吉祥天, lit."Auspicious Heavens"), also known as Kichijōten, Kisshoutennyo (吉祥天女), or Kudokuten (功徳天), is a Japanese female deity, Kisshoutennyo is sometimes named as one of the Seven Gods of Fortune (fukujin), replacing either Jurōjin or Fukurokuju. [1]
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 552 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Izanami and Izanagi are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi and the storm god Susanoo. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
Belldandy - Oh My Goddess! Urd - Oh My Goddess! Skuld - Oh My Goddess! Mii (May or Mei in Anglo dubbed) - Jungle De Ikou! Rongo - Jungle De Ikou! Holo - Spice and Wolf; Aqua - KonoSuba; Ristarte - Cautious Hero; Valkyrie - Cautious Hero; Hestia - Danmachi; Haruhi Suzumiya - the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
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 ...
The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the Sanskrit name Mahākāla which means "Great Blackness". Per the Butsuzōzui compendium of 1690 (reprinted and expanded in 1796), Daikoku can also manifest as a female known as Daikokunyo (大黒女, lit. "She of Great Blackness") or Daikokutennyo (大黒天女, lit. "She of Great ...