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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.
under the name "Fox King," Dakiniten became a manifestation of the sun goddess Amaterasu, with whom the new emperor united during the enthronement ritual. The Buddhist ritual allowed the ruler to symbolically cross over the limits separating the human and animal realms to harness the wild and properly superhuman energy of the "infrahuman" world ...
Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess Sulis , British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios , Sól , Sol , and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs.
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 ...
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. In Shinto and Japanese mythology, Izanami gave humans death, so ...
The Shinto storm god, brother of Amaterasu the sun goddess and Tsukuyomi the moon god. He was banished from Takamagahara and some say he now rules Ne-no-kuni. Suzaku The Japanese version of the Chinese Vermilion Bird of the South. Suzuri-no-tamashii An inkstone that has come to life as a tsukumogami.
The Sun goddess and her sibling the moon god's interpersonal conflicts explain, in Japanese myth, why the Sun and the Moon do not stay in the sky at the same time — their distaste for one another keeps them both turning away from the other. [1] Meanwhile, the sun goddess and the storm god Susanoo's conflicts were intense and bloody. [10]
In some differing interpretations, Ukemochi is referred to as both male and female. When shown in other forms, Ukemochi takes the shape of a fox. [ 2 ] Ōgetsu-hime is married to Hayamato (羽山戸神, Hayamato-no-kami), who is the son of Toshigami through his wife Amechikarumizu-hime (天知迦流美豆比売) in the Kojiki , making Hayamato ...