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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 (下照比売), Ōkuninushi's daughter with Takiribime.
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 ...
The descendants of Amenohohi-no-mikoto (天穂日命), the second son of Amaterasu-ōmikami (天照大御神), the sun goddess whose first son is the ancestor of the imperial family, have been, in the name of Izumo Kokuso (出雲国造) or governor of Izumo, taking over rituals because when Izumo-taisha was founded Amenohohi-no-mikoto rendered ...
Includes a deck of cards, a map and three books: The Book of the Fifth Age, Dusk or Dawn, and Heroes of the New Age. [50] [51] [52] Heroes of Steel: Skip Williams 1996 Includes a map and two books: Book one (expands on rules from The Book of the Fifth Age) and Book two (adventure module The Rising Storm). [53] Splatbook focuses on the warrior ...
In the Montoku Jitsuroku, a book of Japanese history, Ōkuninushi and Sukuna Hikona descended in 856, proclaiming that they had returned to help the people of the land and a shrine was built to honor their arrival. [8] Sukunahikona shrine at Osaka. He is one of the Shinto deities enshrined at Mt. Mitake [5]
The tumulus, which the story claims to be made of stone from Mount Ōsaka (大坂山, identified with Mount Nijō on the border of Nara and Osaka, located 15.3 kilometers (9.5 miles) west of the tomb [27]), is said to have been made by men in the daytime and by the gods at night; the stones used in its construction are said to have been ...
The Miwa clan (大神氏, Miwa-uji) is a Japanese shake and samurai family who have served the Miwa Shrine for generations. [1] [2] The ancestor of the Miwa family is said to be Okuninushi no Mikoto, [2] via Ōtataneko []. [3]
The kuni-yuzuri (国譲り) "Transfer of the land" was a mythological event in Japanese prehistory, related in sources such as the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki.It relates the story of how the rulership of Japan passed from the earthly kami (kunitsukami) to the kami of Heaven and their eventual descendants, the Imperial House of Japan.