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In addition, according to an excerpt form Yamashiro Fudoki, when Tsukuyomi no Mikoto visited Ukemochi no Kami, there was a Katsura in the area. It is said that he was possessed by a tree, and the name "Katsura" originated from this tale. [7] Ronsha of the original Tsukiyomi Shrine, located in Iki, Nagasaki.
[4] Another version of the myth features Ōgetsu-hime by her more common name, Ukemochi, and in this version, the moon god Tsukuyomi visits her on behalf of his sister-wife, the sun goddess Amaterasu. Ukemochi sought to entertain him and prepared a feast. First, she faced the land and opened her mouth, and boiled rice came out.
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 ...
Toyotama-hime giving birth to Ugayafukiaezu by turning herself into a wani in an 1886 illustration. In the Kojiki, his name appears as Amatsuhiko Hiko Nagisatake ...
Izanagi divides the world among his three children: Amaterasu was allotted Takamagahara (高天原, the "Plain of High Heaven"), Tsukuyomi the night, and Susanoo the seas. [22] Susanoo did not perform his appointed task and instead kept crying and howling "until his beard eight hands long extended down over his chest," causing the mountains to ...
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.
ISBN 978-1-60506-938-8 "Génesis del mundo y aparición de los primeros dioses" [Genesis of the world and appearance of the first gods] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-11-10.
Susanoo (スサノオ; historical orthography: スサノヲ, 'Susanowo'), often referred to by the honorific title Susanoo-no-Mikoto, is a kami in Japanese mythology.The younger brother of Amaterasu, goddess of the sun and mythical ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, he is a multifaceted deity with contradictory characteristics (both good and bad), being portrayed in various stories ...