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  2. Yomi - Wikipedia

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    Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (黄泉, 黄泉の国, or 黄泉ノ国) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). [1] According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. [2]

  3. Izumo Province - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese mythology, the entrance to Yomi (Hell, land of the dead) was located within the province, and was sealed by the god Izanagi by placing a large boulder over the entrance. Historical districts

  4. Shikome - Wikipedia

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    After this, Izanami herself came in pursuit, and Izanagi blocked the entrance at the slope with a boulder. [1] [3] Nihon Shoki version. Apart from the variant name and the possibility of multiple hags ("eight Ugly Females of Yomi," [4]) are some minor discrepancies, such as the lack of mention of the Thunder god and the army and the peaches. As ...

  5. Izanagi - Wikipedia

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    Izanagi, feeling contaminated by his visit to Yomi, went to "[the plain of] Awagihara (i.e. a plain covered with awagi) by the river-mouth of Tachibana in Himuka in [the island of] Tsukushi" and purified himself by bathing in the river; various deities came into existence as he stripped off his clothes and accouterments and immersed himself in ...

  6. Izanami - Wikipedia

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    Izanagi-no-Mikoto burst out of the entrance and pushed a boulder in the mouth of the Yomotsuhirasaka (黄泉津平坂; cavern that was the entrance of Yomi) to create a separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead, as well as separating Izanagi from Izanami. [14]

  7. Liminal deity - Wikipedia

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    Izanagi, creator god who descended into Yomi to bring back his wife, only to be repulsed at how hideous she had become, run away, and seal the entrance to Yomi with a rock Izanami , creator goddess who died, but could not leave Yomi and thus became queen of the underworld and the dead

  8. On America's booziest street, surgeon general alcohol warning ...

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    Bourbon Street has long been party central, and little changed in the hours after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Friday outlined the direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk.

  9. Shinto - Wikipedia

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    A torii gateway to the Yobito Shrine (Yobito-jinja) in Abashiri City, HokkaidoThere is no universally agreed definition of Shinto. [2] According to Joseph Cali and John Dougill, if there was "one single, broad definition of Shinto" that could be put forward, it would be that "Shinto is a belief in kami", the supernatural entities at the centre of the religion. [3]