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' Heavenly Rock Cave ') – In Shinto, Amano-Iwato is the name of the cave where Amaterasu fled after the violent actions of Susanoo caused the death of one of her weavers. Thus, the land was deprived of light, and mononoke from hell were free to roam the lands and wreak havoc.
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. [4] [5] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...
Eventually they wished to be mated, so they built a pillar called Ame-no-mihashira (天の御柱,"pillar of heaven"; the mi-is an honorific prefix) and around it they built a palace called Yahiro-dono (八尋殿, one hiro is approximately 1.82 m, so the "eight-hiro-palace" would have been 14.56 m.
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A class of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in Japanese folklore. They can also be called ayakashi (妖怪), mononoke (物の怪), or mamono. Yomi The land of the dead, where Izanami went after giving birth to Kagu-tsuchi killed her. She now rules there. Yomotsu Hirasaka
This has traditionally been explained and understood in Japan as a transcription of a supposed Old Japanese form *Pimeko, said to be an early term meaning "high born woman; princess," and to derive from Old Japanese Pime [or Pi 1 me 1] (also sometimes Pimë [Fi 1 me 2]), a laudatory title for women going with Piko [Fi 1 ko 1] for men.
Kagutsuchi's birth, in Japanese mythology, comes at the end of the creation of the world and marks the beginning of death. [4] In the Engishiki, a source which contains the myth, Izanami, in her death throes, bears the water goddess Mizuhanome, instructing her to pacify Kagu-tsuchi if he should become violent. This story also contains ...
[17]: 116 One theory suggests the term derived from "eta no ko", or "child of the eta", referring to the Japanese burakumin social class who were once associated with death. [17]: 116 Other possible derivations include the use of wood pieces, ita, for the ceremonial writing of the name of the deceased. [17]: 116