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  2. Ōkuninushi - Wikipedia

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    Ōkuninushi-no-Kami (大国主神) Ōmononushi-no-Kami (大物主神 (おおものぬしのかみ) "Great Thing-Master" or "Great Spirit-Master"; hist. orthography: おほのもぬし Ohomononushi; OJ: Opomo 2 no 2 nusi) – Originally an epithet for the deity of Mount Miwa in Nara Prefecture.

  3. Ōmononushi - Wikipedia

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    In the Izumo no Kuni no Miyatsuko no Kanʼyogoto, Ōnamochi (Ōkuninushi), after relinquishing his authority over the land, attaches his nigitama (和魂, 'gentle spirit') in an 'eight-hand mirror' (八咫鏡 yata no kagami), which he then enshrined in Miwa under the name 'Yamato-no-Ōmononushi-Kushimikatama-no-Mikoto' to serve as a patron of ...

  4. Izumo-taisha - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Ame-no-Fuyukinu - Wikipedia

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    Ame-no-Fuyukinu is the son of Omizunu and Futemimi , the husband of Sashikuni Wakahime [4] [5] and the father of Ōkuninushi [6] (Ōnamuchi) [7].

  6. List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    Shinatsuhiko, a kami of wind. [25] Sukuna-Biko-Na (少名毘古那) A small deity of medicine and rain, who created and solidified the land with Ōkuninushi. Sumiyoshi sanjin, the gods of the sea and sailing. Tajimamori (田道間守), god who obtained the tokijiku no kagu no mi in Tokoyo-no-kuni, and hailed as "god of wagashi" (sweets ...

  7. Keta Taisha - Wikipedia

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    The original construction of this shrine is unknown, but it is said to have been constructed on the location where Ōkuninushi landed with 300 of his folders from Izumo to subdue the inhabitants of Noto Peninsula during the reign of the demi-legendary 8th Emperor Kōgen or 10th Emperor Sujin.

  8. Ame-no-Uzume - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Hokkaidō Shrine - Wikipedia

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    In 1869, by an order of the Emperor Meiji, a ceremony to enshrine three kami (Shinto deities); Ōkunitama [], Ōkuninushi, and Sukunahikona, was held in Tokyo.They were enshrined as the three pioneer kami (開拓三神, Kaitaku Sanjin), and they were later moved to Sapporo by officers in the Kaitakushi, the previous government of Hokkaidō prefecture. [1]