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Toshigami (年神 or 歳神, Toshigami or Tomo, lit. "year god"), also known as Ōtoshi-no-kami (大年神, lit. "great year god"), is a Japanese kami and a part of the Shinto pantheon. Etymology [ edit ]
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.
Thus it is a kind of toshigami. The practice has shifted over the years. According to 20th century descriptions, the namahage would typically receive mochi (rice cakes) from the households they visited, [ 3 ] but newlywed couples were supposed to play host to them in full formal attire and offer them sake and food. [ 3 ]
Tsukuyomi was born when he washed out of Izanagi's right eye. [5] However, in an alternative story, Tsukuyomi was born from a mirror made of white copper in Izanagi's right hand. Tsukuyomi angered Amaterasu (who in some sources was his wife) when he killed Ukemochi, the megami of food. Amaterasu once sent Tsukuyomi to represent her at a feast ...
[1] [2] Daikokuten's popular imagery originated as a syncretic conflation of the Buddhist death deity Mahākāla with the Shinto deity Ōkuninushi. [3] The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the Sanskrit name Mahākāla which means "Great Blackness".
Kushinadahime (櫛名田比売、くしなだひめ), also known as Kushiinadahime (奇稲田姫、くしいなだひめ) or Inadahime (稲田姫、いなだひめ) among other names, is a goddess in Japanese mythology and the Shinto faith.
Oyamakui no Kami (大山咋神) is a Japanese god highly significant in Sannō Ichijitsu Shintō, [1] and worshipped in the Hiyoshi Taisha network of shrines [2] and the Matsunoo Taisha network. [3] [4] They are also known as Sanno Gongen (山王権現) in a Buddhist context. [5] They are the son of Toshigami [6] and grandson of Susanoo. [7]
Omamori, another kind of Japanese talisman, shares the same origin as and may be considered as a smaller and portable version of ofuda. A specific type of ofuda is a talisman issued by a Shinto shrine on which is written the name of the shrine or its enshrined kami and stamped with the shrine's seal .