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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 ...
Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family.It has been reconstructed by using a combination of internal reconstruction from Old Japanese and by applying the comparative method to Old Japanese (both the central variety of the Nara area and Eastern Old Japanese dialects) and the Ryukyuan languages. [1]
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.
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 ...
In Japanese mythology, the Kamiyo-nanayo (神世七代, lit."Seven Generations of the Age of the Gods") are the seven generations of kami that emerged after the formation of heaven and earth.
A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb.. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a ...
549–511 BC (3) Ikisomimi no mikoto Mishokutsuomi no Mikoto [60] 553–477 BC Itoku 510–476 BC (4) Amonotoyototsu-hime Ikatsuomikoto [60] Yosotarashi-hime: 501–393 BC Kōshō 475–393 BC (5) Nashitomi [60] Ametarashihiko kunioshihito: 427–291 BC Kōan 392–291 BC (6) Kamikikikatsu [60] Oshihime: 342–215 BC Kōrei 290–215 BC (7)
The account of Toyotama-hime and Hoori appear in the Kojiki [3] [4] [5] and the Nihon Shoki. [6] [7]Toyotama-hime was the daughter of the sea deity Watatsumi.The palace where they reside is said to be as if made from fish scales and supposedly lies undersea.