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Ukanomitama, a kami associated with food and agriculture. [32] Ukemochi , is considered a goddess of food. After she vomited out various types of food, she was killed by a disgusted Tsukuyomi or Susanoo. [33] Wakahiru-me, a kami of the rising sun, [34] considered the daughter or younger sister of Amaterasu. [35] Wakumusubi, a kami of agriculture.
Yurie is a shy and otherwise ordinary middle school girl who suddenly discovers that, overnight, she has become a kami, a goddess in the Shinto sense. She has no idea what sort of goddess she is or what her powers are. Her friends give her the nickname Kamichu, a portmanteau of kami (神, "god") and chūgakusei (中学生, "middle school ...
The Kasuga-Hiraoka Himegami is a prominent one. [3] [4]Hiraoka Shrine is located in the western foothills of the Ikoma Mountains in central Osaka Prefecture. In its earliest days, it was a center for mountain worship and the kami of Kozudake, the peak immediately behind the shrine, came to be identified with Ame-no-Koyane, the tutelary deity of the Nakatomi clan, the ancestors of the Fujiwara ...
Kami may, at its root, simply mean spirit, or an aspect of spirituality. It is written with the kanji 神, Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin. In Chinese, the character means deity or spirit. [8] In the Ainu language, the word kamuy refers to an animistic concept very similar to Japanese kami.
She is also known as Ōmiyanome-no-Ōkami, an inari kami possibly due to her relationship with her husband. [2] She is also known as Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, The Great Persuader, and The Heavenly Alarming Female. [3] She is depicted in kyōgen farce as Okame, a woman who revels in her sensuality. [citation needed]
Some take Inari to be identical to any grain kami. [10] [11] Inari's female aspect is often identified or conflated with Dakiniten, a Buddhist deity who is a Japanese transformation of the Indian dakini, [12] or with Benzaiten of the Seven Lucky Gods. [13] Dakiniten is portrayed as a female or androgynous bodhisattva riding a flying white fox. [12]
The heroines from The World God Only Knows series.. The World God Only Knows manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Tamiki Wakaki.. The main protagonist is Keima Katsuragi, a video game player who teams up with Elsie, a Spirit Hunter Demon, to capture spirits hiding in girls at his high school, Maijima High.
Her name is given in the Kojiki (c. 712 AD) both as Izanami-no-Kami (伊弉冉神) and Izanami-no-Mikoto (伊邪那美命), while the Nihon Shoki (720 AD) refers to her as Izanami-no-Mikoto, with the name written in different characters (伊弉冉尊).