Japanese Creation

Many Gods were born and they increased in number, but as the world remained in a chaotic state there was nothing for them to do …
All the heavenly deities summoned the two divine beings, Izanagi and Izanami …


They said, “We bestow you this precious treasure, with which to rule the land, the creation of which we command you to perform”. So saying they handed them a spear called the Ama-no-Muboko.
 
The divine couple received a sacred weapon and then withdrew from the presence of the deities ready to perform their august commission …
 
Proceeding forthwith to the Floating Bridge of heaven, which lay between the heaven and the earth, they stood awhile to gaze on that which lay below …

What they beheld was a world not yet condensed, but looking like a sea of filmy fog floating to and fro in the air, exhaling the while an inexpressibly fragrant odor..
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They were at first, perplexed just how and where to start, but at length Izanagi suggested to his companion that they should try the effect of stirring up the brine with their spear …
 
So saying, he pushed the jeweled shaft. Then drawing it up, he examined it and observed it and the great drops which fell from it almost immediately coagulated into an island, which is, to this day, the island of Onokoro.

Delighted to the result, the two deities descended to reach the miraculously created island. In this island they thenceforth dwelt and made it the basis of their subsequent task of creating a country.

 
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The other gods and goddesses are their descendants, but when the god of fire was born he burned his mother to death. Descending to the underworld, Izanami became old and ugly. Izanagi followed her to bring her back, but she forbade him to look at her. Izanagi looked anyway and Izanami tried to imprison him in the underworld. Pursued by Izanimi's furies, Izanagi escaped and sealed up the entrance to the underworld with a boulder. Enraged, Izanami vowed to kill a thousand of Izanami's subjects a day, and Izanami vowed to create fifteen hundred a day. So it was that Izanami became the goddess of death and Izanagi became the lord of life.

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The Japanese Pantheon

Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone One of the thunder gods.

Ama-No-Uzume Fertility goddess.  

Amaterasu Sun goddess, ruler of the heavens. 

Amatsu Mikaboshi "August Star of Heaven." God of evil.  

Benzaiten Goddess of love, one of the gods of happiness. 

Bishamon God of happiness and war. 

Chimata-No-Kami God of the crossroads 

Ho-Masubi Fire god.

Izanagi and Izanami Creator god and goddess sent down from heaven to build the earth. 

Kawa-No-Kami God of rivers.

Nai-No-Kami God of earthquakes. 

Niniji God ruler of the earth, the ancestor of all the Japanese emperors.

O-Kuni-Nushi God of sorcery and medicine. 

Sengen-Sama Goddess of the sacred Mt Fujiyama.

Shine-Tsu-Hiko God of the wind.

Susa-No-Wo God of storms, snakes and farming.

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