41 relations: Amenominakanushi, Amenonuhoko, Animal, Awaji Island, Axis mundi, Chishima Province, Death (personification), Deity, Ebisu (mythology), Female, Goddess, Hōki Province, Hokkaido, Honshu, Human, Iki Island, Izanagi, Izumo Province, Japanese mythology, Kagu-tsuchi, Kojiki, Kuninotokotachi, Kyushu, Male, Mating, Oki Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Onogoro Island, Provinces of Japan, Raijin, Sado, Niigata, Shikoku, Shikome, Shimane Prefecture, Shinto in popular culture, Soul, Spear, Tsushima Island, Underworld, Yasugi, Shimane, Yomi.
Amenominakanushi
Amenominakanushi (天御中主 or 天之御中主神 "Heavenly Ancestral God of the Originating Heart of the Universe") is, according to the Kojiki, the first kami, and the source of the universe according to Shinto.
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Amenonuhoko
is the name given to the spear in Shintoism used to raise the primordial land-mass, Onogoro-shima, from the sea.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Awaji Island
is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku.
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Axis mundi
The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth.
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Chishima Province
was a province of Japan created during the Meiji Era.
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Death (personification)
Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper.
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Deity
A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.
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Ebisu (mythology)
, also transliterated or called or, is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck.
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Female
Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells).
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity.
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Hōki Province
was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Tottori Prefecture.
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Hokkaido
(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.
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Honshu
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Iki Island
, or the is an archipelago in the Tsushima Strait, which is administered as the city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
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Izanagi
is a deity born of the seven divine generations in Japanese mythology and Shinto, and his name in the Kojiki is roughly translated to as "he-who-invites" or Izanagi-no-mikoto.
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Izumo Province
was an old province of Japan which today consists of the eastern part of Shimane Prefecture.
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Japanese mythology
Japanese mythology embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculturally-based folk religion.
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Kagu-tsuchi
, referred to as in the Kojiki, and or in the Nihon-Shoki, is the kami of fire in Japanese mythology.
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Kojiki
, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.
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Kuninotokotachi
In Japanese mythology, Kuninotokotachi is one of the two gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the Earth was chaotic.
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Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.
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Male
A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm.
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Mating
In biology, mating (or mateing in British English) is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms, usually for the purposes of sexual reproduction.
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Oki Islands
is an archipelago in the Sea of Japan, the islands of which are administratively part of Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.
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Onogoro Island
is an important island in Shintoism.
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Provinces of Japan
were administrative divisions before the modern prefecture system was established, when the islands of Japan were divided into tens of kuni (国, countries), usually known in English as provinces.
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Raijin
is a god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology.
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Sado, Niigata
is a city located on in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
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Shikoku
is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.
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Shikome
, in Japanese mythology, was a hag sent by the dead Izanami to pursue her husband Izanagi, for shaming her by breaking promise not to see her in her decayed form in the Underworld (Yomi-no-kuni).
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Shimane Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main Honshu island.
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Shinto in popular culture
Shinto is frequently a theme in Japanese popular culture, including film, manga, anime, and video games.
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Soul
In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, there is a belief in the incorporeal essence of a living being called the soul. Soul or psyche (Greek: "psychē", of "psychein", "to breathe") are the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.
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Spear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
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Tsushima Island
is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in the Korea Strait, approximately halfway between the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula.
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Underworld
The underworld is the world of the dead in various religious traditions, located below the world of the living.
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Yasugi, Shimane
is a city located in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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Yomi
is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanami