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List of Gods : "Goddess Japan" - 94 records

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Goddess name
"Inar (rice-grower)"
Shinto / Japan God (Goddess) of foodstuffs. The popular name of a god(dess) worshiped under the generic title Miketsu-No-Kami in the Shi-Den sanctuary of the imperial palace, but rarely elsewhere. The deity displays gender changes, develops many personalities and is revered extensively in Japan. Inari is often depicted as a bearded man riding a white fox but, in pictures sold at temple offices, (s)he is generally shown as a woman with long flowing hair, carrying sheafs of rice and sometimes, again, riding the white fox. Inari sanctuaries are painted bright red, unlike most other Shinto temples. They are further characterized by rows of wooden portals which form tunnels leading to the sanctuary. Sculptures of foxes are prolific (an animal endowed, in Japanese tradition, with supernatural powers) and the shrines are decorated with a special device, the Hoju-No-Tama, in the shape of a pear surrounded by small flames. Often identified with the food goddess TOYO-UKE-BIME....
Goddess name
"Inazuma"
Shinto / Japan Goddess of lightning. The socalled consort of the rice. In certain regions when lightning hits a rice field bamboos are erected around the spot to signify that it has been sanctified by the fire of heaven. Also Ina-Bikari (light of rice) and Ina-Tsurubi (fertility of rice)....
Goddess name
"Ishi-Kori-Dome"
Japan God / goddess of stonecutters Japan / Shinto
Goddess name
"Ishi-Kori-Dome"
Shinto / Japan God(dess) of stone cutters. Of ambiguous gender, this deity created the stone mold into which the bronze was cast to make the perfect Divine mirror. It was used so that AMATERASU, the Sun goddess, could see her glorious reflection and so be enticed from the dark cave where she had hidden herself to escape the excesses of the god SUSANO-WO. Ishi-Kori-Dome is also the tutelary deity of mirror makers and was one of the escorts for Prince NINIGI when he descended from heaven to earth. Generally invoked beside fire and smith KAMIS....
Goddess name
"Izanagi-No-Kami (his augustness the one who invites)"
Shinto / Japan Creator god. One of seventeen beings involved in creation. His consort is IZANAMI-NO-KAMI. They are strictly of Japanese origin with no Chinese or Buddhist influence. Jointly they are responsible to the other fifteen primordial deities to “make, consolidate and give birth to this drifting land.” The reference, in the Kojiki sacred text, is to the reed beds which were considered to float on the primal waters. The pair were granted a heavenly jeweled spear and they stood upon the floating bridge of heaven, stirring the waters with the spear. When the spear was pulled up, the brine which dripped from it created the island of Onogoro, the first dry land, believed to be the island of Nu-Shima on the southern coast of Awagi. According to mythology, the pair created two beings, a son HIRUKO and an island Ahaji. They generated the remaining fourteen islands which make up Japan and then set about creating the rest of the KAMI pantheon. Izanagi's most significant offspring include AMATERASU, the Sun goddess, born from his nose and SUSANOWO, the storm god, born from his left eye, who are the joint rulers of the universe. Also IzanagiNo-Mikoto....
Goddess name
"Izanami"
Japan Mother goddess, the female counterpart to Izanagi. Japan
Goddess name
"Izanami-No-Kami (her augustness the one who invites)"
Shinto / Japan Creator goddess. See IZANAGINO-KAMI for full details. Izanami was burned to death by the birth of the fire god HI-NO-KAGUTSUCHI, after which the eight thunders sprang from her corpse. Also Izanami-No-Mikoto....
Goddess name
"Izanami-No-Kami/ Izamnami"
Japan / Shinto A creator goddess who died and giving birth to the fire god as well as the primeval female goddess
Goddess name
"Kami"
Shinto / Japan Generic name for a deity. The title applied to the gods and goddesses of Shintoism....
Goddess name
"Kamui-fuchi"
Ainu Lady Hearth. A Hearth Goddess who is also known as the Supreme Ancestress and the spirit of female reproductivity and the home. Ainu, Japan
Goddess name
"Kana-Yama-Hime-No-Kami"
Japan Goddess of miners with a very sad birth story Japan / Shinto
Goddess name
"Kana-Yama-Hime-No-Kami"
Shinto / Japan Goddess of miners. Born from the vomit of IZANAMI and worshiped in the Nangu-Jinja and other shrines. Her consort is KANA-YAMA-BIKO-NO-KAMI. One of the KAMIS of the so-called “metal mountain.”...
Goddess name
"Kaya Nu Hima"
Japan Goddess of herbs Japan
Goddess name
"Kichijo Ten"
Japan She is a goddess of good fortune & beauty
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"Kishi Mojin"
Buddhist Goddess of motherhood Buddhist / Japan
Goddess name
"Kishi Mojin/ Kishimo Jin"
Japan / Buddhism The goddess of motherhood
Goddess name
"Kishijoten"
Japan Goddess of good luck. Japan
Goddess name
"Kishimo Jin"
Japan The reformed mother goddess of the demons who now works as a child minder. Japan
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