Ame-no-Koyane
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The Nakatomi became the Fujiwara, and the Fujiwara ran Japan. A myth in which one's own ancestor recites the liturgy that brings the sun back is a considerable political asset, and the eighth-century compilers of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were working under Fujiwara patronage — a fact the record states because the alternative is to present a family charter as a disinterested cosmogony.
Domains
- divination
- priesthood
Relations
- companion: FutodamaThe two ritualists of the episode, and the ancestors of the two clans that divided Japanese court ritual between them.Reference treatment of Futodama and Ame-no-Koyane as jointly tasked with the divination. (secondary)
Sources
- Ame-no-Koyane performed the divination at the cave of heaven with Futodama and is the ancestral deity of the Nakatomi clan.: Reference treatments of Ame-no-Koyane and of the rock-cave episode. (secondary)