Hoderi
Japanese · deity · kamiyo · Recorded classification
The Japanese version of the quarrelling-brothers motif, and the loser is the elder, the fisherman, and the ancestor claimed by the Hayato of southern Kyushu — a people the Yamato court spent centuries subduing. A myth in which the sea-people's ancestor is forced to submit to the mountain-people's and perform a dance of surrender is not hard to read politically, and the record says so.
Parentage
- parent: Ninigi
- parent: Konohanasakuya-hime
Domains
- fishing
Relations
- sibling: HooriThe younger, who took his hook and his place.Reference treatment of Hoderi and Hoori as brothers who quarrelled over the fish-hook. (secondary)
Sources
- Hoderi, Umisachihiko, is the elder son of Ninigi and Konohanasakuya-hime, a fisherman, whose lost fish-hook begins the quarrel with his brother Hoori.: Reference treatments of Hoderi and Hoori. (secondary)