Izanami
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Primordial female creator who died birthing fire and became goddess of the dead.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Uka-no-mi-tama: Nihongi I, Aston translation, I.15: child produced when the pair were hungryNihongi I, Aston translation, I.15: child produced when the pair were hungry (primary)
Domains
- creation
- death
Powers
- Birth the islands and many kami
- Rule the underworld and claim the dead
Epithets
- 伊邪那美命 'The August Female Who Invites' — honorific form of the creatrixKojiki, Book 1 (primary)
- 伊弉冉尊 Nihon Shoki orthography of the female creator deityNihon Shoki, Jindai (primary)
- 黄泉津大神 'Great Kami of Yomi (the underworld)' — Izanami's title after deathKojiki, Book 1 (Yomi episode) (primary)
Relations
- spouse: IzanagiReciprocal of japanese_izanagi.spouse — Primordial creator-pair; together they bear the islands and kami (Amaterasu, Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Kagutsuchi, Ebisu already linked).Kojiki I (Izanagi and Izanami circle the heavenly pillar and wed); Nihon Shoki I (primary)
- enemy: IzanagiAfter her death and Izanagi's flight from Yomi, the estranged pair exchange the deathly curse; spouse-bond recorded on Izanagi's side.Kojiki I (the Yomi pursuit: Izanami vows to kill 1000 a day, Izanagi to give 1500 births); Nihon Shoki I (primary)
Sources
- existence: Kojiki, vol. 1, 712 CE (primary); Nihon Shoki, vol. 1, 720 CE (primary)