Kamimusubi
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The pairing with Takamimusubi is not a marriage — none of the first five have counterparts — but a doubling: the generative force named twice, high and divine, which is how this cosmology says 'everywhere' about something that has no body. In the Izumo material she is the power that restores Ōkuninushi to life after his brothers kill him, which is the one narrative act attached to any of the first three.
Children in alternative accounts
- Sukuna-biko-na: Kojiki XXVII, Kamimusubi’s child and joint land-making, notes 3–8Kojiki XXVII, Kamimusubi’s child and joint land-making, notes 3–8 (primary)
Domains
- creation
Relations
- companion: TakamimusubiThe matching musubi deity.Kojiki: the two musubi deities of the Kotoamatsukami. (primary)
Sources
- Kamimusubi is the third of the Kotoamatsukami and the third creator deity, the second of the two musubi powers.: Kojiki, the opening sequence. (primary); Reference treatment of the Kotoamatsukami. (secondary)