Ōkuninushi

Japanese · deity · primordial · deity

Descendant of Susanoo who built the land and ceded it in the kuni-yuzuri.

Parentage

Susanoo

Domains

land
medicine
marriage and union

Powers

Develop and shape the terrestrial land
Heal the sick and bind unions

Epithets

大国主神
大己貴命
大黒

Relations

syncretism: Shiva

Sources

Kojiki, vol. 1, 712 CE
Izumo Fudoki, 733 CE

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