Omoikane
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The eight million gods are stuck outside a rock and the solution is a committee meeting. Japanese myth is unusually fond of this move — the crisis is solved by consultation, division of labour and a correctly performed ritual rather than by a champion — and Omoikane is the personification of the consultation. His name means, roughly, 'the one who thinks everyone's thoughts at once'. The registry had the dancer whose dance he scheduled and not him.
Domains
- wisdom
- counsel
Relations
- companion: Ame-no-TajikaraoThe plan and the arms that carried it out.Reference treatment of the rock-cave episode, in which Omoikane devises the plan and Ame-no-Tajikarao executes its final step. (secondary)
Sources
- Omoikane is the Japanese kami of wisdom whose plan drew Amaterasu out of the cave of heaven.: Reference treatment of the Ama-no-Iwato episode and Omoikane's part in it. (secondary)