Ōyamatsumi

Japanese · deity · primordial · deity

In a country that is seventy per cent mountain he is a major deity and the registry did not have him. The element -tsumi in his name is the same one in Watatsumi, the sea: an old pairing of the two things Japan is made of, each with a possessing spirit. He is also the ancestor claimed by a great many warrior houses, which is where the war-god function comes from.