Ōyamatsumi
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
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.
Children
Domains
- mountains
- warfare
Relations
- father of: Iwanaga-himeThe sister Ninigi sent back.Reference treatment of Iwanaga-hime as his elder daughter. (secondary)
- father of: Konohanasakuya-himeThe sister Ninigi kept. He sent them together and the choice cost the imperial line its immortality.Reference treatment of Konohanasakuya-hime as his daughter. (secondary)
Sources
- Ōyamatsumi is the Japanese kami of the mountains, and in the treatments consulted also of war and of the sea, and the father of Konohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime.: Reference treatment of Ōyamatsumi and of his daughters. (secondary)