Takamimusubi
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Musubi is the hard word here and it has no English equivalent: it is the force by which things come into being and are tied to one another, and it is the reason the same syllable appears in the word for a knot and in the name of the deity of marriage-ties. Two of the first five kami are musubi deities, which places generation itself at the top of the Shinto cosmology — before any god who does anything. Takamimusubi reappears later as one of the powers directing the descent to earth, which makes him the most active of the five.
Children in alternative accounts
- Sukuna-biko-na: Nihongi I, Aston translation, I.59–63: Sukunabikona, healing and parental acknowledgmentNihongi I, Aston translation, I.59–63: Sukunabikona, healing and parental acknowledgment (primary)
Domains
- creation
Relations
- companion: Ame-no-MinakanushiThe first of the three.Kojiki: the three creating deities appear in sequence and act together. (primary)
- companion: KamimusubiThe matching musubi deity.Kojiki: Takamimusubi and Kamimusubi are the two musubi deities of the Kotoamatsukami. (primary)
Sources
- Takamimusubi is the second of the Kotoamatsukami and one of the three creator deities, a personification of musubi, the generative binding force.: Kojiki, the opening sequence. (primary); Reference treatment of the Kotoamatsukami. (secondary)