Umashiashikabihikoji
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The image is agricultural and exact: the land at this point in the Kojiki is described as floating like oil and drifting like a jellyfish, and what comes out of it is a reed sprouting. A cosmology whose fourth deity is a shoot of marsh grass is telling you what the people who made it looked at all day.
Domains
- creation
Relations
- companion: AmenotokotachiThe fifth, added with him.Reference treatment of Umashiashikabihikoji and Amenotokotachi as the two deities added to the first three of the Kotoamatsukami. (secondary)
Sources
- Umashiashikabihikoji is the fourth of the five Kotoamatsukami, a deity of the reed-shoot rising from the unformed world.: Reference treatment of the Kotoamatsukami. (secondary)