Ōyamatsumi

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Ōyamatsumi ( Japaneseオ オ ヤ マ ツ ミ ( Kojiki : 大 山 津 見 神; Nihonshoki : 大 山 祇 〔神〕); translated by Karl Florenz as "Great Mountain Lord") is the highest mountain kami of Shinto , which arose when Izanagi and Izanami after the rivers and lakes gave birth to the land masses. According to an alternative version of Nihonshoki, it was created from one of the parts into which Izanagi smashed the fire-Kami Kagutsuchi .

Yamatsumi is also a general part of the name of mountain spirits, so that in folk Shintō, as in other popular beliefs in Japan, mountain deities ( yama no kami ) are often worshiped under the name Ōyamatsumi, which are not identical to Ōyamatsumi from the classical myths.

Descendants

The children of Ōyamatsumi include:

  • Kamu-ō-ichi-hime (or granddaughter, according to an alternative Nihonshoki version), one of the wives of Susanoo , who, according to the Kojiki, is the mother of Ō-toshi-no-kami and Uga-no-mitama.
  • Ashi-nazu-chi , begat with Te-nazu-chi Kushinadahime , one of the wives of Susanoo.
  • Kono-hana-chiru-hime, who fathered Fuha-no-moji-ku-nu-su-nu with Ya-shima-ji-nu-mi (a child of Susanoo).

Together with the Kami of the moors, Kaya-nu-hime (or Nu-zu-chi-no-kami) he fathered the siblings Ō-tomato-hike and Ō-tomato-hime, prince and princess of the gentle folds in the mountains .

The most famous children of Ōyamatsumi are arguably the following sisters:

  • Kono-hana-saku-ya-hime , who married Prince Ninigi and was supposed to give the Tennō family the quality of blooming growth. She is at home on Mount Fuji .
  • Iha-naga-hime, the older sister of Kono-hana-saku-ya-hime, who was supposed to give the Tennō family the quality of eternal life. She was rejected by Ninigi because of her ugliness and sent back to her father, which is why the latter cursed the members of the Tennō family (and thus also the people) to short lives.

Shrines

As the kami of the classical myths, Ōyamatsumi et al. a. alone in the Yamaguchi Shrine ( Ōsaka ), in the Afuri Shrine ( Kanagawa Prefecture ), in the Ō-mi-shima Ō-yama-tsu-mi-Shrine in Imabari (Ehime Prefecture); together with other kami, such as B. Mikumi Shrine ( Fukui Prefecture ), Hiyoshi Shrine in Himi (Toyama Prefecture), Ebisu Shrine in Wakamatsu-ku ( Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture), Iga-hie Shrine in Higashiyama-ku ( Kyoto ) , with Ōjin -tennō, Jingū -kōgō, Hime-gami and Kura-ina-tama in the Sakatura shrine in Noto ( Ishikawa Prefecture ) and together with Kuni-toko-tachi-no-mikoto and Saeki-no-kuramoto in a shrine worshiped on Miyajima Island. He is also a guest kami ( aidono-no-kami ) a. a. at Agato Shrine ( Tōkyō ) and Todoroki Shrine in Kaifu County ( Tokushima Prefecture ). Side shrines ( massha ) have yamatsumi u. a. in the Ō-yama-tsu-mi-jinja on the Dewa-sanzan , in the Ō-yama-tsu-mi-no-yashiro of the Kotohira-gū and that of the Mitsumine shrine ( Saitama prefecture ), in the Uba-jinja of the Taga- Taisha in Hikone ( Shiga Prefecture ), in the Kame-yama-jinja of the Usa Hachiman-gū in Usa (Ōita Prefecture) and in the Ebisu-jinja of the Himuka Shrine in Higashiyama-ku (Kyoto).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD 697 , translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston . Book II, page 71. Tuttle Publishing. Tra Edition (July 2005). First edition published: 1972. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6 .

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