Ape-huci-kamuy
Ape-huci-kamuy ( ape = "fire", huci = "old woman", kamuy = "god"; Japanese script : ア ペ フ チ カ ム ィ , Ape fuchi kamui ) or Ape-kamuy ( ア ペ カ ム ィ ) is the fire goddess of the Ainu (northern Japanese natives ). She resides under the hearth of her home and from there she gives warmth and peace to the family. Her husband is Cise-kor-kamuy (also: Cise-kor- inaw ), the patron god of the house. Her siblings are Hasinaw-uk-kamuy , the goddess of the hunt, Nusa-or-kamuy and a few others. According to the missionary John Batchelor , in the Ainu religion, she functions in conveying the message whether a deceased will go to heaven or hell after his death . The anthropologist Neil Gordon Munro, on the other hand, states that this does not emerge from the Ainu mythology and that it only has a punitive function in this world.
literature
- Gerhard J. Bellinger : Knaurs Lexikon der Mythologie. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-8289-4155-9 .
- Hans Wilhelm Haussig , Egidius Schmalzriedt (Hrsg.): Götter und Mythen Ostasiens (= dictionary of mythology . Department 1: The ancient civilized peoples. Volume 6). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-12-909860-7 .