Kuraokami

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Kuraokami ( Japanese ク ラ オ カ ミ ; Kojiki : 闇 淤 加 美 〔神〕 , Nihonshoki : 闇 龗 〔神〕 , also: Kura-okami-no-kami ; Karl Florenz suspects as an appropriate translation “dark great god” or “great god of the valley gorges “) Is one of the Kami in the mythology of Shinto who were born from the blood that dripped from the sword of the Izanagi on the floor after the Izanagi gave it to his son, the fire-Kami Kagutsuchi, out of anger that he was born at his birth Ms. Izanagi's sister and Ms. Izanami were fatally burned to death.

His daughter, Hi-kaha-hime ( 日 河 比 売 ), later became the wife of Fuha-no-moji-ku-nu-su-nu ( 布波 能 母 遅 久 奴 須 奴 神 ), son of Kono- hana-chiru-hime (daughter of Ō-yama-tsu-mi ) and Ya-shima-ji-nu-mi (son of Kushi-nada-hime and Susanoo ). Together they established the lineage that eventually led to the birth of Hime-tatara-isuke-yori-hime, who, together with Jimmu , established the Tennō family .

As already explained in Man'yōshū , Kuraokami has the function of a rain kami alongside Takaokami . He is the "great rainmaker on the heights" or the "dark rain god", who is also responsible for the snowfall.

Main Shinto shrines for Kuraokami are the Nibukawakami Shrine in Yoshino County of Nara Prefecture and hundreds of Kifune shrines . In the original Kifune-jinja-no-honsha in Kyōto , the name of the main kami was Kura-okami-no-kami until World War II, but was later changed to Taka-okami-no-kami.

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