Ninigi
Ninigi no mikoto ( Japanese ニ ニ ギ ( Kojiki : 邇 邇 芸 尊 ; Nihonshoki : 瓊瓊 杵 尊 )) or Ama-tsu-hiko-hiko-ho-no-ninigi no mikoto ( 天津 彦 彦 火 瓊瓊 杵 尊 ) is a kami in Shinto mythology . He is the son of Amenooshihomimi and Yorozuhatahime and the grandson of the Kami Amaterasu , who sent him to earth to plant rice and to rule the earth.
Ninigi and his entourage rose to earth and settled near Himuka on Mount Takachiho-no-mine ( 高 千 穂 峰 ) in the later province of Hyūga , south of Kyushu , where Ninigi built his palace.
According to legend, he is the great-grandfather of Emperor Jimmu and thus the ancestor of all emperors in Japan.
According to legend, Amaterasu gave him three gifts, today the Japanese Throne Insignia ( Sanshu no Jingi ), with:
- the necklace Yasakani no Magatama (in the Imperial Palace ),
- the mirror Yata no kagami (in the Ise shrine ) and
- the Kusanagi sword (in the Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya ).
The first two artifacts were used to lure Amaterasu out of the cave in which she was hiding. The sword was found by her brother Susanoo in one of the tails of the orochi , a dragon with eight heads and eight tails.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 76. Tuttle Publishing. Tra Edition (July 2005). First edition published: 1972. ISBN 978-0-8048-3674-6 .
Web links
- Mori Mizue, Yumiyama Tatsuya: "Ninigi" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , May 6, 2005 (English)
- Item "Takachiho-gawara" in Nippon-kichi
literature
- Inez de Beauclair: Dictionary of Mythology - Gods and Myths of East Asia, Volume VI , Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-12-909860-7 .