Takamimusubi

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Takamimusubi ( Japanese タ カ ミ ム ス ビ ; Kojiki : 高 御 産 巣 日 神 , Takamimusuhi no kami ; Nihonshoki : 高 皇 産 霊 尊 , Takamimusubi no mikoto ; translated as: "High-lofty- Karl -Bringing-God-God"; High noble producer "), also Takagi no kami ( 高木 神 ), is a kami that is central to the Shintō - creation myth of Japanese mythology and, according to the Kojiki, next to Amenominakanushi and Kamimusubi to the three Kami of creation ( 造化 三 神 , zōka no sanshin ), which in turn belong to the five individual Heavenly Kami ( 別 天津 神 , koto-ama-tsu-kami ), a term for the first five Kami mentioned in Kojiki.

Musubi ( む す び ) is part of the name of many kami and is sometimes called. a. understood as an esoteric concept: Musubi is accordingly the spirit of birth and becoming, from which all being, animate or inanimate, is derived and developed. Takamimusubi embodies this concept in a masculine, positive and active way, while another of the three kami of creation, Kamimusubi, embodies the feminine, passive and negative moment of Musubi. Although the relationship between Takamimusubi and Kamimusubi is controversial, there is broad consensus among Shinto theologians that together they established the being and becoming of the entire world. Since Musubi can also mean "to unite", he was also revered as the kami of marriage brokerage.

Further traits ascribed to Takamimusubi are mind, self-causation, self-confidence and integration of these with coordinating abilities, belligerence and fearfulness and a preferred interest in the fate of the Heavenly Kami. In a theological tradition, it is also understood as one of the five constitutional elements of Inari .

Takamimusubi often appears in the myths as collaborating with Amaterasu .

According to the Nihonshoki, he has a total of 1,500 children. Among them are Sukunahikona (according to Kojiki a child of Kamimusubi), Mihotsuhime (in Nihongi; wife of Ōmononushi ), Omoikane and Yorozuhatahime (mother of Ninigi). As the grandfather of Ninigi , he was instrumental, together with Amaterasu, in his establishment as ruler of mythical Japan. The same goes for his (Takamimusubis) son-in-law Amenooshihomimi . According to the Kojiki , he sent the great crow Yatakarasu down to earth to protect his great-great-great-grandson Jimmu ( according to the Nihonshoki it was Amaterasu). According to the Kogoshūi , Jimmu is said to have immediately begun his enthronement as Tennō with the cultic worship of Takamimusubi. The Nihonshoki reports of his veneration in the chapter on the Kenzō- tennō.

He is occasionally worshiped with one or more other kotoamatsukami (including in the shinden , one of the three personal shrines of Tennō), alone he is worshiped in the Takagi shrine, in the Takahoko shrine in the village of Yoshino (Nara prefecture) and in the Iguri shrine ( a side shrine of the Kasuga Taisha ).

For some Japanese noble families (clans) he was considered an ancestor, z. B. for the Tomo and Saeki. For the Japanese imperial family , however, he is not considered an ancestor, since Amaterasu and not Takamimusubi is traditionally understood as decisive for the establishment of Jimmu as the first Tennō.

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