Amenooshihomimi

• • Affiliation: Shinto
  • Kami of: –
  • Family: Amaterasu (mother) Amenohohi (brother) Amatsuhikone (brother) Ikutsuhikone (brother) Kumanokusubi (brother) Hinohayahi (brother)

Amenooshihomimi

Amenooshihomimi (Ruling Rice Ears of Heaven) also known as Masa-katsu-a-katsu-kachi-haya-hi-ame-no-oshi-ho-mimi (Truly Winning Have I Won with Rushing Might Ruling Grand Rice Ears of Heaven) is a son of Amaterasu, he was the first born from the Jewels in Amaterasu’s hair after being chewed and spat out by Susano-o. This is related in the Kojiki and Nihongi.¹²

There is one alternative version in the Nihongi where this kami is birthed from the jewels of Susano-o, who chews and spits them out himself (perhaps in this context this kami is a son then of Susano-o). There is also another version in which Susano-o creates this kami from his jewels himself by placing them in different parts of his body. For this kami it is by placing the jewels in his left hand.²

Another alternative version given in the Nihongi, where he is called, Masa-ya-a-katsu-katsu-haya-hi-ama-no-oshi-ho-ne, relates how he is made by Jewels from Susano-o which are placed in the right hand.²

He is charged by his mother to descend from Heaven and rule over Yamato.¹

Footnotes

1. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.

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