Ōwatatsumi

• • Affiliation: Shinto
  • Kami of: The Ocean.
  • Family: Izanami (mother) Izanagi (father)

Ōwatatsumi

Ōwatatsumi (大綿津見神 – Great Ocean Majesty) was the eighth of ten kami created after Izanami and Izanagi had created the Eightfold Isles and the six subsequent isles, according to the kojiki.

The Engi Rites state a Shrine was dedicated to him in Suminoe.¹

The nihongi associates him with Sukunabiko and states he was born to Izanami and Izanagi after they had created the kami Ukanotama.²

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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