Kamigami, Kamigami, Aya-kashikone no Kami, are a pair of Kami in Japanese mythology.
Overview
In the Kojiki, the elder brother is referred to as Kamiyonanayo and the younger sister as Ayakashikodori; in the Nihon Shoki, the elder brother is referred to as Menzoku-no-mikoto and the younger sister as Ayakashikine no-mikoto.
He is the sixth god of the Kamiyonanayo in the Kojiki. Omodar means "complete (i.e., without any deficiency)," and Ayakashikone is a beautiful name for it, "Ayanikashikoshi. In other words, it is a deity that deifies the perfection of the human body.
In addition, the name "Yubo" means "face" and "Daryu" means "enough," and the name refers to "the fullness of a man's face. In Aya Kashiko Doro, "Aya" is an inspirational word, "Kashiko" is the root of the word "fear," and "Doro" is a parenthetical name for a person.
In the Middle Ages, Shinbutsu-shūgō, he was the sixth of the seven generations of the divine world, and was considered to be the Takuakuaku of the Sixth Heavenly Demon King, the highest of the six greedy heavens of Greed World in Buddhism. He was especially worshipped in Shugendo. With the Separation of Shinto and Buddhism of 明治, many temples enshrining the Sixth Heavenly Demon became Jinja, and were renamed "Dairoku Tenjinsha", "Guroku Shrine", or "Menzoku Shrine".
Shrines
- The 6th Tenjin Shrine in each area
- Chikatsu Shrine (Ibaraki PrefectureKuji CountyOgomachi)
- Chikatsu Shrine (Shimonomiya, Ogo-machi, Kuji District, Ibaraki Prefecture)
- Futarasan Shrine (Baba-dori, Tochigi PrefectureUtsunomiya City)
- Kumano Hayashiko Shrine (Oita PrefectureTaketa City)
- Kumano Hayatama Taisha (Wakayama Prefecture Shingū City)
- Kumano Nachi Taisha (Higashimuro-gun Nachikatsuura Town, Wakayama Prefecture)
- Yasuda Shrine (TokyoShibuya WardJingūmae)
- Dairoku Tenjinsha (Miyagi PrefectureNatori CityMasuda)
References
Kenji Kurano "Kojiki / Revised Edition" (Iwanami Bunko, 1963) Kokugakuin University Institute of Japanese Culture "Shrink Edition Shindo Encyclopedia" (Koubundou Publishers, 1999)
Related Items
- Creation of heaven and earth
- List of Japanese gods
- Family tree of Japanese deities
- Seven Generations of Gods
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