Amaterasu Ō(mi)kami

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Amaterasu Ō(mi)kami is a variant name for Amaterasu Ōmikami given in the Nihon Shoki. Ōmikami means 'great august deity' (ō 'great' + honorific prefix mi- + kami).

When

First attested
700 CE
Attested period
700 – 720
Historical notes
Variant name in Nihon Shoki (8th c.).

Relationships

manifests as
Amaterasu-ōmikami

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“Nihon Shoki gives the following variant names: Ōhirume-no-Muchi (大日孁貴; Man'yōgana: 於保比屢咩能武智; hist. orthography: おほひるめのむち, Ohohirume-no-Muchi; Old Japanese: Opopi1rume1-no2-Muti) Amaterasu Ō(mi)kami (天照大神; hist. orthography: あまてらすおほ(み)かみ, Amaterasu Oho(mi)kami)”

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