Ōgetsuhime-no-Kami
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Ōgetsuhime-no-Kami is a food goddess mentioned in the Kojiki. In a similar tale to the Ukemochi myth, she is killed, but in this version the one who kills her is Susanoo-no-Mikoto rather than Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto. Some scholars suggest this difference arose because a myth originally told of one deity was later attributed to the other's episode.
When
- First attested
- 700 CE
- Attested period
- 700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in the Kojiki (8th century CE) in a variant of the food goddess myth found in the Nihon Shoki.
Relationships
- enemy of
- Susanoo no Mikoto
- co occurs with
- Amaterasu-ōmikami, Izanagi-no-mikoto, Ōhirume-no-Muchi, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, Ukemochi-no-Kami
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Meanwhile, in the Kojiki, in a similar tale, the food goddess (Ōgetsuhime-no-Kami) is killed—but the one who does it is Susanoo-no-Mikoto.”
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