Ame-no-Koyane
Sign in to saveAme-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami and a male deity in Japanese mythology and Shinto. He is the ancestral god of the Nakatomi clan, and Fujiwara no Kamatari, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan. An Amatsukami, 'Kami of heaven', he resides in Takamagahara.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Japanese
- Deity.name
- Ame-no-Koyane
- Deity.image
- File:Amenokoyane shinbutsu-zue.jpg
- Deity.god_of
- God of Divine Mirror, Great Divination, Divine Affairs
- Deity.script_name
- Japanese
- Deity.script
- 天児屋命
- Deity.cult_center
- Kasuga Grand Shrine Hiraoka Shrine Yoshida Shrine Ōharano Shrine
- Deity.parents
- Kamimusubi (Kogo Shūi), Kogotomusuhi (Nihon Shoki)
- Deity.children
- Uwaharu Shitaharu Tamakushi-hime
- Deity.texts
- Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Izumo-no-kuni Fudoki
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- amatsukami
- Gender
- male
- Image
- Amenokoyane shinbutsu-zue.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Kṣitigarbha
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Mythology
- Shrines
- References
- External links
Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami and a male deity in Japanese mythology and Shinto. He is the ancestral god of the Nakatomi clan, and Fujiwara no Kamatari, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan. An Amatsukami, 'Kami of heaven', he resides in Takamagahara.
== Mythology == According to Kogo Shūi and Kashima Shrine's genealogy, Ame-no-Koyane is the son of the creator deity Kamimusubi, one of the first three gods to come into existence. However, according to Nihon Shoki, he is the son of Kogotomusubi (興台産霊命).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ame-no-Koyane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.