frame In Shinto, is the collective name for the first gods which came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe. They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation. Unlike the later gods, these deities were born without any procreation.
frame In Shinto, is the collective name for the first gods which came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe. They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation. Unlike the later gods, these deities were born without any procreation.
The three deities that first appeared were: - Lord of the August Center of Heaven - Exalted Generative Force - Sacred Generative Force A bit later, two more deities came into existence: - Elderly Prince Reed-Shoot (天之常立神) - Ever-Standing Heaven The next generation of gods that followed was the Kamiyonanayo, which included Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto, the patriarch and matriarch of all other Japanese gods, respectively. Afterward, the Kotoamatsukami "hides away" as hitorigami.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).