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- Takemikazuchi
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- earthquake
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- Ōnamazu
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thumb|300px|An image of humans battling a Namazu
In Japanese mythology, the or is a giant underground catfish who causes earthquakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namazu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.