Ame-no-Minakanushi
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Ame-no-Minakanushi is a deity in Japanese mythology, portrayed in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki as the first or one of the first deities who manifested when heaven and earth came into existence.
Amenominakanuhi shinbutsu zue
Myōken, the Buddhist deification of the North Star and/or the Big Dipper
Motoori Norinaga (self-portrait)
Amaterasu cave crop
Izanami
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Izanami, formally referred to with the honorific Izanami-no-Mikoto, is the creator of both creation and death in Japanese mythology, as well as the Shinto mother goddess. She and her brother-husband I
Ame-no-Minakanushi
…the ultimate natural ancestral kami of human beings. These two ancestral deities then forged heaven and Earth, giving birth to Izanagi no mikoto and Izanami no mikoto, and making them firm the land and give birth to the people. These are our great natural parent deities. A number of Hirata's disciples, meanwhile…
Searching the Seas with the Tenkei (天瓊を以て滄海を探るの図, Tenkei o motte sōkai o saguru no zu). Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, 1880-90 (MFA, Boston). Izanagi with the spear Amenonuhoko to the right, Izanami to the left.
Izanagi and Izanami in Yomi.
Kuniteru Gozu dragon