deity
Susanoo
The named Shinto storm and sea kami, brother of Amaterasu. Not Amaterasu as the sun kami, and not storm as bare weather.
Also known as Susano-o · Susanoo-no-Mikoto
Shinto
Susanoo appears in Shinto.
The Kojiki seats Susanoo as the storm sibling of Amaterasu: the piebald-horse outrage at the weaving hall, the Yamata serpent slaying in Izumo, and the Ōkuninushi palace ordeals. A named kami in that court compilation, not storm as bare weather and not Loki as a trickster twin.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Susanoo appears in Kojiki.
Susanoo’s weaving-hall outrage, Yamata deed, and Izumo sojourns are narrated in the Kojiki’s kami and early-land books. Named presence in that text, not Nihon Shoki alone and not a later shrine portrait dump.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Kusanagi is sacred to Susanoo.
The Kojiki has Susanoo draw the grass-cutting sword from the Yamata serpent’s tail as his deed before it enters the imperial-sun line. Sacred first finding and holding under Susanoo, not a flatten onto Amaterasu (prior refuse) and not a generic sword dump.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Storm is sacred to Susanoo.
The Kojiki’s Susanoo is the storm kami whose raging is his own force — storm as dedicated weather of that sibling, not bare meteorology and not Takemikazuchi’s thunder-envoy job.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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sources
- Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.