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Sarutahiko Ōkami is a Japanese Monkey god.[1] His name means monkey-field-prince.[2][1]
He married the goddess Ama-no-Uzume after she went down to Earth. She persuaded him to let Ninigi-no-Mikoto and the rest of the Amatsukami go down to Earth..[3]
Later, Uzume and Sarutahiko fall in love and get married. Together, they founded the Sarume clan.[4][5][6]
He has the title Ōkami (大神, great god) which is a rare and powerful title. Only six other kami have it, the other six are Izanagi, Izanami, Michikaeshi (also known as Yomido ni sayarimasu ōkami (?) who is the kami of the great rock used by Izanagi to obstruct the way to Yomi, and thus, preventing emergence of evil spirits from the Underworld), Sashikuni, Inari, and Amaterasu. Sarutahiko and Inari appear to be the only Okami from the kunitsukami, or earthly kami, the others being Amatsukami (heavenly deities).[7][better source needed]
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[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (1987), The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual, Princeton University Press, pp. 42-43.
- ↑ Ashkenazi, Michael (2003). Handbook of Japanese Mythology. ABC-CLIO. pp. 70. ISBN 1-57607-467-6.
- ↑ Ashkenazi, Michael (2008). Handbook of Japanese mythology. Handbooks of world mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-0-19-533262-9.
- ↑ Picken, Stuart D. B. (2004). Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26432-0.
- ↑ Roberts, Jeremy (2009). Japanese Mythology A to Z. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-2802-3.
- ↑ Coulter, Charles Russell; Turner, Patricia (2013-07-04). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96397-2.
- ↑ "Kami – OCCULT WORLD". Retrieved 2024-04-22.