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Japanese Deities

Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone - God of thunder

Ama-No-Minakanushi-No-Kami - Divine Lord of the Middle Heavens

Ama-No-Uzume - A fertility goddess

Amaterasu - Goddess of the sun

Ama-Tsu-Kami - The gods of heaven (as opposed to the gods of earth Kuni-Tsu-Kami)

Amatsu-Mikaboshi - God of evil

Ame-No-Hohi - A god who disappeared whilst investigating events on earth

Ame-No-Oshido-Mimi - Son of the goddess Amaterasu

Ame-No-Wakahiko - A courageous god who died whilst trying to kill a pheasant

Benzaiten - Goddess of love

Bishamon - God of happiness and war

Chimata-Mo-Kami - God of crossroads

Gozo-Tenno - Ox headed Celestial King god of plague

Haya-Ji - God of the whirlwind

Hikohohodemi - A hero god (triplet son of Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime)

Hiruko - God of the morning sun, guardian of childrens' health

Hisa-Me - 'Frowning Women' Female devils from the land of the dead

Hoderi - One of the triplets born to Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime, wife of the god Ninigi

Ho-Masubi - God of fire

Hosuseri - Triplet son of Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime

Inari - God of rice

Izanagi - A creator god

Izanami - Divine mother (sister and wife to the god Izanagi)

Kami - General name signifying divinity

Kami-Musubi - Goddess mother of Sukuna-Bikona who resurrected the god O-Kuni-Nushi

Kami-Nari - God of rolling thunder

Kappa - A water demon

Kawa-No-Kami - God of Kawa (rivers)

Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime - Daughter of the mountain god O-Yama-Tzu-Mi

Kuni-Tsu-Kami - The gods of the earth (as opposed to the gods of heaven)

Nai-No-Kami - God of earthquakes

Naka-Yama-Tsu-Mi - God of mountain slopes

Ninigi - Ruler of the earth

O-Kuni-Nushi - God of medicine and sorcery

Omiwa - O-Kuni-Nushi's protective deity

O-Wata-Tsumi - Sea god 'Old Man of the Tide'

O-Yama-Tsu-Mi - Mountain god

Sae-No-Kami - Guardian gods of the roads

Sakayamuni - Japanese name for Buddha

Sengen-Sama - Goddess of the holy mountain Fujiyama

Shichi-Fukujin - The seven gods of happiness

Shiko-Me - Female devils (see Hisa Me)

Shine-Tsu-Hiko - God of the wind

Shitatera-Hime - Wife of Ame-No-Wakahiko

Soko-No-Kuni - 'DeepLand' or 'Hell'

Suitengu - Child-god of the sea

Sukana-Bikona - Son of the goddess Kami-Musubi

Susanoo - God of thunder, rain, storms, snakes and agriculture

Take-Mi-Musubi - Companion and adviser to Amaterasu, the sun goddess

Taki-Tsu-Hiko - 'Prince Cataract' god of rain

Tsuki-Yomi - God of the moon

Uke-Mochi-No-Kani - Goddess of food

 

Adapted from 'A guide to the Gods' by Richard Carlyon

I recommend this book for much much more information anout these and other deities

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