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Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (ツクヨミノミコト, 月読命), [1] or simply Tsukuyomi (ツクヨミ, 月読) or Tsukiyomi (ツキヨミ), [2] is the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. The name "Tsukuyomi" is a compound of the Old Japanese words tsuku (月, "moon, month", becoming modern Japanese tsuki) and yomi (読み ...
Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven". For many reasons, one among them being her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not officially) to be the "primary god" of Shinto. [1] [2] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...
Izanami and Izanagi are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi and the storm god Susanoo. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
This gender-neutral Japanese name has many meanings, one of which is “second moon.” 46. Calypso. The name of a “trailing moon” in Saturn’s orbit, this gender-neutral moniker of Greek ...
While associated with the Moon, Hecate is not actually considered a goddess of the moon. Hëna: Albanian: Hëna ("the Moon) is a personified female deity in Albanian mythology. Hors: Slavic: Hjúki and Bil: Norse: Ilargi: Basque: Kuu: Finnish: Losna: Etruscan: Luna: Roman: Roman counterpart to the Greek Titaness Selene. Sibling to Sol and ...
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 551 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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To this name is appended the honorific muchi, [18] which is also seen in a few other theonyms such as 'Ō(a)namuchi' [19] or 'Michinushi-no-Muchi' (an epithet of the three Munakata goddesses [20]). As the ancestress of the imperial line, the epithet Sume(ra)-Ō(mi)kami ( 皇大神 , lit.