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  2. Amatsu-Mikaboshi - Wikipedia

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    Amatsu-Mikaboshi (天津甕星 [1]), also called Ame-no-Kagaseo (天香香背男 [1]) or Hoshi-no-Kami Kagaseo [2] (星神香香背男), is a god of stars who appears in Japanese mythology. No reference to Mikaboshi is made in the Kojiki , however, he plays a minor role in the Nihon Shoki as a deity insubordinate to the amatsukami during the ...

  3. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld

  4. Archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

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    After the archive of the Inquisition was returned to Rome in 1815, it expanded a great deal. Although the actual number of documents housed in the present archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is not known because documents dated after Pope Leo XIII's death, in 1903, are still closed to researchers, there are known to be 4,500 documents available to scholars up to that point.

  5. Kotodama - Wikipedia

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    This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku. In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion.

  6. God of destruction - Wikipedia

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    Trillion: God of Destruction, a 2015 Japanese video game; Beerus, the God of Destruction, a character in the Dragon Ball franchise; Yami Sukehiro, the Destruction God, a character in the manga series Black Clover; Alexander, God of Destruction, a character from the 2005 video game Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome; Plagg, the God of ...

  7. List of Japanese deities - Wikipedia

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    Kōjin (三宝荒神), is the god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen. Konjin (金神) Kotoshironushi (事代主神) Kuebiko (久延毘古), the god of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness. Kukunochi, believed to be the ancestor of trees. [22]

  8. Amatsukami - Wikipedia

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    Amatsukami (Japanese: 天津神, 天つ神, 'Kami of heaven') is a category of kami in Japanese mythology. Generally speaking, it refers to kami born in, or residing in, Takamagahara . Amatsukami is one of the three categories of kami, along with their earthly counterpart Kunitsukami ( 国津神, 国つ神 ) , and yaoyorozu-no-kami ( 八百万 ...

  9. Ame-no-Koyane - Wikipedia

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    Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami and a male deity in Japanese mythology and Shinto. He is the ancestral god of the Nakatomi clan, and Fujiwara no Kamatari, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan. [4] An Amatsukami, 'Kami of heaven', he resides in Takamagahara.