Hayaakitsuhime-no-Kami

Hayaakitsuhime-no-Kami is recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume in the deity-making passage. The text reads, "Next they bore the deity of the river-mouth named Hayaakitsuhiko-no-Kami, and his younger sister Hayaakitsuhime-no-Kami." She is born to Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto in the sequence that gives rise to the sea and river deities, as the paired female deity of the river-mouth. The eight children she begets with her brother-consort include Awanagi-no-Kami, Awanami-no-Kami, Tsuranagi-no-Kami, Tsuranami-no-Kami, Ame-no-Mikumari-no-Kami, Kuni-no-Mikumari-no-Kami, Ame-no-Kuhizamochi-no-Kami and Kuni-no-Kuhizamochi-no-Kami, the genealogy of river-flow and water-distribution deities. She is enshrined at Hayaakitsu Jinja in Matsue and Sakunadari Jinja in Iishi, Shimane. In the Oharae-no-Kotoba she is invoked as "the deity Hayaakitsuhime who dwells in the meeting of the eighty currents and eighty paths of brine," receiving sin and pollution to be swallowed up by the great sea.