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Mii-no-Kami

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Mii-no-Kami is a deity name attested in the visit to Ne-no-Katasukuni passage of Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin University deity-name database.

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Mii-no-Kami is a deity name attested in the visit to Ne-no-Katasukuni in Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin deity-name database.

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Mii-no-Kami is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the visit to Ne-no-Katasukuni in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume, where the name appears in the chain of Okuninushi-related deities. He is also called Kimata-no-Kami in the Yakamihime episode, where Yakamihime, fearing the jealousy of Suserihime, leaves her child in the fork of a tree as she returns to Inaba. The name links to well-water cult. The database preserves the entry with its scene reference. IZANORA registers it as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.

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