
Deity
Mii-no-Kami
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.
Description
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.
Sources
御井神 みゐのかみ/みいのかみ
Primary source國學院大學 古典文化学事業「神名データベース」御井神。
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/miinokami/木俣神 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
御井神(ミイ/木俣神)について、古事記の大国主神とヤカミヒメの子としての位置、木の俣に挟まれた逸話、井戸・水・木の守護神としての祭祀を整理する。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E4%BF%A3%E7%A5%9E
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