Oanamuji-no-Kami

Oanamuji-no-Kami (大穴牟遅神, also read Oanamuji-no-Kami) is the youthful name of the earthly deity Okuninushi-no-Kami recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE). Throughout the Kojiki narrative, before he received the name Okuninushi after completing the trials in the Land of Roots, he is consistently called Oanamuji-no-Kami. He appears as the protagonist of the first half of the Izumo myth cycle. In the upper scroll, he travels with the eighty deities to court Yagamihime in Inaba, saves the flayed white rabbit, suffers persecution from the eighty siblings, is twice killed and revived by his mother's prayers, undergoes trials under Susanoo in the Land of Roots, and finally receives the name Okuninushi. Father is Amenofuyukinu-no-Kami; mother is Sashikuniwakahime; the sixth-generation descendant of Susanoo.