Deity
Okunimitama-no-Kami
Child deity of Otoshi-no-Kami and Inohime. The name "Kunimitama" denotes the great spirit of the land.
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Child deity of Otoshi-no-Kami in the Kojiki (712 CE); name denotes the great spirit of the land.
Description
Okunimitama-no-Kami (大国御魂神, also read Okunimitama-no-Kami) is an earthly deity recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE), named in the lineage as a child of Otoshi-no-Kami and Inohime. The name element "Kunimitama" means the spirit-soul of the land or the spiritual force of the territory itself, and the appellation deifies the land-spirit directly. Father is Otoshi-no-Kami; mother is Inohime. Siblings are Karano-kami, Sohori-no-Kami, Shirahi-no-Kami, and Hijiri-no-Kami, forming the five children of Inohime. Otoshi-no-Kami also fathered ten children with Amechikarumizuhime and Mitoshi and Okaguyamatoomi-no-Kami with Kayohime, and this deity belongs to that wider lineage.
Sources
大国御魂神 おほくにみたまのかみ／おおくにみたまのかみ
Primary source國學院大學 古典文化学事業「神名データベース」大国御魂神。
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/okunimitamanokami/大年神 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
大年神の御子神 大国御魂神について、古事記の系譜段における位置（伊怒比売との御子神）を整理する。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B9%B4%E7%A5%9E
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