Otamaruwake

Otamaruwake (大多麻流別) is a deity recorded only in the Kojiki (712 CE). The name is interpreted as "the great spirit-prince". In the land-creation mythology, Izanagi and Izanami produced the smaller eight islands after the great eight-island country, and this deity is the land-spirit (kunitama) of Oshima (present-day Suo-Oshima / Yashirojima in Yamaguchi Prefecture). According to the Kojiki upper scroll, after completing the great eight-island country, the pair continued by producing the six smaller islands of Kibi-no-Kojima, Shodoshima, Oshima, Himejima, Chikajima, and Futagojima. The Nihon Shoki (720 CE) does not record a corresponding deity name. Otamane Shrine in Suo-Oshima venerates this deity as the land-spirit. Suo-Oshima preserves an ancient tradition of deifying the island itself.