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Shirahi-no-Kami

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Child deity of Otoshi-no-Kami and Inohime. Sibling of Karano-Kami, Sohori-no-Kami, and Hijiri-no-Kami.

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Child deity of Otoshi-no-Kami in the Kojiki (712 CE) Otoshi lineage; one of five Inohime children.

Description

Shirahi-no-Kami (白日神) is an earthly deity recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE). He is named in the lineage as a child of Otoshi-no-Kami and Inohime. The name "Shirahi" means white-day, denoting clear and pure spiritual force. Father is Otoshi-no-Kami; mother is Inohime. Siblings are Okunimitama-no-Kami, Karano-Kami, Sohori-no-Kami, and Hijiri-no-Kami, forming the five children of Inohime. Otoshi-no-Kami also fathered ten children with Amechikarumizuhime (Okutsuhiko, Okutsuhime, Oyamakui, Niwatsuhi, Niwatakatsuhi, Otsuchi, Asuha, Hahiki, Kayamatoomi, and Hayamato), and Mitoshi and Okaguyamatoomi-no-Kami with Kayohime, and this deity belongs to that wider lineage.

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