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Tsuchi-Ikazuchi

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Tsuchi-Ikazuchi is one of the eight thunder deities attested in the Yomi passage of Kojiki (712 CE), arising from the body of Izanami.

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Tsuchi-Ikazuchi is one of the eight thunder deities attested in the Yomi passage of Kojiki (712 CE), preserved in the Kokugakuin deity-name database.

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Tsuchi-Ikazuchi is listed in the Kokugakuin University Classical Cultural Studies Project deity-name database. The source attestation is the Yomi passage in Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume, where Izanagi-no-Mikoto looks upon the body of Izanami and finds maggots gathering, with eight thunder deities arisen on her form. Commentary readings place Tsuchi-Ikazuchi as the thunder arising on the right hand among the set of eight (Great Thunder, Fire Thunder, Black Thunder, Cleaving Thunder, Young Thunder, Earth Thunder, Sounding Thunder and Hiding Thunder). The database preserves the name as such. IZANORA registers it as a node and draws relations only from the cited source.

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