Deity
Wakayamakui-no-Kami
Wakayamakui-no-Kami is a Kojiki (712 CE) earthly deity in the Otoshi-no-Kami genealogy, a young mountain deity bridging mountain and grain cults.
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A Kojiki (712 CE) young mountain deity bridging the Sanno mountain cult and the Otoshi-no-Kami grain lineage.
Description
Wakayamakui-no-Kami is an earthly deity (kunitsukami) recorded in the Kojiki (712 CE), upper scroll, in the genealogy of Otoshi-no-Kami (the Great Year Deity). The text places the deity as the eldest child of Hayamato-no-Kami and Ogetsuhime-no-Kami, ahead of Wakatoshi-no-Kami, Wakasaname-no-Kami and other young grain deities. The deity shares the "yamakui" (mountain-stake) element with Oyamakui-no-Kami, the enshrined deity of Hiyoshi-Taisha (Otsu, Shiga) and Matsunoo-Taisha (Kyoto), and is read as a younger derivative form bridging the mountain cult and the year-grain cult. Dedicated main shrines are rare, but the deity is co-enshrined within the Sanno Shinto network around the major mountain-deity centres of the Hiyoshi/Matsunoo lineage and at Otoshi-line shrines in the Kinai region.
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若山咋神 わかやまくひのかみ／わかやまくいのかみ
Primary source國學院大學 古典文化学事業「神名データベース」若山咋神。
https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/wakayamakuinokami/古事記 上巻 大年神系譜
Primary source古事記 上巻 大年神系譜に基づく神格・系譜・登場場面の整理。
神道・神名辞典 若山咋神項
Secondary source神道・神名辞典 若山咋神項を参照した神格名・関連文脈の補助確認。
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