Every place has its legends and myths give meaning to their everyday life, giving you that the things that can not be explained so easily. Izanagi and Izanami descended one day to the surface of the earth, first building a celestial column and around the palace. Then they began to rotate in opposite directions around the column to be, but Izanami spoke words of love to her brother first, as they turned around. After the brothers together and, begat a son: Hiruko, excessively weak, it was abandoned to the waters on a raft, then had a daughter who does not satisfy them, so the island became the Awa, same as it is on the coast of Osaka.
Little pleased with those first two children, went to heaven to consult the gods, who said that the births had been destructive, because Izanami had spoken before the male. Back on land, repeated the ceremony correctly, being Izanagi the first to say words of love, had fourteen children who formed the eight major islands and six children in Japan. Also gave life to the ten divinities
- O-wata-tsumi, god of the sea
- Marriage-tsu-iko Hayaaki and Hayaaki-tsu-hime, river gods and parents of the eight gods of water
- Shima-tsu-hiko, god of wind
- Kuno-ku-chi, god of trees
- O-yama-tsumi, god of the mountain
- Kayanu-hime, the goddess of the plains
Parents of eight other gods of the earth: Ameno-tori-bune, O-Getsu-hime, Kagu-Tsuchi this was the last of the children, but her part was horrible for Izanami, who devoured by the fire fell prostrate in terrible pain , writhing in vomiting, feces and urine, of which he gave birth and the goddess of the mud and the god of harvest and the snake goddess of water.
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