Kuni-no-Tokotachi
In Shinto faith, Kuninotokotachi Script error: No such module "Nihongo". Script error: No such module "Nihongo". or Kuni-toko-tachi[1] is one of the two Gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil"[2] when the Earth was chaotic. In the Script error: No such module "Lang"., he is the first of the seven generations of Divinities born after the first five divinities were born at the time of the creation of the Universe. In the Script error: No such module "Lang"., he is the first of the three divinities born after Heaven and Earth were born out of chaos, and is born from something looking like a reed-shoot growing between heaven and earth.[3] He is known by mythology to reside on top of Mount Fuji (富士山).
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Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of the Yoshida Shintō sect, identified Kuninotokotachi with Amenominakanushi and regarded him as the primordial god of the Universe.
In Tenrikyo, Kunitokotachi-no-Mikoto is one of the Script error: No such module "Nihongo"..[4]
He is a Hitorigami, or a singular divinity born early in the universe.[5]
He came after Amenotokotachi and before Template:Ill Template:Seven Generations of Kami
See also
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Masaki Tsugita, Kojiki, 1977, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Nihongi - Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 (tr. from the original Chinese and Japanese by W.G. Aston, Charles E. Tuttle Cy. 1990)
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External links
- Encyclopedia of Shinto - http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp
- Kunitokotachi on the Japanese History Database.