Ugajin
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Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a harvest and fertility kami of Japanese mythology.[1][2] Ugajin is represented both as a male and a female, and is often depicted with the body of a snake and the head of a bearded man, for the masculine variant,[1] or the head of a woman, for the female variant. In Tendai Buddhism Ugajin was syncretically fused with Buddhist goddess Benzaiten, which became known as Uga Benzaiten or Uga Benten.[3] The goddess sometimes carries on her head Ugajin's effigy.
In this limited sense, the kami is part of the Japanese Buddhist pantheon.
Gallery
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Ugajin's feminine form
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Statue of Benzaiten, a torii and a male Ugajin visible on her head (whose coiled serpent body is barely visible behind her crown)
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Wooden snake at Zeniarai Benzaiten Ugafuku Shrine
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Watsky, Andrew Mark. (2004). Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan, p. 233, at Google Books
- ↑ Handbook of Japanese mythology by Michael Ashkenazi p. 126
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