Ōyamatsumi en · PROPN
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).
Meanings
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(Japanese) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.
When Saichō (767-822) established Enryakuji on Mount Hiei as his Tendai center he adopted the already enshrined kami of the cultic site, Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, as tutelary deities of the monastic center.
2008, Susan Zitterbart, Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan, page 29:[…], and ritually they create the world and beget Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Ōyamatsumi.
2009, Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 41:[…], this mountain was a cult site for the kami Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, and a shrine temple dedicated to these deities already existed there.
2003, Mark Teeuwen, Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohoyamatsumi | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Izanami · Amaterasu · Susanoo · Kagutsuchi · Tsukuyomi · Ame-no-Uzume · Izanagi
Synonyms
Translations (10)
ja 大山積神 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ja 大山積命 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ko 오야마쓰미노 카미 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ko 오야마쓰미 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ja 大山積 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · mr ओउयामात्सुमी (Japanese sea and mountain god) · pl Ōyamatsumi (Japanese sea and mountain god) · cmn 大山津見 /大山津见 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ja 大山津見 (Japanese sea and mountain god) · ja 大山祇 (Japanese sea and mountain god)