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Ōyamatsumi

Ōyamatsumi proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Ōyamatsumi

  1. (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.
    • […], 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
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

Ōyamatsumi meaning in Marathi

Ōyamatsumi in Marathi

Japanese sea and mountain god
ओउयामात्सुमी ouyāmātsumī

Synonyms of Ōyamatsumi

  • Ōyamatsumi-no-Mikoto

Forms of Ōyamatsumi

alternative formOhoyamatsumi

Origin of Ōyamatsumi

Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).

Words that rhyme with Ōyamatsumi

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Questions about Ōyamatsumi

What does Ōyamatsumi mean?
Ōyamatsumi means 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.
What is Ōyamatsumi in Marathi?
Ōyamatsumi in Marathi is ओउयामात्सुमी (ouyāmātsumī). See Ōyamatsumi meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is Ōyamatsumi?
Ōyamatsumi is a proper noun.

Words near Ōyamatsumi in the dictionary

  1. Ōshima
  2. Ōta
  3. Ōtawara
  4. Ōtsu
  5. Ōtsuki
  6. Ōyamatsumi
  7. ōzeki
  8. ōzekis
  9. ŏ
  10. œ
  11. Œchalia

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