Ame-no-Hohi (天穂日命)
Deity born in the contest between Amaterasu and Susanoo, counted as the ancestor of the Sugawara line.
Ame-no-Hohi is one of the deities born in the exchange between Amaterasu and Susanoo in the myths, and the chronicles make him the ancestor of several priestly houses, among them the Sugawara. That descent is why he appears at Tenjin shrines: where Sugawara no Michizane is enshrined as Tenman Okami, Ame-no-Hohi is sometimes enshrined beside him as the founder of the family. Kameido Tenjin in Tokyo names them together in that order, which is a compact way of saying that the deity of learning was also a man with a lineage.
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