Amenominakanushi (天之御中主神)
The first deity of the Kojiki, appearing at the beginning of heaven, and an ancestor of the Japanese deities.
Amenominakanushi is the first deity named in the Kojiki, appearing at the beginning of the universe at the highest point of the plain of heaven. He takes almost no part in the myths that follow, which is part of why later devotion treats him as a source rather than an actor: an ancestor of the Japanese deities rather than a figure with a story. Suitengu in Tokyo, which enshrines him as its principal deity, describes his virtue as extending without limit to safe childbirth and to the granting of children, and Tokyo Daijingu counts him among the three deities of creation whose presence it gives as the reason for its own association with the tying of bonds.
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