Homusubi no Mikoto (火産霊命)
A deity of fire, enshrined at Atago shrines as protection against it.
Homusubi no Mikoto is a deity of fire. Shrines of the Atago network enshrine the fire deity not to invoke fire but as protection from it, and Tokyo's Atago Shrine was founded on exactly that basis in 1603, by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, as a deity against fire for the new city of Edo. The shrine still names fire prevention and disaster prevention first among what it is associated with.
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