Pressed for an answer by Hutunushi-no-kami and Takemikatuti-no-kami, Oonamuchi-no-kami asked them to wait for a moment until he would consult with his son, Kotoshironushi. It is said that just at the time, Kotoshironushi was enjoying fishing at Miho promontory of Izumo or hunting wild birds. When the messengers who had sent by Kotoshironushi asked that question with regard to the alienation of the Izumo, he replied that his father should not have resist against Takamanohara and that he also did have no intention to fight against them. Leaving these words, he had gone away into the sea.
Politics
2008年10 月24日 (金)
2008年10 月23日 (木)
Kuniyuzuri
The two deities, Hutunushi-no-kami and Takemikatuti-no-kami, descended from the Tkamanohara to the Izumo and pressed Ooanamuchi-no-kami to be subject to Ninigi-no-mikoto, the ground-son of Amaterasu-oomikami. They said to him, “Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto dispatched us in order to make Ninigi-no-mikoto reign over this nation. You should willingly concede your throne to him. Could you please reply to the question you would do or not?” This application must have been a sort of compulsion indeed.
2008年10 月22日 (水)
Hutunushi-no-kami and Takemikatuti-no-kami
Since all of dispatch had failed, Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto convened the myriad of deities again and asked them who would be the most suitable deity for the next expedition to the Izumo. All of them recommended Hutunushi-no-kami as he is so heroic. Then Hutunushi-no-kami came to be accompanied by another male deities, Takemikatuti-no-kami, because he complained that the myriad deities had regarded Htunushi-no-kami as the best among them.
2008年10 月21日 (火)
Amewakahiko in the Kojiki
By the way, the situation of the funeral of Amewakahiko described in the Kojiki is different from that of the Chronicle of Japan. In the Kojiki, the place where the funeral held was in the Izumo and Amatukunitama-no-kami came down from the Takamanohara to mourn for his son. This situation is just the opposite! This curious incompatibility between both of the history books must have been caused by circumstances of the ancient Japan which had managed to integrate small tribe nations into a single one. Even though they saw a same historical event, each of them should have described it from their own points of view.
2008年10 月20日 (月)
The Second Lesson of Amewakahiko
Another lesson is mentioned the rest of the story concerning Amewakahiko. Listening the cry of the wife of Amewakahiko, his farter, Amatukunitama-no-kami, recognized that his son had passed away. Thus he made his son’s body float up to the Takamanohara and held a funeral for him. Then because the family of Amewakahiko mistook his friend, Ajisukitakahikone-no-kami, who had come up to there from Ashihara-no-nakatu-kuni for the funeral, for Amewakahiko, and was glad that he was still alive, Ajisukitakahikone-no-kami flight into a rage and thrust the funeral down to the Izumo. This lesson is that thou shalt not mistake the living for the deceased.
2008年10 月19日 (日)
The Lesson of Amewakahiko
Finding the bloody arrow, which Amewakahiko had shot the pheasant in Izumo and flied to the Takamanohara, Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto willingly inferred that Amewakahiko should have fight against deities of the Izumo. No sooner he said that than he picked it up and threw it toward the Izmo. The arrow flied down to the Izumo and just hit Amewakahiko who was lying on his back after the ritual of the rice harvest festival. It is said that this story become a lesson that if the arrow that thou have shot is picked by thy rival, thou shalt kill with it.
2008年10 月18日 (土)
The Arrow of Amewakahiko
Since Amewakahiko had not returned, Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto, in wondering his behavior, dispatched a pheasant to reconnoiter the Izumo. Hearing Amanosagume said that a rare bird had come and perched on a branch of a Japanese Judas tree, Amenowakahiko shot the pheasant with the special bow and arrow. The arrow, which had killed the pheasant, flied to the front of Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto in Takamanohara through the body of pheasant.
2008年10 月17日 (金)
Amewakahiko
As anybody who had been sent from the Takamanohara did not return home, Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto called myriad of deities a meeting again and asked them who should have be the most suitable for their purpose. They recommended him to choose Amewakahiko, a son of Amatukunitama-no-kami and to let him try the project. Then Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto bestowed a special bow and arrow on Amewakahiko. Amewakahiko, however, was not faithful to Takamanohara as his processors. As soon as he arrived at the Izumo, he was married with Shitateru-hime, a daughter of Ooanamuch-no-kami, and joined the governance of the Izumo.
2008年10 月16日 (木)
Amanohohi-no-mikoto
Most of myriad deities agreed that Amanohohi-no-mikoto, who was the second son of Amaterasu-oomikami among five male deities born at the Ukehii, was the most suitable for the project. Thereupon, departed to the Ashihara-no-nakatu-kuni elatedly, but he never came back for three years, because Ooanamuchi-no-kami had succeeded in winning him over to his side. Though his son followed him, he also came to stand by the Izumo.
2008年10 月15日 (水)
The Conference of the Takamanohara
Prior to the dispatch of the expedition, Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto asked the myriad of deities who was the right man to subdue the land of Ashihara-no-nakatu-kuni and entreated them to recommend somebody frankly. This attitude of Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto suggests that in those days there was a conference system in order to gather opinions and advices from all of members in Takamanohara. The post of Takamimusuhi-no-mikoto might be a mediator or an initiator for the political decision making far from a forceful dictator.
