Yasaka Shrine’s deities Part 25

How are you all doing? I am glad to hear that you are well. This is the defeated soldier. Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the deity of Yasaka Shrine, finally conquered the Yamata-no-orochi, and safely presented the Kusanagi Sword to Amaterasu Omikami. What will finally happen to Susanoo-sama? Let’s continue the story.

After the event, he was relocated to the place upstream of the Hii River in the Land of Izumo, where he lived and recuperated for a long time, together with Makamifurukushiinadahime, who had been born to the Lord Ashinazuchi, Inada-no-Miyanushisusanoyatumimi.

This led Hayasusano-no-Milkoto-sama to seek out a place in the Land of Izumo where he could his home, marry Kushi-inada-hime and live his life.

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Here, at last, Susanoo-sama reached the land of Suga. Suga, this place is called Suga. (The Sugano-yashiro of Izumo-taisha shrine represents the fact that Susanoo-sama resides in the land of Suga, which we Japanese have worshipped from generation to generation.

Immediately after his arrival in the land of Suga, Susanoo-sama issued an imperial decree. I have come to this land and My Will is clean. This story is the reason why this place is now called Suga. Susanoo-sama built a palace there and lived there. The place where Susanoo-sama lived and was named is called Suga.

When this Kamuro Takehaya Susanoo, the great deity, (*reportedly, Okami is, of course, used to refer to Amaterasu Omikami, but here for the first time Susanoo-sama is referred to as Okami), first created the palace of Suga, a cloud rose up from the ground as if it were boiling.

Seeing the clouds rising, Susanoo-sama composed and recited a song. The song is “Yakumo Tatu Izumo yaegaki Tuma gomi ni yaegaki tukuru sono yaegakiwo”.

Its great intention is that clouds will boil up in Yae, clouds like the Yae’s hedge in the Land of Izumo, to cage my beloved wife, I will make the Yae’s hedge, the Yae’s hedge like clouds of the Yae’s hedge.

He recited so.

(This poem is reportedly the first waka poem in Japan. When the priests and priestesses of Izumo Taisha, Kumano Taisha, Yasaka shrine and other shrines throughout the country perform the congratulatory rites, it seems to me that it is a remarkable thing that dedicated believers flock to the shrines like an eight-layered hedge for house on end, representing a world that will never end. I think it also represents the friendship and marriage between the Shinto priest’s and chief priest’s wife.)

(To be continued)

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