Ōyamatsumi


Ōyama-tsumi or Ohoyama-tsumi is a god of mountains, sea, and war in Japanese mythology. He is an elder brother of Amaterasu and Susanoo. His other names are Watashi-no-Ōkami and Sakatoke.

Genealogy

In the Kamiumi of the Kojiki, Ōyama-tsumi was born between the first human deities, Izanagi and Izanami. After which he gave birth with Kaya-no-hime, also known as No-zuchi, female deity from their union, the following gods pairs of eight were born:
Other children of Ōyama-tsumi who are parentless without a mother:
  1. Ōtoshi or Nigihayahi, commonly known: Toshigami or Ōtoshi
  2. Uka-no-mitama, commonly known as Inari
including the twin deities:
However, in the Nihon Shoki, Ōyama-tsumi is supposed to be born when Izanagi slashed his child, Kagutsuchi.
The child of Ōyama-tsumi from his first wife Kaya-no-hime, the deity Ame-no-sagiri has a daughter, Tohotsumachi-ne, and the eighth descendant of the male deity Ōkuninushi, the male deity Ame-no-hibara-ōshinadomi, from their union gave birth to the male deity, To'otsuyama-sakitarashi, who is the descendant of Ōyama-tsumi.
There is not much written about Ōyama-tsumi, and children associated with him appears at times. As for the myth of Yamata-no-orochi, Susanoo's wife, Kushinada-hime, her twin parents, the male deity Ashinazuchi and female deity Tenazuchi is known and claimed to be the children of Ōyama-tsumi.
Afterwards, the lineage falls together with his descendants of his half-brother Susanoo, with the union of Ōyama-tsumi first daughter, Kamu'ō-ichi-hime, between them gave birth to Ōtoshi and Uka-no-mitama. Then, Susanoo's union with Ōyama-tsumi granddaughter, Kushinada-hime, gave birth to the male deity Yashimajinumi. Then Yashimajinumi married Ōyama-tsumi's daughter Konohachiru-hime, from their union gave birth to the male deity Fuwanomojikunusunu/ Fuwanomodjikunusunu. Fuwanomojikunusu is the husband of Hikawa-hime, the daughter of the male deity Okami, from their union gave birth to the male deity Fukafuchi-no-Mizuyarehana.
Then, Fukafuchi-no-Mizuyarehana married Ame-no-tsudohechine and from their union gave birth to Omizunu/ Omidzunu. Then, Omizunu/ Omidzunu married the female deity Futemimi, who is the daughter of the deity Funozuno and from their union gave birth to the male deity Ame-no-Fuyukinu. Ame-no-Fuyukinu married the female deity Sashikuniwaka-hime, who is the daughter of the male deity Sashikuni, from their union gave birth to the male deity Ōkuninushi, the sixth generation grandson of Ōyama-tsumi. These are recorded from a book called the "Origin of the Great Shining Deity Awaga" at Awaga Shrine in Awaga, town of Santō, Asago, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
In the myth of Tenson Kōrin, the descent of Amaterasu's grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto from Heaven to Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, Ninigi has encountered Ōyama-tsumi's daughter Ko-no-hanasakuya-hime, - the kami of Mount Fuji, Ōyama-tsumi has offered both Ko-no-hanasakuya-hime and her older sister Iwanaga-hime. Then, when Ninigi sends back Iwanaga-hime only by her ugly appearance, which in return has angered Ōyama-tsumi and said, "The reason why I gave together with Iwanaga-hime aside from her sibling Ko-no-hanasakuya-hime was because I made a pledge that the heavenly grandson would be eternal like a rock, but she was sent back and the life expectancy of the heavenly grandson was shortened."
His most important shrine, Ōyamazumi Shrine, is located on Ōmishima.