Ame-no-Tajikarao


Ame-no-tajikarao is a Japanese deity who appears in Japanese mythology. Ame-no-tajikarao is written as 天手力男神 in Kojiki, and 天手力雄神 in Nihon Shoki.

Mythological description

At the event of Amano-Iwato, Ame-no-tajikarao waited at the caves' door to pull out Amaterasu from the cave, and thus return light to the world.
During the Tenson kōrin, Amaterasu had Omoikane, Ame-no-tajikarao, and Ama-no-iwato-wake-no-kami accompany the Imperial Regalia of Japan when it went to the Ise province to be enshrined at Ise Grand Shrine.

Explanation

The name Ame-no-tajikarao carries the connotation of a male god with extreme and surmounting physical brute strength.

Religious Belief

Ame-no-tajikaro is believed to be a god of sports and physical power, and is enshrined at shrines associated with Ise Grand Shrine such as Togakushi Shrine, Sano Shrine, Shiroi Shrine, Oyama Shrine, Tejikarao Shrine , Tejikarao Shrine , Toake Shrine, and Ame-no-ta-nagao Shrine. His own Shinto priests think he was originally a protector of agriculture. Strangely, this god is often in association with Sugawara no Michizane, as the god Tenjin.
At the Togakushi Shrine there's a legend that says that the cave door that Ame-no-tajikarao threw away landed on Togakushi mountain in Shinano Province.