What is Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi?
{{Expand Japanese}} [[File:Tsuno-jinja_Ashinazuchi_&_Tenazuchi-jinja.JPG|thumb|Sessha (subshrine) for the two at [[Tsuno Shrine]]]] {{Nihongo|'''Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi'''|アシナヅチ・テナヅチ}} is a pair of Japanese deities<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC|title=Japan Encyclopedia|last=Fr?d?ric|first=L.|last2=Louis-Frédéric|last3=Roth|first3=K.|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|series=Harvard University Press reference library|access-date=2020-11-21}}</ref> In ancient Japanese stories called the [[Kojiki]] and the [[Nihon Shoki]], there was a god named [[Susanoo]] who was sent away from [[Takamagahara|his home in the heavens]] to live on Earth in a place called [[Izumo Province|Izumo]]. There, he met an old couple named Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi who were children of a mountain god called [[Ōyamatsumi]]. They told him about a scary monster called [[Yamata-no-Orochi|Yamata no Orochi]], which had eaten seven of their eight daughters. Susanoo offered to kill the monster if they would give him their only surviving daughter, [[Kushinadahime]], to be his wife.<ref>Chamberlain (1882). [http://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj025.htm Section XVIII.—The Eight-Forked Serpent.]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Kojiki|last=Philippi|first=Donald L.|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1400878000|pages=89–90}}</ref> Susano'o defeated Orochi and built a palace in the land of [[Suwa Province]]. He then appointed Ashinazuchi as the leader of the palace and gave him the name {{Nihongo|Inada no Miyatsuko Suga no Yatsunomimi no Kami|稲田宮使諏訪之八意名神}} == Family tree == {{Eight generations of Izumo}} == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Gods and goddesses of Japan]]