Ame-no-Koyane

Ame-no-Koyane
God of Divine Mirror, Great Divination, Divine Affairs
Japanese天児屋命
Major cult center
TextsKojiki, Nihon Shoki, Izumo-no-kuni Fudoki
Genealogy
ParentsKamimusubi (Kogo Shūi), Kogotomusuhi (Nihon Shoki)
Children

Ame-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami and a male deity in Japanese mythology and Shinto. He is the ancestral god of the Nakatomi clan, and Fujiwara no Kamatari, the founder of the powerful Fujiwara clan.[4] An Amatsukami, 'Kami of heaven', he resides in Takamagahara.

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