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Key Points
Pantheon: Japanese
Consort: Hayamato
Associations: Protector of Food
Also Known As: Ōgetsu-hime

- Ukemochi is involved in two different versions of the same very important tale.
* In both versions she is killed due to anger from the food she served, which is revealed to be produced
from her body. Afterwards, various food sprout from the body parts of her corpse.
* In one version she is killed by Susanoo, the other by Tsukuyomi which explains why the sun and the moon
do not occupy the sky at the same time.
Ukemochi 保食神

JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY
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