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Key Points
Pantheon: Japanese
Associations: Thunder
Notable Yakusanoikazuchi:
Ō-ikazuchi: (Great thunder), Hono-ikazuchi: (Fire thunder), Kuro-ikazuchi: (Black thunder), Saku-ikazuchi: (Cleaving thunder), Waka-ikazuchi: (Young thunder), Tsuchi-ikazuchi: (Earth thunder), Naru-ikazuchi: (Rumbling thunder), Fusu-ikazuchi: (Couchant thunder)
- Is a collective name for the eight gods of thunder
- The Yakusanoikazuchi are often personified by lightening when separate but as a single deity when combined in the upper worlds.
- They were released into this world when Izanami sent them after her fleeing husband in the underworld
Yakusanoikazuchi 雷
JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY
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