![]() ![]() Inside of Yamata no Orochi, Susanoo found a sword named Ama no murakumo no tsurugi, better known as Kusanagi. Illustration of the fight between Susanoo and Yamata-no-Orochi by Chikanobu Toyohara (year 1870). □ Moral of this story: Be careful with Sake! □ Completely drunk, the latter could not face the fierce fight of the kami who cut his eight heads as well as his eight tails. That's when Susanoo threw himself on the monster, brandishing his sword. Believing that everything was quiet, he couldn't resist this irresistible drink and soon dipped his heads into it. When he got there, the dragon Yamata no Orochi smelled the delicious scent of sake. Then, the kami transformed his beauty into a comb □□ before going to hide in a cart. Hearing the frightening cries of the approaching dragon, all the inhabitants fled, leaving Susanoo alone with his bride. On the right, representation of Yamata no Orochi by Matthew Meyer.Īnd so, in order to counter his enemy, the storm kami built a large palisade with eight openings and placed eight barrels of strong sake inside. On the left, Susanoo meeting Kushinada's grieving parents (illustration by Jurithedreamer). Then, once the deal was done, he made a plan with all of the villagers. Susanoo promised the family to save the beautiful Kushinada from the monster's clutches in exchange for her hand. Their eighth and last daughter was about to be fed to a horrible creature named Yamata no Oroshi, the famous 8-headed dragon. Yamata no OrochiĪfter being exiled to the cursed land, Susanoo went to the province of Izumo. That was too much for the kami! Following this incident, which provoked anger in the kingdom of the Gods, Susanoo was banished from Heaven. Frightened, the sun goddess took refuge in a cave, making the sunlight disappear. Susanoo won this confrontation and attacked the celestial kingdom, destroying the rice fields and polluting the domain with excrement □. Each of them had to create as many kami as possible. ![]() It was then that Susanoo, overwhelmed by the sadness of not finding his mother, and jealous of Amaterasu, decided to challenge his sister with a competition. □ A kami repudiated by his fellowsĮxasperated by his son's immature behavior, the god Izanagi banished Susanoo from the High Plain of Paradise. Susanoo, god of storms and the sea, against the eight-headed dragon (illustration by Yama Orce). South georgia & south sandwich islands (USD $) ![]()
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