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Izanagi

American  
[ee-zah-nah-gee] / ˈi zɑˈnɑ gi /

noun

  1. the Japanese god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan by a union with his sister Izanami.


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The plate reconstruction showed a hiccup between what is now South China and Borneo — an ocean once thought to be underpinned by another ancient plate called the Izanagi plate actually wasn't on that plate.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

“We asked the gods who made Japan, Izanagi and Izanami, to come down and listen to us,” he said.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2016

Izanagi and Izanami descended to the new land, married, and began to people heaven and earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sky Father, Izanagi, stood upon the Rainbow Bridge to Earth and dipped his jeweled spear into the sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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