God of the boar

...In Japan, where rice farming is the main form of agriculture, the custom of worshiping agricultural gods as a folk belief has existed since ancient times, and in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki there is the name of the rice spirit Uka no Mitama and the grain god Ootoshi no Kami. In the general public, this agricultural god is called the rice field god, but in the Tohoku region he is called Nougami, in Yamanashi and Nagano he is called Sakugami, in Kinki he is called Tsukurigami, and in eastern Sanin he is called Inokami. In many areas in eastern Japan, Ebisu is considered the rice field god, and in western Japan Daikoku is considered the rice field god, and they are worshipped separately from the fishing god Fukutokujin. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Boar God" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…水稲農耕を主とする日本では民族信仰として農神をまつる習俗は古くからあり，記紀には稲霊（いなだま）の〈倉稲魂（うかのみたま）〉や穀神の大歳神（おおとしのかみ）の名がある。民間では，この農神は一般に田の神というが，東北地方では農神（のうがみ），山梨･長野で作神（さくがみ），近畿で作り神，山陰東部で亥の神（いのかみ）などとも呼ばれる。東日本ではえびす，西日本では大黒を田の神と考える地方が多く，漁業神･福徳神とは別の信仰となっている。…

※「亥の神」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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