Oomakoma - Oomakoma

Japanese: 大摩小摩 - おおまこま
Oomakoma - Oomakoma

...This legend was originally a type of myth about two hunters called Jiro and Saburo, one of whom assisted the mountain god and was given game in return, while the other refused and lost the bounty of the mountain. The same type of legend is told as the tale of the conflict between Oomakoma in Kyushu and Oonanjikonanji in the mountains around Nikko. In Shikoku and the northern part of the Kitakami Mountains, it is also told as the Nishiyama Little Hunter and the Higashiyama Great Hunter, and it seems to have spread throughout the mountains of the country in the past, and there are examples of two mountains, Manjiro-dake and Manzaburo-dake, side by side in the Amagi mountain range on the Izu Peninsula.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Oomakoma" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この伝承は,もと次郎・三郎と呼ばれる2人の狩人があり,一方は山の神を援助してその礼に獲物を授けられ,他方はそれを断って山の幸を失ったという運勢の優劣を説明する神話の一類型であった。同じ型の伝承は九州で大摩小摩(おおまこま),日光付近の山地では大汝小汝(おおなんじこなんじ)の対立譚として語られる。四国や北上山地北部では西山小猟師と東山大猟師という語りかたもあって,古くは全国の山中に流布したらしく,伊豆半島の天城連峰には万二郎岳,万三郎岳の二つが並んでいる例もある。…

※「大摩小摩」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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