Birth god dialogue - Ubugamimondo

Japanese: 産神問答 - うぶがみもんどう
Birth god dialogue - Ubugamimondo
Among the folk tales based on the folk belief that a person's fate is already decided when they are born, those in which a god (birth god) who decides fate at birth appears in the story are collectively called "Questions and Answers with the Birth God." In many stories, someone happens to hear that the birth gods are deciding the fate of a child about to be born, and the people involved try to escape that fate but end up doing so anyway, but there are also stories in which people succeed in changing their fate by providing food to the gods.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
人間は生まれたときにすでに一生の運命が定められているという民俗的観念に基づいて作られた昔話群のうち,出生時に運命を定める神(産神)が話の中に登場する場合の昔話をとくに〈産神問答〉と総称している。ふとしたことから,ある者が産神たちがこれから生まれる子どもの運命を決めているのを聞きつけ,当事者たちがその運命から逃れようと努力するがやはりそのとおりになってしまうという展開をする話が多いが,神への供応などによって運命を変えることに成功する話もある。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

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