Ogetsuhime-no-kami - Princess Ogetsu

Japanese: 大気津比売神 - おおげつひめのかみ
Ogetsuhime-no-kami - Princess Ogetsu
The name of a god that appears in the mythology of the Kojiki. The great goddess of food. Ge means ke (food). In the section on the origin of the five grains in the Kojiki mythology, when eight million gods asked Ogetsuhime for food, she offered them various delicacies from her nose, mouth, and buttocks. Susanoo no Mikoto killed her, finding them unclean, and from each part of her corpse grew silkworms (heads), rice seeds (eyes), millet (ears), red beans (nose), wheat (genitals), and soybeans (buttocks). The death of the food goddess represents the autumn harvest.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
《古事記》神話にあらわれる神の名。偉大な食物の女神。ゲはケ(食物)の意。《古事記》神話の〈五穀の起源〉の条で,八百万(やおよろず)の神が食物をオオゲツヒメに請うたので,鼻,口,尻から種々美味の物を出して進上したのを,スサノオノミコトが見て汚いとして殺すが,その死体の各部分から蚕(頭),稲種(目),粟(耳),小豆(あずき)(鼻),麦(陰部),大豆(尻)ができたとある。食物神の死は秋の刈入れの表象である。

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