Owatatsumi-no-kami - Owatatsumi-no-kami

Japanese: 大綿津見神 - おおわたつみのかみ
Owatatsumi-no-kami - Owatatsumi-no-kami
The name of a god that appears in Japanese mythology. Wata means sea, and Watatsumi means spirit of the sea. The origin of the word wata is unclear, but it seems to mean the sea as the home of spiritual things, whereas umi and unabara evoke the sea as a natural entity. There are several shrines that worship Watatsumi-no-kami, but Owatatsumi-no-kami in particular refers to a god who appears in the stories of Umisachi and Yamasachi in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki as a deity who lives in an underwater palace and rules over seafood and the waters for agriculture. When Yamasachihiko (son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto) lost the fishing hook he had borrowed from his brother Umisachihiko, he visited Watatsumi-no-miya in search of the hook.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
日本神話にみえる神の名。ワタは海,ワタツミとは海の霊を意味する。ワタの語源はさだかではないが,うみ,うなばらなどが自然としての海を想起させるのに対し,霊的なもののすみかとしての海を意味するようである。ワタツミノカミをまつる神社はいくつかあるが,とくにオオワタツミノカミとは,海底の宮殿に住み,海の幸また農の水を支配する神格として記紀の海幸・山幸の話に登場する神を指す。兄の海幸彦に借りた釣針を失った山幸彦(瓊瓊杵尊(ににぎのみこと)の子)が,針を求めて訪れたのが綿津見の宮であった。

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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