Susanoo ("the valiant swift ardent god-man of Susa"), in Japanese mythology, a deity born of Izanaki from drops of water that washed over his nose during purification after returning from the realm of the dead. Dividing his domain among his three "high children", Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susanoo, the father gave Susanoo the plain of the sea. The dissatisfied ruler of the depths of the sea was about to retire to the land of the dead and, as a farewell, he invited his sister Amaterasu to give birth to children. From his sword, bitten by Amaterasu, goddesses were born, and from the magatama necklace belonging to Amaterasu and bitten by Susanoo, gods were born. However, then Susanoo committed several serious crimes: he destroyed the boundaries and canals in the rice fields cultivated by Amaterasu, desecrated the sacred chambers with excrement, and, to top it all off, tore the skin off a living foal and threw it into the room where Amaterasu sewed ritual clothing. Expelled from the High Sky Plain, Susanoo saved people from the eight-headed and eight-tailed dragon and married Kushinadahime. One of his descendants is the god O-kuninushi, who ceded the country to the god Hikoko no Ninigino Mikoto, or Ninigi, a direct descendant of Amaterasu.
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