Who Is Omoikane?
The god of wisdom who planned the Rock Cave rescue
Omoikane-no-Kami
Omoikane (Omoikane-no-Kami) is the god of wisdom in the Kojiki and the son of Takamimusubi. Whenever the gods are in trouble, his role is to come up with a plan to solve it.
When Amaterasu shut herself in the Heavenly Rock Cave and the world went dark, the countless gods gathered at the riverbed of Ame-no-Yasukawara and asked him to devise a plan to bring her out. His plan was to make the long-crying roosters crow, have a mirror and curved jewels made and hung on a sakaki tree, recite prayers, have Ame-no-Uzume dance, and hide Ame-no-Tajikarao beside the door. In the story of the handing over of the land, the gods also consulted him about whom to send down to earth as a messenger. When Ninigi descended to earth, he joined as a companion, and Amaterasu put him in charge of the rites of worship.
As a god of wisdom, some shrines worship him as a god of learning.
Episodes featuring this character3
Episode 4
Darkness Fell. Why Are the Gods Laughing?The Heavenly Rock Cave (Ama-no-Iwato)
When the sun goddess Amaterasu shuts herself inside a rock cave, the world falls into darkness. The gods throw a festival outside her door and use laughter to draw the light back out. Her younger brother Susanoo brought on the darkness. He is the only one who can't laugh, and the gods banish him to the land below. There he stops when he hears someone crying upstream.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 8
On a Sword's Tip, He Demanded the KingdomThe Transfer of the Land (Kuni-yuzuri)
Okuninushi has guarded the land he built with his best friend all on his own. Heaven sends envoy after envoy, and none of them come back. The last to arrive is Takemikazuchi, a thunder god of few words, who sits on the point of a sword planted in the sea. After a trial of strength, the king gives up his land on one condition: a shrine whose pillars reach the sky.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 9
The Blinding Giant and the Smallest DancerThe Descent of the Heavenly Grandson
As the young god Ninigi prepares to descend to the earth, a blinding god who lights both heaven and earth blocks his way. Uzume, the smallest of the dancing goddesses, goes to him alone, stepping as if she were dancing, and demands to know who he is. Ninigi lands on the earth carrying his grandmother's mirror. Uzume then sees the guide god off to the sea and takes his name as her own.
19 pages