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(Isanagi; Japanese=‘the lord who invites you to enter’) Forms, together with → Izanami, the primeval pair of divinities of Shintoism.
As the two of them were crossing the bridge of heaven, Izanagi hurled a spear into the water which thereupon gave birth to an island. Izanagi is the embodiment of all that is bright and heavenly; his children are the sun-goddess → Amaterasu, and the moon-god → Tsukiyomi.
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