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EXCLUD GODS Tree untouched gods
The names of gods that were born in the High-Sky-Plain when the Sky and Earth began were
   Central-Master-of-Gods,
next High-God-Creation,
next God-Creation.
These three gods were all gods born alone, and hid their persons.
The names of gods that were born next from a thing that sprouted up like to a reed-shoot
when the earth, young and like to floating oil, drifted about medusa-like, were
  God of growth, 
next God of thinking. 
These two gods were likewise born alone, and hid their bodys.
The five gods in the above list are special gods.
 
 GENESIS CREATION
The names of gods that were born next were
  God of gravity,
next God of atmosphere.
These two gods were likewise gods born alone, and hid their bodys.
The names of gods that were born next were
   God of land
next Goddess of land 
next God of ground
next Goddess of ground
next God of topography
next God of topography 
next God of Life
next Goddess of Life  
next God of relative
next Goddness of relative
From Central-master-of-Gods down to Goddness-of-relative in the previous list are
what are termed the Seven Divine Generations.

JAPANESE ISLANDS
Creation the ONOGORO island with the spear -
Hereupon all the Heavenly gods commanded the two gods god- Invites-Male and god- Invites-Female,
ordering them to "make, consolidate, and give birth to this drifting land."
Granting to them an heavenly jewelled spear, they deigned to charge them.
So the two gods, standing upon the Floating Bridge of Heaven,
pushed down the jewelled spear and stirred with it,
whereupon, when they had stiffed the brine till it went curdle-curdle,
and drew up, the brine that dripped down from the end of the spear was piled up and became an island.
This is the Island of Self-Solidify. 
Birrth of the eight islands by and -
the two gods took counsel, saying:
"The children to whom we have now given birth are not good. It will be best to announce this in the august place of the Heavenly gods."
They ascended forthwith to Heaven and enquired of Their Augustnesses the Heavenly gods.
Then the Heavenly Deities commanded and found out by grand divination, and ordered them, saying:
"They were not good because the woman spoke first. Descend back again and amend your words."
So thereupon descending back, they again went round the heavenly august pillar as before.
Thereupon the Deity Invites-Male spoke first:
"Ah! what a fair and lovely maiden! Afterwards his younger sister the Deity Invites-Female spoke: "
Ah! what a fair and lovely youth!"
Tali modo quun orationi finem fecerant, auguste coierunt et pepererunt
1) A child the Island Riceear-Cutoff of Awaji. (-no another name-)
2) Next they gave birth to the Island Two-peopl of Iyo.
  This island has one body and four faces, and each face has a name.
  So the Land of Iyo is called Lovely-Princess;
  the Land of Sanuki is called Good-Boiled-Rice Prince;
  the Land of Aha is called Great-Food Princess;
  the Land of Tosa is called Brave-Good-Chif.
3) Next they gave birth to the Islands Triplets of Oki,
  another name for which is Great-Force of Sky Chif .
4) Next they gave birth to the Islands End,
  This island likewise has one body and four faces and each face has a name.
  So the land Tsukushi is called White-Sun-Chif;
  the Land of Toyo is called Luxuriant-Sun-Chif;
  the Land of Hi is called Brave Sun-Confronting-Luxuriant-Wondrous-Chif;
  the Land of Kumaso is called Brave-Sun-Chif.
5) Next they gave birth to the Island Going,
  another name for which is One-Pillar of Sky.
6) Next they gave birth to the Island Harbor,
  another name for which is Fishing-net of Sky Princess.
7)Next they gave birth to the Island Go-across. (ーーーno another name)
8)Next they gave birth to to the Island Great-Our-Luxuriant-Dragon-Fly,
   another name for which is August-Sky-Luxuriant-Dragon-fly-Chif.
The name of "Land-of-the-Eight-Great-Islands" therefore originated in these eight islands having been born first.
After that, when they had returned,
9) they gave birth to the Island Child of Kibi,
   another name for which is Brave-Sun Direction-Chif.
10)Next they gave birth to the Island Small-bean,
   another name for which is Big-Field-Princess.
11)Next they gave birth to the Island Big,
   another name for which is Many-Stop-Chif.
12)Next they gave birth to the Island Women,
   another name for which is Sky-One-Root.
13)Next they gave birth to the Island Chika,
   another name for which is Great-Male of Sky.
14)Next they gave birth to the Island Twin,
   another name for which is Sky-Two-Houses,

JAPANESE NATURE

When they had finished giving birth to countries, they began afresh giving birth to god
So the name of god they gave birth to was
  God of great work
next God of mud nest
next Goddess of rock nest
next God of gateway
next God of wind 
next God of roof
next God of stractur
next they gave birth to god of the Sea, whose name is
   God of sea
next they gave birth to god of the River, whose name is
   God of river
next Goddess of river 
The names of gods given birth to by these two gods Swift-Harbor-Prince and Swift-Estuarty-Princess
from their separate dominions of River and Sea were:
  god Foam-Calm; 
next god Foam-Waves;
next god Bubble-Calm;
next god Bubble-Waves;
next god Water-Divider-of-Sky;
next god Water-Divider-of Earth;
next god Gourd-of-Sky;
next god Gourd-of-Earth.
Next they gave birth to god of Wind, whose name is God of wind
Next they gave birth to god of Trees, whose name is God of tree
Next they gave birth to god of Mountains, whose name is God of mountain
Next they gave birth to god of Moor, whose name is Goddess of field
      another name for whom is god Moor-Elder

God-Mountain-Soul and God-Thatch-Field-Princess from their separate dominions of Mountain and Moor were:
  First-Land-of-Sky;
next god First-Land-of-Earth;
next god First-Fog-of-Sky,
next god First-Fog-of-Earth;
next god Dark-Vally-of-Sky;
next god Dark-Vally-of-Earth;
next god Vally-Waver-Prince;
next god Vally-Waver-Princess.

The name of god they next gave birth to was
   God of boat 
     another name for whom is the Sky-Bird-Boat.
next Goddess of Foods
next God of Fire  
     another name for whom is Sparkle-God of Fire,
     and another name is Shining-god of Fire
Through giving birth to this child her private parts were burnt, and she sickened and lay down.

The names of gods born from her vomit were
  God of iron
next Goddess of iron
The names of gods that were born from her faeces were
   God of clay 
next Goddess of clay  
The names of tgods that were next born from her urine were
   God of water
next Goddess of water
    The child of this god was called Luxuriant-Food-Princess.
The total number of islands given birth to jointly by the two gods Invites-Malex and the -Invites-Female was fourteen, and of gods thirty-five.

So then the Invites-Male said: Oh! Thine Augustness my lovely wife!
Oh that I should have exchanged thee for this single child!"
And as he crept round her august pillow, and as he crept round her feet and wept,
there was born from his tears god that dwells at Konomoto near Unewo on Mount Kagu, and whose name is
Goddess of weeping valley One god  

THE SLAYING OF THE FIRE-GODS
Then the invites-Male, drawing the ten-grasp sabre that was augustly girded on him, cut off the head of his child god Fire-Burning-Swift-Male.
Hereupon the names of god that were born from the blood that stuck to the point of the august sword and bespattered the multitudinous rock-masses were:
   Rock Splitter
 next Root Splitter 
 next Rock man.
  The names of gods that were next born from the blood that stuck to the upper part of the august sword and again bespattered the multitudinous rock-masses were:
   Hot fire  
 next Fierce fire  
 next Thander roar
  another name for whom is the Brave-Snapping,
  and another name is the Luxuriant-Snapping.
The names of gods that were next born from the blood that collected on the hilt of the august sword and leaked out between his fingers were:
   Waterfall dragon
 and next Fountain dragon  
All the eight gods in the above list, from god Rock-Splitter to god Valley-Fountain, are Deities that were born from the august sword.

The Mountains-Soul was born from the body of  God-Burning-Male-of-Fire,
 The name of god that was next born from his head was
   Slope-Mountains
next Descend-Mountains
next Innermost-Mountains 
next Valley-Mountains
next Lush-Mountains
next Foothill-Mountains 
next Flat-Mountains
next Outer--Mountains  
So the name of the sword with which cut off was Double-edged-Sky,
  and another name was Double-edged-Sharpness.

LAND OF DEAS

< So god the Invites-Female, through giving birth to god-of-Fire, at length divinely retired.

Thereupon, wishing to meet and see his wifw god Invites-Female, followed after her to the Land of Hades.
So when from the palace she raised the door and came out to meet him, god Invites-Male spoke, saying:
"Thine Augustness my lovely younger sister! the lands that I and thou made are not yet finished making; so come back!"
Then god Invites-Female answered, saying:
"Lamentable indeed that thou earnest not sooner! I have eaten of the furnace of Hades. Nevertheless, as I reverence the entry here of Thine Augustness my lovely elder brother, I wish to return. Moreover I will discuss it particularly with the Deities of Hades. Look not at me!"
Having thus spoken, she went back inside the palace; and as she tarried there very long, he could not wait.
So having taken and broken off one of the end-teeth of the multitudinous and close-toothed comb stuck in the august left bunch, he lit one light and went in and looked.

Maggots were swarming. and rotting, and

 in her head dwelt Great-Thunder
 in her breast dwelt Fire-Thunder 
 in her belly dwelt Black-Thunder
 in her genital dwelt Tear-Thunder 
 in her left hand dwelt Young-Thunder
 in her right hand dwelt Earth-Thunder
 in her left foot dwelt Rumbling-Thunder
 in her right foot dwelt Couchant-Thunder
altogether eight Thunder-gods had been born and dwelt there.

Hereupon god Invites-Male, overawed at the sight, fled back, whereupon his wife god Invites-Female said:
"Thou hast put me to shame,"
and at once sent the Ugly-Female-of-Hades to pursue him.
So god Invites-Male took his black august head-dress and cast it down,
and it instantly turned into grapes.
While she picked them up and ate them, he fled on;
but as she still pursued him, he took and broke the multitudinous and close-toothed comb in the right bunch and cast it down,
and it instantly turned into bamboo-sprouts.
While she pulled them up and ate them, he fled on.
Again later sent the eight Thunder-gods with a thousand and five hundred warriors of Hades to pursue him.
So he, drawing the ten-grasp sabre that was augustly girded on him, fled forward brandishing it in his back hand;
and as they still pursued, he took, on reaching the base of the Even Pass of Hades, three peaches that were growing at its base,
and waited and smote, so that they all fled back.
 
Then god Invites-Male announced to the peaches:
"Like as ye have helped me, so must ye help all living people in the Central Land of Reed-Plains when they shall fall into troublous circumstances and be harassed!"
 and he gave the designation of Their Augustnesses Great-Divine-Fruit.
Last of all his younger sister the Deity Invites-Female came out herself in pursuit.
So he drew a thousand-draught rock, and blocked up the Even Pass of Hades, and placed the rock in the middle;
and they stood opposite to one another and exchanged leave-takings;
and god Invites-Female said:
"My lovely husband, thine Augustness! If thou do like this, I will in one day strangle to death a thousand of the folks of thy land."
Then god Invites-Male replied:
"My lovely wife, Thine Augustness! If thou do this, I will in one day set up a thousand and five hundred parturition-houses. In this manner each day a thousand people would surely be born."
So tgod Invites-Female is called the Great-god-of-Hades.
Again it is said that, owing to her having pursued and reached, she is called the Road-Reaching-Great-god.
Again the rock with which he blocked up the Pass of Hades is called the Great-god-of-the-Road-Turning-back,
and again it is called the Great-god-of-the-Blocking-Door-of-Hades
So what was called the Even-Pass-of-Hades is now called the Ifuya-Pass in the Land of Idzumo.

So he buried god retired god Invites-Female on Mount Hiba at the boundary of the Land of Idzumo and the Land of Hahaki.

CATHARISIS
Therefore god Invites-Male said:
"Nay! hideous! I have come to a hideous and polluted land,—I have! So I will perform the purification of my august person."
So he went out to a plain ahagi at a small river-mouth near Tachibana in Himuka in Tsukushi,
and purified and cleansed himself.

So the name of god that was born from the Cane which he threw down was
  Thrust-Erect-Defense 
The name of god that was born from the Girdle which he next threw down was
 Long-Road
The name of god that was born from the Pouch which he next threw down was
 Loosen-Put
The name of god that was born from the Clothes which he next threw down was
 Troublesome
The name of god that was born from the Loincloth which he next threw down was
 Road-Fork.
The name of god that was born from the Crown which he next threw down was
 Satiation-Open-Mouth 
The names of gods that were born from the Bracelet of his left hand which he next threw down were
 Offing-Distant
 next Offing-Wash-Prince
 next Offing-Intermediate
The names of gods that were born from the Bracelet of his right hand which he next threw down were
 Seashore-Distant
 next Seashore-Wash-Prince,
 next Seashore-Intermediate.
The twelve gods mentioned in the foregoing list from god Thrust-Erect-Defense down to god Shore-Intermediate
are gods that were born from his taking off the things that were on his person.
 
saying: The water in the upper reach is rapid; the water in the lower reach is sluggish,
he went down and plunged in the middle reach. and, as he washed, there was first born
 the Wondrous-god Eighty-Evils
 next the Wondrous-god Great-Evils
These two Deities aregods that were born from the Filth when he went to that polluted, hideous land.
The names of gods that were next born to rectify those evils were:
   God of healing
 next God of immunity 
 next Shrine Maiden
The names of gods that were next born, as he bathed at the bottom of the water were:
   God of underwater
 next Underwater man
The names ofgods that were born as he bathed in the middle of the water were:
   God of seabed
 next Seabed man
The names of gods that were born as he bathed at the top of the water were
   God of marine
 next Marine man
These three Ocean-Possessing gods are gods held in reverence as their ancestral vs by the Chiefs of Adzumi.
So the Chiefs of Adzumi are the descendants of His Utsushi-hi-gana-saku, a child of these Ocean-Possessing gods.
These three gods His Bottom-Tube-Male, His Middle-Tuve-Male, and His Surface-Tuber-Male are the three Great gods of the Inlet of Sumi.

The name of god that was born as he thereupon washed his Lefteye was
Goddess of sun
The name of god that was next born as he washed his Righteye was
God of moon
The name of god that was next born as he washed his Nose was
God of outlaw
The fourteen gods in the foregoing list from the Eighty-Evils down to Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male are gods born from the bathing of his person
At this time the Invites-Male greatly rejoiced, saying;
"I, begetting child after child, have at my final begetting gotten. three illustrious children,"
at once jinglingly taking off and shaking the jewel-string forming his necklace,
he bestowed it on the Sky-Shining, saying: "Do Thine rule the Plain-of-High-Heaven."
With this charge he bestowed it on her. Now the name of this necklace was the Store-house-Shelf-god.
Next he said Moon-Read: "Do Thine rule the Dominion of the Night."
Thus he charged him.
Next he said to Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male: Do Thine rule the Sea-Plain.