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Ohkuninushi or Okuni-Nushi

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Definition: According to Lord of the Land, Ohkuni-nushi was the highest god of the land. His brothers hated him, killed him, and then when his mother was threatening to resurrect him, they stuck him inside a tree. Eventually his mother recovered him and he went to the underworld to find a wife. His continual rebirth is appropriate for a god of agriculture. Encyclopedia Mythica adds that Okuni-Nushi was the God of magic and medicine, the son of the storm god, Susanowo, and that he was resurrected twice.

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