He Who Invites (Izanagi no Mikoto)

Izanagi & Izanami

Izanagi & Izanami adalah mitos agama Shinto Jepang tentang penciptaan kepulauan Jepang. Pada zaman dahulu, ketika daratan belum ada (Langit sudah lebih dulu ada) Yang Maha Kuasa mengutus kedua kakak-beradik; Izanagi dan Izanami; untuk menyelidiki ke dunia bawah. Saat itu dunia bawah hanya terdiri dari lautan dan kabut.
Izanagi mengeluarkan tombak Langit untuk mengaduk lautan dan kabut. Dari situlah terbentuk pulau.
Kemudian Izanami dan Izanagi turun ke pulau itu. Karena pulau itu sangat indah, mereka pun menikah dan tinggal di tempat itu.
Izanami melahirkan banyak keturunan (dewa-dewi zaman dahulu), tetapi ketika dia melahirkan dewa api, dia meninggal. Izanagi yang sangat sedih turun ke neraka untuk menjumpai Izanami, tetapi Izanami telah berubah; baik secara fisik maupun prilakunya, sehingga Izanagi kembali ke daratan dan membasuh dirinya.
Dari situlah lahir 3 dewa penting dalam agama Shinto : Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu (Dewi Matahari) dan Susanoo.



Izanagi (God of Masculinity): Izanami! From this Heaven-Floating-Bridge spanning Heaven and Earth we can gaze upon the waters of the lower world which flow like oil.
Izanami (Goddess of Femininity): Izanagi, shall we descend (to the lower world)?
Izanagi: If so, let me summon this.
Izanami: That is the Spear you received from the god Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi-No Kami!
Izanagi: With this I will stir up the deep ocean and solidify it.
Izanagi: Ahh! The Spear tip is becoming gradually heavier!
Izanagi: Yes! The water seems to be getting thicker.
Izanami: I see it! An peaceful island has been formed.
Izanami: Quickly, let's go down and look around!
Izanami: This is such a beautiful island! I would love to live here together with you!
Izanagi: If that's the case, then let us get married!
Izanagi: I will marry you.
Izanami: OOoohh!
Narrator: On the plain of Onogoro Island, Izanagi and Izanami built at great palace and there held there wedding ceremony.
Izanagi: I will come around this pillar on the left.
Izanami: And I will pass around the pillar on the right, and when we meet we shall greet each other.
Izanami (female): You are such a great man.
Izanagi (male): And you are very beautiful.
Izanagi: Now we are wonderfully man and wife!
Narrator: But, their union produced only stillborn children.
Izanami: (crying) Why? Why??
Voice from Heaven: IZANAMI!!.
Izanagi: Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi-No Kami!!
Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi-No Kami: During your wedding ceremony you committed a grave error by speaking first. Return and repeat the ceremmony correctly !!
Izanagi and Izanami: Yes, we will obey!
Narrator: Following this, the couple had many divine children, one after the other.
Narrator: Of these children, the Eight Islands (of Japan) were born.
Narrator: Following these, Izanami gave birth to thirty four gods. The god of homes, the god of rivers, the god of sea, the god of argriculture, the god of mountains...
Narrator: During the brith of the thirty-fifth child...
Izanami: (screaming) The pain!! The pain!!
Izanagi: Izanami! Whats wrong!?
Izanagi: The god of Fire!!
Izanagi: Izanami!! Don't Die!!!
Izanagi: YOU!!! For your day of birth I give you THIS!!
Narrator: As soon as he cut the god of Fire, the (far more turbulent) gods of sword and dragon were born.
Narrator: While mourning the death of Izanami, Izanagi buried her beneath the ground.
Izanagi: I must see you again!! I cannot abandon you!!
Izanagi: In order to meet with you once again, I will descend into the realm of the dead.
Narrator: The bottom of the world... Here the souls of the dead live on, in what is known as Yomi-no-Kuni (Land of Yellow Sulfur).
Izanagi: (pounding on the door of Yomi) Izanami!! Izanami!! I want to see you once more. I have come this far to see your form once again.
Izanami: (from behind the door) Izanagi! I cannot go back [to the land of the living], for I have already eaten from the food of Hell (Yomi no Kuni).
Izanagi: What?!
Izanami: (from behind the door) Please wait here while I go ask the God of this Land. While you are waiting you must promise not to try to look at my form.
Narrator: But no matter how long he waited, Izanami did not return.
Izanagi: So slow!!
Izanagi: I'll light this comb tooth and just take a quick look inside.
Izanagi: Izanami! Are you in here?
Izanagi: Izana...
Izanami (demonically changed): You have broken your promise!!
Izanami (demonically changed): You have come to see!! So now that you have seen this form of mine, you may never leave this land again!
Izanagi: HELP ME!!!
Izanagi: I'll give you this!
Narrator: Izanagi took the band from his hair made of vine and threw it to the ground, where it changed into a ripened grape vine.
Izanagi (running while demons gobble up the grapes): My chance to flee!
Demon: Huh? Wait!!
Izanagi: They won't give up!
Narrator: Next, Izanagi threw down teeth from his bamboo comb which suddenly grew into bamboo hearts (a delicacy).
Demon 1: Delicious!
Demon 2: You're eating mine!
Izanagi: Here they come again. AAhh! A peach tree! (Izanagi throws fresh peaches on the ground which explode.)
Izanagi: I can see the exit!!
Izanami: Izanagi!!
Izanagi: Izanami!
Izanami: I will never forgive you for seeing me this way!
Izanami: Let us live here together in this land, just like we once did.
Izanagi: No Way bitch!! Don't come near me! You are not the same Izanami I once knew!
(Izanagi rolls a massive stone over the entrance to Hell.)
Izanami (from behind the boulder): Izanagi! Remove this stone! Why must you be so cruel to me?
Izanami (from behind the boulder): YOU!! Listen to me now! Every single day from this day forth, I will KILL 1,000 living souls in your Land!!
Izanagi: If that is the case, Izanami, I will give birth to 1,500 children each day, in front of your very eyes!!
Izanagi: AAhh! The dawn! Your light was a tremendous help!
Izanagi: I was a fool for traveling to the land of Hell (Yomi no Kuni)! Here at this water let me wash off the impurity (of my encounter with the land of the dead).
Izanagi: What the?!
Narrator: From the splashing (of Izanagi's purification in the) water, three gods were born.
Izanagi: I have given brith to many children, but you, my last children are by far the most superb!
Izanagi (to the female): To you I give the name Amaterasu (Goddess of the Sun) and in my place you shall occupy the High Plain of Heaven.
Amaterasu: Yes, father.
Izanagi: Your name will be Tsukuyomi (God of the moon) and you shall occupy the Land of Evening.
Tsukuyomi: I obey.
Izanagi: And you, Susanoo, shall occupy the Plain of the Sea.
Susanoo: ......
Izanagi: Susanoo!
Susanoo: Yes, I understand!
Izanagi wondering to himself: What's up with his punk ass?
Narrator: In this way the Lands of the Heaven, Evening and Seas were entrusted to these three gods.
The End...

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