Pantheon East Asian traditions
Seventeen Generations of Earthly Deities
十七世神 zh
Group of seventeen primordial earthly kami in the Kojiki
- Members 11 on record
- Generations 8, as the accounts give them
Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page
The members
A family photograph
Each row stands a generation below the row above it, as the accounts give their kinship. Membership is what the records say.
What this means
11 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
The rows are counted from the kinship among the members themselves, as the accounts give it: a member whose parent is also a member stands a row below that parent. This is kinship inside the accounts — what the myths and the texts say, not a documented family — and where they disagree, every recorded parent is counted. Where the accounts loop — Gaia is Uranus’s mother and his consort — the loop is cut, not resolved. A documented human family is not drawn here, and neither is a member with no account kinship to another; both are listed below.
Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.
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I Eldest on record
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II A generation below
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III A generation below
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IV A generation below
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V A generation below
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VI A generation below
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VII A generation below
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VIII A generation below
Members · 11
Everyone it counts
Gods first, then people, each with its own line.
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Susanoo Shinto deity -
Ōkuninushi Divinity (kami) in Japanese Shinto - Ame no Fuyu Kinu no kami Japanese deity
- Omizunu Japanese god
- Tahiriki-Shimarumi-no-Kami The 12th of the 17 spirits of the world
- Yashimajinumi no kami Japanese deity
- Fuha-no-Mojikunusunu The 3rd of the 17 spirits of the world
- Fukabuchi-no-Mizuyarehana The 4th of the 17 spirits of the world
- Torinarumi no kami Japanese deity
- Mikemunushi-no-Hiko-no-Kami The 11th of the 17 spirits of the world
- Mironami-no-Kami The 13th of the 17 spirits of the world
Connections
How Seventeen Generations of Earthly Deities connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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