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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
The family photograph
Susanoo Ōkuninushi

Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page

A family photograph

Each row stands a generation below the one above it.

Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.

As the accounts tell it

  1. I Eldest on record

  2. II A generation below

  3. III A generation below

  4. IV A generation below

  5. V A generation below

  6. VI A generation below

  7. VII A generation below

  8. VIII A generation below

Open Susanoo’s family tree Plus Every generation

Everyone it counts

Gods first, then people, each with its own line.

Connections

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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞; b. 1786, d. 1865) · Public domain

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