Oyamakui no Kami
| Oyamakui no Kami | |
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Sanno Gongen Hall (Makiyama Hannyuin Chou Temple) | |
| Major cult centre | Hiyoshi Taisha Matsunoo Taisha |
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Ōyamakui no Kami (大山咋神) is a kami highly significant in the Japanese religion of Sannō Ichijitsu Shintō, and worshipped in the Hiyoshi Taisha network of shrines and the Matsunoo Taisha network. They are also known as Sannō Gongen (山王権現) in a Buddhist context. They are the child of Toshigami and grandson of Susanoo. Oyamakui no Kami is considered to be androgynous and possibly hermaphroditic. They are the kami of mountains and good health.
Due to their prominence at Hiyoshi Taisha, the Chinjusha of Enryaku-ji, the head temple of Tendai and the shrine itself leading Sannō Ichijitsu Shintō, they have a very prominent role in the sect, often in the consolidated divinity of Sannō Gongen.
Sannō Gongen is the archetypal deity of heaven, earth, and human beings, the spirit dwelling in the green of the willow, the red of the blossom. This is a truth transmitted from mind to mind
— Kenmitsu naishogi
The Kojiki says they live on Mount Hiei. He is also worshipped at Hie Shrine.