![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Izanagi’s wife Izanami (actually the Earth Mother Gaea) disappeared after giving birth to their son, the fire god Kagutsuchi, Izanagi believed that she had died and descended to Yomi, but could not find her there. Near the dawn of time, after the god of evil Mikaboshi unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the pantheon of Shinto gods known as the Amatsu-Kami, Izanagi (Skyfather of the Amatsu-kami) imprisoned him in Yomi for centuries. ![]() Yomi (黄泉) is the gloomy and desolate realm designated to serve as the Shinto underworld in Japanese mythology, to where the sprits of the dead descend in the afterlife. ![]()
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