Some footnotes: The Kojiki is the oldest text relating back some traditionally oral Japanese myths, therefore it can be concluded, just like with any other mythology, that the original oral variation of the story is drastically different, however, we obviously do not have these accounts for reference anymore. The secondary source I used is a book known as the Nihongi, which was written around the same time a lot of traditionally Chinese culture concepts were being integrated into Japan, such as their writing system. Another elephant in the room to mention is that Shinto is still a widely practiced religion in Japan today, and while I doubt I’ll find any Shinto-believers in my comments section, I’d like to preemptively apologize and reinstate that I am not trying to mock your religion or your cultural roots in any way, I am merely presenting information in a more sarcastic manner because I feel it resonates with an audience more than regurgitating information from a book. Ebisu, the leech child and technically the first God of the eight generation, was sent out to sea by his parents as pointed out earlier in the video. However, he actually survived and lived on, actually growing limbs, (albeit stubby ones) and is generally worshipped as the God of fishermen in Japanese culture. As far as Gods in Shinto go, he is not at all as obscure as the eight hundred or so Kami produced by Izanagi and Izanami. Yes, I said eight hundred. Fun fact; in some variations of the myth, Izanagi and Izanami got the idea to get married and get down to making babies shortly after creating the island of Onogoro-jima, by watching two birds do it from the heavenly bridge. Which is… a thing… I may have misused the word Hitorigami when using it to describe Susanoo, Amateratsu and Tsukiyomi in the latter part of this video. I found one source which claims that one of the qualifiers for a Hitorigami is that they cannot have genitals, but another professed they just had to be asexually produced. Tear me to shreds in the comments section if you actually know the difference. By the way, yes some of the images I used for this video are of crappy quality, but that’s mainly due to the fact that every time I would type in one of these character’s name into Google, all I would get back as results were some anime character, which tells me this is what more people are interested in looking up rather than the original mythology which inspired them. Which is kind of sad really, as there is a lot of potential for artistic content from these stories, yet not too many artists are taking advantage of it to create something to illustrate these myths. I guess only nerds like me, the folks at OSP, and Mythology and Fiction Explained care enough to dedicate YouTube channels to this stuff. Sources: http://www.bigmyth.com/download/JAPANESE_CREATION.pdf http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=38 https://www.britannica.com/topic/musubi#ref284710 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kami-musubi-no-kami https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/IzanagiandIzunami https://yokaigrove.com/2014/08/10/the-creator-kami-and-the-celestial-kami/ http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kojiki.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raijin White, T.-A. (2018). The Story of World Mythologies: From indigenous tales to classical legends. London: Arcturus. https://www.amazon.com/Story-World-Mythologies-Indigenous-Classical-ebook/dp/B079X52TQL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Terri-ann+White&qid=1554862207&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Philip, P. W. (2007). Visual Reference Guides: Mythology. New York: Metro Books. https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Visual-Reference-Dorling-Kindersley/dp/1435121287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35HILZL5ZYOI&keywords=visual+reference+guides+mythology&qid=1554862359&s=gateway&sprefix=visual+reference+guides%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1-spell http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/ebisu.shtml https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-hades-and-persephone/ http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/orpheus.html http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/Amaterasu-birth.htm https://archive.org/details/nihongichronicl00astogoog/page/n66 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH456m5VHXQ