Omoikane- Japanese GodDeity"God of Wisdom"

The Rock Cave

Susanoo's rampages drove Amaterasu into the Heavenly Rock Cave. She sealed the entrance, and without her the world went dark. Crops failed. Evil spirits multiplied. Eight hundred myriad kami gathered along the Tranquil River of Heaven, but not one of them could force the sun goddess out against her will.

Omoikane, whose name means "thought-combining," saw that coercion would fail. Curiosity might not. He laid out a plan that used every god present. Ishikoridome forged a mirror of extraordinary brightness. Tamanoya strung a cord of magatama jewels. The assembly hung both on a sakaki tree dragged from the slopes of Mount Kagu and set it before the cave mouth. Then Ame-no-Uzume overturned a tub, climbed on top, and danced. She stamped her feet until the tub thundered. She pulled open her robes. The eight hundred gods roared with laughter so loud that the High Plain of Heaven shook.

Inside the cave, Amaterasu heard the commotion. She could not fathom what would make the gods laugh while the world lay in darkness. She cracked the door. Light spilled through the gap and caught the mirror hanging on the sakaki tree. She saw her own radiance reflected back and leaned closer. Ame-no-Tajikarao, waiting beside the entrance, seized the door and wrenched it open. Amaterasu stepped out. The darkness broke.

The Kojiki records this as the moment the cosmic order was restored, and it was Omoikane's design from first step to last.

The Heavenly Descent

Omoikane was the son of Takamimusubi, one of the three primordial Zōka Sanshin who came into being at the very beginning of creation. His father stood among the first gods to exist. Omoikane inherited a place among the highest heavenly deities.

When Amaterasu resolved to send her grandson Ninigi to rule the terrestrial realm, she turned to Omoikane for counsel on how the descent should proceed. He planned the expedition as he had planned the cave stratagem: assembling the right gods for the task. The Kojiki names him among the five deities who accompanied Ninigi on the Tenson Kōrin, the heavenly descent to the peak of Takachiho in Hyūga. He brought the counsel of heaven down to earth.