During the ukehi oath ritual in Takamagahara, Amaterasu took Susanoo's ten-span sword Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, broke it into three pieces, chewed the fragments, and breathed forth three goddesses to prove Susanoo's intentions were pure.
Izanagi drew the ten-span blade Totsuka-no-Tsurugi and slew his own son Kagutsuchi in grief and fury after the fire god's birth killed Izanami. From the blood streaming down the sword and from Kagutsuchi's sundered body, new deities were born.
Susanoo wielded the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi to hack apart the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi after plying it with sake, and discovered the sacred sword Kusanagi embedded in one of its tails.
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