The Yasogami burned Okuninushi alive with a red-hot boulder and crushed him in a tree trunk, killing him twice out of jealousy over Yakami-hime's preference for their youngest brother.
The Yasogami killed Okuninushi twice — first by rolling a red-hot boulder down a mountain onto him, then by crushing him in a split tree trunk. Each time his mother petitioned the heavenly deities to restore him to life.
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