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Kojiki by Donald L. Philippi is a translation of the Japenese Kojiki texts. The work was published in 1968.
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Kojiki, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, songs, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami, and the Japanese imperial line.
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Myth
Before man, the universe was chaotic and silent. Sounds and light arose to create the heaven and earth. The original five deities did not have a sex and gave birth to another original ten gods. Afterwards, the Japanese archipelago was created and more deities were created. Eventually, man came into being.
Belief system
Shinto religion refers to the traditional spiritual belief system of the peoples of Japan.
Deity
Ame-no-minaka-nushi (Japapenese: 天之御中主神) is the first of three sexless and formless 'Kami' deities listed in the first chapter of the Kojiki texts.
Translation
"Kojiki Genesis" is a composite English translation of the Kojiki Genesis creation myth by Donald Philippi.
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ChicagoPhilippi, Donald L. Kojiki: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by DONALD L. PHILIPPI. Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1968.