Susanoo

Japanese (Shinto) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: storms, the sea (in some versions), the land of Izumo
Symbols and attributes: Sword Kusanagi
Parents (per the sources used): Izanagi
Ōkuninushi: descendant of: Ōkuninushi

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 'Sangoku ken', a 19th-century woodblock print.

Key myth

Born from Izanagi's nose. Banished from heaven, he kills the eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi to rescue Kushinada-hime, and finds the sword Kusanagi in its tail.

Primary sources

Kojiki, Book 1

All sources for the Japanese (Shinto) pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Izanagi.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Susanoo: sky, storm and thunder, trickery, boundaries and travel, sea and waters. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse