Izanami no Mikoto

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Izanami no Mikoto
Kana	イザナミ
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Age	Millennia
Gender	Female
Ethnicity	Japanese
Hair Color	black
Eye Color	black
Other Names	Izanami no kami
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Relatives	Izanagi (husband) Susanoo (son)
Rank	Goddess
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Izanami is goddess of death in Japanese mythology.

Summary

With the help of the goddess Athena Parthenos, Izanami escaped from her confinement leading to destruction to Yomotsuhirasaka Shrine.

Appearance

Izanami has black hair and black eyes, a slender face that looked unhappy. Her limbs were slender with slim waist of a willow tree. She was terribly dainty, but on the contrary she also looked like terribly coquettish because of that. Izanami was wearing blue round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and the imperial court called hou with tight sleeves, along with black ancient skirt called mo.

Personality

The image of a perfect mother Izanami is elegant, sympathetic, calm, and casual, dedicated to both her husband and kids. But she was also vindictive and spiteful, as she swore vengeance against her husband after he broke his promise.

Plot

Light Novel

Shiniki no Campioness Volume 3: made her first official appearance.

Powers & Abilities

Izanami as the goddess of death of Japanese mythology thus is granted dominion over death, can invoke an infinity of demons and living dead.

• Yomotsu Ikusa
• Yomotsu Shikome
• Izanami and Yomotsu Shikome

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Yomotsu Shikome: The demonesses which are fast as lightning. They had terrifying look with their lips were greatly torn, with an extremely ferocious expression, loose, long and unkempt disheveled hair, fangs and sharp claws, furthermore, their body are huge with a height three-meter. Their body that was covered with ragged cloth was certainly that of a woman. But their skin was white like a corpse.

Yomotsu Ikusa: Numbered thousands, tens of thousands of times than Yomotsu Shikome. They were the corpse demons that served the goddess of death Izanami.

Izanami can also command lightning through her children: Ō-ikazuch, Hono-ikazuchi, Kuro-ikazuchi, Saku-ikazuchi, Waka-ikazuchi, Tsuchi-ikazuchi, Naru-ikazuchi, Fusu-ikazuchi, the eight lightning gods. However, compared to Marquis Voban's lightnings in terms of might, number, density, and intensity. They're inferior in every aspect.

Izanami has mastery over the darkness and can prevent the sunrise. She can also turn into a swan.

Trivia

• The myth of Izanami and Izanagi resembles the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.