IZANAMI

Izanami is the mother of gods in Japanese Shinto mythology and the ancestress of the Japanese people. A personification of the Earth and of darkness, she is the wife and sister of Izanagi and the mother of the elements of the universe.

She died giving birth to the fire god Kagutsuchi and went to the underworld. Transformed there into a demon-queen, she was so horrifying to look at that when her husband traveled to the underworld to retrieve her, he fled in fear and disgust.

It was too late to bring her home anyway: she had eaten food in the land of the dead.

Izanami was angry at her husband's reaction to her appearance, so they divorced on the spot and she pursued him with an army of demons to throw him out of her world.

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