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Updated: May 4, 2025

But nearly all those divinities who appear in the legend of the Master of the Great Land are still believed to dwell here with him, and here their shrines are: the beautiful one, magically born from the jewel worn in the tresses of the Goddess of the Sun, and called by men the Torrent-Mist Princess and the daughter of the Lord of the World of Shadows, she who loved the Master of the Great Land, and followed him out of the place of ghosts to become his wife and the deity called 'Wondrous-Eight-Spirits, grandson of the 'Deity of Water-Gates, who first made a fire-drill and platters of red clay for the august banquet of the god at Kitzuki and many of the heavenly kindred of these.

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