Tsukuyomi (Tsukiyomi-no-mikoto)
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Tsukiyomi (月読) or Tsukuyomi, also Tsukiyomi-no-mikoto (月読命/月読尊), Tsukiyomi-no-kami, also occurs in mythology as a female deity named Tsukiyomo, the Shinto moon god who rules over the night, ebbs and flows. Along with Amaterasu and Susanoo, he is a descendant of Izanagi.
It is believed that the name Tsukiyomi comes from the words “tsuki” (moon) and “yomi” (reading, counting). According to the Polish Japanese scholar Wiesław Kotanski, the name Tsukuyomi-no-mikoto is explained as the Spirit that calls the moon, which reflects the powers of this deity, who calls the moon every night, traveling through the night sky. However, this name has other interpretations – for example, the Shining God of the Moon, which was rejected by Professor Kotansky due to the lack of dynamic qualities in such an interpretation of the name, characteristic of the names of Japanese deities. Another version of the name of the deity, the Spirit of the Abiding Moon, was considered by Wieslaw Kotansky to be very plausible, but the Polish professor rejected this option, based on the fact that such an ancient name of the deity was unlikely to contain data on an advanced counting system.
There are hypotheses about the origin of “yomi” from the word “Yomi” (country of the dead) [4], from the words “yomi” (visible at night), by merging the words “Moonlight night” (tsukiyo) and “look” (miru), and in In one case, the name is written as Tsukuyuumi through the character “yumi” (弓) (bow for shooting). There are also discrepancies regarding the “field of activity” of God: in the Kojiki it is indicated that he controls the night, in the Nihongi – the sea
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