Tamayori-hime

Tamayori-hime, also given as 玉依毘売命 and 玉依姫尊 is a goddess in Japanese mythology.

Tamayori-hime is the daughter of the sea-dragon god, Watatsumi(綿津見) and also Toyotama-hime(豊玉姫)'s younger sister. Her name appears in Tenson kōrin(天孫降臨) and Ugayafukiaezu(鵜草葺不合命) section. Her elder sister sent her to raise her son, Ugayafukiaezu, a son of Hoori(火遠理命) upon her abandonment of them. And after, Tamayori-hime married Ugayafukiaezu and Itsuse(五瀬命), Inahi(稲飯命), Mikenu(御毛沼命), Wakamikenu(若御毛沼命), and Emperor Jimmu was born.

Tamayori means Yorishiro, an object to embody Gods. Tamayori-hime is a woman Yorishiro, Miko.

See also

• Kamado-jinja
• Kamigamo Shrine
• Kamo Shrine
• Miyazaki-jingū
• Shimogamo Shrine
• Yoshino Mikumari Shrine
• Hiiro no Kakera

Japanese mythology
Mythic texts	Kojiki Nihon Shoki Fudoki Kujiki Kogo Shūi Hotsuma Tsutae Nihon Ryōiki Konjaku Monogatarishū Shintōshū Butsuzōzui
Japanese creation myth	Kotoamatsukami Kamiyo (Kamiyonanayo) Kuniumi Kamiumi Izanami Izanagi Kagutsuchi Watatsumi Shinigami
Takamagahara mythology	Amaterasu Susanoo Tsukuyomi Ame-no-Uzume
Izumo mythology	Yamata no Orochi Hare of Inaba Ōkuninushi
Hyūga mythology	Tenson kōrin Ninigi Konohanasakuya-hime Hoderi Hoori Toyotama-hime Ugayafukiaezu
Human age	Emperor Jimmu Tagishimimi Kesshi Hachidai
Mythical locations	Ryūgū-jō Takama-ga-hara Amano-Iwato Yomi Ashihara no Nakatsukuni
Major Buddhist figures	Amida Nyorai Daruma Five Dhyani Buddhas
Seven Lucky Gods	Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fukurokuju Hotei Jurōjin Kisshōten
Shinto deities Japanese deities Sacred objects Japanese religions