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Oya-Shima-Guni

by Micha F. Lindemans
The original eight islands of Japanese cosmology. Called 'Parent-Island-Country', they were the first parts of the solid worlds created out the primeval ocean. It was given shape by the gods Izanagi and Izanami.

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