Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto

[laughs] In Ancient Mesopotamia, Nanna, also known as Sin, was a Sumerian and later Babylonian god of the moon, and was specifically associated with the full moon and wisdom.

And in Japanese mythology, Tsukuyomi is a Shinto moon god born from the right eye of the creator deity Izanagi.

He is the counterpart to Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, who was born from Izanagi's left eye.

Ooh, what a mouthful.

Other important characters.

I guess you got to talk about Tsukiyomi because he's like the villain.

He's played by Hiroshi

Abe, but I'm not familiar with him.

Kino, the bad guy, sorcerer, has the Sword of Dark Clouds, which is connected to Orochi, which is actually...

Orochi is...

Yeah, it's Tsukiyomi, is the villain.

And, uh...

This heavenly duo stirred the ocean with a spear, and the salt that dripped down created the first island.

They populated the world with all sorts of kami and natural phenomena, including their three noble children, the sun goddess Amaterasu and her brothers, the moon god Tsukuyomi and Susanoo, the storm god.

The term kami can also refer to impersonal divine forces.

A kami might be the spirit of a natural feature like a river or mountain, a natural force like wind, thunder, or fire.

The secondary, or I guess it's part of a trinity, is Susanna O.

And then Tsukiyomi, who is the moon goddess.

Susanna O. is the god of weather.

And Amateus is the goddess of the sun.

The next child of Izanagi and Izanami was a son, and as he also was beautiful, with the dreamlike beauty of the evening, they placed him in the heavens as co-ruler with his sister Amaterasu.

His name was Tsukuyomi, the moon god.

The god Susanoo is another son of the two deities who wooed and wed around the base of the pillar of earth.

Unlike his brother and sister, he was fond of the shadow and the gloom.