#ninjago yomi

[greendest1ny]

hello ninjago fandom, i know i said that i'd post about how to play hide and seek with an oni, but i'm afraid i got brainrot for the subject of today's post.

so, for today's traditional oni lore, i'll be telling you all about the two oni gods, Raijin and Fūjin!!

Raijin and Fūjin are potentially the first two oni ever created, as they were born from the corpse of Izanami, the goddess of death, who created oni. (you can learn more about her here) They escaped Yomi when Izanagi (Izanami's husband) escaped after finding Izanami's corpse.

Fūjin was the God of Wind. He is traditionally described as having green skin and red hair, and wearing a leopard or tiger loincloth. On his shoulder he carries a large bag full of winds, called '風袋' or 'Kazebuko'. He has also been referred to as Fūten. He is often depicted beside his twin brother, Raijin.

Raijin was the God of Thunder, Lightning, and Storms. Unlike Fūjin, he doesn't seem to have a particular physical appearance. He is occasionally depicted with paper white skin or red skin, depending on the artist, though even these depictions seem to agree that he has black hair. He is often depicted surrounded by taiko drums or den den daiko drums, which have tomoe symbols on them. It is said that when he beats them, it creates thunder. Raijin is also often said to have three fingers, each representing the past, present, and future. He is also referred to as 'Raiden-Sama', 'Kaminari-Sama', 'Narukami', 'Raikou', and 'Kamowakeikazuchi-no-kami'.

Raijin had a son, too, called Raitaro. Raitaro, unlike his father and uncle, he seemed to look fully human, but he does have a legend surrounding him. He too is a god of thunder, and he lived in a grand palace in the clouds with his father, Raijin. Raijin loved Raitaro deeply. The two would often pass the time by looking down at humanity, and Raitaro especially enjoyed watching the children and their parents. One day, Raijin asked Raitaro to look well upon the land. Raitaro saw noble lords and their armies fighting over land, and then a beautiful princess, priests in their temples, and finally a poor farming couple who were childless.

Raijin then asked Raitaro to choose where he would like to inhabit the earth. Raitaro chose the farmers, much to his father's pride. That day at noon, a grand thunderstorm rolled in to the farmers, Bimbo's, land. Bimbo sang Raijin's praises, delighted at the rain that would save his crops after the long drought they had just suffered. The sky was alive with booms of thunder and the spark of lightning. It struck the ground, frighteningly near the peasant. At this, the poor farmer cowered and prayed: "Kwannon have mercy on a sinful soul, for now the Thunder Dragon has me indeed" (Kwannon was the goddess of mercy)

The lightning didn't harm him, it seemed, instead a small baby laid where the lightning had struck; this was Raitaro. Bimbo took Raitaro home to his wife, and the skies cleared and the sun shone brightly upon the drenched land. Bimbo and his wife took Raitaro in as their own son, and he was said to be the happiest and tallest boy in the land. He worked the rice fields at a mere ten years old, with all the ability of a grown man, and he was amazing at predicting the weather, which made Bimbo's crops flourish.

Eventually, Raitaro's eighteenth birthday came, and all were celebrating, except for Raitaro. When Bimbo's wife asked why he was so forlorn, Raitaro explained that he had to go home, back to the heavens and his father. Bimbo and his wife were distraught, but Raitaro explained to them that they had taught him how to suffer, to labour, and to love, and that he was now more learned that the other gods. Raitaro returned to Raiden, who received his beloved son with great joy. Bimbo and his wife were comforted by the fact that soon they would be with Raitaro again, in the heavens above.

Raijin did not only have a mother, brother, and a son, but he had pets, too. Raiju, meaning thunder beast/animal, were most commonly depicted as white blue dogs or wolves, wrapped in lightning. They could also come in other forms, such as leopards, foxes, weasels, panthers, cats, tigers, ferrets, and tanukis, but again, the wolf and dog forms are the most popular. Usually, Raiju were calm beasts, but they'd become aggressive and agitated during thunderstorms. They tend to leap around in trees, fields, and even buildings, leaving lightning strikes as they go. Some Raiju tend to sleep in human navels, which causes Raijin to strike the Raiju with lightning in order to wake it up, unfortunately killing the human it was sleeping in. As a result, it's a common superstition to hide your navel when it's thundering in Japan.

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I think that Raijin and Fujin are so cool 😭😭 even if Fujin has basically no content compared to his twin :(

Raitaro and Raijin remind me of Lloyd and Garmadon in their particular myth,, they're so cute

i also LOVE raiju. storm wolves??? hell yeah. garmadon you can have a pet wolf raiju after the merge. as a treat.

i can also see the ninja being more than mildly terrified when wu very cryptically tells them 'if you hear thunder, hide your navels.'

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other oni lore

what repels oni, how oni were created, oni and cannibalism, kijin/source oni, traditional oni weapons, traditional oni stories, oni gods of thunder and wind

feel free to leave any questions in my ask box!!

taglist (asked to be added or removed): @mx-mizaqx @nyaskitten

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jst woke up from a nap i think this is the best time to do this

3 ships i used to be obsessed with - klance, chasriel, jaya

3 ships im obsessed with now - finn and sean lis2, yomiakou, dirkjake/davejake

top blorbos evr - YOMI ive had blorbos before but nothings been this intense so he takes 1st place. other than that komaeda, travis/sal, dirk, kanaya, chuuya, lance, jay/nya

1st fandom - probably lps, id say ninjago but i dont think ive interacted with the actual fandom at the time

current fandoms - lis/lis2, black dresses, raincode, homestuck

1st/oldest fan creation - miscellaneous ninjago fanart, lps musically videos, all the bright places fanart

fav character dynamic - weird guy + the most normal dude uve ever seen; guy A seeing guy B as his worst enemy while guy B could not care less; guy1 casually flirty, doesnt actually think they hav a chance x guy2 extremely nervous and awkward, with a massive embarrassing crush

i dont go here but this is a fun pair - RARIJACK, polysho <3333, curtwen, wolfcat

honorable mention ships - saimaki, komahina, sal and todd, jadefef, fubugami, ...gametheory.............

uhhh sure ill tag ppl this time why not @vampiresgambit @gardenofskeletonss @relaxxattack @elggow @yakool-foolio

Fandom tag game

Three ships you used to be obsessed with: TKKO, Fernfinn, whatever the ship name was for Sammy Lawrence x Bendy

Three ships you're obsessed with now: Yumakoyomi, Dirkhalcal, Dottoscara

Top blorbos ever: Scaramouche (Genshin), Makoto (Raincode), Hal (Homestuck)

First fandom: OK KO! Let's be Heroes!

Fandoms you're in now: Raincode, Homestuck, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vocaloid, Danganronpa

Describe your first fan creation, or the oldest one you remember: Uhhh i think I made a ton of oneshots on wattpad about TKKO doing various domestic activities? I think there was one about shopping for Christmas gifts. There were also the doodles I made on my homework but yeagh

Favorite character dynamic: Guy but wait. There's multiple of the guy and now they gotta interact

"I don't go here but this pair seems fun" ship: "Timebomb" from Arcane, my friend sends me memes of them and they seem super silly! I need to watch Arcane... oh well

Ships that still float around in your brainspace/honorable mentions: Billford, Kiibocest, Pregame Saiibo, I think I shipped Steven x Pink Steven for awhile, Catrouble (is that the ship name. I don't even know. It's Catra x Double Trouble)

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Yall don't have to do this this is for fun. Wanted to try my hand at one of these... no idea if it's good but yeagh

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Updated refs and new form for Yomi

His new form is inspired by the preeminent and its believed that a deal was made with the preeminent by one of Yomis ancestors to control death, its unclear as to what that deal was though.

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Life and death family crest concepts

[greendest1ny]

hello again ninjago fandom, it's me, your self-proclaimed oniologist, greendest1ny, here with some more traditional oni lore!!

today, i'll be telling you how oni were created in the traditional japanese mythology!

the way that oni were created is quite a long story, and requires some trigger warnings: sibling incest between two gods (gross, why do most mythologies do that??), death in childbirth, and child murder.

Created by Ame-no-Minakanushi and Kuni-no-Tokotachi, Izanami-No-Mikoto was the primordial goddess of creation and death and her brother, Izanagi-No-Mikoto, was the primordial god of creation and life. The two of them were created to make the islands of Japan, and were given a magical spear to do so, the Ame-no-Nuboko. To make quite a long story short, they created the islands of Japan and married. They had multiple children, one of them being the god of fire, Kagutsuchi.

Unfortunately, Izanami-No-Mikoto died in childbirth, as Kagutsuchi burned her to death while being born. Izanagi-No-Mikoto was driven into a grief filled rage, and murdered the newborn Kagutsuchi, cutting him into eight pieces, which turned into eight volcanoes, and causing multiple deities to be born from his dead body.

During her final moments, Izanami-No-Mikoto bore the water goddess, Mizuhanome, and instructed her to calm Kagutsuchi should he become violent, unaware of what Izanagi-No-Mikoto had done.

After Izanami-No-Mikoto's funeral, Izanagi-No-Mikoto could not accept what had happened, and journeyed to the underworld, Yomi, to retrieve her. When he arrived, Izanami-No-Mikoto's figure was hidden by the shadows, and Izanagi-No-Mikoto couldn't see her. She informed him that she had eaten the fruit of the underworld, and she couldn't leave.

Izanagi-No-Mikoto refused to leave her, and while she slept, he took his comb from his hair and lit it on fire, and was horrified to see that Izanami-No-Mikoto was now little more than a living decaying corpse, with foul creatures running over her body, with oni being born from her very corpse, most notably being the thunder, lightning, and storm god, Raijin, and the wind god, Fūjin. (you can learn more about them here!!)

Izanagi-No-Mikoto was horrified, shrieking loudly and running away, intending to abandon poor Izanami-No-Mikoto in Yomi. Izanami-No-Mikoto awoke and was enraged, sending a multitude of demons after him, and pursuing him herself.

Izanagi-No-Mikoto escaped by the cave he had entered through, blocking the entrance to Yomi with a large, impenetrable boulder. Izanami-No-Mikoto screamed from the other side of the boulder, and declared 'if you leave me here, i shall destroy a thousand of the living everyday!'

Izanagi-No-Mikoto angrily exclaimed 'then i shall create a thousand and five hundred humans everyday!' and abandoned Izanami-No-Mikoto in Yomi for the rest of eternity.

Izanami-No-Mikoto became the goddess of death that day, and Izanagi-No-Mikoto the god of life.

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i like how Izanami-No-Mikoto parallels firstbourne, though, as they were both all-mothers to their respective species.

i can just imagine mystaké telling wu and garm this story, and wu being all sympathetic to izanami-no-mikoto, while garm would be a little more like 'why didn't she just break the boulder??' and mystaké going 'it was impenetrable!! did you not listen at all, young garmadon?! do not disrespect our mother in yomi!!' as i imagine most oni would really respect izanami-no-mikoto because of her creating their ancestors, and her being the goddess of death and all that,,

i can also link parts of her story to the oni masks: vengeance being how she kills a thousand humans a day to make izanagi-no-mikoto pay, deceit being how she tried to hide what she had become from izanagi-no-mikoto, and hatred being her clear hatred of izanagi-no-mikoto after her abandonment.

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other oni lore

how oni were created, oni and cannibalism, kijin/source oni, traditional oni weapons, traditional oni stories, what repels oni, oni gods of thunder and wind

feel free to leave any questions in my ask box!!

taglist (ask to be added or removed): @mx-mizaqx

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Lyrics used for this is Still Here by Digital Daggers

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Blind Love and Obessions

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Felt like drawing eyes today

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Wanted to try and add my ocs

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Been working on making more full illustrations with my stuff

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Added two of my favorite elemental Headcanons here.I’ll also see about doing more of these so if theirs a specific character you want me to draw let me know.

The first Headcanon I have is that all elementals have a mouthful of sharp animal like teeth especially Shade and Tox with Shade being a half vampire and Tox’s great great grandfather being a venomari.

The second Headcanon is that the whites if their eyes will change color when enraged and their elements will appear on their bodies or around them in any form it can and will even cause injury to the elemental in question.

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Ended up disliking how Clarion looked that I'm redesigning him.

I call fugi dove Callum now

And Yomis w.i.p design

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W.I.P of Yomi and his updated design and showing off some of his elemental powers

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Had this idea that all death elementals have parts of their skeleton that grow outside of their body and can manipulate their bones. An example is Yomi can make his hand just clawed bones.

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Used another Monkie Kid screenshot.

Bela being chaotic and Yomi wondering what she's even talking about.

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This is based on one of the dresses in Alice Madness Returns.