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Yamatanoorochi Arida-Kagura-dan

Yamata no Orochi
 This story was taken from a Japanese myth.
Once upon a time, in the Province of Izumo, there was an old couple who had eight daughters. One summer’s day, a monstrous serpent with eight heads and eight tails came from  the big mountains and swallowed one of their daughters.
 Every year, in the same season, the serpent appeared and swallowed one of their daughters. Finally there was only one daughter left, and now she was to be sacrificed. The old couple and their daughter were lamenting their fate.
 Then a god descended from the high heavens. The god told the old couple to prepare some “sake” (rice wine) and put it in front of the daughter who was to be sacrificed. The monster appeared with a thunder storm and drank all the sake, thinking that the daughter’s image reflecting on the sake was the daughter herself. The monster soon drank itself senseless. The courageous god attacked the monster and married the daughter he saved, and they lived happily ever after in Izumo.
 Actually the monster is a metaphor of the mountain ranges of western Japan and the floods from these mountains. The daughter’s name is Kushinada-hime. “Kushi” means “rare,” “inada” means “rice fields” and “hime” is a suffix for a girl. Therefore her name means “rice fields blessed with a rare bumper crop.” Therefore Yamata no Orochi (Eight-forked Serpent) tells the story of how Japan as a rice-producing country was born by protecting farmland from floods.
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