Japanese mythology

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ugajin is a Japanese harvest god, a fertility kami of Japanese Mythology. He is a member of the Buddhist Pantheon. Ugajin is often depicted with the body of a snake and the head of a bearded man, for the masculine variant, or the head of a woman for the female variant. Ugajin often accompanies another deity: Benzaiten. Japanese mythology is a system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon alone consists of an uncountable number of kami (Japanese for "gods" or "spirits"). This article will discuss only the typical elements present in Oriental mythology such as cosmogony, important deities and the best-known Japanese stories.