Note 6 — Chapter XIX · Rival Deities of Life and Death, Sunshine and Storm
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The Ko-ji-ki (but not the Nihon-gi) here introduces another set of pursuers. Izanami, finding that her brother had outwitted the Ugly Female (or Females), “sent the eight Thunder-Deities with a thousand and five hundred warriors of Hades to pursue him. Izanagi, drawing the ten-grasp sabre that was augustly girded on him, fled forward, brandishing it in his back hand (brandishing it behind him); and as the demons still continued to pursue him, he took, on reaching the base of the Even Pass of Hades,6 three peaches that were growing at its base, and waited and smote (his pursuers therewith) so that they all fled back.”7