Age Of Gods

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See more results. In this game the players are ancient gods that are trying to make their chosen tribes prosper and conquer the land. The twist is that the gods/players don't know all their chosen tribes at the beginning of the game, these are given to them only every other round. There are 24 different tribes which start on predefined spaces on the board. These tribes are divided into four different levels.

Izanagi and Izanami. Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, c. 1885.

In Japanese mythology, the Age of the Gods (神代, Kami-yo/Jindai) is the period preceding the accession of Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan.^[1] The kamiyo myths are chronicled in the 'upper roll' (Kamitsumaki) of the Kojiki and in the first and second chapters of the Nihon Shoki. The reigns of Emperor Jimmu and the subsequent Emperors are considered the Human Age (人代, Hitoyo).

Origin[edit]

According to early mythology, the Japanese islands were created by Izanagi and Izanami, meaning 'he who invites' and 'she who invites'. They find themselves on a heavenly golden bridge staring down at earth and its oceans. With their jeweled spear, called Amenonuhoko, given by the gods or kami before them, they dip the spear into the ocean, creating the islands of Japan, Onogoro Island (“spontaneous-congealed island”).^[2] Descending down from the skies, Izanagi and Izanami create their home and create a central Heavenly August pillar. Deciding to populate the land, Izanagi circles the left side of the pillar while Izanami circles the right. Meeting each other on the other side of it, Izanami greets her love 'oh, what a comely young man.' Izanagi replies with 'How delightfully, I have met a lovely maiden.' Izanami being a woman speaking first to a man, the gods looked at this as inappropriate and cursed the couple by the children they bore. Their first child Hiruko was born hideous and cast out for its atrocity. Trying and trying again, they fail to conceive a proper child. The gods explain to them both about their curse and decide to give them another chance. Once again Izanagi and Izanami circle the pillar just as before, only Izanagi speaks first. Their mating now was fruitful. Izanami gave birth to the islands of Awaji, Iyo (later Shikoku), Oki, Tsukushi (later Kyūshū), Iki, Tsushima, Sado, and finally Yamato (later Honshū), the largest. They named the land Oyashimakuni, the Land of Eight Great Islands. After that, Izanami gave birth in quick succession to the other minor islands that surround the main ones, and to the main kami of seaand harbor, of wind, trees, mountains, and so on.

Many other kami were born from Izanami’s womb such as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. She was known as 'Heaven-Illumine-of-Great-Deity”, and the Moon God, Tsukuyomi. His silver radiance was not so fair as the golden effulgence of his sister, the Sun Goddess.^[3] While both sit atop the heavens, they begin their sibling rivalry, quarreling and fighting, they decide they can no longer see each other face to face, thus creating day and night, separating the two.

The last kami conceived was the fire god, Kagutsuchi. During birth, Kagutsuchi severely burned Izanami and eventually slipped away into the Land of Yomi, the underworld. 'The tears Izanagi shed at the death of his wife brought forth further deities. Angered by the sight of the newly born fire kami who had been the cause of Izanami’s death, Izanagi drew his sword and decapitated the infant. The blood coalescing on the sword brought forth eight martial kami, including the important Takemikazuchi-no-kami and his peer, Futsunushi-no-kami. Eight more fierce kami of mountains and iron emerged from the infant’s body and limbs.'^[4]

In his anguish, Izanagi followed her to the underworld to rescue her and soon discovered the awful truth. Nothing remained of his beloved Izanami but a rotting living-dead corpse. As Izanagi runs away in horror, Izanami shrieks in anger for her loves abandonment, 'Everyday I shall kill one thousand people in the lands we created'. Izanagi replies 'Every day I shall create one thousand five hundred people'.

References[edit]

^Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). 'Jindai' in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 421, p. 421, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, seeDeutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
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Bible verses about God’s age:

1 Timothy 1:17 = “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise…”

Psalm 90:2 = “Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

Psalm 93:2 = “Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.”

Revelation 10:6 = “and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it...”

Deuteronomy 33:27 = “The eternal God is your refuge...”

Psalm 102:24, 25 = “...Your years are throughout all generations. Of old You laid the foundation of the earth...”

Revelation 1:8 = “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’ says the Lord, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.’”

1) God: No beginning, no ending

The very first words of the Bible are, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). However, this verse is not talking about God’s beginning; it’s talking about the beginning of our earth and the universe. God was there at the beginning of our universe, but He had existed long before that.

In fact, the Bible is clear that God has always existed. There has never been a time when He didn’t exist and there will never be a time when He stops existing. “Before the mountains were brought forth…Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God,” the psalmist wrote (Psalm 90:2).

2) God: The Eternal One

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One of the names by which God calls Himself is “I AM” (Exodus 3:14), because God exists in an eternal present. He has always been, and He always will be. We humans live in the past, present, and future. But time is not the same for God as it is for us mortals who live and die. The Bible says, “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8).

3) God: never gets old

We humans are used to things growing old and changing with time. But God never gets old. Time doesn’t change God. Isaiah wrote, “The everlasting God . . . neither faints nor is weary.” (Isaiah 40:28-31). At the second coming of Jesus, God will give us the gift of immortality so that we can experience life without age and growing old. Death will be swallowed up in victory because we shall put on immortality as a gift from the eternal, immortal, everlasting God (1 Corinthians 15:53, 54).

4) God: forever young!

Because of Renaissance paintings depicting God as an old man with a long beard dressed in a robe, we tend to think of Him as old. We may even tend to think of God as a kindly, elderly grandpa who isn’t too involved anymore in all the activities of life. We may think it’s good to have Him around, but He is kind of on the sidelines of our lives. But if we think of God as young and vigorous and active—then He takes on an entirely different role for us. He is right here, actively involved with us in all that is going on daily in our lives.

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Of course, God is neither old nor young as we know time. What is truly important is that God is. He is always there and always will be there. He never gets old and is always beside us, always loving us, always caring for us, always helping us with everything we face. He promises, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).

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