Who was the Japanese Goddess of Love?

Question

Tell me the name of the Japanese goddess and anything else interesting about her.

Answer 1

Benzaiten
Benzaiten (弁才天, 弁財天) is the Japanese name of the goddess Sarasvati (Saraswati). There is also a mighty river in ancient India of this name (see Vedic Saraswati River). Some suggest a connection between the goddess and the river. Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese translations of the Sutra of Golden Light, which has a section devoted to her. She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra.

She is the goddess of everything that flows: words (and knowledge, by extension), speech, eloquence, and music. The characters used initially to write her name, read "Biancaitian" in Chinese and "Benzaiten" in Japanese (辯才天), reflected her role as the goddess of eloquence. Because the Sutra of Golden Light promised protection of the state, in Japan she became a protector-deity, at first of the state and then of people. Lastly, she became one of the Seven Gods of Fortune, and the Sino-Japanese characters used to write her name changed to 弁財天 (no change in pronunciation), which reflects her role in bestowing monetary fortune. Sometimes she is called Benten, although this name refers to the goddess Lakshmi.

In the Rig-Veda (6.61.7) Sarasvati is credited with killing the three-headed Vritra, also known as Ahi ("snake"). This is probably one of the sources of Sarasvati/Benzaiten's close association with snakes and dragons in Japan. She is enshrined on the Island of Enoshima in Sagami Bay, about 50 kilometers south of Tokyo, and numerous other locations throughout Japan; and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei (皇慶) in AD 1047. According to Kokei, Benzaiten is the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi (無熱池; literally "lake without heat"), known in Sanskrit as Anavatapta, the lake lying at the center of the world according to an ancient Buddhist cosmological view.

Sarasvati was syncretized by some Shinto goddesses.

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Who was the Japanese Goddess of Love?
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Answer 3

Benten
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The Japanese goddess of love, eloquence, wisdom, the arts, music, knowledge, good fortune and water. She is the patroness of geishas, dancers, and musicians. Originally she was a sea goddess or water goddess, on whose image many local deities near lakes were based. Later she became a goddess of the rich and was added to the Shichi Fukujin. The island of Enoshima rose up especially to receive her footsteps.
Benten is portrayed as a beautiful woman, riding a dragon while playing on a stringed instrument. She has eight arms and in her hands she holds a sword, a jewel, a bow, an arrow, a wheel, and a key. Her remaining two hands are joined in prayer. It is often related that when a dragon devoured many children, she descended to earth to stop his evil work.

Answer 4

Miyaki, the serpent of water crescent, she would have deep sorrow for the suffering of her loved one, Midori, he still possesed the talisman to guide him into a most sacred journey to save his aunt prisoner to a foreigner king, the bringer of death Aniyatsu, they had a most disgraceful time together for over two years, after that time the lovers could encounter. With three children they saw happiness in their dominion, the virtue of presence and cherished love.
Their festivity would be the third month (17th and 18th day). Inhabitants are supposed to attire traditionally with no flowers or they will become separated again, some chants enabling flower dissapearing are invited, and sake should be scarce after 5 oclock. Say "mariko osaihu nehoniriyitsu maisu gotzamas" after you leave the premises or nobody is left behind and you will see the hipocampus picking on the carcasses of the sake repeating the words provided meaning "here lies the last dweller of love pleased at sights beyond reach and caressing the true japanese absence".

Answer 5

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Answer 6

There is none. Japanese Gods are derived from nature, not emotion.
(I'm Japanese)
And by Japanese Gods, I think you're refering to Shintoism...

Answer 7

Benzaiten, who was also the goddess of "everything that flows"-music, speech, etc. She was the only goddess (as opposed to god) that was one of the 7 lucky gods.

Answer 8

Benzaiten

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