Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (ツクヨミノミコト, 月読命), or simply Tsukuyomi (ツクヨミ, 月読) or Tsukiyomi (ツキヨミ), is the moon kami in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. The name "Tsukuyomi" is a compound of the Old Japanese words tsuku (月; "moon, month", becoming modern Japanese tsuki) and yomi (読み; "reading, counting"). The Nihon Shoki mentions this name spelled as Tsukuyumi (月弓; "moon bow"), but this yumi is likely a variation in pronunciation of yomi. An alternative interpretation is that his name is a combination of tsukiyo (月夜; "moonlit night") and mi (見; "looking, watching"). -no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Kami; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the Great'.
In Man'yōshū, Tsukuyomi's name is sometimes rendered as Tsukuyomi Otoko (月讀壮士; "moon-reading man"), implying that he is male
Myth
Tsukuyomi was the second of the "three noble children" (三貴子, Mihashira-no-Uzu-no-Miko) born when Izanagi-no-Mikoto, the kami who created the first land of Onogoroshima, was cleansing himself of his kegare while bathing after escaping the underworld and the clutches of his enraged dead sister, Izanami-no-Mikoto. Tsukuyomi was born when he washed out of Izanagi's right eye. However, in an alternative story, Tsukuyomi was born from a mirror made of white copper in Izanagi's right hand.
Tsukuyomi angered Amaterasu (who in some sources was his wife) when he killed Ukemochi, the megami of food. Amaterasu once sent Tsukuyomi to represent her at a feast presented by Ukemochi. The megami created the food by turning to the ocean and spitting out a fish, then facing a forest and spitting out game, and finally turning to a rice paddy and coughing up a bowl of rice. Tsukuyomi was utterly disgusted by the manner of which the exquisite-looking meal was made in, so he killed her.
Amaterasu learned what happened and she was so angry that she refused to ever look at Tsukuyomi again, forever moving to another part of the sky. This is the reason that day and night are never together. This is according to one of the accounts in the Nihon Shoki. Tsukuyomi does not have such significance in the Kojiki, in which there is a similar tale about Susanoo-no-Mikoto killing a similar food megami named Ōgetsuhime, who is often conflated with Ukemochi.
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How tf does anyone sleep all night between having a fucking cat and a partner with a CPAP machine that slips during the night
Woke up twice, once for an hour, and now I have class all day and I seriously feel like
i just kick my cat out of my bedroom. she doesn’t love it but sorry, trying to crawl into someone’s mouth repeatedly while they’re trying to sleep has consequences
My bathroom is in my bedroom and that's where the litterbox lives so I can't. That and he would scratch the shit outta my carpet. He fucking leaps on to my window sill and back to the bed on my side too, nearly have a heart attack cuz he lands so heavily on it
oof that sucks. way way back in the day when i had roommates i had a similar situation (same needy af cute af POS cat too, i've had her a while), had to beg them to let us have a second litter outside my room because i was on the brink. good luck to you friend, hope you find a solution
My cat wakes me up every day at 4am, for the past year or so. He doesn't want anything it's literally just our routine now. He wakes me up, I move to the couch and go back to sleep there.
That would be my hell. As I've gotten older, if I so much as open one eyeball when being disturbed, my brain goes on overdrive and I can't fall back asleep. I bet at that time kitty is probably just bored, I feel like 3-5am are prime hijinks hours for cats
For the cpap noises, maybe a white noise machine will help? I find noises tend to disturb my sleep if they’re somehow an irregular pattern, and white noise covering them up helps.
Yesss I need to remember to use mine. I love using my fan for that but it's too chilly now
Wear one earplug. Whichever side is most effected by noise. Put your alarm to the other side. Worked for me in station settings. You will probbaly get used to it eventually anyway
One earplug isn't a bad idea, I've never thought of that because I do get nervous about missing my alarms. Hell yeah I'll try that out
An artificial sunrise alarm clock can help if you're worried about not hearing the alarm
I run a 32 inch metal fan on high and can't hear anything besides VVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRR all night.
Fan noises are seriously the best, love that shit
There are washable soft silicone earplugs that are comfortable even for people who sleep on their sides. You can simply make your alarm loud enough so you still hear it. I'd recommend them, even for quite rooms, just in case of noises from outside. Also soft, comfortable sleeping masks that bulge so they don't touch your eyes to reliably block out any light.
I feel this so much. Don't have a cat, but do have a partner with a CPAP and my god it's like sleeping next to Darth Vader.
My solution has been ear plugs and I've now used them for so many years that my ear canals have actually gotten wider and they no longer work as well. They cause annoying itchy and dry ears too, but it's that or no sleep for me. And now I also can't sleep without them even when I sleep alone.
No idea if I am destroying my ears with them, but it is what it is.
That is wild! Sounds like something a parent would tell their kid to keep them from doing something lol. I guess if you haven't noticed your hearing get worse your probably fine though?
Lol yeah, it's pretty wild and not what you would expect, but I've also been sleeping in them for well over a decade now. Hearing seems fine thankfully.