In Shinto faith, Kuninotokotachi or Kuni-toko-tachi is one of the two Gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil"Masaki Tsugita, Kojiki, 1977, when the Earth was chaotic. In the , he is the first of the seven generations of Divinities born after the first five divinities were born at the time of the creation of the Universe. In the , he is the first of the three divinities born after Heaven and Earth were born out of chaos, and is born from something looking like a reed-shoot growing between heaven and earth.Nihongi - Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 (tr. from the original Chinese and Japanese by W.G. Aston, Charles E. Tuttle Cy. 1990) He is known by mythology to reside on top of Mount Fuji (富士山).
Kuninotokotachi is described as a hitorigami and genderless in , but is described as a male god in .
This distinction reflects a broader divergence between the two chronicles' cosmogonies: the Nihon Shoki names Kuninotokotachi as the first of three deities, followed by Kuninosatsuchi and Toyokumonu, said to have arisen through the male principle alone, rather than singly and without gender as in the hitorigami tradition of the Kojiki.
Yoshida Kanetomo, the founder of the Yoshida Shintō sect, identified Kuninotokotachi with Amenominakanushi and regarded him as the primordial god of the Universe.
In Tenrikyo, Kunitokotachi-no-Mikoto is one of the .
He is a Hitorigami, or a singular divinity born early in the universe.
He came after Amenotokotachi and before .
See also Kamiyonanayo Hitsukishinji
References
External links Encyclopedia of Shinto - http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp Kunitokotachi on the Japanese History Database.