YOMI
Shinto Underworld legendary place
Also known as Soko-No-Kuni, Yomi-No-Kuni, Yomi-Tsu-Kuni
The Land of Gloom
This is a part of the Japanese Underworld. It is a very very very gloomy place, filled with dark brooding ghosts, miserable souls and depressed maggots.
It is more like a limbo land than anything else. Not much happens here — all the juicy torture and punishment stuff that other Underworlds delight in seems to have been put on the back burner.
Yomi was originally ruled by Izanami before her son Susano-wo took over the joint. They seems to run the place like a dreary old gentlemen’s club.
If you really must see Yomi for yourself, you can get there via the tunnels of Izumo. But whatever you do, do not eat anything during your visit. Not even a cookie or a crumb of bread.
Otherwise you will be trapped there forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
Yomi Facts and Figures
Name: Yomi
Pronunciation: Coming soon
Alternative names: Soko-No-Kuni, Yomi-No-Kuni, Yomi-Tsu-Kuni
Gender: Male
Type: legendary place
Celebration or Feast Day: Unknown at present
Role:
In charge of: the Underworld
Area of expertise: Underworld
Good/Evil Rating: NEUTRAL, may not care
Popularity index: 5410
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Article last revised on November 19, 2018 by Rowan Allen.
Editors: Peter J. Allen, Chas Saunders
References: Coming soon.