Yamata-no-Orochi
八岐大蛇
5
MONSTER · Void
PWR5
Uncommon
GRD6
The eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent that devours the daughters of the Izumo family and is slain by Susanoo, whose tail yields the sword Kusanagi.[S1] [S2]
The Divine Atlas
Void · japanese pantheon
DA-JPN-019
PRINT SHEET · DA-JPN-019 · Yamata-no-Orochi (Void, Uncommon)
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About this card
Yamata-no-Orochi ('Eight-Branched Great Serpent') is the great serpent monster of the Izumo region, with eight heads and eight tails [S1]. It devours the daughters of a local family one by one (seven of the eight), and the last, Kushinada-hime, is next [S1]. Susanoo slays the beast—traditionally by luring it with sweetened sake in eight vats and cutting it down—and in its tail he finds the sword Kusanagi (Ame-murakumo-no-tsurugi) [S1]. It is the archetypal Japanese serpent monster, a force of destructive chaos overcome by the hero-god [S1][S2].