The Ancient Family Tree of Japanese Gods: From Chaos to Susanoo

The Ancient Family Tree of Japanese Gods: From Chaos to Susanoo Kunitokotachi is the ancient root of the Japanese divine family tree — the figure so far back in the bloodline that most people forget to mention them at all, and yet without this ancestor, nothing else in the lineage takes shape. According to the Kojiki, compiled in seven hundred and twelve CE, and the Nihon Shoki, written just eight years later, Kunitokotachi is the first of the Separate Heavenly Deities to emerge spontaneously from primordial chaos — before the world had solidified, before the seas had separated from the sky, before any god had a face or a name that meant anything to anyone. Formless. Genderless in most traditions.