Editing Susanoo-no-Mikoto (section)

== Name ==
Susanoo's name is variously given in the {{Transliteration|ja|[[Kojiki]]}} as {{nihongo|'Takehaya-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|建速須佐之男命}}, {{nihongo|'Haya-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|速須佐之男命}}, or simply as {{nihongo|'Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|須佐之男命}}. ''-no-Mikoto'' is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the Great'. He is meanwhile named in the {{Transliteration|ja|[[Nihon Shoki]]}} as {{nihongo|'Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|素戔嗚尊}}, {{nihongo|'Kamu-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|神素戔嗚尊}}, {{nihongo|'Haya-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|速素戔嗚尊}}, and {{nihongo|'Take-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|武素戔嗚尊}}. The {{Transliteration|ja|[[Fudoki]]}} of [[Izumo Province]] renders his name both as {{nihongo|'Kamu-Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|神須佐能袁命}} and {{nihongo|'Susanoo-no-Mikoto'|須佐能乎命}}. In these texts the following honorific prefixes are attached to his name: {{nihongo3|"brave"|建/武|take-}}, {{nihongo3|"swift"|速|haya-}}, and {{nihongo3|"divine"|神|kamu-}}.

The {{Transliteration|ja|susa}} in Susanoo's name has been variously explained as being derived from either of the following words:

*The verb {{Transliteration|ja|susabu}} or {{Transliteration|ja|susamu}}  meaning 'to be impetuous,' 'to be violent,' or 'to go wild'<ref name="uehara">{{cite journal |last1=Uehara |first1=Toyoaki |title=The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation – |journal=Tenri Journal of Religion |year=1983 |issue=17–18 |page=195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mM4qAQAAMAAJ |publisher=Tenri University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson-Laufer |first1=Guida Myrl |title=Traditional Epics: A Literary Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/traditionalepics0000jack |url-access=registration |year=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/traditionalepics0000jack/page/556 556]|isbn=978-0-19-510276-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Matsumoto |first1=Yoshinosuke |title=The Hotsuma Legends: Paths of the Ancestors |year=1999 |publisher=Japan Translation Centre |translator=Driver, Andrew|page=92}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Slawik |first1=Alexander |title=Nihon Bunka no Kosō (日本文化の古層) |year=1984 |publisher=Mirai-sha |page=123}}</ref>
*The verb {{Transliteration|ja|susumu}}, 'to advance'<ref name="uehara" />
*The township of {{nihongo|Susa|須佐郷}} in [[Iishi District, Shimane|Iishi District]], [[Izumo Province]] (modern [[Shimane Prefecture]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Shintō no Hon: Yaoyorozu no Kamigami ga Tsudou Hikyōteki Saishi no Sekai (神道の本：八百万の神々がつどう秘教的祭祀の世界 ) |year=1992 |publisher=Gakken |isbn=978-4051060244 |pages=66–67}}</ref>
*A word related to the [[Middle Korean]] {{Transliteration|ko|'susung'}}, meaning 'master' or 'shaman'<ref name="HistKor">{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Ki-Moon |last2=Ramsey |first2=S. Robert |title=A History of the Korean Language |year=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=75 |isbn=978-1-139-49448-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AmspKX3beoC&pg=PA75}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Tanigawa |first1=Ken'ichi |title=Tanigawa Ken'ichi Chosakushū, volume 2 (谷川健一著作集 第2巻) |year=1980 |publisher=Sanʾichi Shobō |page=161 |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gadeleva |first1=Emilia |title=Susanoo: One of the Central Gods in Japanese Mythology |journal=Nichibunken Japan Review: Bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies |year=2000 |volume=12 |pages=168 |publisher=International Research Center for Japanese Studies|doi=10.15055/00000288 }}</ref>