The god Izanagi murdered and dismembered the child whose birth was responsible for the death of his wife. He threw the pieces to the winds. The fragments were transformed into gods.
Then, like Orpheus, Izanagi descended to the Kingdom of the Dead to retrieve his wife, the goddess Izanami. When he found her, he was frightened and repulsed by what he saw - worm-infested, putrefying flesh! And all about her body, on the various parts, were many Thunders: the Great Thunder, the Thunder of Fire, the Black Thunder, Splitting Thunder, Young Thunder, Earth's Thunder, and the Thunder that can be heard.
