In the anime Mai-HiME, Mai's Child is based upon Kagutsuchi.In the manga Noragami, Kagutsuchi appears during the subjugation of Bishamon and is shown to be capable of blowing fire.In the manga and anime Fairy Tail, a character named Zancrow uses the Flame God Slayer Magic and has an attack named after Kagutsuchi.In the manga and anime Sailor Moon, a character named Hino Rei uses flame magic.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. He is worshipped in several shrines, one of which is Atago Shrine, near Kyoto. Kagutsuchi is the patron deity of blacksmiths and ceramic workers. The name Kagutsuchi was originally a compound phrase, consisting of kagu, an Old Japanese root verb meaning 'to shine' tsu, the Old Japanese possessive particle and chi, an Old Japanese root meaning 'force, power'. This story also contains references to traditional fire-fighting tools: gourds for carrying water and wet clay and water reeds for smothering fires. In the Engishiki, a source which contains the myth, Izanami, in her death throes, bears the water god Mizuhanome, instructing her to pacify Kagu-tsuchi if he should become violent. Kagutsuchi's birth, in Japanese mythology, comes at the end of the creation of the world and marks the beginning of death. Kagutsuchi’s corpse created numerous deities, which typically includes Watatsumi, Kuraokami, Takemikazuchi, Futsunushi, Amatsumikaboshi, and Ōyamatsumi. His father Izanagi, in his grief, beheaded Kagutsuchi with his sword, Ame no Ohabari (天之尾羽張), and cut his body into eight pieces, which became eight volcanoes. Kagutsuchi's birth burned his mother Izanami, causing her death. Kagutsuchi (カグツチ Old Japanese: Kagututi), also known as Hi-no-Kagutsuchi or Homusubi among other names, is the kami of fire in classical Japanese mythology. Nesaku, Takemikazuchi, Kuraokami and others Honoo-Honome Shrine, Ubuta Shrine, Hananoiwaya Shrine, Akiha Shrine, and others Takemikazuchi-no-kami and Futsunushi-no-kami are the two most significant of these martial gods the former is also a thunder god and a patron of the arts, and it is said that he famously conquered Namazu, a gigantic catfish who live beneath the earth and flips his tail to generate earthquakes.Hi-no-Yakihayao-no-Mikoto-no-Kami (火焼速男命神) Eight other gods, all of whom were strong swordsmen kami, were created from the blood that flowed out over the surrounding rocks and trickled down the sword’s blade and hilt. His father chopped off Kagutsuchi’s head with his enormous sword, the Ame-no-o-habari-no-kami, because his father, Izanagi was not particularly pleased with the outcome. This is according to the Kojiki and Nikon Shoki, written in the eighth century CE. Kagutsuchi-no-kami was said to have been born from Izanami, a member of the Shinto creator gods, however, due to his intense heat, he also killed his mother. Kagutsuchi became a crucial part of the Shinto ritual and a regular recipient of soothing offerings as a result of the destructive force of fire in a society where structures were typically composed of wood and paper. The father of 8 warrior deities and 8 mountain deities, among others, the fire deity is the child of Izanagi and Izanami. Kagutsuchi – The Japanese God of Fire: Homusubi is another name for Kagutsuchi, the Shinto deity or god of fire.

God of fire