![]() Amaterasu is an attributive verb form that modifies the noun after it, ōmikami. Notably, 'Amaterasu' in 'Amaterasu Ōmikami' is not technically a name the same way 'Susanoo' in ' Susa no O no Mikoto' or 'Ōkuninushi' in 'Ōkuninushi no Kami' are. 'Amaterasu' is thought to derive from the verb amateru "to illuminate / shine in the sky" ( ama "sky, heaven" + teru "to shine") combined with the honorific auxiliary verb -su, while 'Ōmikami' means "great august deity" ( ō "great" + honorific prefix mi- + kami).
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