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Kishimojin

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Kishimojin
[鬼子母神] ( Jpn)

    The Mother of Demon Children. Originally regarded as a demonness, she was later revered as a god of procreation and easy delivery. In the "Dharani" (twenty-sixth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, she pledges before Shakyamuni Buddha to safeguard the votaries of the sutra.

See; Mother of Demon Children.

Source

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