Mitologi Jepang(Yamata-no-Orochi 4/4)

Times went on.

Susanou wanted to go to the Land Yomi, and came up to Izumo.

When Susanou was wandering about the E-river, there was floating down one chopstik.
Susanou thought “There must be someone upper this river.”
He went on upstream.

There lived a family.
Ashi-nazuchi (Father), Te-nazuchi (Mother), Kushinada-hime (their daughter).
They were all crying.

“Why you are crying?”, Susanou asked them.
“We once had eight daughters, recent years Yamata-no-Orochi came to this land,
and carryed off our daughter one after another every year, and this is last daughter,
now we hear Yamata-no-Orochi is coming up”, Ashi-nazuchi answerd.

“What is Yamata-no-Orochi?”,Susanou asked again.
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