@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000294,
 author = {GADELEVA, Emilia},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {The god Susanoo is one of the central characters in the eighth-century annals known as Kojiki and Nihon shoki, and the contradicttory way he is depicted has inspired several defferent interpretations. On one hand hi is the violent counter-part of the sun-goddess Amaterasu, onthe other, the hero who slays the enormous serpent Yamata no Oroshi and saves the maiden od the rice-fields, Susanoo is one of the most important deities in the land descriptions (Fudoki) from the same period as well, where the stories about him lack any negative features. Amoug the variety of other hypotheses about the reasons for such a characterzation, Isuggest my point of view based on a comprehensive study of the three mentioned sources and other ancient documents. Ldoubt that the roles Susanoo plats in the myths recorded in these documents come simply put of the political motives that lay at the base of their complilation. To me, it seems that both positive and negative features lay at base of god's charaster from the very beginnig, as he was the god who was supposed to bring sufficient rain for the crops. Lthink he was derives from the priests performing rites for rain and serving at shrines where sacred rice and water were regularly offered to the gods. At the same time, the worship pf a pair consisting of a sun-deity and a water-deity, which is ofter met at Japanese shrines eves today, must have been quite inportant in ancient Japan. Such a connection must have lain at the base of the relation between Susanoo ans Amaterasu.},
 pages = {165--204},
 title = {Susanoo : One of the Central Gods in Japanese Mythology},
 volume = {12},
 year = {2000}
}