Moreya

Also known as Moriya

Moreya or Moriya (洩矢神, Moriya- / Moreya-no-Kami) is a Japanese god who appears in various myths and legends of the Suwa region in Nagano Prefecture (historical Shinano Province). The most famous of such stories is that of his battle against Takeminakata, the god of the Grand Shrine of Suwa (Suwa Taisha).

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Name
Background
Suwa Shrine and its priesthood
Mythology
Moriya and Suwa Daimyōjin
"Moriya the evil outlaw" in the ''Suwa Daimyōjin Ekotoba''
"Moriya Daijin" in the ''Suwa Nobushige Gejō''
In other late medieval texts
In Edo period texts
In the ''Jinchō Moriya-shi Keifu''
Other myths
Moriya and Yatsukao / Ganigawara
The rain god of Mount Moriya
Offspring
Analysis
Setting
The Moriya myth and the Upper Shrine's origins
Moreya, the Moriya clan and Mononobe no Moriya
Descendants
Shrine
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

Moriya is regarded as the mythical ancestor of the Moriya clan (守矢氏), a priestly family that formerly served in the Upper Suwa Shrine (上社, Kamisha), one of the two sub-shrines that make up Suwa Taisha. In addition, he is venerated as a local tutelary deity (ubusunagami) in a shrine in Okaya City near the Tenryū River, which in later variants of the aforementioned myth is identified as the place where Takeminakata and Moriya fought each other.