Yamata no Orochi (ヤマタノオロチ, also 八岐大蛇, 八俣遠呂智 or 八俣遠呂知), or simply Orochi (大蛇), is a legendary eight-headed and eight-tailed Japanese dragon/serpent. Yamata...

Yamata no Orochi no Gyakushū (Japanese: 八岐之大蛇の逆襲, Eight-Headed Giant Serpent's Counterattack) is a tokusatsu kaiju fan film shot on 16mm by Daicon Films...

over four years. The first Orochis were set to be delivered in January 2007. The name Orochi is derived from Yamata no Orochi, a legendary eight-headed...

Based on the Shintō myth of the storm god Susanoo's battle with the Yamata no Orochi, the color, "ToeiScope" anamorphic format film is scripted by Ichirō...

used to slay the Yamata no Orochi, unnamed in the Kojiki and the Shoki's main text, is variously named in the Shoki's variants as Orochi-no-Aramasa (蛇之麁正...

of the wives of the god Susanoo, who rescued her from the monster Yamata no Orochi. As Susanoo's wife, she is a central deity of the Gion cult and worshipped...

Yamata no Orochi (shortened to Orochi) was a famous eight-headed dragon in Japanese mythology. This may also refer to: Oroch people or Orochi, a Russian...

said to be related to the creature known as the Yamata no Orochi; in Japanese mythology, Yamata no Orochi is defeated by the god Susanoo, a scene which...

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vanishes when the battle is over. He reappears once more during the Yamata no Orochi arc to stop Onimaru and ends up sacrificing himself to defeat Dark...

and reunited with Himeko. The series' villain is Yamata no Orochi (邪神八岐大蛇, Jashin Yamata no Orochi), a god who wants to replace the world of humanity...

Sekizawa as an homage to the eight-headed mythological Japanese dragon Yamata no Orochi. Although the name of the character is officially trademarked by Toho...

he told him that his family was being terrorized by the fearsome Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed serpent of Koshi, who had consumed seven of the family's...

because his birth killed Izanami. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi A sword Susanoo found in one of the tails of the Yamata-no-Orochi after he killed it and subsequently gave...

dragon-shaped." The Kojiki and Nihongi mention several ancient dragons: Yamata no Orochi (八岐大蛇, lit. 'eight-branched giant snake') was an eight-headed and eight-tailed...

come later in the Middle Ages, from the Kamakura period and beyond. Yamata no Orochi was originally a local god but turned into a yōkai who was slain by...

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name and abilities were designed to relate him with the legend of Yamata no Orochi. The designers ended up liking him so much they are careful of the...

as elders. Ashinazuchi brought alcohol to Susanoo in order to kill Yamata no Orochi alongside Tensazuchi. Susanoo got the serpent drunk with the alcohol...

Izumo where he met Ashinazuchi, an elderly man who told him that the Yamata no Orochi ("Eight-Branched Serpent"), who had consumed seven of his eight daughters...

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Amaterasu. Susanoo was also responsible for the slaying of the monster Yamata no Orochi and the subsequent discovery of the sacred sword Kusanagi. Takemikazuchi...

Yamata Amasung Keibu Keioiba (English: Yamata-no-Orochi and Keibu Keioiba) is a Meitei language play, written and directed by Heisnam Tomba. It was produced...

husband"), of Lady Matsura. The term orochi (大蛇) means literally "giant snake", the well-known example being the Yamata no orochi, the eight-forked giant serpent...

like the Nihon Shoki, in the legend of the defeat of the giant snake Yamata no Orochi to Susanoo in a battle, it fled from Izumo to Ōmi, had a child with...

It is revealed that Kodama is the daughter of Yatsune, the former Yamata no Orochi,[ch. 49][ch. 49,50] and that her servants are actually Yatsune's incarnations;...

to obtain Orochi's power for the purpose of giving it to their unknown master. The plot and the characters came from the Yamata no Orochi legend. There...

was a war against the evil monster Yamata no Orochi (an 8-headed dragon). The gods won the battle. Yamata no Orochi was locked into 8 capsules, one of...

apology; he had obtained it from the body of an eight-headed serpent, Yamata no Orochi. At the conclusion of the Genpei War in 1185, the six-year-old Emperor...

Personnel taken from Japan's Favorite Mon-star. "[Ghidorah] is basically Yamata no Orochi. It is an old folktale, and we wrote it as a creature from outer space...