Divine Creators Izanagi and Izanami: SMT Lore

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Izanagi and Izanami are important figures to Japanese mythology and are integral to the plots of many SMT and Persona games. A cornerstone of Japanese culture, being the creator gods of the world, and a main plot point for the original digital devil story. From nothing came the first deities and all creation afterwards. Japanese culture is a fascinating topic with an extremely long history, but the creation myth is something not many people know intimately. From the Spirits came Izanagi and Izanami, and from Izanagi and Izanami came the world. There is tragedy even amidst the gods, let’s learn about the myriad gods of Japan. With all the history in real life, shin megami tensei does it's best to adapt a tale so important to the region of Japan, and I will do my best to explain it. For smt they take liberties for a lot of demons, and while I cover a lot of smt lore on the channel that is amazing, Izanagi and Izanami are some of the few demons so integral to the plot of a game. Persona has tended to be on the more Japanese mythology side rather than the Abrahamic religion side of shin megami tensei, and while I am less familiar with Japanese mythology it is definitely an amazing suite of stories. With persona 4 lore drawing inspiration from hundreds of years of mythology I'm glad Izanagi and Izanami are so interesting and faithfully depicted. Starting from the original books of digital devil story, through shin megami tensei - even if it isn't too integral to smt lore -, and finally the best persona game: Persona 4. The divine creators Izanagi and Izanami were a requested topic for the smt lore series and I'm happy I could finally get around to it. This is also a summary of the Japanese creation myth as well and a short synopsis of Shintoism as a whole, but I couldn't stuff too much in the title of the video. Thanks for watching this Tony4You, have a good one