Ōkuninushi

, originally known as , is a Divine Spirit from Japanese mythology.
==Profile==
===Background===
Ōkuninushi is the god of the night, the color black, boxes, snakes, and lord of the land of the dead.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 4 He is enshrined at Kanda-myōjin in Akihabara.Fate/Grand Order x Fate/Requiem Collaboration Event: Board Game Apocalypse - Section 2: The Lost "Reaper"
Oonamuchi is said to have merged with many other gods and eventually changed his name to Ōkuninushi, making him the equivalent of a High Servant as a living god. Legends say that Oonamuchi worked with Sukunabikona, a wise dwarf who came on a ship from beyond the sea, to build Japan. Oonamuchi got his start at building Japan by enduring hardships in the hellish afterlife Ne-no-Kuni until he became a full-fledged god.
He appears in the story of the .The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 2 Ōkuninushi's brothers once killed him by pressing him between two trees.
Stories of Set and Typhon were spread East by Iskandar's invasions, making its way to India, then China, and finally Japan. There is a shared mythological motif across many nations in which a snake battles a bovine, originating from Typhon battling Zeus. Ōkuninushi is the Japanese version of this.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 6
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===The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II===
Ōkuninushi is the god of the Yakou family, with one of his organs being kept safe by them in the modern day as a Divine Body. Ōkuninushi's syncretism with Typhon and Set becomes important when the Yakous try to have Akira Yakou, who has the Divine Body inside her, devour Bai Ruolong, who has Typhon within him.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Interlude
===Other appearances===
In Fate/Grand Order's Board Game Apocalypse event, Ōkuninushi is brought up by Da Vinci and EMIYA Alter as one of their theories for who Erice Utsumi could be a High Servant of. Summer Erice mentions Ōkuninushi by his alternate name when using her Noble Phantasm Ame-no-Kagaminofune.
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Category:Divine Spirits
Category:Japanese historical and mythological figures
Category:Characters in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II
Category:Introduced in 2022
Category:Snakes
Category:Underworlds
Category:Yakous