Kagutsuchi
the fire-child, flame that slew its mother
fireKagutsuchi was born as living fire and burned his mother to death in the birthing, and his own father cut him into eight mountains; to dream of him is to hold the grief of a gift that wounds the very hands that offer it.
Fragments
From his scattered blood sprang the gods of the mountains and the forge, so that even a fire that kills leaves smiths a way to shape the world.
The moment he drew breath he was already burning, and the mother who made him crumbled to ash and volcanic stone at the first cry of her son.
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