Raijin
the thunder-drummer, ringed in beating skins
airRaijin circles the sky with a ring of drums, and every strike he sounds becomes a bolt of lightning; to dream of him is to feel the loud, sudden power that clears a heavy air and leaves the world washed and startled awake.
Fragments
Wild-haired and grinning, he rides the black clouds with his mallets whirling, and children hide their navels lest the thunder-demon snatch them away.
When the drought cracks the fields, farmers pray for his temper to break, for his anger falls as rain and his laughter feeds the rice.
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