Agatamori

Region: Japan, Shinto
Time Period:
References in Literature: Nihongi
Sources: Python, pg 503

“The Shinto Nihongi … a watersnake held the forks of a river and preyed upon the travellers who passed that way; the hero Agatamori gave the dragon a test to determine whether or not he should spare the dragons’s life; the dragon failed and Agatamori killed him and his companions, whom he sought out in a cave at the river bottom.”