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The Authentic Orthography

須佐之男命 Susanō

Storms, Sea, Chaos · Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto storm god

Tier 1 Susanō
Susanō — Storms, Sea, Chaos
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The Authentic Name

Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison

Original Script

須佐之男命

The name in its original Japanese form. Susanō (須佐之男命) is attested in the source tradition — “Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto storm god”. Its macron-length vowels carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

susanoo

Reduced to plain susanoo, the name loses everything that made it specific: macron-length vowels. What remains is an ASCII string that machines can parse but that no longer speaks with its original voice.

Unicode Restoration

Susanō

The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII flattened. Susanō restores macron-length vowels, returning the name to its original written dignity. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.

Punycode Encoding
Susanō.com → xn--susan-k9a.com

The non-ASCII characters in Susanō are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Susanō.

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Original Script & Provenance

How Susanō is preserved in writing

須佐之男命
Original Script

A bespoke provenance study for Susanō is being prepared by the PUNICODEX scholarly team.

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Name Variations

Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Susanō

Canonical Restoration

Susanō

Restores 須佐之男命. The full Unicode restoration. susanō.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.

ASCII Form

susanoo

Flattens 須佐之男命. The plain ASCII fallback — what DNS and legacy systems see.

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Pronunciation

How Susanō was spoken

/susanoo/ Japanese Reconstruction
S Initial character of the restored form Susanō.
usanō Remainder of the name, preserving the distinctive marks of the Japanese tradition.
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Storms

Storms, Sea, Chaos

Susanō belongs to the Japanese tradition, where it is associated with storms, sea, chaos.

Storms

The central domain of Susanō in the japanese tradition.

Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto s

The name signifies "Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto storm god".

Unicode Restoration

The restoration Susanō recovers what plain ASCII susanoo flattens.

Original Attestation

Attested in the sources as 須佐之男命.

Sacred Symbols

Restored Name The Unicode form Susanō carries the original marks of the Japanese tradition.
Source Script Attested in the original script as 須佐之男命.
Domain Storms, Sea, Chaos
Etymology Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto storm god
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Mythology

Stories of Susanō

The stories of Susanō circulate within the Japanese corpus, where the figure embodies storms, sea, chaos.

Sources

Primary Attestation

Susanō is attested in the canonical Japanese sources as a figure associated with storms, sea, chaos.

Etymology

Name and Meaning

The name means "Swift impetuous male deity; the Shinto storm god" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.

Go Deeper

Extended Lore

Susanō embodies storms, sea, chaos in the Japanese imagination. The name's restoration is not merely cosmetic: it recovers the stress, length, and script that make the figure recognizable in the source tradition.

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Susanō mascot