★安曇野・チャック・スパ朗★(Azumino・Chuck・sparrow)

April 8, 2014

前回の続き
Sequel to the last article.

彼女は言った。
She said.

大国主の兄達は嫉妬と復讐で彼を殺したのよ。
Okuninushi's brothers to killed him in revenge and jealousy.

彼の兄達は、山から猪が走りおりてくるから捕まえろと彼に言ったわ。
His brothers told him to catch a wild boar that would run down the mountain.



そして彼らは、熱した巨大な岩を猪に見立てて、大国主に向けて山から転がり落としたの。
Then they heated a huge rock that looked like a boar, and when it was red-hot, rolled it down the mountain to Okuninushi.

彼は責任感からそれを受け止め、燃えさかって死んだわ。」
He dutifully caught it, and was burned to death."

俺は思わずため息をついた。
I heaved sigh.

「人がいいのか、間抜けなのか…。(-_-;)」
I don't understand if he was a he sucker or silly.

彼女は続けた。
She continued the story.

「大国主の母親は神々に彼を生き返らせてくれるよう頼むと、結果、彼はそのようになったわ。
His mother asked the kamis to bring her son back to life and they did so.

またあるとき、兄たちは一本の木の中央に大国主を入れ、二つに割ってしまったわ。
On another occasion, the bad brothers split a tree down the middle, put Okuninushi in the split, and let it close on him.

もちろん、かれは死んだわ。
Of course, he was crushed to death.



そしてまた彼女の母親は神々に助けを求めると、神々はもう一度生き返らせたわ。」
Again, his mother asked the gods to help her, and they brought him back to life once more."

俺は苦笑した。
I made bitter smile.

「疑うということを知らんのか?(￣◇￣;)」
" He didn't know how to doubtfully?(￣◇￣;)"

彼女は答えた。
She answered.

「少なくとも、人に好かれる性格みたいね。だから生き返らせてもらえたのよ。」
" I think that he had an amiable disposition. So he was revived."

なるほど。
" I see. "

彼女は大国主の話を続けた。
She told continued O-kuni-nushi's story.

「それから大国主はスサノオの住む根の国を訪れたわ。
" Then O-kuni-nushi visited Nenokuni where Susanoo lived.



スサノオの娘、スセリ姫が宮殿から出てきたとき、彼女ははひと目で大国主が気に入ってしまったのよ。そして彼女は大国主と結婚して宮殿に戻り彼女の父親スサノオに言ったわ、
When princess Suseri, daughter of Susano, came out of the palace, she exchanged glances with O-kuni-nushi and, empathizing with him, she married him, then returned to the palace and said to her father,



『とても立派な神がやってきたのよ。お父さま。』
'A very respectable kami came here.(It was said O-kuni-nushi is one of the kami) '

スサノオは宮殿から出てきて大国主に会ったわ。
Susano came out of his palace to meet him.



スサノオはすぐに大国主を宮殿に向かい入れて、蛇がひしめく部屋で寝るよう彼に命じたわ。
He instantly invited him into the palace and had him sleep in a celler occupied by a snake.

大国主の妻スセリは、夫である大国主に蛇の比礼（ひれ：スカーフのようなもの）を授けて彼に言ったわ。
O-kuni-nushi's wife Suseri gave her husband a light cloth with which to keep the snake at bay and said to him,

『もし、蛇があなたを食べようとしたのなら、この布を3回振れば蛇たちは逃げていくわ。』
' If the snake tries to eat you, wave the cloth three times and drive it away. '

大国主が彼女の言うとおりにすると、蛇たちは静かになって彼は眠ることができ、無事に部屋を出られたのよ。
When he did as he was told, the snake naturally calmed down and so he could sleep in peace and leave the cellar safely.

次の日の夜、スサノオは大国主を違う部屋に入れたわ。そこはたくさんのムカデと蜂のすむ部屋だったの。
The following night Susanoo put him in another cellar where centipedes and bees lived.

もう一度スセリは大国主にムカデと蜂の比礼を授け、大国主は彼女の言うとおりにしたわ。
Once again Suseri gave her husband a light cloth to drive them away and told him to act as he had done before.

その結果、彼は再び無事にその部屋を出ることができたの。
Consequently he left the cellar safely once more.

次にスサノオは鳴鏑（なりかぶら：射ると大きな音響を発して飛ぶ矢）を草原に放ち、大国主にそれを取ってくるよう命じたの。
Next Susanoo fired an arrow named kabuyara out into the great field, and orderd O-kuni-nushi to look for it.

すぐに大国主は草原の中に入って行ったわ。するとスサノオは草原に日を放ったの。火は草原を取り囲んだわ。
As soon as O-kuni-nushi went into the field, Susanoo set fire to the field from its circumference.

大国主は火から逃れる術がなくなったわ。そんなとき一匹の野ネズミが現れて彼に言ったわ。
When O-kuni-nushi could not find the way to flee from fire and was at a loss what to do, a rat appeared and said,

『内はほらほら、外はすぶすぶ』
' The inside is hollow but the outside is solid. '

この意味を理解した大国主は草原の中心に行き、穴に落ちたの。
So he walked to the centre of the field and fell down a hole.

彼は穴に隠れていたわ、火が草原を焼き通り抜ける間中。
While he was hiding in the hole, fire burnt the surface of the ground and passed over him.

野ネズミは再び彼の元に姿を見せ、彼に何かを差し出したわ。
The rat appeared again with the arrow between its teeth and offered it to him.

それは彼が探していた鳴鏑だったのよ。
The feathers of the arrow had been torn off by the rat's young.

大国主の妻スセリは彼女の父スサノオだけが草原から帰ってきたのを知ると、彼女は大国主が死んだものと考えて、泣きながら大国主の葬儀の準備をしたわ。
O-kuni-nushi's wife came weeping with implements for the funeral, and her father came to the field and stood there thinking that O-kuni-nushi had died.

だけど、大国主はスサノオの命じた鳴鏑を持って再び姿を現したのよ。
But O-kuni-nushi appeared with the arrow and offered it to Susanoo.

スサノオは再び大国主を宮殿にいれると、スサノオの頭にいるシラミを取るよう命じたわ。
He took O-kuni-nushi back again to his palace, called him into a large cellar, and told him to get rid of lice on his head.

でも、スサノオの頭には大ムカデもたくさんいたのよ。
A great many centipedes were on his head.

その時、スセリ姫は大国主にムクの実と赤土を渡したわ。
At this time Suseri brought fruit of muku and red earth, and gave them to her husband.

大国主はムクの実を噛み、赤土を彼自身の口の周りに塗り、それらを彼の周りにばら撒いたわ。
He chewed the fruit, then put the red earth in his mouth and spat them both out.

スサノオは大国主がムカデを噛み千切って彼の周りにばら撒いているものだと思って、大国主のことをかわいい奴だと思い眠ってしまったわ。
Susanoo thought O-kuni-nushi had torn the centipedes off with his teeth and spat them out, and so, considering O-kuni-nushi to be of a gentle nature, he fell asleep.

スサノオが眠っている間に、大国主はスサノオの髪を宮殿の柱に縛りつけ、
While Susanoo was sleeping O-kuni-nushi grasped his hair and tied it to each of the pillars supporting the roof,

ドアの前に巨大な石を置き、出入り口をふさいだのよ。
then pushed a large rock to the door of the cellar and blocked it off.


大国主はスセリ姫を背負って、スサノオの宝物である魔法の長剣と魔法の弓矢をくすねて逃げ出したわ。
He took his wife up on his back, took Susanoo's treasures the long sword with a magical power, the bow and arrow with a magical power, and the holy koto (the japanese harp) and ran away.

大国主はスセリ姫の琴も持ち逃げしようとしたとき、琴が木に当たり音を立ててしまったわ。
When O-kuni-nushi was fleeing the koto knocked against a tree, producing a loud noise.

スサノオはその音で目を覚まし、飛び上がった拍子に柱を引き倒してしまったわ。
Susanoo was awakened by the noise, jumped to his feet, and pulled the pillars down.

だけど彼の髪は他の柱にもくくりつけてあったから、彼が体制を立て直してる間に大国主は逃げ去ったのよ。
While he was untying the hair knotted around the poles, O-kuni-nushi fled.

スサノオは彼の後を追ったわ、でも彼はすでに遠くに逃げてしまったのを見たスサノオは彼に大声で言ったわ。
Susanoo ran after him, saw him in the distance, and said to him in a loud voice,

『この野郎め！！よく聞け!! お前のたちの悪い兄たちを追いかけ、叩きのめしてやれ! お前が持っていった剣と弓矢で奴らを追い払え！大国主よ! 俺の娘スセリを正妻として迎え、空まで届く宮殿を建てそこに住むがいい！！　このクソヤロウめ!!』
'Your bastard !! Listen well !! Chase your brothers-in-law to defeat them! Go after them to the drive them away with the sword and the bow and arrow you have taken! O-kuni-nushi, make my daughter Suseri your legitimate wife, and live in the palace with rafters reaching high into the sky!! Son of a bitch !!'

そして大国主はスサノオの言ったとおりにしたのよ。
Then O-kuni-nushi did as he was told.

そしてヤガミ姫は白うさぎが予言したとおり、大国主と結婚したのよ。第一王妃ね。
Then Princess Yagami was married to O-kuni-nushi as the white rabbit had foretold.

でもヤガミ姫は出雲に来たのにもかかわらず、正妻のスセリ姫が怖くなって、赤ん坊を木の割れ目に残して因幡の国に帰ってしまったのよ。
Though she was taken to Izumo, she became afraid of Suseri, a legal wife of O-kuni-nushi, left her baby at the croth of tree, and went back to Inaba."

俺は彼女に言った。
I told to her.

「う～ん、俺が思うに大国主は英雄ではないな。特にこれといったこともしてないしな。彼は母親と彼の彼女に助けられた。彼の幸運にも。そしてネズミにも、彼が炎に囲まれたときに助けられている。う～ん、彼はただのプレイボーイだな。そう思わないか？」
"Well, I think O-kuni-nushi was not hero. Because he haven't done special things that much. He was helped by his mother and his girlfrend. Adding his luck, and also he was helped by a mouse too, when he was surrounded by frame. Umm, he was just only a playboy…. Do you think so?"

しかし、彼女は次のように答えた。
However she answered to me like this,

「ねえ！あんた！私はそうは思わないわ。だって大国主はカリスマチックキャラクターよ。彼はいつでも良いパートナーに恵まれていたわ。それは彼の人徳によるものなのよ。」
" Hey you! I don't think so you said, because O-kuni-nushi was charismatic character. He had good partner in him as always. It is his personality that could have make his suppoters. "

俺は答えた。
I answered,

「ふむ、なるほど。いかにも彼は日本人的キャラクターだと言えるな。」
"Hum, I see. I am sure and I can say that his personality is suitable for japanese. "

彼女は言った。
See said,

「そうよ、彼は正に日本の神だわ。彼の性格は優しく賢い、えーと、私は大国主はプレイボーイだってあなたに話したわよね？大国主が結婚した後どうなったと思う？」
" Yes, he is the Japanese kami. His calacter is gentle and clever, well, incidentally I told you that O-kuni-nushi was playboy. What do you think about after his marraige to O-kuninushi? "

「俺は知らんな。聞かせてくれ。俺は興味がある！」
" I don't know. please tell me the story. I am interested ! "

「いいわよ! それから大国主は越の国に行ったのよ。美しい姫に会うためにね。」
" Ok! Then O-kuni-nushi went to country of Koshi. Because his purpose was to meet to a beatiful princess. "

俺は言った。
I said,

「プレイボーイ伝説再び!」
" Legend of playboy again!"

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