Yasakani Sacred Jewel (Artist)

 

The Yasaka Magatama also known as the The Eight Slopes Curved Jewel, is one of the Three Holy Regalia, Three holy weapons imbued with Azoth.

Abilities
This sacred weapon has the ability to exorcise any impurities near or inside the user. It wards off evil energies and boosts the magic abilities of White Mages. In addition to this a user can unbind spirits from spirit weapons and protected shrines/locations. It also allows a user to help lost souls and ghosts to pass on. In addition to these abilities it can grant a user immunity to Exorcism Magic and Curses and nullify them completely. It also can form a fishnet armor made of the White Mage's magic energy that can nullify any form of Curse or Magic.

Origins
The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki have numerous references to magatama. They appear in the first chapter of the Nihon Shoki, which largely describes the mythology of Japan. Susanoo, god of the sea and storms, received five hundred magatama from Tamanoya no mikoto, or Ame-no-Futodama-no-mikoto, the jewel-making deity. Susanoo went to heaven and presented them to his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, who bit off successive parts of the magatama, and blew them away to create other deities. Tamanoya no mikoto remains the kami god of magatama, glasses, and cameras. In the legend Amaterasu later shuts herself in a cave. Ama-no-Koyane-no-mikoto hung magatama, among other objects, on a five hundred-branch sakaki tree, to successfully lure Amaterasu from the cave.