Looking through the muddy waters, God found a fish and a serpent which could serve as models of husband and wife respectively.
God received their consent, tasted them to determine their natures, and bestowed each of them with a sacred name and a particular function in the human body and in the world.
After all of animals and their respective names and functions were settled, God consumed the rest of the loaches in the muddy ocean and made them the seeds of humans.
The third set grew to four inches, and their mother Izanami-no-Mikoto, believing that in time the children would grow to five feet, died contentedly.
In the end, she never approved any of the manuscripts, so her followers did not regard them as canonical in the same way as the scriptures – namely the Ofudesaki, Mikagura-uta, and Osashizu.
"[9] In the latter half of the twentieth century, scholars began to publish interpretations of the creation narrative based on various disciplines such as ethnology, cosmology, philosophy, comparative mythology, psychology, and biology.