noun
thunder; thunder god
Archaic word for thunder, often personified as a deity. In modern Japanese, 雷 (かみなり) is the standard term.
古事記には鳴神の話が出てくる。
Stories of the thunder god appear in the Kojiki.
「鳴神」は、かみなりを神格化した古い呼び
Narukami is an old name that deifies thunder.
Standard modern word for thunder. 鳴神 is its archaic, deified counterpart.
Compound of 鳴る (なる, 'to sound, to roar') and 神 (かみ, 'god'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word personifies thunder as a roaring deity.