Naming Original Gods/Coming Up With The Least Cringy of Weeb Names

>>55345134
Use car names.
Takoma, Durango, Honda, Tsuru, Volvo, etc

Kinzoku Kōgyō Yūgen

any or all of these sound awesome and pretty devine

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Why is Hiyorimeiyo a cute foxgirl?

We don't have a few decades to teach you both Japanese and how Shinto works, so I'll just note two things:
- Gods which aren't deified figures are the personification of some specific thing, and thus while their portfolio may figure in their name they aren't named completely -after- it. Amaterasu is the sun goddess, but she isn't named "Sun", she's named "Shines-in-Heavens". Hachiman is the god of soldiers, but he isn't named "Warrior", he's named "Eight Banners". Omoikane is the god of wisdom, but he isn't named "Smart", he's named "Many-Thoughts".
Needless to say, deified humans aren't named after their portfolio either.
- Most of your short, punchy two-syllable name fragments are Chinese.

On the plus side, you can't possibly do worse than the Pathfinder team, who managed to name one of her servants Empress Amatatsu (Male).

>>55345134
>>55349403
Going by what you said, may I suggest "Caretaker of dawn"? The relation with the sun is obvious, and caretaker implies dedication.
The "sword" and "honor" elements are bit weak here, but maybe you can tweak it a bit?

>>55349212
> Japanese god
> Named after the Latin for "I move".

>>55345134
Why don't you just give your deities descriptive titles rather than names? In any pantheon.

>>55345134
You're basically never going to make a really, truly good Japanese name without actually knowing Japanese. Especially for deities. So your best best is to cheat. Take the naming convention that >>55349403 lays out and just use it in English, maybe with titles like Lord or Princess or He/She Of thrown in when necessary. Your sun goddess becomes The Princess who Shines in Heaven, for instance.

>>55350038
I was struggling for the English word, but yeah. A catchy epithet is best for a relatively major deity.

Titles are definitely okay, there's a whole hierarchy with several competing translation styles (as befits a pantheon who are in large part conflated with pre-settled-historic nobility.)

>>55349403
Amatatsu is a surname in Pathfinder.

>>55350038
It isn't like you can understand the Japanese deities names even if you speak Japanese, even native speakers often need the ruby text to properly pronounce and understand the kanji.

>>55350543
And Onoko is "boy" in Japanese.

>>55350635
And?

>>55350711
So the name comes out as Amatatsu (Male) and it's pretty hilariously bad. Even before the separate "what elementary school dropout approved this" garbage of any imperial, east or west, keeping a surname.

>>55345134
>>55349403
Could play up gold, gleaming swords or mirrors, waves (as in the patterns on swords), dragons or carp (goldfish?). Also the idea of the sky being an ocean.

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>>55345134
I made a God of nature for a setting (that I haven't used yet). His name is Abbydarr and his realm is a giant pine forests with a huge castle in the middle of it

>>55350762
In their defense it's easy to live your entire life in a country with no history of monarchy and not realize that royalty doesn't have surnames. I know for a fact that a sentence to the effect of "Wait, does the Queen [of Britain] even have a last name?" passed my lips this year.

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Just use this my man
http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/

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>>55351397
>http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
pls no

pic related: my first roll on it
tl note: the first one is literally Japanese for "newfag", not even making this up

>>55351683
It's better for non-jap names I guess. I never use it for anything like that.