He fathered the god of fishermen without incident, but his wife died while giving birth to the god of fire.  In a story mirroring the Orpheus myth, he goes down to the underworld to retrieve his wife,
He fathered the god of fishermen without incident, but his wife died while giving birth to the god of fire.  In a story mirroring the Orpheus myth, he goes down to the underworld to retrieve his wife, but when he looks back at his wife, she is already rotting and maggot-ridden, and he is disgusted by the sight.  Afterwards, he cleanses himself, creating the sun from his left eye and the moon from his right.  He had created the world, along with his companion, by plunging a jewel-studded spear into the ocean, a drop from which formed the first island of Japan.  FTP, name this Shinto god of the primordial sky, the husband and brother of Izanami.
He fathered the god of fishermen without incident, but his wife died while giving birth to the god of fire.  
{Izanagi}