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「閻魔王」

The complete nitne kamuy is documented for a fierce or harmful deity. That supports a lexical comparison with 閻魔王, while the particular Buddhist identification remains the source’s gloss. The facsimile has a distinct extra sign after ニ, followed by ツ and a 子-shaped ネ; its angular shape also resembles ツ elsewhere on this page. Nitne does not account for every sign. Nitutune and nittune are literal spelling-based comparisons without lexical confirmation. The modern and biblical corpus senses do not settle the extra kana or identify the deity with the Buddhist judge of the dead.
Tamura 1996 s.v. nitne「①硬い、 コチコチである/になる。…」; Batchelor 1938 s.v. Nitne「adj. Hard. Tough. Stiff. Heavy as dough. Bad. Evil. Rotten.」, Nitne-kamui「n. The devil. Evil spirits. Syn: Iwendep. Nitnep.」, PDF p.328; Fukasawa 2016 p.88Source passage
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  1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 24, line 1 · ニツツネカモイ

    …亜人フーレシシヤム人シシヤム○シシヤモ共通竜神レフンカモイ閻魔王ニツツネカモイ阿弥陀如来コタンカラカモイ靺鞨レフングル西の蝦夷シユムグル東の蝦夷メナシグル東島々の蝦夷チユツプ…