Japanese Mythology
Enma
Underworld, judgment, karmic justice
In the Japanese Mythology table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, Enma answers to the number 8: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under Enma
Enma judges every soul that passes through the underworld with perfect, unsentimental justice. You carry his authority — the power to see truth clearly and to hold yourself and others to account.
Read the full profile of 8Birthdays Enma watches over
The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 8.
- 8
- 17
- 26
About the Japanese Mythology gods
The Kami of Shinto and Buddhist tradition inhabit every aspect of the natural world. From the radiant Amaterasu to the storm god Susanoo, your number reveals your spiritual guardian.
The same number in other traditions
- HadesGreek Mythology · Underworld, death, riches, judgment
- SetEgyptian Mythology · Chaos, storms, deserts, foreigners
- HelNorse Mythology · Death, the underworld, the dishonored
- CizinMayan Mythology · Earthquakes, death, rebirth
- SaturnRoman Mythology · Time, harvest, wealth, liberation
- NinurtaBabylonian Gods · Farming, hunting, healing, the plough
- HanumanHindu Deities · Strength, service, devotion, courage
- The DagdaCeltic Mythology · Abundance, the cauldron, the club, the harp
- ObatalaYoruba Orishas · Creation, purity, wisdom, peace
- MoranaSlavic Mythology · Winter, death, the turning year
- CaishenChinese Deities · Wealth, prosperity, trade, the lucky eight
- SupayInca Mythology · The underworld, the mines, death, wealth below
- VerethragnaPersian Gods · Victory, strength, the ten forms
- WākeaHawaiian Gods · The sky father, the chiefs, lineage
- RanginuiPolynesian Gods · The sky father, the heavens, grief as rain
- MictlantecuhtliAztec Gods · Death, the underworld, the bones, Mictlan
- EreshkigalSumerian Gods · The underworld, the great below, the dead
- MotPhoenician Gods · Death, drought, the dry season, the end
In the Vedic table the number 8 belongs to Lord Hanuman, through Saturn.
The other Japanese Mythology gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is Enma linked to the number 8?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and Enma holds 8 in the Japanese Mythology table.
- Is this a traditional Japanese Mythology belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.