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須佐之男 (Susanoo): a scene from a 神楽(kagura) play where Susanoo slays Orochi, the eight-headed serpent.
Etymology
Uncertain, with many possible derivations. One of the more compelling explanations is that this is a compound of すさ(susa, “roughness, wildness”, root word unattested in isolation, but found in terms such as 凄まじい(susamajii, “terrible, dreadful”) or 荒む(susamu, “to be wild, to be savage”)) + の(no, possessive particle) + 男(o, “man”). In this case, 須佐(Susa) would be ateji (当て字).
Another theory is that this may be a compound of 須佐(Susa, name of a place in Japan, where the god is supposed to have first touched earth) + の(no, possessive particle) + 男(o, “man”).
^ 神道の本：八百万の神々がつどう秘教的祭祀の世界 (Shintō no Hon: Happyaku-man no Kamigami ga Tsudou Hikyōteki Saishi no Sekai, “The Shintō Book: The World of Esoteric Rituals, Crowded with 8 Million Gods”, in Japanese), Gakken, Tōkyō, 1992; →ISBN: http://books.google.com/books?id=mWxrmgEACAAJ
