Draft:Homutsuwake no Mikoto

Homotsuwake no Mikoto (誉津別命), is the Son of Emperor Suinin, and Saho-hime.

Birth
In the Kojiki, his mother had not yet given birth. As she entered her brother's palace, labour began. The emperor was attempting to burn her brother's due to an assassination attempt, but ordered his guards turn around and let Saho-hime give birth. Eventually the empress gave birth and told Emperor Suinin, that if he considered the child his own he could take the child himself. Yet as the emperor goes to retrieve his wife and new born son, his wife runs away, the boy left behind. The boy is retrieved and taken away.

In the Nihon Shoki on the other hand, he is born before his mother goes into hiding at her brother's palace.

In both versions he wouldn't speak until he was 30 due to the shock of his mother's death.

The Nihon Shoki version
In both the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, there is one main myth that involves him.

By age 30 the prince did not speak and one day saw a swan, to which he finally spoke and said "what's this thing?"

In the Nihon Shoki the emperor is so happy and asks someone to retrieve the swan. A man named Yamanobe no Ohotaka volunteers. Yamanobe no Ohotaka retrieves the swan, and Homotsuwake no Mikoto finally speaks. The emperor grants Yamanobe no Ohotaka the title of Tottori no Miyakko.

Kojiki version
In the Kojiki, Yamanobe no Ohotaka follows the swan through about 10 provinces. The emperor believes if his son sees the bird, it will make him talk again, yet it doesn't. He dreams that a kami tells him, if he builds a shrine like his abode then the prince would speak. The emperor asks an Oracle the following day, to see what deity spoke to him. It is found out, the deity was Ōkuninushi, who had cursed the prince. The prince under the command of his father goes to a shrine to pray for Ōkuninushi, with a man named Aketatsu. They arrive to the shrine and pray before setting up a temporary palace for the prince on the River Hi. A man called Kihisatsumi then made a mountain adorned with green leaves and placed it downstream. Just before he presented food the food to the prince, he finally speaks. They inform the emperor who rejoices. The prince leaves to live in a palace in Ajimasa. Here he married Hinagahime for just a single night. He discovers that she turnt into a serpent and so he flees. She then pursues him up the river where he then flees up valleys in his boat towards Yamato.