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Mythical oni have long been associated with thunder and lightning, and it's theorized that lightning gods, raijin, are just oni in another package (see the images of them in Wikipedia's [[wp:Raijin|Raijin article]]). As Noriko Reider's ''[https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDemonLore Japanese Demon Lore]'' states (p. 177), "For ancient and medieval Japanese cultures, […] oni were believed to be the very substance of thunder and lightning. Oni were the cause behind epidemics that killed people by the tens of thousands." Remind us again, who's our favorite epidemic-causing lightning god in Oni? | Mythical oni have long been associated with thunder and lightning, and it's theorized that lightning gods, raijin, are just oni in another package (see the images of them in Wikipedia's [[wp:Raijin|Raijin article]]). As Noriko Reider's ''[https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDemonLore Japanese Demon Lore]'' states (p. 177), "For ancient and medieval Japanese cultures, […] oni were believed to be the very substance of thunder and lightning. Oni were the cause behind epidemics that killed people by the tens of thousands." Remind us again, who's our favorite epidemic-causing lightning god in Oni? | ||