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I've been playing maimai, the Japanese arcade rhythm game for a while. It
offers a song named **天火明命** , which a few of my friends pronounce as 'ten-ka-
mei-mei'.

However, [the official Twitter account of the game specifies it as 'a-me-no-
ho-a-ka-ri'](https://twitter.com/maimai_official/status/866490300448989184) (
**あめのほあかり** ), which confuses me.

So what's the right way to pronounce the name? Is the "official" pronunciation
simply the author's preference, or has actually been used in the past?
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kanji readings multiple-readings
Is 天火明命 read as 'ten-ka-mei-mei'?
天火明命 is the name of a god in ancient Japanese mythology. 天 = あめ, 火 = ほ, 明 =
あかり. (の is a particle; 命 (みこと) is a kind of suffix for deities.) See [this
Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenohoakari) for details.

The kanji of [god names in Japanese
mythology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_deities) are
generally based on kun-yomi, ateji or jukujikun, because they existed before
Japanese people learned kanji and their on-yomi from China. See also: [Why is
"Yamata no Orochi" written in
katakana?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/13788/5010)
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