Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi or also known has "Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi" (天叢雲剣, English Meaning; "Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven") or "Kurikara" or simply "Kusanagi" is a legendary Holy Sword or Holy Katana that was forged by God for the Archangel Raphael who placed it in the Eight-Headed,Six Tailed Japanese Dragon, Yamata no Orochi (八岐の大蛇?, literally "8-branched giant snake) who was slain by the Shinto Storm-God Susanoo who founded within the Orochi who gave it to his sister, Amaterasu.