The Yomi episode is the tradition's account of mortality and it is told without consolation. Izanagi follows his wife into the land of darkness; she meets him at the door and says she has already eaten the food of that place but will negotiate, and asks him not to look at her. He waits, grows impatient, snaps a tooth from his comb and lights it, and sees her body covered in maggots with the eight thunder kami growing out of it. He runs. She sends the hags of Yomi, then the thunders, then fifteen hundred warriors after him, and he throws his headdress, which becomes grapes, and his comb, which becomes bamboo shoots, to delay them by making them stop and eat. At the pass he blocks the way with a boulder and they speak the words that end the marriage: she will kill a thousand people a day, and he answers that he will cause fifteen hundred to be born each day. It is a demographic settlement, not a redemption, and the story ends there. His subsequent washing produces Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susanoo.