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since all things in nature are capable of bringing calamity in the right circumstance, gods are conceived of as having two souls, one nurturing and one destructive, so there's no purely good gods
but Amaterasu the goddes of the sun favors the japanese people because the nation was founded by one of her grandkids whose descendants went on to be the Japanese imperial family
Inari the ricer-bearer is the patron deity of agriculture and industry and he/she also tends to be almost always depicted in a benevolent light, to the point that kitsune, usually depicted as cruel tricksters, are depicted as much more amicable when being used as inari's messengers
then there's various guardian deities that protect the areas surrounding their shrines so long as their shrines are properly maintained and proper rites of respect and gratitude are observed.
There's eight hundred million gods, mind you, so I don't have time to run down the list of all of them.
