The deities known as araburu kami, malevolent deities, in japanese mytohology have previosly been interpreted as deities of transportation.By employing the structurelist meethodology pf French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, this paper explores the meaning of these myths that appear in fudoki in a way in which they have not been approached before, and the result is a new interpretation. In sfort, araburu kami are the \u27wild sprits\u27 of female river seities that are pacifes by irribgation and flood control works carried out by the ruling elite or Korean immigrants. The hidden \u27message\u27 of these myths is that Korean technology, i.e.\u27culture\u27, triumpth over Japanese \u27nature\u27
