bow, gesture made by bending at the waist

intricacy, complication

maelstrom, large whirlpool

(Japanese mythology) the spear that 伊弉諾 (Izanagi) and 伊弉冉 (Izanami) used to stir the sea and create 磤馭慮島 (Onogorojima, “Onogoro Island”)