In Tenrikyo, God is a single divine being and creator of the entire universe. God in Tenrikyo is most commonly referred to as Oyagami (??) , Tenri-O-no-Mikoto (????) , and Tsukihi (??) .

The first two characters in the Japanese kanji for Tenri-O-no-Mikoto are ??, where ? refers to heaven or divinity, and ? refers to reason or knowledge, thus "Tenri" (??) refers to divine or heavenly knowledge,