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Amaterasu Ōmikami (天照大御神, 天照大神), often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (大日孁貴神), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology.
Amaterasu-Ōmikami (天照大神), she is the goddess of the sun as well as the purported ancestress of the Imperial Household of Japan. Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven".
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the ...
The sun goddess Amaterasu's importance in Japanese mythology is two-fold. She is the sun, and one of Izanagi's most beloved of children, as well as the ancestor of the Japanese imperial line, according to legend.
A woman whose jealousy turned her into an evil spirit, associated with a particular bridge in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture. Heikegani Crabs with human faces on their shells, said to be the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura. Hibagon The Japanese version of Bigfoot or the Yeti, sighted on Mount Hiba in Hiroshima ...
Tsunoda [38] notes that "Pimiko is from an archaic Japanese title, himeko, meaning 'princess'"; that is, hime with the female name suffix -ko (子, "child"), viz. the uncommon given name Himeko. Other Amaterasu-related etymological proposals for the Japanese name Himiko involve hi (日, "sun") and miko (覡 or 巫女, "female shaman, shamaness ...
Izanami and Izanagi are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi and the storm god Susanoo. In mythology, she is the direct ancestor of the Japanese imperial family.
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