Amaterasu
Publié le 22/02/2012
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SHINTO goddess associated with
the sun and believed to be the ancestress of the
Japanese imperial house. In mythology, she is
said to inhabit the High Plain of HEAVEN. There
she once hid in a heavenly cave as protest against
her brother Susanoo, a storm god, when he desecrated
her celebration of the harvest festival. She
was enticed out when another GODDESS did a comic
dance and the gods laughed uproariously, making
her curious. Amaterasu's primary place of WORSHIP
is the Grand Shrine of ISE, where her chief symbol,
an ancient mirror, is enshrined.