deity
Amaterasu
The sun kami of the Kojiki’s imperial genealogy. She is a Japanese court myth’s sun, not the Egyptian Ra and not a generic solar principle.
Also known as Amaterasu Ōmikami
Shinto
Amaterasu represents Sun.
The Kojiki’s Amaterasu is the sun kami of an imperial genealogy. She is not Ra and not a generic solar principle.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Amaterasu appears in Kojiki.
The cave-hiding and the imperial sun lineage are Kojiki narrative. Philippi translates that compilation.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Amaterasu is sacred to Ise.
Ise Jingū is the shrine complex of Amaterasu. A Japanese imperial cult site, not Heliopolis.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Shinto contains Amaterasu.
Amaterasu is a kami of that tradition as the Kojiki tells it. Shinto is not a single parish.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Yata no Kagami is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki places the eight-span mirror among the treasures shown to Amaterasu to draw her from the rock-cave. A named mirror of that sun kami, not a generic mirror, and not Yata as a Yasakani flatten.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Yasakani no Magatama is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki places the curved jewel among the treasures of Amaterasu’s cave-return. A named jewel of that sun kami, not a generic magatama, and not the Yata mirror.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Silk is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki places silk-cloth weaving in Amaterasu’s heavenly weaving hall as her sacred work before the rock-cave crisis. Dedicated weaving fiber of that sun kami’s precinct, not a later shrine-souvenir silk and not Inari rice offerings.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Handloom is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki places the loom in Amaterasu’s heavenly weaving hall as the sun kami’s own working gear before Susanoo’s outrage. Dedicated loom of that precinct, not a generic household frame and not Yata as the mirror already walked.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Cave is sacred to Amaterasu.
The Kojiki seats Ama-no-Iwato as Amaterasu’s own heavenly rock-cave of withdrawal — the cave dedicated to that sun kami’s crisis and return. Sacred refuge of Amaterasu, not Hermes’ birth-cave and not cave→appears_in→shinto restated alone.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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sources
- Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.