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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