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Goddesses Amaterasu & Uzume
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Amaterasu, Goddess of the Sun in
Japan, is the divine ancestor of the Japanese imperial family, the daughter of
the supreme Japanese deity who, in Japanese mythology, had created the world.
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| In Japanese mythology Amaterasu was a beautiful and
compassionate goddess who ruled the sun and the heavenly fields of rice that fed the
Japanese people. Uzume was a lesser goddess, responsible for laughter,
revelry, and the ancient practice of drumming. |
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Amaterasu, depressed and grieving over
an attack by her violent and angry brother, crept away to a dark cave in the
mountains and refused to return to the heavens. Without her sun, the crops refused
to grow and the world was threatened with famine.
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| The goddess Amaterasu and the goddess
Uzume (who brought her out of her deep depression) are heroines in Japanese myths that
parallel the story of Demeter and the maidservant Baubo in Greek mythology. |
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