Amaterasu is the supreme deity of the Japanese religion of Shintoism and the legendary ancestor of Japan's imperial family. The full name of this deity is Amaterasu Omikami. This means in Japanese the Great Spirit Illuminating the Heavens. In the two earliest scriptures of the history of Shintoism, Amaterasu’s origin differs. These two scriptures are the Nihon shoki and the Kojiki. Nihon shoki states that she was the child of Izanagi and Izanami, the first Shinto gods. The Kojiki states that Amaterasu was born from Izanagi’s left eye. Izanagi’s ritually washed his eye after going to hell and that is when she was born. She was sent to rule the heavens. ....

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