Amaterasu and the Japanese Creation Myth - Mythillogical Podcast

So folks, it’s been a while! On today’s episode Crofty and Charles journey to the land of the rising sun, to examine the head of the Japanese pantheon and mythical ancestress of it's Imperial family, Amaterasu. Together they examine her earliest appearances in Japanese myth, along with wider theories as to her origin and evolving significance in Japan’s culture. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwFnHpDt-lZgR_7Sqisi6A/join Help support us elsewhere at: https://www.patreon.com/thehistocrat https://twitter.com/The_Histocrat https://bsky.app/profile/thehistocrat.bsky.social Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/ https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/ #Japan #mythology #history Suonatore di Liuto Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources for this episode included: The Kojiki – Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Donald L. Philippi 1969 https://archive.org/details/kojikitranslated00phil The Nihon Shoki/Nihongi – Translated by William George Aston 1896 https://archive.org/details/nihongichronicl00astogoog ‘Old Japanese names’ by Petter Maehlum (University of Oslo Masters Thesis) https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/43047/Maehlum-Master.pdf?sequence=1 The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, available on Sacred-Texts.com https://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/index.htm Sources of Japanese Tradition, by William De Barry, available on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/sourcesofjapanes00colu A History of the Japanese People, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, by Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi, available on Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27604/pg27604-images.html Origin and Growth of the Worship of Amaterasu, by Matsumae Takeshi The Origins of the Grand Shrine of Ise and