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.
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.
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.
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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