Amaterasu
c. 600 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ise, Japan
- Japanese
Sun goddess who hid in a cave after a quarrel with her brother and had to be lured out with a mirror and indecent dancing. The Japanese imperial line claims descent from her.
Known for
- the cave and the mirror
- ancestor of emperors
- the sun as a woman
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.