1. Creation Stories from Around the World
... as he bathed. Three of these were ancestors of Japanese families. The last of the deities was a son, Susa-nš-wo, who became the deity of the sea. He was eventually exiled to earth for his behavior in the heavens, but he and his sister, the Goddess of the Sun, parented eight deities. Among these was the ancestor of Yamato family that ruled Japan, and two others were ... ancestors of nineteen of its highest families. When the deities had pacified the land, the Goddess of the Sun dispatched Japan's first ruler from the heavens to the ... earth. Descending from the Floating Bridge of Hea...
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- Approx Pages: 12
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- Grade Level: High School