1. Creation Stories from Around the World
... 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 Heaven to the mountain tops, he built his palace. Eventually he met a beautiful young woman, Princess Brilliant Blossoms, and asked her to marry him ... . Alatangana returned home, and eventually his children went off to found the peoples of the world, the French, the English, and the other European peoples, and the Kono, th...
- Word Count: 3045
- Approx Pages: 12
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School