· Amateras-Ohmikami, which means "the goddess who shines in the heavens," is the greatest Japanese god. She represents the sun, shining her daylight on the earth.
Her brother, the god Susanoh , was always terribly mean to her. One day he threw horse's hide into her temple. The temple maidens were sewing and a sharp sewing tool accidentally stabbed to death one of the maidens.
Angry, Amateras hid herself behind the big rock and the entire world lost went dark.
So the other gods made a plan to get her out from the rock. They had a big party in front of the rock, and Amateras was so curious that she asked them what was going on. One of the gods answered, "Another great goddess appeared and we're having a party for her."
When Amateras moved the rock slightly to see outside, one of the gods pulled her out from behind it and the daylight shone on the world again.
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One day, when Izanami gave birth to the god of fire, she died from the burns.
Izanaki felt he could not live without his wife, so he went to the underworld to see her.
When he saw her, she said,
"I already have eaten the food of the underworld, so I can't come back to you. But since you are here to see me, I'll ask the god of the underworld if I can go with you. You have to promise me one thing. Do not try to get a look at me until I come back here."
However, Izanaki could not wait and he went to the palace of the underworld. There he saw his wife's dreadful body with worms crawling all over it, and the terrifying gods of thunder.
Immediately Izanaki ran away and he used a big rock to block his wife from running after him. That is the rock which divides the underworld and this world. · There were more powerful gods in the heavens, but as his name "Ohkuni-nushi," or, "the lord of the land" suggests, he was the highest god of the land in ancient
pathway he went through water, and which the water gods would try to kill him.
and through the loss of her mother and enduring her abusive father, she ended up in a brothel where she met her husband. Through marrying him, she stuck by his side even through murder. That brought on committing murder herself and ended in her death.
The ancient underworld ruler stood upright and commenced, ‘the time is finally here. With my blood, I sacrifice, let this fight begin!’
Eventually weakened, she collapses to her knees. Finally looking up she sees her younger self before her, still looking frightened, but declaring herself no afraid, she tears off the fire crystal from her neck, throwing it at the “evil” queen, trapping her in the crystal, before losing consciousness.
When she approached the my statue she sighed happily and uttered, “My, this is a beautiful temple. It is a shame it is wasted on Athena for I obtain more beauty than her, perhaps one day people will build an even grander temple to my beauty.”
Hades then kidnapped Demeter's daughter and took her to the underworld where she ''was raped by Hades'' (Crivelli, Fact on file, 263) and forced to be his queen of the underworld. Demeter loved her daughter so much she left Olympian to seek her daughter. She searched for nine days and nine nights. She would not not sleep, she did not rest and she was in so much pain. All around the crops started dying due to Demeter was in sorrow because she could not find her daughter something she possibly cared for the most in the world. Demeter then gave up and "took form of a old woman near a Eleusis" (Wickersham, "Demeter"). The once the Queen Metanira and King Celeus insisted that Demeter where to stay with them and look after their son, she wanted to repay the king and queen for being so nice to her that ''she would give their son immortality but was interrupted and had to announce who she was'' (Wickersham, "Demeter"). Zeus became aware that ''Demeter would not restore the earth with crops with out her daughter and became fearful that all the human would die and their would be no one to worship him''
Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, later rose from the sea where Uranus's body had been thrown. Now Cronus became king of the universe. Cronos married his sister, Rhea, and they had six children. At the time of Cronos's marriage to Rhea, Gaea prophesied that one of his children would overthrow Cronos, as he had overthrown Uranus. To protect himself, Cronos swallowed each of his first five children -- Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon -- immediatly after birth.
Once her sister learns of her arrival she instructs, "As she enters, remove her royal garments. Let the holy priestess of heaven enter bowed low" (Descent of Inanna, 57). She is then stripped of all of the royal garments she was previously wearing, causing her to be naked. This nakedness, and the removal of her royal garments is symbolic of the vulnerability of death. Despite her royal stature, Inanna is stripped of such royalty to demonstrate that death does not play favorites. Furthermore, sharing blood with the queen of the Underworld does not spare her of the phenomenon of death. Ultimately, Inanna quickly learns that death does not stop to consider who a person is or what they have accomplished, instead it waits for each person with the same permanence and inevitability just the
Some gods were less powerful than others and they were know as local and minor gods
Agni: Agni is the god of fire and acceptor of sacrifices. He is also a messenger so the sacrifices will travel to other gods as well. He is immortal because a fire is lit everyday.
The goddess went back to her world up above, and she tried to become one with her element once more, yet her heart, oh her fickle little heart, yearned illogically and painfully for the cold man she had lived with in captivity. As the sunshine warmed her skin and the earth squashed under her and the sweet nectar of the holy rain fell on her tongue and her soul was returned to the fertile land she so carefully had cultivated at the beginning of Earth and the age of man, her heart became frigid. Her eyes became hard, her tongue once golden and fluid became silver and sharp. The heart yearns in a way that any mortal or immortal man finds peculiar, for the heart loves sometimes without
A goddess in ancient Mesopotamia is considered a woman who is of the highest ranking and deserves the highest respect to be considered by men (Thompson). Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, has a small, destructive role in the epic. She essentially lets all fire and brimstone loose, which leads to a battle with Enkidu and Gilgamesh, which in turn leads to Enkidu getting the death penalty from the gods, which sends Gilgamesh off to his failed quest for immortality (shmoop). One more
where she become unresponsive. The Gods also criticize her and put her down which makes her
The banshees long red hair whipped around her with the morning breeze, signifying the arrival of the sun. She would have to leave soon. No one was allowed see her.