So folks, it’s been a while! On today’s episode Crofty and Charles journey to the land of the rising sun, to examine the head of the Japanese pantheon and mythical ancestress of it's Imperial family, Amaterasu. Together they examine her earliest appearances in Japanese myth, along with wider theories as to her origin and evolving significance in Japan’s culture.

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Suonatore di Liuto Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources for this episode included:

The Kojiki – Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Donald L. Philippi 1969
https://archive.org/details/kojikitra...

The Nihon Shoki/Nihongi – Translated by William George Aston 1896
https://archive.org/details/nihongich...

‘Old Japanese names’ by Petter Maehlum (University of Oslo Masters Thesis)
https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/hand...

The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, available on Sacred-Texts.com
https://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/index...

Sources of Japanese Tradition, by William De Barry, available on Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/sourcesof...

A History of the Japanese People, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, by Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi, available on Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...

Origin and Growth of the Worship of Amaterasu, by Matsumae Takeshi

The Origins of the Grand Shrine of Ise and the Cult of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omimaki, by Akima Toshio
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177580

Alone Among Women: A comparative mythic analysis of the development of Amaterasu theology, by Matsumura Kazuo
https://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp...

A brief exploration of the development of the Japanese writing system, by Brianna Jilson
https://scholarsarchive.library.alban...