Monday, August 29, 2011

We have been doing a little sight seeing these past few days.  Here, we visited a cave that the sun goddess Amaterasu hid in and caused night to fall across the world.  In order to lure her out, another goddess performed a dance so lewd that the sun goddess was forced to emerge to find out what was happening.  The dance, which I have not had a chace to see yet, is still performed in Takachiho today.  People who come visit the cave stack rocks for good luck.  There are thousands of stacks, it is really cool to look at!

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Fascinating origin myth. Wow, you went into a cave…

Into the Invisible World said...

Oh it wasn´t a very deep cave