Amaterasu: Light of the Heavens

Almost every sun god in human history has been male. Japan's is a woman. Amaterasu Ōmikami, the sun goddess at the heart of Shinto, is one of the very few female suns in world mythology, and the one whose worship still endures today. For more than a thousand years she has been honored as the divine ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, the world's oldest continuous monarchy. Her story runs fro...