Reading Notes: Japanese Mythology, Part A

Izanagi and Izanami

Story source: Romance of Old Japan, Part I: Mythology and Legendby E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917).

Original Source

Plot:

beginning of tie Izanagi god of heavens married Izanami goddess of love.

They gave birth to gods, worlds, men and beasts, and all creation. 


Before the beginning of time, there was a cloud. the cloud gave bud that turned into the sun as it rooted on the highest plain of heaven. there was a second bud that descended and turned into the moon. 

The two then made gods, the last of whom are Izanagi and Izanami (god of air and god of clouds)
**does that mean they are a god of 2 things each?**

From them, all creation came. 

One day they were chatting and decided to visit their creation. 

It took 2 tries but hey attatched a mountian to the bridge in heaven they were standing on and descended.

The took 2 different paths on earth but eventually bumped into each other. 

The woman spoke first and that was a problem so they did a do-over.

The second time the guy spoke first and got married on earth. 

Then they gave birth to the 8 great islands of Japan. 

They also gave birth to a bunch of deities that ruled over small stuff like rivers and mountains.

They then had 2 kids (Amaterasu and Susa-no-wo-no-mikoto) and called it all good. 

Thoughts:
    Man, I really have no idea what is going on with this one, to be honest. The language is super hard to follow without reading it aloud and the names are just strange sounding to me. Nevertheless, I think I got the gist but I don't think there is any way I could ever replicate this style of writing. 


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