Amaterasu · Chapter 2 of 6
The Weaving Hall
Order · Cultivation · The work of a sun
The sun's job, in this telling, is mostly administration.
Japanese mythology does not describe Amaterasu as a distant light. The Kojiki puts her in a working landscape: rice paddies laid out in heaven, irrigation kept up, a sacred hall where garments are woven. She rules by keeping things in order, and her authority is bound up with cultivation and craft rather than with force. That matters for what follows — when her brother arrives to wreck things, the damage is not cosmic. It is farmland, ditches and a loom, which is to say everything she actually does.
- Rice and water
- The loom
- Order maintained
Unlocks in-game at Mastery 2.
