Ame-no-Uzume · Chapter 2 of 4
The Cave
The dance · Laughter · A door opened
The plan was not to open the door. It was to be worth looking at.
Japanese mythology describes the sun withdrawn into a cave and the world gone dark, with eight hundred kami unable to shift a stone door. Uzume turns a tub over, stamps on it until the sound carries, works herself into a trance and pulls her clothing loose, and the assembly's laughter is loud enough to shake heaven. That laughter is the mechanism. Amaterasu, hearing delight in a world she has darkened, opens the door to ask what could possibly be funny, and that is enough.
- A tub and a stamp
- Laughter as a lever
- The light returns
Unlocks in-game at Mastery 3.
