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Sun goddess Amaterasu emerges from a cave as gods dance around her and a bronze mirror reflects her radiant image, illuminating the land

The Mirror of Amaterasu’s Cave

In the age before the sun shone freely across the heavens, the world had fallen into a deep shadow. Amaterasu, the radiant sun goddess, had withdrawn into a celestial cave, leaving the land and its people in darkness. Her anger and sorrow were profound. The gods had quarreled among themselves, and the dissonance of the heavens had driven her to

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