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...beginning there was a namelessness with the beautiful shape of an egg. It divided, and became heaven and earth. And it divided again and became male and female. These in their turn begat Izanagi and Izanami, who begat the Sun Goddess, who had a great-great-grandson named Jimmu Tenno, who descended to rule the earth...
...Museum's opening concert she went through her routine with a pair of candles which, by order of the fire department, were enclosed in chimneys. In the darkened house Elsie Houston was something to see as she slapped a tom-tom, crooned incantations to Brazil's goddess Yemanga, to Ogum, the god of war, to Exu, the devil...
Methodist Bishop Yoshimune Abe let his words speak louder than silence. Bishop Abe, reported Harold Edward Fey in last week's Christian Century, regularly worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
...Genuine Japan Christian Church. Equally significant was the date which the Government set for the union: Oct. 17, the day on which Emperor Hirohito, himself considered a god by his subjects, dispatches a messenger to Ise to offer prayers at the shrine of his ancestress, Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess and founder of the Japanese Empire...
Konoye's strength is in his blood. He is a member of one of Japan's five oldest families. He is in fact descended from a god who sat in on the Heavenly Conference summoned by the Sun Goddess before she sent messengers down to create the Japanese Islands. His first human progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a prot...