Amaterasu

/ɑːmətɛɹˈɑːsuː/ name

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  1. 1
    The Japanese sun goddess, and most important Shinto deity; she is the daughter of Izanagi and Izanami and the sister of Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi, and Kagutsuchi. Japanese
  2. 2
    The Sun itself. poetic

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cultural symbolgoddess of the sunimperial symbolnational emblemshinto goddesssun goddess

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 天照 (Amaterasu), from 天 (ama, “sky, the heavens”) + 照らす (terasu, “to illuminate something”).

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