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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 9388135" data-attributes="member: 6803643">In many Indo-European traditions, the Sun is female, and represents the eye of the Sky Father God (her father Dyeus-Pater). Sometimes she's merged with the Goddess of Dawn (Eos/Aurora/Ushas/Uzume), or sometimes the Dawn Goddess is fused with the Goddess of the Heights (Berezaiti/Brighid/Burgundy/Brezh), or sometimes that deity is mixed with a sacred river goddess (Aredvi Sura Anahita/Saraswaiti). Also, some Japanese traditions fuse Susa-no-Oh with Hi-no-Kagu-Tsuchi aka Homosubi, reflecting his quarrelsome nature and role in messing things up for his family (such as later scaring Amaterasu into the cave). Interestingly, the Susa vs. Orochi Dragon myth and the Uzume dances to convince Amaterasu to come out of the cave myth are believed to either be grafts onto the Shinto traditions from Indo-European stories of the Chaoskampf and Ushas via the import of Buddhism, or else to be echoes of an earlier Paleo-Siberian mythology dating back like 20k-50k years that may have influences myths throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas (other tales that may fit this bill are the Raven/Crow steals the Sun for the Good of Humanity but burns his feathers black myth - that's one that very clearly appears in North American tales but also appears in European and Asian myths and folklore too). Or these could be coincidences that were noticed by earlier redactors who then combined the stories they know (grafting a NAME like Ushas -> Uzume onto an earlier Shinto Dawn Goddess due to similarities of stories). It's all very interesting, comparative mythology. I say this from an amateur scholarly perspective who also likes to use these types of stories in my games for my in-universe pantheons, but with the serial-numbers filed off a la the Gods of Theros instead of the Olympians or the Ten Realms of Kaldheim instead of the Nine Realms of Yggdrasil.</blockquote>

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