Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?

• SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shinto’s Izanagi wasn’t really the “head god” I thought? From my understanding that was Amaterasu. Wikipedia agrees, for whatever that’s worth.

  Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan’s earliest literary texts, the Kojiki

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a little more complicated than that. Izanami and Izanagi both created a lot of gods together. They descended from the heavens and using a spear in the waters of creation, Izanagi created land. The both of them aren’t the original gods though.

    Izanami and Izanagi are the last of the seven generations of gods, the Kamiyonanayo. Before them came the Kotoamatsukami, all coming into existence in solitude in Takamanohara at the creation of the universe.

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a little more complicated than that.

      I’ve been interested in mythologies for a long time and in my experience this phrase literally always applies.

      But I didn’t actually know most of that, really interesting! Thank you.

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