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What is your favorite mythological figure (of ancient religions only)?

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu is quite interesting. As is the whole Shintō origin story.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicked_%2B_The_Divine

the tl, dr is that every 90 years a dozen young people become reincarnations of various ancient gods from all over the world. Amaterasu is one of these.

Fun book and worth a look