sun goddess

Definitions

1. 1

   A female sun god.

   • The places people stayed in had small, simple rooms, affordable to the working class. It was only the outside walls that fought off the Great Depression blues. Mermaids swam in the etched glass and sun goddesses smiled in the bas-relief.
   • Why, every 20 years, does Japan rebuild its most sacred shrine, uprooting the sun goddess Amaterasu from her old sanctum and resettling her in a new one?

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