Saturday, October 18, 2014
Tsukigata Shrine
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Thanks for this. It's always struck me as most suspicious that Tsukiyomi gets written out of the mythology. Why should this be, given the obvious yin-yang sibling combination of sun and moon? Could it be that the original Tsukiyomi was a reference to a non-Yamato prince, perhaps...?
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