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A Fictional Creation Myth Based on the Japanese Shinto Religion

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A long time ago, on a continent far, far away there were two gods. Their names were Izanagi and Izanami. They were the first gods. They decided they were lonely with only each other, so they created another. His name was Amaterasu. Hey was the god of the sun. Soon he and Izanami fell in love, and they created the god of storms and moon. Their names were Susanowo and Tsuki- Yumi. They were the perfect couple.

Over a long period of time, many more gods were created such as, Grandson, Ninigi, Jimmu, Hironhito, Gama, Ryujin, and Kojin. Everything was fine. Then the sun god wanted something other than plants and animals to live on earth. The gods Izanagi and Izanami, the most powerful of the gods, agreed. The moon god Tsuki- Yumi disagreed with this arrangement. So they decided to go to war.

Tsuki-Yumi knew he didn t stand a chance alone, so he went to earth. He had heard of some cheerful old stag named Gama, that hangs out at a bar. So he went to the bar, and there were many gods there. Their names were Gama, Grandson, Ninigi, Jimmu, Hironhito, Ryujin, and Kojo. Tsuki-Yumi gathered all these gods and felt ready to go and battle Izanagi, Izabanu and Amaterasu.

So all the gods prepared weapons for war out in space. They got into position and yelled for the more powerful elder gods. They came and little did Tsuki-Yumi and the rest of the gods know that the elder gods had a secret weapon formation.

It was like this, Amaterasu stands behind the sun and Izanagi and Izanami on either side of it. Izanami and Izanagi push the sun towards each other and it blows up, then Amaterasu smashes into the back of it and a beam shot out of it and blew the other gods up into many little white glowing dots in space. That is how there became stars in space. Then the elder gods created man. All was happy from then on.

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