Cult of Gods

Ame-no-Uzume

Japanese (Shinto) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
dawn dance, entertainment, joy
Symbols and attributes
Bell-tree; dance
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 'Sangoku ken', a 19th-century woodblock print.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 'Sangoku ken', a 19th-century woodblock print.

Key myth

She danced on an upturned tub before the cave of Amaterasu, and the laughter of the kami made the sun goddess look out. Her ritual dance is seen as the origin of kagura, shrine dance.

Primary sources

  • Kojiki, Book 1

All sources for the Japanese (Shinto) pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

IzanagiIzanamiAmaterasu ŌmikamiTsukuyomiSusanooKagutsuchiŌwatatsumiTakemikazuchiAme-no-UzumeŌkuninushiNinigiInari Ōkami

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Ame-no-Uzume: love, desire and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Egyptian

Hathor

love, music, joy

Hindu

Parvati

power (shakti), marriage, mountains

Hindu

Krishna

love, divine play, the Gita's teacher

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