Ama-terasu's Retreat into the Cave
The mythic episode in which the Sun Goddess withdraws and an assembly of gods draws her back into the light.
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SourceFour Sights
The encounters with age, illness, death and a mendicant that unsettle the prince’s protected life.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and CoomaraswamySourceGreat Departure of Siddhartha
The night journey that leaves palace, family and expected kingship behind.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
SourceKiyo and the Temple Bell
A rejected lover becomes a dragon-serpent and destroys the bell sheltering a priest in Davis’s tale of passion and karma.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)SourceThe Maiden of Unai
Two indistinguishable suitors, an inconclusive contest and a rivalry continuing after death form Davis’s tragic Unai legend.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)Showing 5 of 5 entries