day-maker

Updated: April 30, 2025

For all the population are saluting the rising sun, O-Hi-San, the Lady of Fire Ama-terasu-oho-mi-Kami, the Lady of the Great Light. 'Konnichi-Sama! Hail this day to thee, divinest Day-Maker! Thanks unutterable unto thee, for this thy sweet light, making beautiful the world! So, doubt-less, the thought, if not the utterance, of countless hearts.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series

I told them the story: Phaethon was a son of Helius, and when he grew up came to his father and asked if he might drive his car, and be the day-maker just that once. His father consented, but he was thrown out and killed, and his mourning sisters 'in this land of yours, I said, 'where he fell on the Eridanus, turned into poplars, and still weep amber for him.

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