from-heaven-shining-great-deity

Updated: May 7, 2025

In the prayers offered to the sun-goddess for harvest, and in thanksgiving to her for bestowing dominion over land and sea upon her descendant the Mikado, occurs the following passage: I declare in the great presence of the From-Heaven-Shining-Great-DEITY who sits in Isé.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji