National / History | THE LIVING PAST Nov 16, 2019
Gazing in wonder at the many faces of the moon
by Michael Hoffman
Why do the sun and the moon see so little of each other? Their quarrel, explains the eighth-century chronicle "Nihon Shoki," was one between siblings. Amaterasu, the sun goddess, was born of their father's left eye; Tsukiyomi, the moon god, of his right eye. ...