>>17910276
Amaterasu is really Venus, NOT the Sun. Its why her name does not share any with the actual Sun nor year (unlike Tsukuyomi with tsuki/month).
Her red colors are a reference to the dawn, and her hiding in the cave references when the planet disappears from the sky for a while throughout the year.

>>17907638
I propose that Amaterasu is NOT in fact the Sun goddess, but Venus with delusions of grandeur.

I doubt she is a Sun god at all. She definitely embodies Venus. Including the whole getting inside the cave for several days, just like Venus doesn't show up for some time, until it reemerges.

Also, her reddish colors are associated to the reddish color of the dawn, not the actual Sun.

>In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat.[14] " Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star". Earlier spellings of the name were written with the cuneiform sign si4 (= SU, meaning "to be red"), and the original meaning may have been "divine lady of the redness of heaven", in reference to the color of the morning and evening sky.

I doubt she is a Sun god at all. She definitely embodies Venus. Including the whole getting inside the cave for several days, just like Venus doesn't show up for some time, until it reemerges.

Also, her reddish colors are associated to the reddish color of the dawn, not the actual Sun.

>In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat.[14] " Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star". Earlier spellings of the name were written with the cuneiform sign si4 (= SU, meaning "to be red"), and the original meaning may have been "divine lady of the redness of heaven", in reference to the color of the morning and evening sky.

I propose that Amaterasu is NOT in fact the Sun goddess, but Venus with delusions of grandeur.

I doubt she is a Sun god at all. She definitely embodies Venus. Including the whole getting inside the cave for several days, just like Venus doesn't show up for some time, until it reemerges.

Also, her reddish colors are associated to the reddish color of the dawn, not the actual Sun.

>In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat.[14] " Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star". Earlier spellings of the name were written with the cuneiform sign si4 (= SU, meaning "to be red"), and the original meaning may have been "divine lady of the redness of heaven", in reference to the color of the morning and evening sky.

I propose that Amaterasu is NOT in fact the Sun goddess, but Venus with delusions of grandeur.

>>17908174
>accidentally knocking down a candle at her shrine -- he was completely innocent!
That's exactly the kind of behavior that women who suddenly gain a lot of power would do. She behaves just like Ishtar.

I doubt she is a Sun god at all. She definitely embodies Venus. Including the whole getting inside the cave for several days, just like Venus doesn't show up for some time, until it reemerges.

Also, her reddish colors are associated to the reddish color of the dawn, not the actual Sun.

>In the Old Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat.[14] " Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven", which refers to Venus as the brightest visible "star". Earlier spellings of the name were written with the cuneiform sign si4 (= SU, meaning "to be red"), and the original meaning may have been "divine lady of the redness of heaven", in reference to the color of the morning and evening sky.

I propose that Amaterasu is NOT in fact the Sun goddess, but Venus with delusions of grandeur.