The husband went back to Kyushu Island from the world of death, 黄泉国, Yomotsukuni. He baptized himself at the mouth of a river in 筑紫Tsukushi, today’s 福岡Fukuoka Prefecture.
There the 14 gods were born from his body. The last 3 were the goddess of Sun from his left eye, the god or goddess of Moon(classification of sex are not written) from his right eye, and the god of seas from his nose.
a story from Kojiki=古事記, the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712),
Photo, the goddess of Sun, by 春斎 年昌Shunsai Toshimasa, 1887
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