Considering a Japanese religious custom that shrine maidens have not been permitted to be married with any male, Yuuko Kuranishi proposes another plausible interpretation about the result of the Ukehii that Amaterasu-oomikami should like to adopt the children of her brother, Susanou-no-mikoto. Furthermore, this adoption would have been a way of integration between these two ancient nations. Indeed there has been a conventional system in Japan that one of unmarried daughter of the Tennow serves faithfully Amaterasu-oomikami as a highest shrine maiden called Saigu in the Ise Shrine.
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2008年8 月24日 (日)
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