Moreover, Yuuko Kunranishi says that explanation for the myth of Amaterasu-oomikami and Susanou-no-mikoto should be open to discussion. There is a plausible view that their confrontation and exile of the brother deity from Takamanohara would suggested not relation between two nations horizontally but between two spheres, religion and politics, vertically. If we base on this hypothesis, we may say that this relation between sibling deities should be the original form of the separation of religion and politics in Japan.
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2008年9 月 4日 (木)
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