Goddess Amaterasu O-Mi-Kami (Ama Terasu, Shinmei, Ten-sho-Ko-Daijin, O-Hiru-Me-No-Muchi) serves as a Hierarch of the Tenth Ray of Divine Illumination. The Sacred Site focal point of Hierarch Amaterasu is the Naiku Shrine at Ise Jingu, Ise, Japan.

Amaterasu was a highly revered Japanese Shinto sun goddess. The daughter of the Creator god Izanagi and goddess Izanami, Amaterasu was known as "She Who Shines in the Heavens", "Illustrious Goddess" and "Ruler of the Plain of Heaven", and the Japanese Imperial family was descended from her.

Written about in the Kojiki and Nihongi Japanese Sacred Texts, she has been revered since at least 300 ACE when the Naiku Shrine was constructed.

The principal kami of Shintoism, Amaterasu has been depicted in artistic paintings and sculptures. Honored at every family shrine, her primary shrine is the Ise Naiku Shrine at Ise Jingu, which is located at Ise-Jingue on Ise on the island of Honshu, Japan.

The tutelary goddess of the Emperor, Amaterasu created rice fields called "inada" where she cultivated rice.

Amaterasu also taught the people how to cultivate wheat and silkworms, as well as, how to weave with a loom.

Mirror Reflection of Shinto Goddess Amaterasu Emerging from a Cave

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The Sacred Site focal point of Hierarch Amaterasu and the Tenth Ray of Divine Illumination is Naiku Shrine at Ise Jingu, which is located at Ise-Jingue on Ise on the island of Honshu, Japan.

Hierarch Amaterasu shares her Sacred Site focal point with Hierarch Toyouke, a Hierarch of the Sixth Ray of Traditions Preservation; a group of Safeguard Omniangels, the Japan Ise Safeguard Omniangels; and, a group of Virtue Omniangels, the Japan Ise Virtue Omniangels.

Naiku, the Inner Shrine, is dedicated to Amaterasu as the sun goddess. Situated at the base of thickly forested hills, the wooden Naiku shrine was constructed around the third century in a uniquely Japanese structural design without any influences from mainland Asia.

Outside Naiku there are wide gravel lanes and lots of green trees. Inside the shrine, the body of goddess Amaterasu is represented by a mirror. In accord with Shinto traditions, Naiku is pulled down every twenty years and then rebuilt in its original form on an empty space located next to the shrine. In 2013, Naiku will be rebuilt for the sixty-second time.

There is an outer shrine at Ise Jingu located several kilometers from Naiku called the Geku Shrine. Established around the fifth century Geku is dedicated to goddess Toyouke, the Kami of clothing, food, and housing... Hierarchs Goddesses Gods of Twelve Universal Rays

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