Astronomy and Japanese Myths

Astronomy and Japanese Mythology Throughout history, various cultures have shaped their beliefs and customs into astronomy. A culture with astronomical tradition is Japanese culture. I am half of Japan, so I would like to discuss some of the traditions of Japanese culture. Furthermore, I will explain how these ancient traditions and beliefs exist in contemporary Japanese society. I found some very nice websites, and I will use it to write my articles. The first website focuses on Japanese festivals and traditions, and how astronomy plays a role in Japanese festivals and traditions.

Japanese Myths and Legends There are many myths in Japan that Japanese culture regards as truth. For example, "You can distinguish person's personality from their blood type." Japan's creative myth started with brothers and sisters Izanagi and Isanani. They soaked the spear in the tumbling sea, and when they withdrew it, the water drops that fell in the water turned into Japanese islands. Next, the goddess of the sun, the god of the sun was created and sent to Heaven soon to rule the world. - Contrary to current prototypes including parentage relationships, the myths of Greece and Rome indicate that incest is considered socially acceptable at some point. Many Greek and Roman mythoses contain distorted relationships between parents and children. These distorted relationships can be divided into three different categories. Especially mothers and sons with strong bonds, parents threatened by children, betrayal to parents and children

Participating in Mr. Yamazaki 's reception class is a fascinating world of fairy tales and myths, including the whole world (including more), from creation myths in Ghana to Japanese folktales. From 9 am to 3:30 pm, the children were surrounded by trained teachers in golden mantle. Children are always telling stories with each other, their parents and class, and wonderful eloquence. When they left the reception, Mr. Yamazaki presumed that each child heard about 500 stories. Each story was rich in vocabulary and images.

The story of Eurydice is a lot of powerful universal between the myth of Japanese Izanagi and Izanami, the Mayan myths of Itzamna and Ixchel, the Indian myth of Savitri and Satyavan, the Akkad / Sumerian myth of innera underworld It has cultural similarity. From the Bible, the story of Lotto and his wife is also being compared spectacularly compared to "Orpheus and his wife, Odik 's story." The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is drawn in the works of Titians, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicholas Poussin, Corot, and recently the series Eurydice are exhibited at the Center Pompidou (Faceàl 'Histoire, 1996 ); The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (Kabinet, 1997) and the Royal Museum of Antwerp (Gorge (l), 2007). This story stimulated numerous works in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, art, feminism.