Editing Amaterasu (section)

====Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi====
One of the variant legends in the ''Shoki'' relates that Amaterasu ordered her sibling Tsukuyomi to go down to the terrestrial world ([[Ashihara no Nakatsukuni|Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni]], the "Central Land of Reed-Plains") and visit the goddess [[Ukemochi]]. When Ukemochi [[Dema Deity|vomited foodstuffs out of her mouth]] and presented them to Tsukuyomi at a banquet, a disgusted and offended Tsukuyomi slew her and went back to Takamagahara. This act upset Amaterasu, causing her to split away from Tsukuyomi, thus separating night from day.

Amaterasu then sent another god, Ame-no-Kumahito ({{Lang|ja|天熊人}}), who found various food-crops and animals emerging from Ukemochi's corpse.

{{blockquote|On the crown of her head there had been produced the [[ox]] and the [[horse]]; on the top of her forehead there had been produced [[millet]]; over her eyebrows there had been produced the [[silkworm]]; within her eyes there had been produced [[Panicum|panic]]; in her belly there had been produced [[rice]]; in her genitals there had been produced [[wheat]], large beans and small beans.<ref name="Aston32-33">{{cite wikisource |author-first= William George |author-last= Aston |chapter= Book I |wslink= Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 |plaintitle= Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 |year= 1896 |publisher= Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.|wspage=32-33}}</ref>}}

Amaterasu had the grains collected and sown for humanity's use and, putting the silkworms in her mouth, reeled thread from them. From this began [[agriculture]] and [[sericulture]].<ref name="Aston32-33"/><ref name="Roberts 110">{{cite book| last = Roberts| first = Jeremy| title = Japanese Mythology A To Z| location = New York| publisher = [[Chelsea House Publishers]]| year = 2010| edition = 2nd| url = http://www.enryo.ro/carti/Japanese%20mythology%20A%20to%20Z.pdf| isbn = 978-1604134353| access-date = 2012-04-04| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171119221829/http://www.enryo.ro/carti/Japanese%20mythology%20A%20to%20Z.pdf| archive-date = 2017-11-19| url-status = dead}}</ref>

This account is not found in the ''Kojiki'', where a similar story is instead told of Susanoo and the goddess [[Ōgetsuhime]].<ref name="ChamberlainXVII">Chamberlain (1882). [http://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj024.htm Section XVII.—The August Expulsion of His-Impetuous-Male-Augustness.]</ref>