Myths of the sun, the sky and the heavens as a theatre of crisis: the Aztec Five Suns, the Shinto hiding of Amaterasu in the rock cave, the Chinese mending of the sky by Nuwa and the shooting of the ten suns by Houyi. A myth belongs here when its cited article describes a story of the sun, the sky or their repair. It excludes descent and founding myths. Examples in the atlas include The Five Suns.
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Amaterasu (Wikipedia)
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Amaterasu Ōmikami (天照大（御）神; Japanese pronunciation: [ä́.mä̀.tè̞.ɾä̀.sɨ̀ | ò̞ó̞.mʲí.kä̀.mʲì, ó̞ó̞.-]), often called Amaterasu ([ä́.mä̀.tè̞.ɾä̀.sɨ̀]) for short, also known as Amateru Kami (天照神) and Ōhirume no Muchi (大日孁貴), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology.
Five Suns (Wikipedia)
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In creation myths, the term "Five Suns" refers to the belief of certain Nahua cultures and Aztec peoples that the world has gone through five distinct cycles of creation and destruction, with the current era being the fifth.
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