Orpheus: Myths of the World: Japanese: The First People

THE FIRST PEOPLE

There were clouds and mists; there were divine generations who came and who passed away, leaving only him who was The-Lord-in-the-centre-of-the-Heavens and the august God and Goddess who stood each side of him. And then were produced Izana-gi and Izana-mi, the

He went out of the cave and he bathed in a stream that flowed by it. He washed off the pollution that came from what he had touched