Ame-no-Uzume
| Ame-no-Uzume | |
|---|---|
| Goddess of the Dawn, meditation, and the arts | |
| The statue of Ame-no-Uzume at Amanoiwato-jinja | |
| Consort | Sarutahiko Ōkami | 
| Equivalents | |
| Greek | Eos | 
| Hindu | Ushas | 
| Roman | Aurora | 
| Nuristani | Disani | 
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| Shinto | 
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Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (Japanese: 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命) is the goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts in the Shinto religion of Japan, and the wife of fellow-god Sarutahiko Ōkami. (-no-Mikoto is a common honorific appended to the names of Japanese gods; it may be understood as similar to the English honorific 'the Great'.) She famously helped draw out the missing sun deity, Amaterasu Omikami, when she had hidden herself in a cave. Her name can also be pronounced as Ama-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto. She is also known as Ōmiyanome-no-Ōkami, an inari kami possibly due to her relationship with her husband. She is also known as Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, The Great Persuader, and The Heavenly Alarming Female. She is depicted in kyōgen farce as Okame, a woman who revels in her sensuality.