japanese roots

[den4]

older article from discovery magazine:
any new updates on this topic?
http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=1457

den4 :P

[Taro Toporific]

older article from discovery magazine:
any new updates on this topic?
http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=1457

TODAY is the Founding the Nation Day holiday when the all this fun(foon) started as described in Discovery magazine...

"on this topic?...
Japanese schools taught a myth of history based on the earliest recorded Japanese chronicles, which were written in the eighth century. They describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to Earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Ninigi's great-grandson Jimmu, aided by a dazzling sacred bird that rendered his enemies helpless, became the first emperor of Japan in 660 b.c. To fill the gap between 660 b.c. and the earliest historically documented Japanese monarchs, the chronicles invented 13 other equally fictitious emperors