I recently received a surprise present from an art friend. It is a healing doll and I was given the task of finding her name.

Date:   12/7/2012 9:32:31 PM ( 12 y ago)

Healing Doll photo by LFIRE (c)2012

 

She is blue (feminine, intuitive) with white hair and skirt (wise one, purity).
She carries a deer skin medicine bag that contains a piece of California white sage, a shard of ancient pottery from Arizona, a piece of turquoise from Arizona and has a Ishi shell button from Maui to close the bag.
She wears a serape and I made her a headband out of the same material, so she wears the heavens and stars....Queen of the Universe!
I have been holding her, talking to her and listening to her already.
I kept asking her....what is your name?
Then I let it go.... it JUST HAPPENED (don’t you love that?) that I was running around on the Internet and "happened" across an article (don’t remember how I got there) about the Japanese sun goddess...named AMATERASU.
WOW! Right away I got chills...THIS IS IT!
The various descriptions were great!
Right away I "got"....AMA (love....also life), TERA (the earth, and all manifestation), SU= a substitute user (in computer use... in my view, I get to use her attributes and powers)

Then as I looked more into it I found:
Great Divinity illuminating heavens
Highest manifestation of the unseen
Transcendent yet immanent Spirit of the Universe
She is credited with the creation of rice cultivation, the use of silkworms, weaving, and looms. (In my view all forms of art and crafts)
Her birthday is July 17 but the myth says that when it gets dark and cold (winter) she hibernates in a cave and then (get this) on December 21 (Winter Solstice), she comes out of the cave bringing sunshine and new birth.
(Right on time, don’t you think?)

I will be having her activation and naming ceremony soon!



Read more about Amaterasu: "The idea of the sun as a goddess, instead of as a god, is rare and it may be a survival from the most archaic stage of world mythology. Amaterasu was seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the unseen, transcendent yet immanent, spirit of the universe. Her myths are the most important of the indigenous Japanese faith, Shinto, 'the way of the gods,' a set of ancient beliefs and observances which have remained comparatively unchanged over the past millennium, despite the importation of Confucianism and Buddhism." http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Amaterasu

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