Monday, April 11, 2011

The "afterlife"

k, so previously I had talked about their creation story, but there was more to it! So Izanami went to the land of hades. That's where I left off last time. But see, Izanagi didn't want to leave his wife yet. he didn't think that their creation of the island was yet complete, and he wanted her back so that they could continue to complete them. So he went to find her. Soon he found her amongst the shadows, but he could not see her face.
She told him that she couldn't come back, that she had already ate the food of the dead, so now she was one of them. However, she also told him that she would see what she could do, under one condition, that he would leave her be until she came back to him. He did, for a period of time. However, soon he wanted to see her again, so he went after her. furious, she told him that she hadn`t wanted him back here. Izanagi lit a torch and saw that Izanami`s body was rotting and had maggots climbing all over. Full of fear, he fled for the exit of the "underworld" and Izanami sent spirits after him. he made it to the exit, where he rolled a large boulder in front of it, seperating death and life forever.

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