Is Amaterasu dead?

Victory came at a price, however: Amaterasu had been poisoned by Orochi and was slowly but surely dying. Nagi carried the dying goddess back to the village. The village elder patted Amaterasu on the head as a sign of forgiveness and affection. Amaterasu then took her last breath and passed away.
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Who killed Amaterasu?

One of Amaterasu's weaving maidens was alarmed and struck her genitals against a weaving shuttle, killing her. In response, a furious Amaterasu shut herself inside the Ame-no-Iwayato (天岩屋戸, "Heavenly Rock-Cave Door", also known as Ama-no-Iwato), plunging heaven and earth into total darkness.
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What happened to Amaterasu?

Amaterasu is the highest deity in Japanese mythology. In the most famous legend about her, she shuts herself away in a cave, bringing disasters to both the world and heaven.
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Is Amaterasu still Worshipped?

Worship of Amaterasu

The cult of Amaterasu came to Isé in approximately the fourth century C.E., during the reing of Emperor Suinin. Following a longstanding Shinto tradition, the Inner Shrine at Isé has been rebuilt every twenty years since the 690s, so that it is continually pure and new.
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Where is Amaterasu?

Amaterasu's chief place of worship is the Grand Shrine of Ise, the foremost Shintō shrine in Japan. She is manifested there in a mirror that is one of the three Imperial Treasures of Japan (the other two being a jeweled necklace and a sword).
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How hot is the Amaterasu?

Amaterasu Patera is a patera, a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is one of the darkest features on Io, and the measurement of its thermal spectrum (its temperature was estimated in 1979 to be 281 K) helped to support an anticorrelation between albedo and temperature for Ionian hotspots.
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Who did Amaterasu marry?

Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, and her brother Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon, were married. Because... you know, that's just what ancient gods did. Together, they lived in the heavens. One day, Uke Mochi (保食神, "The Goddess Who Protects Food"), the goddess of food and cooking, invited Amaterasu over for a feast.
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What is Susanoo the god of?

Take-haya-Susa-no-wo or Susanoo is the storm god of the Shinto religion. Younger brother of the sun goddess Amaterasu, he is infamous for his mischievous and sometimes destructive behaviour and therefore has a reputation as being something of a trickster.
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How long did Amaterasu stay in the cave?

After eight years without any news, the gods finally sent the pheasant Na-naki-me to find Ame-waka-hiko. The latter though, on seeing the pheasant, took the bird for a bad omen and swiftly shot the poor creature on the spot with one of his arrows.
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Is Amaterasu female?

Another name given to her is Ohirumenomuchi no kami. In "Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan)," Amaterasu Omikami is referred to under different names, whereas in "Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters)" she is consistently cited as "天照大御神." Amaterasu Omikami is considered to be female, but some say the god is male.
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Does Amaterasu burn forever?

Amaterasu is said to never stop burning; even when whatever is caught by the Amaterasu is completely reduced to ash or destroyed, it can still continue burning for seven days and seven nights. It cannot be extinguished with water or any other normal methods.
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Is sister Iris the first pillar?

Iris is a sister originating from The Holy Sol Temple, and a member of the Special Fire Force Company 8. Unbeknown to her, Iris is the 8th Pillar thanks to the schemes of Sister Sumire. Iris is the Doppelganger of “Amaterasu,” i.e., the First Pillar.
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Who has Adolla burst?

The known users of Adolla Burst are Faerie, Haumea, Hitohashira-me, Inca Kasugatani, Iris, Nataku Son, Shinra Kusakabe, Sho Kusakabe, Sumire, and the Woman in Black. The Adolla Link is a phenomenon that occurs when one experiences a connection to the Adolla. Those with the Adolla Burst can experience the Adolla Link.
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Is Kagutsuchi alive?

Because Kagutsuchi was a god of fire, Izanami suffered a burn on her pubic region in giving birth. This resulted in her death. Furious at this, Izanagi then killed Kagutsuchi with Totsuka no Tsurugi (the Sword Ten Hands Long) called 'Amenoohabari. '
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Who is the main god of Japan?

Hachiman (八幡神) is the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people. Originally an agricultural deity, he later became the guardian of the Minamoto clan.
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Why is Amaterasu female?

And while the role itself could likely have been played equally by a feminine male or a masculine female, the deity's status as imperial ancestral deity made it imperative, as noted earlier, that she be a female, with the result that Amaterasu came to be depicted as a "masculine" goddess.
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Who created the first Susanoo?

It was during this cleansing ritual that Izanagi inadvertently gave birth to three new and powerful kami: Amaterasu, the sun goddess, and Tsukuyomi, the moon god, were born from his eyes, and Susanoo, the god of storms and seas, was born from his nose.
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What happened to Susanoo when he returned to Earth?

Susanoo descended into the land of Izumo in western Japan and killed an eight-headed dragon that had been terrorizing the countryside. From the tail of the dragon he recovered the marvelous sword Kusanagi that he presented to his sister and that later came to form part of the Imperial Treasures of Japan.
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What did Susanoo do that angered Amaterasu?

Although this deity personifies evil, several of his acts have an unmistakably beneficent character. Susano-o caused the most dramatic event in Japanese mythology when he angered Amaterasu. He first aroused her wrath by emptying his bowels in the palace.
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What is Izanagi the god of?

From this Izanagi became the god of the land of the living, while she became queen of the land of the dead, and their marriage was ended. Cleansing himself with water from his interactions with the dead, three more deities were created by Izanagi as he washed his body.
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Which Susanoo is the strongest?

1) Hagoromo Otsutsuki

Shown as a Susanoo user in the Naruto anime, Hagoromo is undoubtedly the strongest Susanoo user. Manifesting his full-body variant immediately, he could overpower his mother Kaguya in her Ten-tails form.
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What is Susanoo sword called?

The Totsuka Sword is the sword used by the god Susanoo to slay the eight-headed and eight-tailed snake, Yamata no Orochi, just like it was used by Itachi's Susanoo to defeat Orochimaru's Eight Branches Technique (八岐の術, Yamata no Jutsu).
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Can Amaterasu burn the sun?

Said to be "the fires from hell" and to burn as hot as the sun itself, Amaterasu burns any material — other flames included — until nothing but ash remains. Throughout the series some objects have shown some degree of imperviousness to the flames such as Gaara's chakra-infused sand, and Naruto's Version 1 chakra cloak.
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Can Naruto stop Amaterasu?

Yes,he probably can. Now while the Amaterasu is a powerful jutsu,it is extremely overrated too. Almighty Push was able to blow out the Amaterasu,Gaara's Sand was able to douse the flames,and Naruto's Final Rasengan was able to cancel out an Amaterasu powered Chidori.
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