Category: Mythology
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Amaterasu over Cowra
During WWII, thousand Japanese Prisoners of War (POWs) were interned at Cowra, NSW. Each morning, their Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu, rose ito illuminate their day, and many men prayed to her. In 1944, they attempted a mass escape, the Cowra Breakout, which is now commemorated annually with strong Japanese participation.
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Statue of Gilgamesh
Sydney University’s statue of the mythic Mesopotamian cultural hero Gilgamesh, by Lewis Batros, takes us back to a time when people in southwestern Eurasia were inscribing their stories on clay tablets. One of these is the eponymous Epic which encodes ancestral sky knowledge, including still-familiar constellations of stars.
