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Teachers, not gods
Ama, a Pleiadian group speaking through Lyssa Royal Holt in The Golden Lake, says many Japanese gods carry the sound “ama” in their names, like Amaterasu and Amamikiyo. According to Ama, people once saw their presence on Earth as normal, and they were here as teachers, not as gods or goddesses.
Returning to this idea of myth, many gods and goddesses in Japan have the sound “ama” in their names. There is Amaterasu and also Amamikiyo from the Okinawan island chain. In ancient times, people recognized that our presence on your world was normal and natural. During the time we were here, we were not gods or goddesses; we were simply teachers.
Ama, The Golden Lake
(short excerpt for review and study)
I find this a striking claim. So I went back to the oldest Japanese and Okinawan sources to see what they actually say about these two figures, and where the Pleiadians might fit in.
The sound “ama”
In Japanese, ama (also read ame, written 天) means heaven or sky. The full name Amaterasu-ōmikami is usually translated as “the great divinity shining in heaven”. So the “ama” Ama points to is not only a sound. In the language itself it already says: this one belongs to the sky.
Amamikiyo is spelled in many ways, such as Amamikyu, Amamiku and Amamichuu. Scholars think the name is most likely linked to the Amami Islands north of Okinawa. Some Okinawan writers also connect the “ama” in her name with ama, heaven. Both readings are around, and I keep both in mind.
Amaterasu in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
Amaterasu’s story is written down in the two oldest Japanese chronicles, the Kojiki from 712 and the Nihon Shoki from 720. There she is born when the god Izanagi washes his left eye after returning from the underworld, as I describe on the page on the creation myths of Shintoism. She is given rule over Takamagahara, the High Plain of Heaven.
The best known story is the cave. After a fight with her brother Susanoo she hides in the heavenly rock cave, and the world goes dark. The other gods lure her out with dancing, laughter and a mirror, and the light comes back.
Later she sends her grandson Ninigi down from heaven to rule Japan. He brings the mirror, the sword and the jewel, and the imperial line counts itself as his descendants. So in the chronicles, the ruling order of Japan comes down from the sky.
Amamikiyo in the Ryukyu myths
Amamikiyo is the creation goddess of the Ryukyu Islands. Her story is in two old Okinawan sources.
The Omoro Sōshi, a collection of Ryukyu court songs whose first volume was compiled in 1531, tells how the sun god orders Amamikiyo and Shinerikyo to make the islands and the people.
The Chūzan Seikan of 1650, the oldest official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, tells it at more length. The Heavenly Emperor looks down, sees only sea, and sends Amamikiyo to build islands. She comes down first on Kudaka Island, then lands on Okinawa at Sēfa-utaki, and creates seven sacred groves (utaki). In the same chronicle she sows the five grains on Kudaka.
I see the seven sacred groves as another link to the Pleiadians. The Pleiades are known all over the world as the Seven Sisters, and the number seven keeps coming back in the stories about them, as I show on the Pleiadians. A goddess from heaven who marks the land with seven holy places fits that pattern for me.
Sēfa-utaki became the holiest site of the kingdom. Kings and the high priestess went there on pilgrimage and prayed toward Kudaka Island, the place where the goddess first touched the earth.
What links them to the Pleiadians
Neither the Kojiki, the Nihon Shoki nor the Chūzan Seikan mentions the Pleiades or the Pleiadians. The link comes from Ama in The Golden Lake. What I can do is put the two stories next to what Ama says.
Both goddesses come from heaven. Amaterasu rules the High Plain of Heaven and sends her grandson down. Amamikiyo is sent from heaven to build the islands. Both bring order: a ruling line in Japan, sacred places and grain in Okinawa. That is exactly the kind of figure Ama describes, beings from elsewhere who came to teach and were later remembered as gods.
The same book also gives the Pleiadians a long history. On my page on the Pleiadians I quote The Golden Lake on their two lines of descent, one pure Lyran and one Lyran with genetic adaptations from Earth. If Ama is right, the “heaven” in these myths is a memory of real visitors.
Subaru, the Pleiades in Japan
Japan has its own name for the Pleiades: Subaru. Around the year 1000 the court lady Sei Shōnagon wrote in her Pillow Book that among the stars, Subaru comes first. On the Pleiadians I also note that in Japanese folklore the Pleiades are tied to the seasons and the planting cycles.
I find that interesting next to Amamikiyo, who in the Ryukyu chronicle brings the five grains to Kudaka. I don’t want to claim more than the sources give. But teachers from the sky, grain, and a star cluster that guides the farming year all sit close together in these islands.
