Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades. Learn the meanings of the name, and the constellation's association with Spring planting.

Find lore associated with the constellation of Orion and each of its stars.

Access several folk tales from Japan or learn about other Japanese legends and supernatural stories.

View selected myths and link to reference material on mythology. Contains illustrations and notes.

Read a myth concerning Vega, or Orihime the Princess of Weaving, and Altair, or Kengyu the Cowherder, and how the lovers came to be separated.

Learn how Hoderi, a god who fished, became the ancestor of seafaring immigrants, and Ho-Ori, a god who hunted, became the ancestor of emperors.

Discover the correspondences between the wild god Susanoh and both Poseidon and Heracles.

Find similarities to the Greek myths of both Orpheus and Persephone in the story of the god Izanaki visiting his dead wife, the goddess Izanami.