Her Augustness, Heaven-Alarming-Female hanging (around her self) as a sash, the heavenly club moss of the Heavenly Mount Kagu, and making the heavenly spindletree into her head-dress, and binding the leaves of the bamboo-grass of the Heavenly Mount Kagu into posies to hold in her hands, and laying a soundingboard before the door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling (where the sun goddess, Heavenly-Shining-Great-August-Deity had hidden herself), and stamping till she made (the board) resound and acting as if possessed by a Deity .... Then the Plain of High Heaven shook, and the eight-hundred myriad Deities laughed together. Hereupon the Heavenly-Shining-Great-August-Deity was amazed, and, slightly opening the door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling ...

This excerpt, entitled "Ama no Iwato" (Heavenly Cave Door), is taken from the Kojiki, or Record of Ancient Matters, the earliest historical chronicle of Japan and written in the year 712 A.D. "Ama no Iwato" is an account from the origin myth of Japan that describes how the goddess Heaven-Alarming-Female coaxed Heaven-Shining-Great-August-Deity, the sun goddess, from the cave where she hid herself.